8 excerpts, 29:33 total duration
1. Comment: Dear Ajahn, You and your crew have been and continue to be so generous with us. This abundant generosity is such an incredible teaching. It seems as though it’s the stuff that may save the planet. [Generosity ]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Monastic life] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Teaching Dhamma] [Culture/Thailand] [Children]
Reference: Ja 547: Vessantara Jātaka (The Birth Stories revised by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu, pp. 3099-3195). [Jātaka Tales]
7. Story: The Quail’s Protection told by Ajahn Jotipālo and Ajahn Pasanno. [Truth]
Commentary: Ja 35: The Bodhisatta is born as a baby quail (The Birth Stories revised by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu, p. 293-296). [Jātaka Tales]
Reference: Vaṭṭaka-paritta.
2. “In World War II, people hiding Jews in away in their home to protect them—how does this relate to [the precept about] lying?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [False speech]
Sutta: AN 1.183: Not everything true needs to be spoken. [Truth]
Commentary: Vyaghri Jātaka Jatakamala No. 1: The Bodhisatta feeds himself to a hungry tigress. (This story does not occur in the Pāli Jātaka.) [Jātaka Tales]
3. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno on Iti 25: “For the person who tells a deliberate lie, there is no evil that is not to be done.” [False speech] [Right Action] // [Bodhisattva] [Jātaka Tales]
10. The story of the Bodhisattva seeing the old person, the sick person, and the dead person isn’t in the scriptures. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Buddha/Biography ] [Tipiṭaka] [Stories] // [Jātaka Tales] [Postulants]
Sutta: DN 14.2 ascribes this story to the previous Buddha Vipassī. [Previous Buddhas]
Sutta: Snp 3.1 describes the Bodhisattva’s going forth.
14. “Do the perfections have a progressive quality to them?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perfections] // [Jātaka Tales] [Generosity]
4. “I’ve heard that to become a Buddha one must ask the blessing of an existing Buddha. Is this true?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Previous Buddhas] [Buddha] [Bodhisattva] // [Determination]
Story: The Brahmin Sumedha vows to become a Buddha (found in the Buddhavaṃsa and The Birth Stories revised by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu, p. 3). [Jātaka Tales]
Follow-up: “This makes it even more surprising that the Buddha doubted to fulfill his role (MN 26.19).” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. [Buddha/Biography] [Doubt] [Brahma gods] [Teaching Dhamma] [Addiction]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 124: Dhamma talk request.
3. “Does the Buddha speak about karma in relation to the family we find ourselves in?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Tipiṭaka] [Kamma] [Family] // [Jātaka Tales] [Great disciples] [Rebirth] [Buddha/Biography] [Previous Buddhas] [Ajahn Sumedho]
Sutta: MN 81 Ghaṭīkāra Sutta
Story: An eight-year-old girl remembers being her grandmother’s mother.