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1. Reflection by Ajahn Sumedho: The effect of one human being. [Human] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma] [Kamma] [Ajahn Chah] // [Culture/Thailand] [Liberation] [Conventions] [Vinaya] [Compassion] [Happiness] [Emptiness] [Not-self]
2. Reflection by Ajahn Sumedho: The unexpected value of traditional Buddhist forms. [Conventions] [Culture/West] [Theravāda] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Ajahn Chah] // [Zen] [History/Thai Buddhism] [History/Other Theravāda traditions]
3. Reflection by Ajahn Sumedho: The convention is like a skeleton, but the life comes through the individuals. [Conventions] [Vinaya] [Theravāda] [Ajahn Chah] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Judgementalism] [Compassion] [Goodwill] [Teachers] [Liberation] [Personality] [Ardency] [Continuity of mindfulness]
4. Recollection: The June 2000 Saṅgha Meeting discusses allowable sweets and protecting Ajahn Chah’s name. Recounted by Ajahn Sumedho. [Wat Pah Pong] [Saṅgha] [Saṅgha decision making] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Seclusion] [Personality] [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Medicinal requisites] [Technology]
5. Story: Wat Pah Pong monks develop malnutrition when Ajahn Chah goes away for several months. Told by Ajahn Sumedho. [Wat Pah Pong] [Almsfood] [Sickness] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Ajahn Chah] // [Mae Chee] [Food] [Almsround] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Ajahn Liem] [Fierce/direct teaching]
6. Recollection: The June 2000 Saṅgha Meeting concludes in harmony. Recounted by Ajahn Sumedho. [Wat Pah Pong] [Saṅgha] [Saṅgha decision making] [Communal harmony] [Ajahn Chah] // [Views] [Harsh speech] [Asking forgiveness ceremony] [Three Refuges] [Culture/West]
Quote: “Luang Por Chah wasn’t giving us views and opinions. … [He gave] us all a confidence in the unspoken unity of our humanity.” [Faith] [Human]
7. Quote: “Luang Por Chah was always pointing us beyond the limitations of ourself.” — Ajahn Sumedho. [Self-identity view] [Liberation] [Not-self] [Ajahn Chah]
1. Ajahn Amaro explains the Sharing of Blessings chant. [Chanting] [Merit] // [Kamma] [Goodwill] [Ajahn Chah]
2. Chanting: Sharing of Blessings. Offered by Ajahn Amaro. [Chanting] [Merit]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 33.
3. Chanting: Paying respects to the shrine and Ajahn Chah. Offered by Ajahn Amaro. [Chanting] [Bowing] [Three Refuges] [Ajahn Chah]
1. “How does one know if one has had an insight or if one has just had another deluded thought? Is insight a ‘wordless knowing’ or can it involve conceptual, discursive thought? If one is having deluded insights, one isn’t likely to know they are deluded, right?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Insight meditation] [Delusion] // [History] [Skillful qualities] [Suffering]
2. “When one is in the midst of an unpleasant situation, for example one is very stressed because one is running out of time trying to meet a deadline, what should one do? Does one focus on the bodily sensation at that time while trying to do the work at hand? There are tremendous negative forces at the time distracting one from concentrating or anything.” Answered by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia. [Suffering] [Work] [Time management] [Mindfulness of body] // [Concentration] [Ignorance] [Craving] [Insight Meditation Society] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Sutta: MN 10.3: “Having removed desire and aversion for the world.”
3. “At the end of your morning teaching, you said, ‘Return to the knowing.’ Please say more about this and how I can know I’m experiencing the knowing, not just the ego—I and me.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Knowing itself ] [Self-identity view] // [Mindfulness] [Thai] [Proliferation] [Skillful qualities] [Unskillful qualities] [Restlessness and worry] [Doubt] [Buddha] [Conditionality]
4. “I’m working/practicing at staying composed and equanimous. As meditation deepens, I find some challenging emotions arise. I’m avoiding look at its story so I can focus on the reactions in the body to whatever that story may be. I’ve noticed that the reactions in the body are identical to the sensations climbing the hill behind the meditation hall. So I imagine that I’m outside climbing the hill and feel the heart rate rise, heat, tension when falling off-balance, etc. This is a much easier place to let go of the sensations because it cools any fears that may arise with the original story. Is this okay to do or should I face the demon in his own costume instead of one I’ve made for it?” Answered by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia. [Equanimity] [Emotion] [Mindfulness of body] [Visualization] // [Perception] [Aversion]
Reflection: The hindrances come into play as a remedy for a situation that is already difficult. [Hindrances ] [Benefit/gratification] [Drawbacks]
5. Ten perceptions from the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60). Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection]
6. “Can you please remind me of some skillful ways to deal with anger?” Answered by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia. [Aversion] // [Goodwill] [Mindfulness] [Ajahn Amaro] [Impermanence] [Kamma] [Ignorance] [Spiritual friendship] [Medicinal requisites] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Media] [Politics and society]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 58: Reflections on impermanence and kamma.
Quote: “Sometimes even mindfulness is no match for a full-blown mental hindrance.” — Ajahn Sucitto. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Hindrances]
7. Reflections about the role of faith in practice in response to three questions: [Faith] // [Faculties] [Discernment] [Energy] [Forgiveness] [Respect] [Rev. Heng Sure] [Relinquishment]
1. “It sound like Ajahn Chah was an arahant from your comments about his relics. How do you know? Are there many living arahants now? Should you seek one out as a Dhamma teacher?” [Ajahn Chah] [Arahant] [Relics] [Association with people of integrity]
2. “What is a ‘transgression against the Dhamma’ that we bow and ask forgiveness for during the Evening Chanting (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 27)? What are some examples? Why do we do this practice of asking for forgiveness? Surely the Dhamma is bigger than us and doesn’t need it.” [Dhamma] [Chanting]
3. “What is the benefit of having a relic on the altar? Does it help our meditation?”
Quote: “On a certain level, we’re never going to figure this out.”
8. “When the monks bow, they touch the ground right hand, left hand, one after the other. Would you be so kind as to explain the purpose?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Bowing] // [Robes]
9. “Could you recommend a book about ānāpānasati or mindful approaches to the jhānas?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Jhāna] [Dhamma books]
Reference: Mindfulness with Breathing by Ajahn Buddhadāsa.
Reference: Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg (commercial).
Reference: Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation by Bhante Gunaratana (commercial).
Note: More recent books about mindfulness of breathing from the Thai Forest Tradition include Keeping the Breath in Mind and Lessons in Samādhi by Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, With Each and Every Breath by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, and Breathing like a Buddha by Ajahn Sucitto.
[Session] On the first day of the three-month retreat, Ajahn Pasanno gives detailed instructions on posture, attending to the breath, arousing energy, and investigating the meaning of mindfulness. [Mindfulness of breathing]
1. Balancing the body: detailed instructions on sitting posture. [Posture/Sitting ] [Mindfulness of breathing]
2. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: The meaning of Buddho. [Buddho mantra] [Clear comprehension] [Mindfulness] [Mindfulness of breathing]
3. Walking meditation instructions. [Posture/Walking] [Mindfulness of breathing]
[Session] Reflecting on the third and fourth steps of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.18), Ajahn Pasanno describes entering into the bodily sensations of the breath (kāyasaṅkhārā) as a foundation of training that prepares the mind to receive Dhamma. [Mindfulness of breathing]
Reference: Keeping the Breath in Mind and Lessons in Samādhi by Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, particularly “Method Two“.
1. Reviewing our meditation habits and the purpose of meditation. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation] [Discernment] // [Equanimity] [Knowledge and vision] [Liberation]
2. Quote: “With each in-breath and each out-breath, really trying to recollect that we have the opportunity to experience the Dhamma, to experience truth, to realize the fruits of the Buddha’s teaching and guidance leading to liberation.” — Ajahn Pasanno. [Recollection/Dhamma ] [Liberation] [Mindfulness of breathing] // [Thai] [Gratitude]
[Session] Reflecting on the second tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.19), Ajahn Pasanno describes meditation as relaxing so that awareness comes to the fore and explains the importance of perception in relating to painful, pleasant, and neutral feeling. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling]
Reference: Keeping the Breath in Mind and Lessons in Samādhi by Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, particularly “Method Two“.
1. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Long-term effective strategies for dealing with pain. [Pain ] [Long-term practice] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] // [Mindfulness] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Aversion]
2. Applying the factors of first jhāna in mindfulness of breathing. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Jhāna] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] // [Directed thought and evaluation] [Rapture] [Unification]
3. The importance of sustaining attention with neutral sensations. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Neutral feeling] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling]
Sutta: SN 36.6: The Dart.
[Session] Ajahn Pasanno elucidates the Buddha’s similes for the Five Hindrances (MN 39.14). He encourages us to investigate the tone of the mind to identify the presence or absence of hindrances and to delight in the inherent well-being of the mind when the hindrances are relinquished. [Hindrances] [Similes]
1. Simile: Sensual desire is like being in debt. (MN 39.14) — Ajahn Pasanno. [Sensual desire] [Hindrances] [Similes]
2. Simile: Ill-will is like being sick. (MN 39.14) — Ajahn Pasanno. [Ill-will ] [Hindrances] [Similes] // [Ajahn Pasanno] [Sickness] [Happiness]
3. Simile: Sloth and torpor is like being in prison. (MN 39.14) — Ajahn Pasanno. [Sloth and torpor] [Hindrances] [Similes]
4. Simile: Restlessness and worry is like being a slave. — Ajahn Pasanno. [Restlessness and worry ] [Hindrances] [Similes] // [Mindfulness of body]
5. Simile: Skeptical doubt is like a merchant travelling through a dangerous desert. — Ajahn Pasanno. [Doubt] [Hindrances] [Similes]
[Session] Using the breath to steep the body and mind with attention and awareness can reveal and dispel subtle hindrances. (Incomplete recording) [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Hindrances]
1. Bringing attention to the breath is an alternative to sensual gratification. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sensual desire] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Hindrances]
2. Recognizing subtle forms of irritation. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Aversion] [Ill-will] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Hindrances]
Tibetan Buddhism translates klesha as affliction. [Vajrayāna] [Unwholesome Roots] [Translation]
3. Preventing the settled mind from sinking into dullness. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sloth and torpor] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Hindrances]
4. Quote: “You have to be willing to die … and then the mind easily goes into jhāna.” — Ajahn Jumnien. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Jumnien] [Energy] [Jhāna]
[Session] Following the outline of SN 46.51, Ajahn Pasanno describes the factors that feed or attenuate each of the Five Hindrances. (Incomplete recording) [Hindrances]
1. Attending to attractive objects nourishes sensual desire. (SN 46.51) Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sensual desire] [Hindrances]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 55: The Five Recollections
2. Attending to what we feel obstructed by nourishes ill-will. (SN 46.51) Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ill-will] [Hindrances] // [Divine Abidings] [Discernment]
Story: A monk with an aversive temperament worsens it with repeated asuba and death contemplation. [Aversion] [Unattractiveness] [Recollection/Death] [Idealism] [Goodwill]
3. Following the path of least resistance nourishes sloth and torpor. (SN 46.51) Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sloth and torpor] [Hindrances] // [Energy]
Story: The novice’s nibbāna.
1. Reflections by Ajahn Pasanno on the value of noble silence during Winter Retreat. [Meditation retreats] [Idle chatter] [Right Speech] // [Community] [Culture/Natural environment] [Tranquility]
2. Ajahn Pasanno urges the Abhayagiri community to cultivate mindfulness, composure, sensitivity, and silence in the details of moving and speaking during Winter Retreat. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation retreats] [Posture/Walking] [Tranquility]
Note: Abhayagiri’s communal space consisted of two small buildings in 2005.
3. The commentaries contrast the Five Hindrances with the five factors of first jhāna. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Hindrances] [Jhāna] // [Directed thought and evaluation] [Sloth and torpor] [Doubt] [Rapture] [Ill-will] [Happiness] [Restlessness and worry] [Unification] [Sensual desire]
Story: Ajahn Boon Choo dispels sloth and torpor. [Ajahn Boon Choo] [Devotion to wakefulness]
Quote: “Sensual desire is like looking for the turtle with the mustache.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Similes]
Meditation instruction: Breathing with the five factors of first jhāna. [Mindfulness of breathing]
1. Meditation instruction: Be present with the physical experience of the breath. Bring a sense of ease into the body. Ground awareness in the body. Offered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body]
Quote: Keeping the breath in mind is like getting the spoon into the mouth and the mouth onto the spoon. — Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo. [Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo] [Similes]
Story: “The body understands!” [Direct experience] [Zen] [Koan] [Ajahn Pasanno]
Body and mind are not separate things. [Body/form] [Heart/mind] [Aggregates ] [Dependent origination] [Consciousness]
Water similes for the mind with and without hindrances. (SN 46.55) [Hindrances] [Sensual desire] [Ill-will] [Sloth and torpor] [Restlessness and worry] [Doubt]
Sutta: DN 2.98: “These are shoals of fish …”
Quote: “You can get a lot of wisdom from walking meditation.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Posture/Walking] [Discernment]
[Session] Continuing with the second tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.19), Ajahn Pasanno urges us to use awareness grounded in mindfulness of breathing to investigate feelings, perceptions, and hindrances. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Perception]
1. Story: Winnie-the-Pooh hears a buzzing sound, associates it with honey, and begins climbing a tree. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Winnie-the-Pooh] [Perception] // [Conditionality]
2. Relaxing into the breath when experiencing pain in meditation. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Pain] [Tranquility] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Perception]
3. Maintaining alertness in the midst of pleasant feeling. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Happiness] [Energy] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Perception]
4. Developing sensitivity to neutral feeling. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Neutral feeling] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Perception] // [Equanimity] [Factors of Awakening]
[Session] Beginning the third tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.10), Ajahn Pasanno teaches that by attending to the mind itself with each breath, we can recognize that the direct experience of the defiled mind is suffering. Relinquishing the defilements brings peace. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of mind]
Sutta: MN 10.34: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, mindfulness of mind section.
1. Quote: “One who is lost in the world is lost in their moods. One who is lost in their moods is lost in the world.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Moods of the mind] [Mindfulness of mind]
2. Story: Three Harvard professors take a course in meditation. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of mind] // [Direct experience] [Larry Rosenberg]
3. Story: “I’m not very peaceful, but I don’t have any excuses anymore.” Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Unwholesome Roots] [Mindfulness of mind] // [Poo Jum Gom] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Culture/Natural environment]
4. Discerning the fundamental mind base amidst the moods of the mind. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of mind] // [Ajahn Mun] [Ajahn Chah] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Similes] [Concentration] [Relinquishment]
5. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Differing interpretations of citta; returning to the knowing, our refuge of peace. [Heart/mind] [Nature of mind ] [Knowing itself] [Mindfulness of mind] // [Unwholesome Roots] [Unconditioned] [Commentaries] [P. A. Payutto] [Ajahn Chah]
[Session] AN 10.2 explains that samādhi and liberation follow naturally from gladdening the mind with a foundation of virtue. Elucidating the tenth step of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.20), Ajahn Pasanno describes various ways to allow the mind to delight in Dhamma and stillness. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Gladdening the mind]
1. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Fine-tuning the balance between stillness and investigation. [Calming meditation ] [Insight meditation ] [Gladdening the mind] // [Mindfulness of breathing]
Sutta: SN 15.1: “Bound by ignorance and obstructed by craving.” [Ignorance] [Craving]
2. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Gladdening the mind through corpse contemplation. [Recollection/Death] [Unattractiveness] [Gladdening the mind] // [Mae Chee Sansanee] [Disasters] [Dispassion]
[Session] Practicing the eleventh step of ānāpānasati (MN 118.20) involves purifying the mind of obstructive states and firmly establishing the mind with the breath so that it becomes pliant, malleable, and bright. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Concentration]
1. Delighting in the beautiful and benevolent breath. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Gladdening the mind] [Concentration] // [Ajahn Brahmavaṃso]
2. Reflections by Ajahn Pasanno on jhāna and attainment. [Jhāna] [Conceit] [Concentration] // [Ajahn Chah] [Mindfulness of mind] [Suffering]
Sutta: SN 43.1: “Meditate [jhāyatha] bhikkhus, do not be negligent, lest you regret it later.”
3. Ārammaṇupanijjhāna (meditation using an object as a focus) and lakkhaṇupanijjhāna (meditation using the characteristics as a focus); when to contemplate anicca, dukkha, anatta. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Jhāna] [Calming meditation] [Insight meditation] [Characteristics of existence] [Concentration]
4. The four results of samādhi described in AN 4.41. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation/Results] [Concentration] // [Jhāna] [Perception of light] [Psychic powers] [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Aggregates] [Impermanence] [Outflows]
Story: As a novice, Ajahn Puth directed his mind to which questions would be on the Nak Tam exams. [Ajahn Puth] [Learning]
[Session] When practicing the twelfth step of ānāpānasati (MN 118.20), each breath is the occasion to release the clinging that binds us to suffering. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Clinging] [Liberation]
1. Simile: A trap for monkeys who don’t let go. — Ajahn Pasanno. [Animal] [Clinging] [Similes]
2. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: We’re not diminished beings if we don’t get what we want. [Sensual desire] [Clinging] [Liberation] // [Food] [Drawbacks] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Simile: A dog gnawing on meatless bones (MN 54.15). [Similes]
3. The drawbacks of wrong view and clinging to views. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Drawbacks] [Views] [Clinging] [Liberation] // [Kamma] [Conflict]
4. Attending wisely to the breath versus blindly clinging to the practice. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Attachment to precepts and practices] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Clinging] [Liberation]
Sutta: MN 57: The Dog-Duty Ascetic.
5. Attending to what is rather than concepts about a self. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Doctrine-of-self clinging] [Direct experience] [Clinging] [Liberation] // [Mindfulness of breathing] [Cause of Suffering] [Self-identity view]
6. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Our suffering is fed and sustained by clinging. [Suffering] [Cause of Suffering] [Clinging ] [Liberation] // [Translation]
[Session] Introducing the fourth tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.21), Ajahn Pasanno reflects on impermanence as the doorway into the realm of insight. Mindfulness of breathing can illuminate all three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and not-self. [Impermanence] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Characteristics of existence]
1. Making impermanence the focal point for attending to the breath. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Impermanence] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Characteristics of existence] // [Insight meditation] [Direct experience]
2. Animitta samādhi takes impermanence as its object and is not drawn into the characteristics of things. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Concentration] [Impermanence] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Characteristics of existence] // [Robes] [Nimitta] [Knowing itself]
3. When one sees through dukkha, the concentration that develops is called appaṇihita samādhi. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Suffering] [Concentration] [Impermanence] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Characteristics of existence] // [Desire] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Liberation]
Quote: “Imagine a mental state that isn’t looking for anything else.”
4. Emptiness is the experiential counterpoint of not-self. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Not-self] [Emptiness ] [Impermanence] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Characteristics of existence] // [Conditionality]
[Session] Passion is the deep belief in what feelings, objects of attention, and views represent. Expounding the fourteenth step of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.21), Ajahn Pasanno explains how to cultivate dispassion with each in and out breath. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Dispassion]
1. Story: A man diagnosed with AIDS loses his story. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sickness] [Self-identity view] [Dispassion] // [Amaravati] [Ajahn Amaro]
2. Developing dispassion by reflecting on the body. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of body] [Unattractiveness] [Dispassion] // [Food] [Self-identity view]
[Session] The contemplation of death resets our priorities and lays the ground for dispassion to cool the heart of its impulses to follow desires, moods, and biases. [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion]
1. Simile: As dawn precedes sunrise, when one recognizes the quality of appamāda (heedfulness), one can expect the unfolding of the Eightfold Path. (SN 45.55) — Ajahn Pasanno. [Similes] [Heedfulness] [Eightfold Path] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Liberation]
2. Story: Larry Rosenberg watches a 1938 film and realizes that the actors, directors, and producers are all dead. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Larry Rosenberg] [Artistic expression] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion]
3. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: If this were the last moment of my life, is this the kind of mental state I want to carry into death? [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Mindfulness of breathing] [Ajahn Pasanno]
4. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno from Ajahn Koon Balisoodtoh: “Am I dying?” with each breath. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Amulets]
5. Story: A group of Thai villagers are afraid to dig up their dead in order to conduct funeral rites. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Funerals] [Fear] [Death] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Ajahn Pasanno] [Dtao Dum]
6. Story: A Thai monastery turns into a makeshift morgue after the 2005 tsunami. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Death] [Disasters] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion]
7. Quote: “Ajahn Chah was larger than life, but he’s been dead for over 10 years now.” — Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Naturalness]
8. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: We will be alone when we die. [Death] [Recollection/Death] [Dispassion] // [Heedfulness] [Rodney Smith] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Quote: “In the end, one is cooked and eaten by the King of Death.” — Varapañño Bhikkhu (Paul Breiter). [Paul Breiter]
[Session] Allowing things to cease is the middle way between the extremes of clinging to becoming and annihilation. Abiding in the quality of cessation between each in and out breath breaks the habit of becoming and forms the basis of peace. [Cessation] [Cessation of Suffering] [Mindfulness of breathing]
1. Simile: The mind that does not allow cessation is like the derelict Chithurst House stuffed with junk. — Ajahn Pasanno. [Chithurst] [Cessation] [Similes]
2. The cessation of self view is a window into emptiness. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Self-identity view] [Emptiness] [Becoming] [Cessation] [Cessation of Suffering] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Meditation instructions from Ajahn Jumnien: Rest attention midway between the eye and a visual object. [Ajahn Jumnien] [Sense bases]
Samatha practices allow us to become familiar with peaceful places in our mind. [Calming meditation] [Tranquility]
Teaching from Ajahn Chah: Can you be continuously angry for two hours? [Ajahn Chah] [Aversion] [Impermanence]
3. Ajahn Buddhadāsa translates nirodha as quenching. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Cessation] [Translation]
[Session] Reflecting on the last step of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118.21), Ajahn Pasanno explains how relinquishment is key to entering and abiding in Dhamma. He encourages us to contemplate relinquishment with each in and out breath. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Relinquishment]
1. Recollection: Total relinquishment was a characteristic of Ajahn Chah’s practice. Recounted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Relinquishment ] // [Ajahn Pasanno] [Dhamma]
2. Story: Practicing the Dhamma is to renounce this life. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Dhamma] [Relinquishment] // [Vajrayāna]
3. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Seeing things as they are. [Knowledge and vision ] [Relinquishment] // [Aggregates] [Self-identity view]
4. Attending to the simplicity of the elements. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Elements ] [Direct experience] [Relinquishment] // [Mindfulness of breathing] [Self-identity view]
5. Ajahn Buddhadāsa translates paṭinissagga as “giving back”. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Translation] [Relinquishment] // [Naturalness] [Mindfulness of breathing]
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