Conventions
Everyday life practice / Conventions 
Glosses: Samut Thai
43 excerpts, 3:06:03 total duration



2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 6 – Nov. 26, 2015

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4. “Could you talk more about the two levels of understanding the true nature of karma: mundane and transcendent?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Kamma] [Conventions] [Unconditioned] // [Right View ] [Four Noble Truths] [Impermanence] [Conditionality]

Quote: “Outside of cause, beyond effect; outside of suffering, beyond happiness.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah]


Thanksgiving Retreat 2016, Session 4 – Nov. 22, 2016

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14. “Is it true that it’s bad or disrespectful to point one’s heel at a monk? I thought that I read or heard this somewhere. Sometimes I have felt the necessity to stretch out one leg or the other in the meditation hall, but as all the monastics sit up front, I feel that I will be pointing my heel at one monastic or another and I really don’t want to be disrespectful if this is so. Or is this worrying too much about conventions which causes suffering?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Respect] [Monastic life] [Postures] [Conventions] // [Culture/Thailand] [Culture/India] [Sutta] [Vinaya]

Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 51 origin story: Venerable Sāgata gets drunk on almsround. [Almsround] [Intoxicants]


Devotion and Ritual: Becoming the Buddha, Session 3 – Apr. 30, 2017

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13. “Can you reflect about the meaning of ‘essence and conventions’ in Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 5?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Conventions ] // [Buddha images] [Teaching Dhamma] [Ceremony/ritual] [Liberation]

Sutta: MN 30: Cūḷasāropama Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 35 – Feb. 28, 2025

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7. “The dissolving of ‘I am’ ends up as not-self. Do we end up with a dissolving of ‘I am’ at an essential level and we still have a worldly convenient ‘I am?’” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Conceit] [Relinquishment] [Not-self] [Conventions]