“I’ve seen within the monastery the power of sīla and faith beautifully held to clean the heart in ways that a pure focus on technique doesn’t manage to.... What is your feeling on that aspect of the path and how it interlocks with Western Buddhism at the moment which is so focused on technique?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Virtue] [Faith] [Meditation/Techniques] [History/Western Buddhism] // [Eightfold Path] [Humility]
Sutta: MN 8: Effacement.
On Newsfeeds, Kindness, and the Bodhisattva [2022], Excerpt 7
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.