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Readings from The Island, Session 31: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 3 – Feb. 22, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 251-252:

Suttas: MN 11.17; SN 35.131.

Sutta: MN 11: Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta

Sutta: MN 75: Māgandiya Sutta


Readings from The Island, Session 32: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 4 – Feb. 23, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

Sutta: MN 75: Māgandiya Sutta.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 252-253.

Sutta: MN 57: Kukkuravatika Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 33: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 5 – Feb. 24, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 253-256:

Suttas: SN 22.80; MN 11.6-7; MN 74.6-8; MN 63.7-8.

Sutta: MN 74: Dīghanakha Sutta.

Sutta: MN 63: Cūḷamāluṅkya Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 34: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 6 – Feb. 25, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 256-258:

Suttas: Snp 800-3; MN 2.7-8; MN 109.15-18.

Sutta: MN 2: Sabbāsava Sutta.

Sutta: MN 109: Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 35: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 7 – Feb. 28, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 258-265:

Suttas: SN 35.82; SN 35.116; MN 8.3; SN 4.16; SN 35.90; SN 35.248; Snp 954; MN 72.15; SN 12.51; MN 138.3; Snp 839; Snp 794-5; Snp 812-13; Snp 537; Dhp 421; Dhp 348.

A Still Forest Pool by Ajahn Chah (commercial) p. 73.

SN 35.248: Yavakalāpī.


Readings from The Island, Session 36: Attamayatā: “Not Made of That” – Part 1 – Mar. 2, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 6, pp. 117-123. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: MN 113.21; MN 137.19-20; AN 4.24.

Richard Gombrich, ‘Metaphor, Allegory, Satire,’ in How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, pp. 86-7.

Hsin Hsin Ming, the verses of the Third Ch’an Patriarch.

Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).

AN 3.40 in The Magic of the Mind by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda pp. 49 & 52.


Readings from The Island, Session 37: Attamayatā: “Not Made of That” – Part 2; Attending to the Deathless – Part 1 – Mar. 3, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 6, pp. 123-124:

Sutta: MN 18.16-19.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 7, pp. 125-126:

Sutta: AN 3.128.


Readings from The Island, Session 38: Attending to the Deathless – Part 2 – Mar. 4, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 7, pp. 126-132. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Stephen Collins, Selfless Persons, pp. 43-45.

Suttas: MN 64.9-16, AN 9.36; Iti 51; AN 9.37; SN 48.57; AN 10.58; AN 8.73; MN 49.23; MN 1.25.


Readings from The Island, Session 39: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 1 – Mar. 5, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 133-137:

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Note 513.

Sutta: DN 11.81-5.

Sutta: MN 49.26.


Readings from The Island, Session 40: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 2 – Mar. 8, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 137-140. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Dependent Origination by P. A. Payutto, pp. 118-120.

Concept and Reality by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda p. 63.

Sutta: SN 2.26, AN 4.45.


Readings from The Island, Session 41: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 3 – Mar. 9, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 141-142:

Suttas: Ud 1.10; Snp 873-4.

Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, pp. 90-91.

Sutta: Snp 4.11 (Venerable H. Saddhatissa translation).


Readings from The Island, Session 42: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 4 – Mar. 10, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 143-146. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: AN 11.9; AN 10.6; MN 10.34-35, DN 22.12.

Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).


Readings from The Island, Session 43: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 5 – Mar. 11, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 146-150:

Ajahn Chah, (anecdotal).

Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).

Suttas: MN 49.25; SN 12.38; SN 22.53.

Suttas: MN 49.11-31; MN 140.21-22.


Readings from The Island, Session 44: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 6 – Mar. 12, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 151-154. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: MN 22.36; SN 12.64; Snp 752-3; MN 62.17; SN 4.19.


Readings from The Island, Session 45: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 7; The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 1 – Mar. 15, 2025

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1. Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 154-156. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, Ch 1.

Vajra Sūtra, Ch 10, “The Adornment of Pure Lands.”


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5. Reading from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 9, pp. 157-158. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Straight from the Heart by Ajahn Mahā Boowa, p. 228


Readings from The Island, Session 46: The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 2 – Mar. 16, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 9, pp. 158-165:

Suttas: Ud 8.1; Ud 8.3, Iti 43; Ud 8.4; Milindapañha 324; Milindapañha 327-328; SN 1.1.

The Magic of the Mind by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda, pp. 58-60.

Ācariya Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadyamaka-kārika, Ch 25.

Ajahn Chah, personal letter to Ajahn Sumedho.

“What is Contemplation?”, Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 475-479.

Sutta: Ud 1.10: Bāhiya, quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 65.


Even the Sāsana Will Pass Away – Aug. 24, 2025

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[Session] Readings: AN 7.48.10: Saññā Sutta; SN 35.82: Loka; Ud 4.1: Meghiya; AN 1.136: Uppādā Sutta; SN 15.20: Mount Vepulla. Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Impermanence]


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