References – MN 57: The Dog-Duty Ascetic 
Sutta / Majjhima Nikāya / MN 57: Kukkuravatikasutta

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Attending wisely to the breath versus blindly clinging to the practice. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Attachment to precepts and practices] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Clinging] [Liberation]

Sutta: MN 57: The Dog-Duty Ascetic.

Ānāpānasati: Mindfulness of In-and-Out Breathing [2005], Session 13, Excerpt 4


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Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

Sutta: MN 75: Māgandiya Sutta.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 252-253.

Sutta: MN 57: Kukkuravatika Sutta.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32


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“Is sakkāya-diṭṭhi different from the ten speculative views described in MN 63?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Self-identity view] [Views] // [Doubt]

Sutta: MN 57: Kukkuravatika Sutta.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 33, Excerpt 5


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“You mentioned the class of actions that are neither bright nor dark as the path leading to Nibbāna. But isn’t the work one does on the path good?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Kamma] [Nibbāna] [Skillful qualities] // [Happiness] [Liberation] [Clinging]

Sutta: MN 57.7: Four kinds of kamma.

Sutta: MN 75.19: Nibbāna is the highest bliss.

Sutta: AN 6.63.33: Kamma, its origin, and its cessation. [Four Noble Truths]

Sutta: MN 117: The Great Forty.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 3


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“When considering the four kinds of kamma (MN 57.7), do action (kamma), volitional formations (saṅkhara), and intention (cetanā) refer to the same thing?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Kamma] [Volitional formations] [Volition]

Follow-up: “So it’s all based on the sense of self?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Conceit] [Liberation] [Relinquishment] [Not-self] [Conditionality] [Buddho mantra] [Attachment to precepts and practices]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 4


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“How important is it to develop wholesome actions (the second of the four kinds of action in MN 57.7) to progress with the fourth [kind of action]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Kamma] [Skillful qualities] // [Merit] [Translation] [Happiness] [Concentration]

Sutta: Iti 22: Do not be afraid of puñña.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 5


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“In Mahāvagga 8.15, Visaka’s intentions in giving to the Saṅgha are to realize Dhamma rather than go to heaven. Does this mean it’s more in line with neither dark nor bright kamma [as described in MN 57.11]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Great disciples] [Generosity] [Happiness] [Deva] [Kamma] // [Skillful qualities] [Culture/West]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 6