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Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.1: Aḷavika 

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Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Aggregates]

Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Venerable Analayo, pp. 202-207.

Sutta: SN 22.5, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Concentration.”

Sutta: SN 22.29, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Delight.”

Sutta: SN 5.1, Bhikkhunīsaṁyutta, “Āḷavikā.”

Sutta: SN 5.9, Bhikkhunīsaṁyutta, “Selā.”

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 26


Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.9: Sela 

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Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Venerable Analayo, pp. 202-207.

Sutta: SN 22.5, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Concentration.”

Sutta: SN 22.29, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Delight.”

Sutta: SN 5.1, Bhikkhunīsaṁyutta, “Āḷavikā.”

Sutta: SN 5.9, Bhikkhunīsaṁyutta, “Selā.”

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 26


Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.10: Vajira 

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“The obtuse bhikkhu who thought about what self is touched by the results of action (MN 109.14)—that’s the place where kamma comes into the question?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Self-identity view] [Kamma] [Aggregates] // [Views] [Middle Path] [Doctrine-of-self clinging] [Characteristics of existence]

Follow-up: “Right view talks about being being reborn. Is this a conventional use of language? It’s not talking about selves being reborn?” [Right View] [Rebirth] [Language]

Sutta: SN 5.10: Simile of the chariot. [Conventions]

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 21, Excerpt 4


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Sutta: SN 45.159, Maggasaṁyutta, “The Guest House.”

Sutta: SN 5.10, Bhikkhunīsaṁyutta, “Vajirā.”

The Questions of King Milinda, I.i, “No Person is Found,” p. 29-32 (Milindapañha 25).

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 27


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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 109-112. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Ācariya Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā, Ch.15.

Suttas: MN 49.27; SN 5.10.

Spiritual Autobiography, Ajahn Chah.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 20


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Comment: When you were reading from the passage from Ācariya Nāgārguna’s Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā (quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 109), it struck me that the use of the word essence is equivalent to the way the Buddha uses the word self. [Acariya Nāgārguna] [Language] [Self-identity view] // [Mahāyāna] [Philosophy]

Sutta: SN 5.10: The Bhikkhunī Vajirā.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 20, Excerpt 1