Ajahn Ṭhānissaro   Teachings by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro
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Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 5 – Jan. 12, 2014

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1. “Does anyone know the Thai word that Ajahn Ṭhānissaro translates as “preoccupations?”” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Jotipālo. [Thai] [Translation] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro]


Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 19 – Feb. 1, 2014

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4. “What Pāli word do you think Ajahn Geoff is translating as thought formations?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Pāli] [Translation] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] // [Volitional formations] [Thai]


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5. “In another Ajahn Geoff translation, I have seen him use “supposings” or “fashionings.’ Is that the same word?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Translation] [Thai] // [Conventions] [Ajahn Chah] [Liberation]


Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 43 – Mar. 5, 2014

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4. “Where is Wat Buridat?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Pesalo. [Wat Buridat] // [Ajahn Suwat] [Wat Metta] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Insight Meditation Society]


2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 6 – Nov. 27, 2014

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20. “Can you clarify (and simplify!) the four frames of reference? I have read Ven. Thanissaro’s book and it’s pretty challenging to remember from one paragraph to the next as it is so wonderfully dense. In particular, four frames especially as it pertains to mindfulness of breathing? Thank you!” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Mindfulness ] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Mindfulness of breathing]

Reference: Right Mindfulness by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 14 – Jan. 23, 2015

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4. “Could you clarify “the body in the body?”” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Mindfulness of body] [Right Mindfulness ] // [Translation] [Pāli] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Direct experience] [Self-identity view] [Elements] [Proliferation] [Perception]

References: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 91; Right Mindfulness by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 15 – Jan. 24, 2015

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1. “What does “headed by” refer to?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Concentration] [Translation] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Pāli]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 19 – Jan. 30, 2015

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2. “When Ajahn Ṭhānissaro talks about Right Concentration, are Right Concentration and jhāna one and the same?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Right Concentration] [Jhāna]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 20 – Jan. 31, 2015

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3. “What does Ajahn Geoff mean by “frames of reference?”” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Right Mindfulness]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 25 – Feb. 8, 2015

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2. Comment: Ajahn Ṭhānissaro encourages mindfulness of the body. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Mindfulness of body] // [Delusion]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Jhāna]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 31 – Feb. 20, 2015

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1. Discussion of Ajahn Ṭhānissaro’s translation “practice jhāna.” [Jhāna] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Translation] [Pāli]

Sutta: SN 47.10 Bhikkhunūpassaya Sutta, At the Nun’s Residence.


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 32 – Feb. 21, 2015

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1. Comment by Ajahn Pasanno: Explanation of ambiguous Aṅguttara Nikāya numbering. [Sutta] // [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro]


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3. “Are the Four Frames of Reference the same as the Four Foundations of Mindfulness?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Mindfulness] [Translation] // [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 34 – Feb. 23, 2015

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1. Comments by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo contrasting the cannonical and commentarial approaches to breath meditation. [Sutta] [Commentaries] [Mindfulness of breathing] // [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Pa Auk Sayadaw] [Culture/Sri Lanka] [Culture/Thailand] [Pāli] [Ajahn Pasanno]

Sutta: MN 44 identifies in-and-out breathing as the bodily fabrication/conditioner (saṅkhāra).


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 49 – Mar. 22, 2015

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2. Translation of phassapaññattiṃ paññāpessatīti (manifestation, delineation). Teaching by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo, Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Pāli] [Translation] [Proliferation] [Perception] // [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Commentaries] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro]


Thanksgiving Retreat 2016, Session 7 – Nov. 25, 2016

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23. “Do you understand impermanence as the phenomena of a river flowing or as a light being turned on and off as Bhikkhu Analayo describes?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Impermanence ] [Ven. Analayo] [Similes] // [Pāli] [Translation] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Ajahn Chah]