Becoming (bhavāsava)
Parent topics: Outflows, Dependent origination
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The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship, Session 3 – Jun. 22, 2013

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4. “Can you say more about the practice of awareness of arising and ceasing in relation to discernment and right view?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Becoming] [Cessation] [Mindfulness] [Discernment] [Right View] // [Impermanence] [Ajahn Chah] [Conditionality] [Self-identity view] [Happiness] [Mindfulness of mind] [Patience]

Reading from an unnamed recent Ajahn Chah book. [Relinquishment] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma]

Quote: “I don’t teach you guys much. Just be patient.” — Ajahn Chah


Abhayagiri Monastic Retreat 2013, Session 5 – Nov. 27, 2013

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14. “Please explain which comes first birth or becoming for example with anger or any feeling or character?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Birth] [Becoming] [Ill-will]


Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 35 – Feb. 21, 2014

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1. “Is bhavataṇhā both the desire to exist and the desire to be a certain way?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Becoming] // [Self-identity view]


Thai Forest Tradition, Session 3 – Jun. 14, 2014

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4. “When Ajahn Liem says, ‘Practice is just for practice,’ what arises for me is that any time I put a meaning on practice, there has to be an ego state that arises around that meaning....It’s like letting go even o fthe idea of practicing in order to become enlightened.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Liem] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma] [Self-identity view] [Becoming] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Liberation] [Relinquishment]

Quote: “Practicing for Nibbāna is just another kind of desire.” — Ajahn Chah [Ajahn Chah] [Nibbāna] [Desire]


2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 4 – Nov. 25, 2014

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7. “Regarding yesterdays teaching that rebirth is happening every moment, could you give instructions on how to discern the preceding step, becoming (bhavanga)? Would you consider transition from sleep into an awakened state being as “rebirth” and whether there is becoming manifesting upon waking up?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Rebirth] [Becoming]


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

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4. “Can you speak about the roots of wholesome and unwholesome desire?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Energy] [Desire] [Becoming] [Skillful qualities] [Unskillful qualities] // [Discernment] [Right Effort] [Learning] [Ajahn Chah]

Sutta: AN 10.58.

Reference: Listening to the Heart by Kittisaro and Ṭhānissarā (commercial).


The Middle Way of Not-Self, Session 2 – May. 27, 2015

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13. “Is bhavadiṭṭhi the same word as cultivation (bhāvanā)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Becoming] [Views] [Meditation] [Pāli] [Not-self] // [Etymology]


2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 1 – Nov. 21, 2015

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3. “This morning you talked about crossing the floods of obsessive thought by not holding on to or pushing them away. I get that, but it feels like there’s something missing – a hole that needs to be filled up with something – a solution?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Proliferation] [Becoming]


2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 5 – Nov. 25, 2015

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1. “Please explain more how did the Buddha cross the flood, by neither going forward nor standing still. What does this mean?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Becoming] [Cessation of Suffering]


2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 6 – Nov. 26, 2015

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9. “In this afternoon’s talk, Ajahn Karunadhammo mentioned the benefits of the bhava that results from practice or the Eightfold Path. Could you elaborate on this?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Eightfold Path] [Becoming]