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Reading: MN 64: Mahāmālunkya Sutta and Bhikkhu Bodhi’s footnote explaining the Majjhima Nikāya Commentary. Read by Ajahn Pasanno.

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 22

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Comment: MN 64 speaks about the underlying tendencies even in infants, which goes against the idea of getting back to your childlike purity. [Fetters] [Children]

Responses by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Jotipālo.

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 22, Excerpt 1

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Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno: MN 64.9 explains how jhāna forms the basis for insight. [Jhāna] [Characteristics of existence] [Insight meditation] // [Formless attainments]

Follow-up: “Does that imply that insight is realized during that absorption?”

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 22, Excerpt 2

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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 7, pp. 126-132. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Stephen Collins, Selfless Persons, pp. 43-45.

Suttas: MN 64.9-16, AN 9.36; Iti 51; AN 9.37; SN 48.57; AN 10.58; AN 8.73; MN 49.23; MN 1.25.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 38