References – Snp 5.7: The Questions of the Student Upasīva 
Sutta / Sutta Nipāta / Snp 5: Pārāyanavagga / Snp 5.7: Upasīvamāṇavapucchā (2)

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“Is my understanding correct that everything is empty, nothing is there from the horses to the ... (MN 121)? When the body dies, and with it the senses, do [the body and the senses] disappear in the same way the horses disappear [in MN 121]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Emptiness] [Death] [Body/form] [Sense bases] // [Outflows] [Rebirth] [Buddha] [Aggregates]

Sutta: MN 72.16: Aggivaccagotta Sutta.

Sutta: Snp 5.7: Upasīva’s Question.

Sutta: AN 2.25: Statements whose meaning should and should not be drawn out.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 51, Excerpt 3


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“So Luang Por Sumhedo’s talk the other day where he said that our conditioning is still kind of continuous, so it is the habits that are being reborn. And still there is this awareness which knows all of that and is related to freedom. They still need to play out even though that might have been recognized, but the rebirth process could still happen for quite a while even though recognition is there.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Ajahn Sumedho] [Conditionality] [Habits] [Rebirth] // [Theravāda] [Nibbāna] [Buddha/Biography]

Sutta: Snp 1074-6: Upasīva’s Question: “One who has reached the end has no criterion by which they can be measured.” [Knowing itself] [Death]

Reference: The Pilgrim Kamanita by Karl Gjellerup and Ajahn Amaro, p. 119.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 5, Excerpt 2