References – SN 35.28: Burning 
“Did the Buddha have chanting in his time? Did he create any of the chants or were they all created after his passing?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Chanting ] [Buddha/Biography] [History/Early Buddhism ] // [Tipiṭaka] [Culture/India] [Memory] [Culture/Other Theravāda traditions]
Sutta: AN 6.25: The nine qualities of the Buddha (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 4). [Recollection/Buddha]
The three cardinal suttas: SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Chanting Book](Amaravati Chanting Book Volume 2, p. 2)); SN 22.59: Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Chanting Book); SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Chanting Book). [Sutta]
Sutta: MN 2.13-17: The Four Requisites (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 53). [Requisites]
Sutta: Snp 1.8: The Buddha’s Words on Lovingkindness (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 36). [Goodwill]
Sutta: AN 4.125: “I will abide pervading one quarter...” (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 42). [Divine Abidings]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 32: Verses of Sharing and Aspiration.
Sutta: Ud 5.6.17: The Buddha praises Venerable Soṇa’s recitation.
Thanksgiving Retreat 2011, Session 7, Excerpt 23
“I’ve always felt a draw to the Fire Sermon (SN 35.28). Could you expound a bit more on this teaching?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sutta ] [Teaching Dhamma] // [Sense bases] [Similes] [Unwholesome Roots] [Disenchantment] [Buddha/Biography]
The three cardinal suttas give different frameworks for investigation: [Insight meditation]
Sutta: SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta; Amaravati Chanting Book Volume 2, p. 2. [Four Noble Truths]
Sutta: SN 22.59: Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta; Amaravati Chanting Book Volume 2, p. 14. [Not-self] [Aggregates]
Sutta: SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta; Amaravati Chanting Book Volume 2, p. 24.
Thanksgiving Retreat 2012, Session 8, Excerpt 15
“Was the fire sermon a ‘teaching moment’ of hyperbole? I love to take photographs, for example, and it helps me engage much more deeply with the world outside my skull. And it fills me with rapture, compassion, and joy! Does the Buddha’s recipe for liberation truly entail cutting off this experience of beauty? Where’s the Theravada equivalent to the Zen ‘suchness’ —the awe of life and its ephemerality? Thank you!” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Dispassion] [Impermanence] [Suchness] [Recreation/leisure/sport] [Liberation] [Compassion] [Happiness] [Beauty]
Sutta: SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta
2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 5, Excerpt 16
Comment: I always associate [Nibbāna] with the word coolness.... [Nibbāna] [Similes] [Equanimity]
Response by Ajahn Amaro. [Dispassion]
Quote: “Nibbāna is totally cool. Meditate and chill out.” — Ajahn Kusalo. [Ajahn Kusalo] [Artistic expression]
Sutta: SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Chanting book translation).
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 4, Excerpt 1
“Using the words passion and greed as if they are interchangeable seems difficult for me to see. Passion seems a lot wider. How is one passionate about something? How am I greedy about something? If I’m passionate about Buddhism, how am I greedy about Buddhism?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Desire] [Greed] // [Unwholesome Roots] [Aversion] [Etymology] [Teaching Dhamma] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma]
Suttas: SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Chanting book translation); SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta: (Chanting book translation); SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Chanting book translation).
Follow-up: “I relate more to rage and passion than I do to greed. Is it okay to make my three poisons…?”
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 5, Excerpt 3
Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 2, pp. 48-52. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: SN 35.28 (also at Mahāvagga 1.21); Iti 93; SN 44.9.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 6
“This is a bit pedantic, but shouldn’t it be 1,003? It says the three Kassapa brothers and their 1,000 disciples.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Language]
Sutta: SN 35.28: Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Chanting book translation).
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.15: The story of the Kassapa brothers.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 6, Excerpt 1
“You were saying the chanting takes 50 minutes. I understood the Buddha tells Ananda the early suttas because Ananda was not there in the beginning. Was it more like a summary?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Chanting] [Sutta] [Buddha/Biography] [Great disciples] // [Spiritual traditions] [Teaching Dhamma] [Learning] [History/Sri Lankan Buddhism]
Sutta: SN 35.28: The Fire Sermon (Chanting book translation).