Q&A sessions
Students ask, Delson answers.
2024
- DO Series - Introduction and General Q&A Session
Delson explains how his dependent origination booklets came about: a 2021 writing project that grew out of online retreats, with a planned later volume on the path.
- Talk 12 -Q&A -Nibbana- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson answers questions after a talk on cessation (nirodha), Nibbana and dependent origination.
- Talk 7 -Bhava (Being) Q&A- Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson Armstrong answers participants' questions in a Q&A on bhava (being) within a dependent origination series.
- Talk 5 -Q&A Dependent Origination Conf with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong answers questions at the close of a course on dependent origination.
2023
- Final Day Q&A Day 3/3 Bandra, Mumbai Sept 2023 w/Delson Armstrong Sept 7-9, 2023
Delson explains that practice after retreat is a lifelong commitment built on sila, samadhi and panna, and he walks through the Noble Eightfold Path factor by factor, from right view to…
- Jhanas + Q&A Mumbai 2023 Acharya Delson Armstrong
Delson explains the jhanas as levels of cessation that unfold from a loving-kindness practice, through the four form jhanas and the formless ayatanas, to cessation and nibbana.
- Copy of June 4, 2022 - Questions and Answers with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers a series of listener questions on TWIM practice.
- May 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 3
Delson answers audience questions at an online retreat on past-lives recognition versus the jhanas, the Angulimala story and whether good kamma helps attainment, and how to recognise the…
- June 4, 2022 - Questions and Answers with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong answers questions submitted through the Suttavada website about TWIM practice and Dhamma.
- HIndrances + Q&A Day 1/3 Bandra, Mumbai Sept 2023 w/Delson Armstrong Sept 7-9, 2023
Delson explains hindrances as distractions that reveal attachment and aversion, describes the five hindrances, and shows how the 6R's (shortened to four R's) work as right effort tied to…
- Q&A about MN 43 with Delson -Mahavedalla Sutta
Delson answers questions on MN 43, the Mahavedalla Sutta, explaining how the five sense faculties depend on vitality and heat, and what vital formations are.
2022
- Live Dhamma QA with Delson Armstrong Aug 6
Delson answers ten questions from a live online session covering dependent origination, the precepts, jhana practice in TWIM, the eighth and signless states, and craving.
- June 4, 2022 - Questions and Answers with Delson Armstrong
The transcript supplied for this June 4, 2022 question and answer session contains only one fragment of speech, a brief opening remark that does not state a topic.
- Online Retreat 23 Dec 2021 Group Q & A With Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from participants at a group Q&A closing an online retreat, opening with a reading from SN 56.10 on talk that leads to Dhamma.
- Online Retreat 20 Dec 2021 Dhamma talk MN 38 and Q & A With Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, and explains dependent origination as a chain from ignorance through formations, consciousness, contact, feeling, craving and clinging to…
- 9 Dec 2021 Q & A with Delson Armstrong second session
Delson answers questions at the close of a retreat on sharing merit and loving kindness for beings in the lower realms, and on the higher knowledges.
- 8 Dec 2021 Q & A with Delson Armstrong first session
In the final Q&A of a retreat, Delson Armstrong answers questions on why some people reach stream-entry quickly but advance slowly, the paramis, and karma as old and new.
2021
- 4 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A With Delson Armstrong Session 2 of 2
Delson answers questions from a retreat on the nature of the present moment, meditation pain versus physical pain, posture, and craving for subtle states.
- 14 Dec 2021 Online Retreat. Intro on how to practice and Q & A with Delson Armstrong
Delson gives the opening instructions for an online retreat: a metta practice that begins with oneself and then a living spiritual friend, with sitting and walking alternated and the six…
- 4 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A With Delson Armstrong Session 1 of 2
Delson answers questions from a retreat Q&A on doctrine and practice.
- 1 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A with Delson # 1 part 2 of 2
Delson answers questions from retreat participants in the first online Q&A of a retreat.
- 1 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A with Delson # 1 part 1 of 2 - AUDIO ONLY
Delson answers questions from retreat participants in the first online retreat Q&A.
- 27 Nov 2021 Q & A with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers audience questions on the Buddhist teaching of rebirth and intermediate states, near-death visions, and how precepts relate to hindrances.
- 30 Oct 2021 Online Retreat Q & A #3
Delson answers participants' questions at the close of an online Suttavada retreat.
- Oct 16, 2021 - Questions and Answers with Delson and Syl
Delson answers a series of live questions from listeners on Dhamma topics.
- June 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 2
Delson answers audience questions on the second Q&A of a June 2021 online retreat.
- May 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 1
Delson answers questions from the first Q&A session of a May 2021 online retreat.
- May 15, 2021 – MN 43 – The Greater Series of Questions and Answers
Delson reads MN 43, the Maha Vedalla Sutta, on wisdom, consciousness, feeling and perception, and on the jhanas, the faculties, cessation, and the signless and voidness deliverances of mind.
- May 8, 2021 - MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Many Aspects of the Dhamma
Delson walks through MN 44, the Shorter Discourse on Questions and Answers, in which the nun Dhammadinna explains identity, its origin, its cessation and the path to it.
- April 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 3
Delson answers questions from retreat participants on the precepts as habits, the seventh jhana and light versus darkness, dependent origination, flow states, and daily schedules.
- April 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 1
In this Q&A, a practitioner describes getting distracted in the jhanas, mainly by restlessness, and asks whether determinations would help at this stage.
2020
- Day-9 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from the final day of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-8 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions about rebirth, saying that consciousness is not an eternal soul but arises dependent on experience, with formations driven by craving and intention carried into a…
- Day-7 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers audience questions on the final day of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-6 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
In this question-and-answer session from an online retreat, Delson Armstrong explains continued existence as a cycle in which consciousness, conditioned by craving and clinging, produces…
- Day-5 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from day five of an online ten-day retreat in November 2020.
- Day-4 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers participant questions on day four of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-3 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from day three of an online ten-day retreat in November 2020.
- Day-2 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers retreat participants' questions on day two of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-2 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers participants' questions on a day-two online retreat, covering MN10 contemplation of internal and external phenomena, bare observation as mindfulness, and balancing the seven…
- Day-4 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from a day-4 online retreat Q&A.
- Day-0 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions at the start of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-1 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from the first day of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-7 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from day 7 of an online 10-day retreat on the Dhamma.
- Day-8 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers audience questions from the seventh day of an online retreat.
- Day-5 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from a day of an online retreat.
- Day-1 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers participants' questions on the first day of an online retreat.
- Day-6 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers listener questions from day six of an online ten-day retreat on the stages of awakening, nibbana and cessation, rebirth, and dependent origination.
- Day-9 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
In this closing question-and-answer session from day nine of an online ten-day retreat, Delson Armstrong answers questions on whether lay people can become arahants without joining the…
- Day-3 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
This question-and-answer session from an online retreat covers jhana objects, development by application, and how to recognize jhana factors without verbalizing them.
- Q&A at DSMC Global Sitting Group - Oct 11, 2020
Delson answers questions from a Q&A session at a DSMC Global Sitting Group about linking the 6 R's to right effort in the Eightfold Path.
- Question and Answers on Path and Fruition
Delson discusses the idea of a path and fruition in the context of the stages of awakening.