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 Humility
Parent topic: Skillful qualities
6 excerpts, 27:16 total duration
The Gradual Training, Session 1 – Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Yatiko – Oct. 20, 2012

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6. Comment: The simile of the snake (MN 22) describes my practice. I've been bitten quite a lot. [Similes] [Gradual Teaching]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Yatiko. [Suffering] [Humility]

The Gradual Training, Session 2 – Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Yatiko – Oct. 20, 2012

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6. Story: They ask the Zen master what would it say if they wrote the biography of his life? "One mistake after another." [Zen] [Learning] [Humility] [Gradual Teaching]

Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 31 – Ajahn Pasanno – Feb. 17, 2014

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17. “You were talking about the positive aspect of relinquishment, and that's what will motivate giving up, that positive aspect of giving up and letting go. When it's painful giving up and you give up, you can say, 'Wait, I'm just focusing on the negative aspect of giving up, I need to switch my mind to the benefits of relinquishment?'” [Relinquishment] [Suffering] [Appropriate attention] // [Self-identity view] [Clinging] [Humor] [Humility]

Two Kinds of Thought and the Removal of Distracting Thoughts, Session 3 – Ajahn Pasanno – Jun. 4, 2017

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9. Comment: It's so hard not to identify with the contents of the mind, to not make it me and mine. Realizing how useless so many of my thoughts are helps. [Self-identity view] [Guilt/shame/inadequacy] [Suffering] [Disenchantment] [Directed thought and evaluation]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness] [Pāli]

Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Not-self] [Humility]

The Path of Practice, Session 1 – Ajahn Pasanno – Jun. 15, 2019

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17. “The Buddha had the talent of knowing preceisely what to saay to a person at a given moment. The teaching ajahns have developed this as well, but I've never heard of it as part of the training. Can you reflect on that?” [Teaching Dhamma] [Buddha/Biography] [Monastic teachers] // [Personality] [Discernment] [Idealism] [Ajahn Chah] [Suffering] [Humility] [Relinquishment] [Fear] [Self-identity view]

Love, Attachment, and Friendship, Session 3 – Ajahn Pasanno – Oct. 12, 2019

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3. “My natural tendency is to push the world away and to have the attitude that enjoyment is wrong. I'm working on trying to enjoy life. Do you have any ideas about this?” [Craving not to become] [Christianity] [Hinduism] [Ascetic practices] [Happiness] [Skillful qualities] // [Monastic life] [Ajahn Sucitto] [Guilt/shame/inadequacy] [Culture/West]

The Rule of St. Benedict and Ajahn Sucitto's talk "Fellow Worms." [Humility]

Story: A BBC interviewer asks King Rama IX about original sin. [Media] [Culture/Thailand] [Nature of mind]

Causal processes leading to sāmadhi and dispassion have different starting points, but they all go through delight and happiness. [Conditionality] [Concentration] [Dispassion]

Quote: “Monks, do not be afraid of puñña.” — Iti 22 [Merit] [Fear] [Liberation]

Quote: “The happy mind is easily concentrated.”