“I understand that you recently read Ajahn Geoff’s wonderful new book Skill in Questions. Might you share an insight that struck a fresh cord in your heart?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro ] [Dhamma books] // [Questions] [Doubt]
Thanksgiving Retreat 2011, Session 4, Excerpt 2
Comment: MN 35 demonstrates how the Buddha asks questions to elicit people’s reactions and train them. [Buddha/Biography] [Questions] [Teaching Dhamma]
Reference: Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 30, Excerpt 1
“Would you kindly review the four ways to respond to questions?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Questions]
Sutta: AN 4.42: Questions.
Reference: Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.
Abhayagiri Monastic Retreat 2013, Session 7, Excerpt 12
Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Proliferation] [Perception]
Sutta: MN 18: Madhupiṇḍika Sutta, The Honeyball.
“Categorical Answers,” Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, p. 85.
Sutta: AN 8.30: “Anuruddha.”
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 48
Discussion of the meaning of papañca in AN 8.30 and various other suttas. [Pāli] [Translation] [Proliferation] [Perception] // [Great disciples] [Liberation] [Conditionality] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Language]
Suttas: Snp 4.11: Kalahavivāda Sutta and DN 21: Sakkapañha Sutta in which papañca precedes thinking.
Reference: Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, p. 85.
Suttas: MN 19: Dvedhāvitakka Sutta; MN 20: Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta.
Reference: Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 48, Excerpt 1
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:
Sutta: SN 22.53, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Engagement.”
Sutta: SN 22.54, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Seeds.”
Sutta: MN 22.36.
Sutta: SN 12.64.
Sutta: Snp 758-759.
Sutta: SN 12.38.
Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 349.
Reading about Luang Por Dun (similar to Gifts He Left Behind by Ajahn Dune, p. 77).
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 36
The Buddha is pointing to something beyond the normal functioning of the mind which is a basis for freedom from all dukkha. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna] [Cessation of Suffering] // [Secular Buddhism] [Liberation] [Feeling] [Nature of mind] [Aggregates]
Reference: Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 349.
Quote: “Objects of the mind that are likeable or unlikeable” — Ajahn Liem. [Ajahn Liem] [Moods of the mind] [Clinging]
Sutta: SN 10.3: “Your touch is unpleasant.”
Sutta: AN 5.208: Five reasons for chewing toothwoods.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 36, Excerpt 2