Recollection (anusati)
Meditation / Recollection
Part of key topic Meditation Practices
Subtags: Recollection/Buddha, Recollection/Dhamma, Recollection/Saṅgha, Recollection/Virtue, Recollection/Generosity, Recollection/Devas, Mindfulness of breathing, Recollection/Death, Mindfulness of body, Recollection/Peace
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2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 8 – Nov. 28, 2015

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7. “Can you give a concrete description of how you recollect or contemplate? What’s going on in your mind while you do it? What resources or mental formations do you use?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Recollection] // [Learning] [Four Noble Truths] [Right Effort] [Directed thought and evaluation]

Quote: “The most effective contemplation takes place when the mind is still.” [Recollection] [Tranquility]


The New Ajahn Chah Biography, Session 3 – Apr. 21, 2018

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15. “When you have completed the practice, does everything become ‘down time?’” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Stages of awakening] [Recreation/leisure/sport] // [Clinging] [Almsfood] [Culture/Natural environment]

Quote: “It’s because we reflect on these ‘serious things’ that we can hold things lightly.” [Recollection]

Suttas: MN 2.13: Reflection on the requisites; AN 5.208: Benefits of chewing toothwood


Developing Skill in Reflective Meditation, Session 2 – Dec. 1, 2019

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1. Quote: “If you want to succeed in your practice, you have to think a lot.... You have to think all the time about Dhamma.” — Ajahn Baen. Quoted by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Ajahn Baen] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Investigation of states] [Recollection/Dhamma ] [Recollection] // [Chanting]

Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 6.


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6. Quote: “We have to get out of the habit of being theives.” — Ajahn Buddhadāsa. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Relinquishment] [Stealing] [Recollection] // [Aggregates] [Clinging] [Naturalness]

Quote: “The peace of Nibbāna is note something that you gain, that you get, that you claim ownership over; it’s by relinquishing and releasing these bases of identity.” [Nibbāna] [Recollection/Peace] [Release] [Self-identity view]