“What or how was the father-son relationship of the Buddha and his son Rāhula? Are there any suttas or teachings in regards to their own relationship and their family?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Buddha/Biography ] [Parents] [Family] // [Ordination]
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.54: Rāhula asks for his inheritance. [Great disciples] [Novices]
Sutta: MN 61: Teachings to Rāhula as a boy. [False speech]
Sutta: MN 62: Comprehensive teachings to Rāhula.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 5.2.1: Lodgings for Rāhula.
Thanksgiving Retreat 2010, Session 6, Excerpt 20
“Topics to avoid in conversation for the sake of harmony: politics, food, money, people who aren’t present, sports, scandals, etc. Where is the long list printed?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Idle chatter]
Reference: Buddhist Monastic Code Vol. 1, p. 397: Explanation of animal talk in the discussion of Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 6.
Sutta: AN 10.69: Topics of Discussion.
Thanksgiving Retreat 2012, Session 5, Excerpt 17
“I understand that it isn’t okay for any monk or human being to say that they are enlightened. How come the Buddha himself proclaimed the enlightened one, the knower of the world? Did people write this down or quote the Buddha?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Liberation] [Buddha] // [Devotional practice] [Buddha/Biography] [Teaching Dhamma]
Sutta: MN 26.25: The Buddha’s encounter with Upaka.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 8: The rule against revealing superior human states. [Vinaya] [Gain and loss]
Thanksgiving Retreat 2012, Session 5, Excerpt 23
“Did the Buddha give any teaching on nurturing or expanding our relationship with plants and animals?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Animal] [Environment] // [Killing] [Vinaya] [Consciousness]
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 11 origin story: A bhikkhu cuts down a tree and harms a deva’s child. [Deva]
Thanksgiving Retreat 2010, Session 3, Excerpt 11
Readings: Background information about the bhikkhu Channa by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Buddha/Biography] // [Commentaries] [Disciplinary transactions] [Vinaya]
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 12 origin story, Buddhist Monastic Code Vol. 1, p. 419.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 71 origin story.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Saṅghādisesā 12 origin story, Buddhist Monastic Code Vol. 1, p. 222.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 34, Excerpt 1
“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]
Thanksgiving Retreat 2016, Session 4, Excerpt 14
Readings: Background information about the bhikkhu Channa by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Buddha/Biography] // [Commentaries] [Disciplinary transactions] [Vinaya]
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 12 origin story, Buddhist Monastic Code Vol. 1, p. 419.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Pācittiyā 71 origin story.
Vinaya: Bhikkhu Saṅghādisesā 12 origin story, Buddhist Monastic Code Vol. 1, p. 222.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 34, Excerpt 1