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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 4, "All That is Conditioned..." (from the second chapter, "The Terrain”) on January 24, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

06:11 Comments by LP Pasanno; 

07:06 Q&A; 

08:30 The Dalai Lama’s words on the third kind of suffering; 

26:06 Q&A; 

27:41 Sutta: The Man from Aṭṭhakanāgara; 

32:13 LP Pasanno’s comments; 

32:38 Ajahn Amaro's comments; 

36:25 Q&A; 

41:41 Continuing.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 4, “All That is Conditioned…” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 23, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

09:51 Comments by LP Pasanno; 

10:23 Q&A;

12:32 Reference to Gil Fronsdal;

13:56 Q&A; 

21:23 Continuing; 

26:20 Q&A; 

41:18 From Ven Payutto.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 3, “This and That, and Other Things” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 20, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.


04:33 Q&A; 

11:18 Continuing; 

25:29 Q&A; 

39:32 Continuing; 

45:36 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 3, “This and That, and Other Things” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 19, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.


14:37 Q&A; 

19:14 Continuing; 

27:56 Q&A; 

41:18 Continuing.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 3, “This and That, and Other Things” (from the second chapter, “The Terrain”) on January 18, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

13:22 Idappaccayatā; 

18:44 Q&A about Ajahn Buddhadasa; 

23:50 Q&A 

29:34 Ajahn Thanissaro; 

49:06 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 2, “Fire, Heat and Coolness” (from the first chapter, “Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 17, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

Chapter 2 continued; 

Follow up on The Wanderer Upaka; 

11:57 Q&A; 

15:47 Chapter 2 continued; 

20:20 Q&A; 

24:20 Chapter 2 continued; 

35:51 Q&A; 

36:41 Verses of the Enlightened Nun Patacara; 

38:20 Venerable Anuruddha; 

40:06 Q&A;

43:00 The enlightenment of Venerable Ananda; 

48:04 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 2, "Fire, Heat and Coolness" (from the first chapter, "Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 16, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

45:24 Encounter with Vacchagotta; 

49:44 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 2, "Fire, Heat and Coolness" (from the first chapter, "Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 15, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

16:24 Q&A; 

27:50 Chapter 2 Continued; 

37:39 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 1, "What is it?" (from the first chapter, "Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 12, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

08:32 Q&A; 

11:31 To continue; 

13:41 The Pilgrim Kamanita; 

27:55 Q&A; 

38:26 To continue – From the Magandiya Sutta.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 1, "What is it?" (from the first chapter, "Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 9, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

00:52 Etymologies;

11:43 Q&A
13:03 Definitions;

27:45 Q&A;
34:12 Next quotation;
39:34 Long list of synonyms for nibbana / ultimate reality; 

48:17 Q&A.

Ajahn Amaro read and commented on subchapter 1, "What is it?" (from the first chapter, "Seeds: Names and Symbols”) on January 8, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.

00:00 Continuation of Introduction. 

Starts with some of the poetry that Luang Por Sumedho likes. 

33:43 Chapter 1 - What is it? (part 1)

37:52 Q1; 

42:21 Q2; 

44:31 Chapter 1 continued; 

53:17 Q3 


Ajahn Amaro read and commented on “Prefaces and Introduction” on January 5, 2025, during the Winter Retreat at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK.