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Practice in a Global Context – Aug. 12, 2017

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2. “What are spontaneously reborn beings? [in the context of Right View, e.g. MN 117]” [Rebirth] [Realms of existence] [Right View] // [Deva] [Birth] [Ghost]


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3. “There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how information sources cater to their own little niche. Do you have advice about information sources?” [Media] [News] [Politics and society] // [Internet] [Commerce/economics] [Advertizing] [Non-profit organizations]


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4. “I’m left with a deep sadness about the state of the world. I suppose that’s no different than struggling with sadness about the human condition?” [Grief] [Suffering] [Human] [Politics and society] // [Compassion] [Depression] [Desire] [Right Effort] [Disenchantment] [Conventions]


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5. “Can you say more about how disenchantment can be uplifting?” [Disenchantment] [Gladdening the mind] [Politics and society] // [Translation] [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Suffering] [Skillful qualities] [Progress of insight]

Quote: “There’s no known defense against cheesecake.” — Ajahn Sucitto. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Food] [Sensual desire]


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6. Comment: Keeping in mind that everything is cyclical helps me look at the state of the world. [Saṃsāra] [Lawfulness] [Politics and society]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Effort]


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7. Comment: One thing I’ve gotten from Trump is the equanimity to listen to his supporters on a one-on-one basis. [Equanimity] [Listening] [Respect] [Politics and society]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Fear] [Human] [Suffering] [Community]


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8. “How to work with suspicion skillfully? Is it a combination of looking at the factsas well as your gut feeling?” [Doubt] [Intuition] [Politics and society] // [Unwholesome Roots] [Right Effort] [Mindfulness of body]


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9. “Some of my suffering in the current situation comes from feeling compassion with regard to specific suffering that I’m aware of and not acting in response to it. What are helpful stories to frame a patient, long-term effort to effect change?” [Suffering] [Compassion] [Patience] [Long-term practice] [Politics and society] [Kamma] [Activism] [Views] // [Association with people of integrity] [Right Effort]

Quote: “And just because one doesn’t see results doesn’t mean one shouldn’t do something....To put the causes into something–that’s the only way that change is going to happen.” [Conditionality]


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12. “Is this along the concept of Right Effort in a global sense? Not getting attached to the outcome, but yet finding something that’s important enough to put some energy into?” [Right Effort] [Activism] [Politics and society] // [Kamma] [Energy]

Quote: “There’s no such thing as doing nothing.”


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13. “Did Ajahn Chah ever speak about politics?” [Ajahn Chah] [Politics and society] // [Fear] [Proliferation] [History/Thai Buddhism] [Military]

Story: Driving through military checkpoints on the way to Ajahn Fun’s funeral. [Ajahn Fun] [Funerals] [Ajahn Pasanno]


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14. “I keep mostly to myself, but morality and ethics affects the jist of my involvement in society. What should I be doing further to address social suffering?” [Virtue] [Community] [Suffering] [Right Effort] [Politics and society] // [Spiritual friendship] [Goodwill]


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15. “One of the reflections that was sent online described Ajahn Chah’s response to monks who wanted to go out and help refugees. Can you speak to this?” [Ajahn Chah] [Monastic life] [Service] [Politics and society] // [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Military] [Conflict]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno spends time at a Cambodian refugee camp. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Preah Mahāghosānanda]


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16. “I spread lovingkindness from home and don’t have the good fortune of meeting with like minds who practice to perfect sīla. Any suggestions?” [Lay life] [Goodwill] [Spiritual friendship] [Virtue]

Quote: Ajahn Chah to Ajahn Sumedho: “Do you mean to say there’s no good people in America?” [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Culture/West]


Teen Weekend 2017 – Sep. 2, 2017

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1. “What meaningful impact do Buddhist monks have on the community?” [Monastic life] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support ] [Community] [Saṅgha] // [Culture/West] [Culture/Thailand] [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Lunar observance days] [Abhayagiri]

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Story: Ajahn Pasanno’s first visit to Wat Pah Pong. [Wat Pah Pong ] [Temporary ordination] [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries]


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2. “How closely do you and the other monks live together?” [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] [Abhayagiri] // [Ajahn Chah] [Communal harmony ] [Vinaya] [Seclusion] [Culture/West] [Culture/Thailand] [Monastic routine]

Quote: “Human beings. Those are beings with issues.” — Ajahn Chah. [Human] [Conflict]


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3. “When you first ordained, you were just starting to learn about Buddhism. What changed that made you want to dive in?” [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Meditation/Results] [Ajahn Chah]

Story: “If you want to stay with me, you have to stay at least five years.” — Ajahn Chah


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4. “Will we get to see your kuti today?” [Abhayagiri] [Lodging]

Story: Early history of Abhayagiri Monastery. [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] [Master Hsuan Hua] [Seclusion] [Culture/Natural environment]


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5. “What was the hardest thing to give up?” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Renunciation] // [Family]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno’s first visit back to Canada.


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6. “In a Latin American country, the government privatized the water supply and passed a law making it illegal to collect rainwater. Everyone had to buy their water from Nestlé. Does this count as taking what is not given?” [Stealing] [Politics and society] [Environment] // [Ajahn Pasanno] [Culture/Thailand]


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7. “I have doubts about the concept of personal property. How does activism following the Five Precepts work in a country whose water supply has been bought out by private interests?” [Politics and society] [Environment] [Five Precepts] // [Community] [Virtue] [Discernment]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno investigates a logging operation at Dtao Dtum. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Culture/Thailand] [Dtao Dum]


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8. “If you could give your younger self one piece of information, what would it be?” [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Restlessness and worry] [Fear]


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9. “What were you like when you were 18?” [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Delusion] [Spiritual search] [Intoxicants] [Relationships]


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10. Comment: I haven’t heard any Buddhist teachers talk about wholesome romantic relationships. [Relationships] [Skillful qualities]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Family] [Treasures]

Sutta: AN 4.55 Samajīvī Sutta [Virtue]


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11. “Can you talk about your environmental work in Thailand? What qualities of heart and inner strength help us live without being completely overwhelmed?” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Environment ] [History/Thai Buddhism] // [Politics and society] [Culture/Thailand] [Greed] [Teaching Dhamma] [Panyaprateep School] [Food] [Dtao Dum] [Activism]

Story: Sri Lankan monastic kidney donors. [Health] [History/Sri Lankan Buddhism] [Generosity]


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12. “What is the most important thing we can do to help the next generation in terms of the environment?” [Environment ] // [Simplicity] [Contentment] [Greed]


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14. “What are the biggest misconceptions about being ordained?” [Monastic life ] // [Selfishness ]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno visits Ajahn Buddhadāsa: “Don’t be selfish!” [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Ajahn Pasanno]


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15. “What was your greatest desire as a kid?” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Desire] // [Monastic life/Motivation] [Truth]


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16. “Are there monastics who wander around the world without any home base or destination?” [Monastic life] [Tudong ] // [Ajahn Sucitto] [Sequence of training] [Rains retreat] [Abhayagiri] [Requisites] [Ajahn Ñāṇiko] [Almsround] [Culture/West] [Almsfood] [Not handling money] [Generosity]


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17. “Have you broken any precepts where only you know if you broke them?” [Vinaya] [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Right Speech]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno’s uncle offers him alchohol. [Intoxicants] [Truth]


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18. “For the sake of the precepts, what’s the definition of gossip?” [Precepts] [Malicious speech] [Idle chatter]


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19. “Does gossip include talking about someone who is not present for entertainment value?” [Malicious speech ] [Idle chatter] // [Communal harmony] [Abhayagiri]


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20. “Is the point of the precepts to create as much well-being and as little pain in your environment as possible?” [Precepts ] [Happiness] // [Non-contention] [Communal harmony] [Trust]


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21. “Is the philosophy of this community totally against fun?” [Monastic life] [Entertainment and adornment] [Happiness] [Recreation/leisure/sport] // [Association with people of integrity] [Culture/Natural environment]


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22. Comment: Some of the things that monastics avoid due to their precepts can be really beautiful. [Monastic life] [Vinaya]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno.


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23. “Apart from cheating in a relationship or sexual assault, what is sexual misconduct?” [Sexual misconduct ] // [Relationships]


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24. “When all of the solar panels will be put in, how much of the monastery’s energy needs will be met?” [Environment] [Abhayagiri]


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25. “When’s your birthday?” [Ajahn Pasanno]


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26. “Do the monks give each other massages?” [Monastic life] [Health] // [Culture/Thailand]


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27. “What do you think of our president right now?” [Politics and society] // [Right Speech]


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28. “What precepts don’t most people know about that have a big effect on your life?” [Monastic life] [Vinaya ] // [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Requisites] [Mindfulness] [Communal harmony]


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29. “Do monastics talk with each other about the precepts they have broken or having wrong thoughts?” [Monastic life] [Vinaya] [Saṅgha] [Christianity] // [Pāṭimokkha] [Confession] [Rains retreat] [Learning] [Abhayagiri] [Faith]


Can We Function without Attachement?, Session 2 – Oct. 1, 2017

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1. “How do you deal with attachment to relationships? My dad has cancer and may possibly not be here next year.” [Clinging] [Family] // [Parents] [Birth] [Impermanence] [Gratitude]


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2. “How do we deal with the complications that go into the loss of loved ones?” [Grief] [Clinging] // [Self-identity view] [Suffering]


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3. “I heard the word samatonsin all my life, but never knew it means ‘to hold it rightly.’ Is there a way to hold it wrongly?” [Thai] [Clinging] // [Precepts] [Attachment to precepts and practices] [Three Refuges]

Story: Ajahn Passanno accidentally drinks fruit juice mixed with vodka at a family gathering. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Intoxicants]


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4. “Is there a way to skillfully form and investigate opinions about the world in terms of Right View?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Views] [Right View] // [Four Noble Truths] [Suffering] [Conditionality] [Proliferation]

Follow-up: “What happens when we see that another person’s view causes suffering and pain?” [Communal harmony]


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5. Story: A black man asks a KKK member, “Why do you hate people you have never met?” [Discrimination] [Ill-will] [Views]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Listening]


Can We Function without Attachement?, Session 3 – Oct. 1, 2017

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1. “Does physical pain fit under sensuality as the opposite, pushing away?” [Pain] [Sensual desire] [Aversion] // [Fear] [Health care]


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2.Snp 4.6 says something about not clinging to passion and dispassion. Usually I hear that cultivating dispassion is a good thing.” [Clinging] [Sensual desire] [Dispassion]


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4. “Can you distinguish between clinging and craving?” [Clinging] [Craving] // [Dependent origination]


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5. “How do we break the chain of dependent origination?” [Dependent origination] // [Suffering]

Quote: “As you’re falling out of a tree, you’re not counting the branches as you go down. All you know is that when you hit the bottom, it’s going to hurt.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah]


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6.Snp 4.5 and Snp 4.6 refer to what is seen, heard and thought. Is there more to this than developing awareness of what you’re thinking, hearing, and seeing?” [Sense bases] [Direct experience]


Can We Function without Attachement?, Session 4 – Oct. 1, 2017

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1. “How do we make sense of the whirlpool of assumptions?” [Proliferation] [Clinging] // [Discernment] [Perception] [Impermanence] [Ajahn Chah] [Views]

Quote: “Welcome to the human existence.” [Human]


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2. “In AN 9.41, does the Buddha enumerate the drawbacks of sensuality?” [Sensual desire] [Drawbacks]

Reference: “Drawbacks,” part of A Path to Freedom: A Self-guided Tour of the Buddha’s Teachings on accesstoinsight.org. [Dhamma online] [Desire]

Sutta: MN 13: Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta


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3. “Can you speak about the relationship between renunciation and moderation?” [Renunciation ] // [Habits] [Suffering] [Sensual desire] [Spiritual urgency] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Faith] [Conditionality] [Appropriate attention] [Perfections]


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5. Comment: The mind can get caught on relinquishment itself. [Relinquishment] [Clinging] // [Compassion]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Views] [Attachment to precepts and practices] [Self-identity view] [Appropriate attention]


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6. Comment: Renunciation sometimes requires decisively turning against established patterns. [Renunciation] [Clinging] [Determination]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno.


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7. “Is it possible that Parami: Ways to Cross Life’s Floods by Ajahn Sucitto will be reprinted?” [Dhamma books] [Ajahn Sucitto] // [Free distribution]


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8. “How does renuciation reinforce compassion?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Jotipālo. [Renunciation ] [Compassion ] [Sloth and torpor] // [Suffering] [Clinging] [Goodwill] [Right Intention]

Sutta: Snp 1.8: The Metta Sutta.


The Teaching and the Training, Session 1 – Mar. 12, 2018

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1. “The Buddha described his teaching as Dhamma-vinaya. Can you explain why it wasn’t just Dhamma? What does this term mean?” [Middle Path] [Monastic life] [Dhamma] [Vinaya ] // [Recollection/Buddha]

Reference: Buddhadhamma by P. A. Payutto (available at buddhadhamma.github.io) p. 1659


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2. “In order to come to the training as Westerners, we often had to not follow cultural traditions and authorities. Monastic life has so many rules and the traditions are well established. How do we switch gears?” [Culture/West] [Attachment to precepts and practices] [Monastic life] [Dhamma] [Vinaya] // [Recollection/Dhamma] [Faith]


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3. “How do we expand our faith into other aspects of training?” [Faith] [Monastic life] [Dhamma] [Vinaya] // [Dependent origination] [Recollection/Buddha] [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Liem]


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4. “Is vinaya about taking responsibility for your actions and mental states and how that affects other people?” [Monastic life] [Dhamma] [Vinaya] // [Dependent origination] [Recollection/Buddha]


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5. “Can you talk about skillful means to become more sensitive to the nuances of monastic training?” [Monastic life] [Dhamma] [Vinaya] // [Requisites] [Mindfulness] [Respect for elders] [Upatakh]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 2 – Mar. 13, 2018

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1. “Can you talk about respect in the context of horizontal and vertical relationships in monastic life?” [Respect] [Respect for elders] [Monastic life] // [Conscience and prudence]


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2. “Are their multiple levels of brahmacariyā (celibacy)?” [Celibacy] [Christianity] [Sensual desire] [Monastic life] // [Becoming]

Sutta: AN 7.50 Sexual Intercourse


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3. “Can you speak to the development of respect for the symbols of monastic life as opposed to respect for individual teachers?” [Respect] [Teachers] [Monastic life] // [Almsbowl] [Buddha] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Ajahn Chah] [Human]


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4. Comment: I notice that you sometimes don’t react to the seemingly disrespectful behavior of visitors. [Respect] [Teaching Dhamma]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Buddha]


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5. “Western culture seems to have no context for celibacy as a good thing.” [Celibacy] [Culture/West] [Monastic life] // [Christianity]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 3 – Mar. 19, 2018

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1. “Why are the precepts worded as things not to do rather than as aspirations?” [Precepts ] [Vinaya] // [Dhamma]

Quote: “You can’t mandate goodness.”


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2. “How does the Vinaya encourage monks to keep rules?” [Vinaya] [Monastic life] // [Dhamma]


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3. “What is the role of confession and other tools for recifying offenses?” [Vinaya] [Confession] // [Ajahn Chah] [Volition] [Kamma] [Dhamma]


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4. “When the Buddha mentions stream entry, he often mentions both sīla (virtue) and view.” [Stream entry] [Virtue] [Right View]


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5. “What about Sarakāni (SN 55.24-25), the stream enterer who took to drink?” [Stream entry] [Intoxicants] // [Ajahn Chah] [Precepts]

Story: Ajahn Chah takes in a gangster. [Crime]


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6. “Can you talk more about “Skillfully contributing to an upredictable situation”?” [Impermanence] [Skillful qualities] [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Teaching Dhamma] [Clear comprehension]


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7. “Have you been in situations where you didn’t know what to do?” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Impermanence]


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8. “I appreciate your saying “The trancendance of doubt isn’t getting the answers to your doubt, it’s being comfortable with the doubt.”” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Doubt]


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9. “When the suttas describe a practitioner as “having gone beyond doubt,” (e.g. DN 3) what do they mean?” [Doubt] [Sutta] // [Four Noble Truths] [Teaching Dhamma] [Ajahn Chah]

Story: An Ajahn Chah monk accused of a heavy offense. [Vinaya]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 4 – Mar. 20, 2018

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1. “What is the role of mentors and teachers in learning to use the monastic form skillfully?” [Teachers] [Mentoring ] [Vinaya ] [Monastic life] // [Saṅgha] [Ajahn Chah] [Wat Pah Pong] [Teaching Dhamma] [Long-term practice] [Ajahn Pasanno]


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2. “Who were imporant mentors for you?” [Ajahn Pasanno] [Teachers] [Mentoring] [Monastic life] // [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Jun] [Ajahn Mahā Amorn] [Ajahn Liem] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Ajahn Mahā Boowa] [Ajahn Baen] [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [P. A. Payutto] [Wat Pah Pong]

Story: Ajahn Mahā Amorn goes to study with Ajahn Chah. [Learning]


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3. “Two questions: 1) What strengths do you see in other Buddhist traditions and Western culture that our tradition could benefit from? 2) How have you decided which aspects of korwat (protocols) from Thailand to adjust and which to maintain?” [Mahāyāna] [Vajrayāna] [Culture/West] [Culture/Thailand] [Monastic life] [Vinaya] [Protocols] // [Abhayagiri] [Women in Buddhism] [Robes] [Cultural context] [City of Ten Thousand Buddhas] [Dōgen] [Zen] [Ajahn Sumedho] [History/Western Buddhism] [Simplicity] [Christianity] [Renunciation] [Eight Precepts] [Not handling money] [Chithurst] [Ajahn Amaro] [Communal harmony]

Quote: “There are so many good things to do that you could be running around the country doing good things. I’d rather focus my attention here.” [Pace of life]

Quote: “There’s no reason to fit into American culture.”

Story: The monastic jacket is vindicated in England. [Culture/Natural environment] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism]

Quote: “As Buddhist monastics and Buddhist practitioners, we’re trying to set conditions that give us the opportunity for learning.” [Lay life] [Learning]


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4. “Have you had strong relationships with Buddhist lay teachers in the West?” [Lay teachers] [Ajahn Pasanno] [History/Western Buddhism]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 5 – Mar. 21, 2018

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1. “What can we learn when we pay respects to mentors?” [Respect for elders] [Monastic life] // [Ajahn Mahā Boowa] [Almsround] [Ajahn Pasanno]

Story: Ajahn Mahā Boowa visits after Ajahn Chah’s death. [Ajahn Chah]

Story: Ajahn Baen admonishes Ajahn Pasanno at Ajahn Chah’s cremation. [Ajahn Baen] [Fierce/direct teaching]

Quote: “You don’t have to visit me! You know what to do already! It’s all right here (pointing at his heart).” — Ajahn Baen to Ajahn Pasanno.


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2. “How many monks are with Luang Por Baen?” [Ajahn Baen] [Monastic life]


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3. “What about senior monks who don’t meet our expectations of conduct or practice?” [Respect for elders] [Monastic life] // [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Ajahn Mahā Boowa]

Sutta: AN 4.192 Facts


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4. “Do you remember the sutta that compares people’s behaivor to a puddle?” [Sutta] [Similes] // [Ill-will]

Sutta: AN 5.162 Removing Resentment


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5. “Do you have any reflections on the “Do or die” attitude?” [Monastic life/Motivation] [Ardency] [Middle Path] [Monastic life]


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6. “Can you talk about the dangers of misplaced or wrongly directed faith in a teacher?” [Faith] [Teachers ] [Respect for elders] [Monastic life] // [Recollection/Dhamma] [Middle Path]

Quote: “A good teacher encourages people to practice and figure this out rather than telling them exactly what to do.” [Teaching Dhamma] [Discernment]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 6 – Mar. 22, 2018

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1. “How does upatakhing fit into our training and what can we learn from it?” [Upatakh] [Vinaya] [Respect for elders] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Culture/Thailand] [Conceit] [Generosity] [Protocols] [Discernment] [Mindfulness]

Vinaya: Cv 8: Vattakkhandhaka - Protocols

Story: Ajahn Lee upataks Ajahn Mun. [Ajahn Mun] [Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo]


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2. “I assume at Abhayagiri the upatakh sleeps in his own dwelling place? (in contrast to the previous story of Ajahn Lee)” [Abhayagiri] [Upatakh] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Sickness] [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Other Thai monastics]


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3. “What is the value of living in community?” [Monastic life] [Saṅgha ] // [Self-identity view] [Continuity of mindfulness] [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Tongrat] [Views] [Requisites] [Not handling money]


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4. “Do you think it’s true that how we treat others is in large part how we treat ourselves?” [Community] [Discernment]


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5. Comment: It’s important for the Saṅgha to look after all members in terms of sickness and ageing. [Sickness] [Ageing] [Health care] [Death] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha ]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno.

Vinaya: Kd 8.26.1-8: The Monk with Dysentery [Buddha/Biography]

Recollections of Saṅgha members who have died. [Saṅgha ] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 7 – Mar. 23, 2018

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1. “Why do upatakhs do things for their ajahns that the ajahns can do better themselves?” [Upatakh] [Monastic life] // [Self-identity view] [Generosity] [Relinquishment] [Culture/Thailand] [Culture/West]


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2. “In Thailand, dāna (generosity) usually means giving food to a monk. But is dāna more of a mindset?” [Generosity] [Culture/Thailand] [Monastic life] // [Chanting] [Upatakh] [Wat Pah Pong] [Ajahn Chah] [Cleanliness]


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3. “Can you talk about Ajahn Chah’s use of bowing, communal pūjās, and chores?” [Ajahn Chah] [Monastic routine] [Chanting] [Saṅgha] [Monastic life] [Work] [Bowing] // [Becoming] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Respect for elders]

Story: A Westerner asks Ajahn Chah, “Why do we bow?”


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4. “Can you clarify what “field of merit” means?” [Saṅgha] [Recollection/Saṅgha] [Generosity] [Recollection/Generosity] [Monastic life] [Merit]


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5. “Why do we bow to images?” [Buddha images] [Bowing] [Monastic life] // [History/Early Buddhism] [Abhayagiri]


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6. “What about relics?” [Relics] [Monastic life] // [Ajahn Mun] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Ajahn Khao] [Mae Chee Kaew] [Master Hsuan Hua] [Ajahn Chah]

Story: Ajahn Pasanno’s mother observes multiplying relics.


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7. “What do you think might have happened to the few relics in my house when it burned down?” [Relics]


The Teaching and the Training, Session 8 – Mar. 26, 2018

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1. “Ajahn Chah encouraged his monks to all come together for communal chores and stay until the chores are finished. Why is that?” [Ajahn Chah] [Work] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Communal harmony] [Relinquishment] [Clinging] [Culture/West]


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2. “What does morning pūjā contribute?” [Chanting] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Devotion to wakefulness]


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3. “Will practice as a group help us in solitude?” [Seclusion] [Meditation/General advice] [Community] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha]


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4. “How do we balance solitude and communal aspects of practice?” [Seclusion] [Community] [Meditation/General advice] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Ajahn Pasanno]


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5. Comment: Some deep-seated patterns may be more visible to others than ourselves. [Community] [Outflows] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Aversion] [Self-identity view]


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6. “Is there a place to point out others’ difficulties [in the practice]?” [Admonishment/feedback] [Right Speech] [Community] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Ajahn Chah] [Teaching Dhamma]


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7. “What is the role of admonishement? How do we admonish skillfully?” [Admonishment/feedback ] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Right Intention] [Goodwill] [Mentoring] [Respect for elders]

Vinaya: Kd 18.11.14, Kd 18.12.8: Mutual admonishment between teacher and student.

Story: Ajahn Amaro waits a year before giving feedback. [Ajahn Amaro] [Patience]

Quote: “Don’t admonish somebody before the meal.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah]


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8. “Does the proper timing of admonishment depend on the severity of the offense?” [Admonishment/feedback] [Vinaya] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha]


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9. “When and how should one respond to offenses of middling severity?” [Admonishment/feedback] [Vinaya] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha]


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10. “I’ve heard that someone asked Ajahn Chah if he could read his students’ minds. He replied that he didn’t need to; he just watched how they walked in the door and bowed. Do you get a feel for this over time?” [Ajahn Chah] [Psychic powers] [Teaching Dhamma] [Mindfulness of body] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] [Bowing]


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11. “When is it skillful to try to help people who are suffering?” [Compassion ] [Suffering] [Teaching Dhamma]


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12. “Have you found it necessary to recommend psychotherapy or medication for monks who have deep-seated ruts of suffering?” [Western psychology ] [Suffering] [Long-term practice] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Ajahn Pasanno]


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13. “Is the Dhamma sufficient for ordinary neurosis or do I need a psychotherapist?” [Western psychology] [Dhamma]


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14. “A senior lay teacher I respect has started seeing a psychotherapist. Any reflections?” [Western psychology] [Dhamma] [Lay teachers]


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15. “Does the stability of monastic community help prevent spiritual bypassing?” [Spiritual bypass] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha]


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17. “Abhayagiri’s daily and yearly schedule provide a good balance of individual and communal practice. How did this happen?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Abhayagiri] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Ajahn Amaro] [Seclusion] [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [History/Western Buddhist monasticism]


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