Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 7, Attending to the Deathless (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on March 4, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

Questions and answers:

07:06 Ajahn Pasanno’s comment (1);
22:48 Q&A (1); 

26:09 Q&A (2);
28:29 Q&A (3);
34:47 Comment;
35:45 Q&A (4);
44:18 Q&A (5);
01:01:25 Q&A (6);

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapters 6 and 7, Atammayatā: “Not Made of That” and “Attending to the Deathless” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on March 3, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

Questions and answers:

09:25 Ajahn Pasanno’s comment (1);
13:52 Q&A (1); 

14:24 Ajahn Pasanno & Ajahn Karunadhammo;
15:09 Q&A (2);
18:06 Q&A (3);
28:44 Q&A (4);
31:51 Q&A (5);
33:49 Comment (1);
36:15 Q&A (6);
48:53 Ajahn Pasanno’s comment (2);
55:56 Comment (2);

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 6, Atammayatā: “Not Made of That” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on March 2, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

Questions and answers:

13:04 Ajahn Pasanno’s comment;
25:58 Q&A (1); 

27:15 Q&A (2);
31:04 Q&A (3);
39:22 Comment (1);
43:42 Ajahn Pasanno & Ajahn Amaro;
01:00:58 Q&A (4); 

01:05:23 Comment (2);

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on February 7, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

08:57 Comments by LP Pasanno; 

10:28 Q&A: 

13:42 Continuing; 

28:10 Comments from LP Pasanno; 

41:24 Continuing; 

45:35 Q&A.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on February 4, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

05:17 Q&A; 

06:22 Continuing; 

13:52 LP Pasanno comments and Q&A; 

21:20 LP Pasanno comments; 

24:23 Continuing; 

30:22 Q&A; 

37:03 LP Pasanno’s memories of LP Chah’s comments about possession; 

39:24 Continuing; 

45:05 Q&A.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on February 3, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

09:50 Q&A; 

19:19 Continuing; 

27:34 Quote from Ajahn Sucitto; 

29:21 LP Chah’s quote; 

32:36 Reading from the Udana; 

42:42 Q&A.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on February 2, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

09:35 LP Pasanno’s thoughts;

10:46 Q&A; 

12:59 Continuing and Ajahn Thanissaro’s essay on ‘No Self or Non-self?’; 

19:00 Q&A; 

21:33 Continuing; 

29:43 LP Pasanno and Q&A; 

36:58 Continuing; 

41:23 Comment by LP Pasanno and Q&A.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on February 1, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

09:10 Section 13, Chapter 8 (Udaya’s Questions); 

11:45 Q&A; 

14:45 LP Pasanno comments; 

15:12 Continuing (Chapter 6 of the Udana – The Buddha’s inspired utterances); 

23:33 Q&A; 

31:47 Continuing – David Hume, etc. 

38:11 Q&A; 

42:22 Continuing – Connected Discourses Chapter 44.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 5, “To Be, or Not to Be” – Is That the Question?” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 30, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

07:43 Q&A (12:41 Ajahn Sundara’s comment); 

21:38 Continuing; 

23:23 Comments on the word “conceit”; 

29:35 Q&A: 

33:35 Continuing; 

38:52 Q&A; 

39:27 Comments on “selfing”.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 4, “All That is Conditioned…” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 27, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

16:08 Q&A; 

18:05 Ajahn Sundara’s comment; 

19:55 Continuing; 

32:09 Q&A; 

41:02 Continuing.

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Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 4, “All That is Conditioned…” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 26, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

10:41 Q&A; 

11:36 The teaching of the arrow; 

15:43 Comments by LP Pasanno and others; 

18:28 Q&A; 

26:04 Story of LP Mun and the young Ajahn Maha Bua; 

29:10 Comments by Ajahn Sundara and LP Pasanno; 

30:12 Continuing; 

33:54 Q&A; 

41:00 Continuing; 

46:36 Q&A.

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