References – SN 22.59: The Characteristic of Nonself 
Sutta / Saṁyutta Nikāya / SN 22: Khandhasaṁyutta / SN 22.59: Anattalakkhaṇasutta

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“What are other possible translations of the recurring question [in the suttas], ‘What do you think?’” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Pāli] [Translation] // [Questions]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation).

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 14, Excerpt 2


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Reflections by Ajahn Pasanno on MN 109: The danger in clinging to khandhas. [Clinging] [Self-identity view] [Aggregates]

Reference: Reflection on dukkha from the Morning Chanting.

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation).

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 21, Excerpt 1


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“Did the paradigm of the khandhas exist before the Buddha’s time?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Aggregates] [History/Indian Buddhism]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation).

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 25, Excerpt 7


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“How do you contemplate the Five Aggregates in practice?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Cunda. [Recollection] [Aggregates] // [Not-self] [Characteristics of existence] [Direct experience] [Ageing]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation).

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 27, Excerpt 4


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“I’m half expecting the earth to shake.” Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko after the reading of “Five Piles of Bricks.”

Response by Ajahn Pasanno: All five of the Buddha’s first disciples were liberated when listening to the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (SN 22.59; Chanting Book translation). [Buddha/Biography] [Liberation] [Aggregates] [Not-self]

Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition [2016], Session 26, Excerpt 1


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The Buddha taught not-self by encouraging his disciples to ask these questions. [Teaching Dhamma] [Not-self] [Questions] [Philosophy]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta questionnaire (Chanting Book translation).

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Skillful qualities] [Ajahn Chah]

Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition [2016], Session 26, Excerpt 6


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“Using the words passion and greed as if they are interchangeable seems difficult for me to see. Passion seems a lot wider. How is one passionate about something? How am I greedy about something? If I’m passionate about Buddhism, how am I greedy about Buddhism?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Desire] [Greed] // [Unwholesome Roots] [Aversion] [Etymology] [Teaching Dhamma] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma]

Suttas: SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Chanting book translation); SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation); SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Chanting book translation).

Follow-up: “I relate more to rage and passion than I do to greed. Is it okay to make my three poisons…?”

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 5, Excerpt 3


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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 87-92. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Nyaṇatiloka Bhikkhu, Buddhist Dictionary, p. 106.

Suttas: MN 140.31; Dhp 21; AN 6.49; SN 22.49; SN 1.20; Nid 80.226; MN 144.9; SN 22.59 (also at Mahāvagga 1.6).

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 15


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Three kinds of selfing. Teaching by Ajahn Amaro. [Self-identity view] [Not-self] // [Commentaries] [Insight meditation] [Relinquishment]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting book translation).

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 15, Excerpt 5


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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 105-109. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: MN 75.12; MN 74.2-5; MN 102.12; Iti 49; SN 12.15, SN 22.90.

Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.6 (also at SN 22.59).

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 19


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“What about different definitions of the mind? Sometimes the Pāli is citta…” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Heart/mind] [Pāli] // [Nature of mind] [Sense bases] [Liberation] [Translation]

Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta: Their hearts (citta) were liberated... (Chanting book translation).

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 39, Excerpt 3


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“Is there consciousness (awareness, knowing) in the experience of nibbana or is there a complete cessation of all six senses, as some traditions say. (Particularly in relation to the experience of stream-entry, which is sometimes described as a cessation.)” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna ] [Sense bases] [Stream entry] [Cessation] // [Liberation] [Ajahn Chah] [Sutta] [Thai Forest Tradition]

Sutta: SN 22.59.11 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta: knowledge of liberation (Chanting Book translation).

Abhayagiri Monastic Retreat 2013, Session 7, Excerpt 9