Outflows (āsava)
Unskillful qualities / Outflows 
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Alternative translations: Taints, Effluents, Fermentations, Cankers, Inflows
Subtags: Sensuality, Becoming, Ignorance, Views
10 excerpts, 45:40 total duration



The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 18 – Jan. 29, 2015

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2. Outline of AN 4.41 Samādhibhāvanā: Four types of concentration. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Concentration] [Right Mindfulness] // [Psychic powers] [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Liberation] [Outflows] [Perception of light] [Impermanence] [Aggregates]

Comment about the difference between the third and fourth developments of concentration. [Conditionality]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Outflows] [Self-identity view]


Meditation on the Ten Perceptions, Session 4 – Sep. 15, 2016

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7. Comment: In teaching [the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60)], the Buddha is teaching us to change our views and opinions. [Views]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Outflows] [Proliferation] [Perception] [Recollection]

Sutta: MN 2.8: The thicket of views …


Readings from The Island, Session 51 – Mar. 23, 2025

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3. “Is my understanding correct that everything is empty, nothing is there from the horses to the … (MN 121.4)? When the body dies, and with it the senses, do [the body and the senses] disappear in the same way the horses disappear [in MN 121.4]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Emptiness] [Death] [Body/form] [Sense bases] // [Outflows] [Rebirth] [Buddha] [Aggregates]

Sutta: MN 72.16: Aggivaccagotta Sutta.

Sutta: Snp 5.7: Upasīva’s Question.

Sutta: AN 2.25: Statements whose meaning should and should not be drawn out.