References – SN 10: Linked Discourses with Spirits 
Sutta / Saṁyutta Nikāya / SN 10: Yakkhasaṁyutta
Saṁyutta Nikāya 10.3: With Spiky 

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“When you are talking about Dependent Origination and craving, I thought that all of that had ceased for an arahant.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Dependent origination] [Craving] [Arahant] [Cessation] // [Feeling] [Unskillful qualities] [Ignorance] [Māra]

Suttas: SN 4.6; SN 4.20: The Buddha’s encounters with Māra. [Buddha/Biography]

Sutta: MN 50: Mahā Mogallāna rebukes Māra. [Great disciples]

Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma. [Non-human beings]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 43, Excerpt 3


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“To dissociate—isn’t it like to withdraw? It feels like something violent or painful.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Language] [Relinquishment] // [Proliferation] [Similes] [Seclusion]

Sutta: MN 20: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts.

Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 44, Excerpt 2


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“In the Bahīya Sutta (Ud 1.10), is the concept of bare attention before mental fabrications and include feeling?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Knowing itself] [Volitional formations] [Feeling] // [Sense bases]

Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 46, Excerpt 10