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“If I remember correctly, you said with practice what can be realized is not so much the abandonment of the self but the misperception of a self given there has never been a self to be abandoned, correct?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Not-self] // [Clinging] [Doctrine-of-self clinging] [Self-identity view] [Aggregates]

Sutta: MN 72.15: I-making and my-making (aṅkārama-maṅkāra). [Conceit]

2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 8, Excerpt 6

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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 [2025], Session 35

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“I’m super perplexed and baffled with defining or understanding the term suchness or thusness. Are you able to communicate what it actually means?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Suchness ] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Language] [Knowing itself] [Aggregates] [Unconditioned] [Dhamma] [Recollection/Dhamma]

Quote: “It’s like this.” “Reality is unimaginable.” — Ajahn Sumedho. [Direct experience]

Sutta: MN 72.20, quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 172.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 36, Excerpt 6