Cessation / DO seen
Talks that speak mostly to this
- Day 4 Understanding Formations & How to Attain Cessation -Excellent!
Delson reads and comments on SN 41.6 (Kamabhu Sutta), in which the monk Kamabhu answers the householder Chitta's questions on the three formations, the attainment of cessation of…
- Delson Armstrong on cessation vs jhanas vs anaesthesia
Delson Armstrong answers an interviewer's questions about cessation, which he distinguishes from ordinary sleep, general anaesthesia, the awareness of awareness described in non-dual…
- Delson Armstrong: awakening is individual, & the future of dharma
Delson Armstrong, in a long interview, explains why he has moved away from the codified TWIM system toward a more individual and less dogmatic approach to awakening.
- Day 3 "Gates of Liberation" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson gives a retreat talk on transcendental dependent origination, working backward from the final link, knowledge of liberation, through the links that lead to it.
- "Gates of Liberation" Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson explains the Gates of Liberation, the three meditations of emptiness, signlessness and undirectedness, drawn from SN 43.4, as three doors into the unconditioned (nibbana-dhatu).
- Day 9 Last Day -Ending Samsara
Delson closes his final retreat talk by asking listeners how they will carry the practice back into ordinary life, with its pain, difficult people and habitual reactions.
- Day 5 Path to Nibbana - Upanisa Sutta-Transcendental DO - Delson Armstrong
Delson recaps the higher jhanas (the arupa ayatanas, from infinite space through neither-perception-nor-non-perception) and how the mind moves through them toward cessation.
- Day 1 Adv Retreat AN 3.32 To Ananda -The Mind Stilled
Delson opens a seven-day advanced retreat by reading AN 3.32, the Ananda Sutta, in which Ananda asks whether a bhikkhu can reach a state of mind with no conceit (mana) toward the body or…
- June 15 SN 41.6 "With Kamabu" Cessation and its attainment. Sunday Sutta Study
Delson works through SN 41.6, the discourse with Kamabhu, in which the householder Chitta asks about the three formations, how the attainment of cessation of perception and feeling comes…
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 6 - Levels of Cessation
Delson explains the jhanas as levels of cessation, moving from the first jhana, where the hindrances fall away, through the four formless ayatanas of infinite space, infinite…
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 5 - The Steps to Liberation
Delson explains liberation in Buddhist terms as the destruction of greed, hatred and delusion, and describes a path to it through relaxation, tranquility, comfort, collectedness…
- Origin of Hindrances and Cessation as a Pleasant Abiding with Delson Armstrong
Delson walks through AN 10.61 (the Avijja Sutta), which describes a chain in which the five hindrances feed ignorance, the three kinds of misconduct feed the hindrances, and so on back to…
- What is Nirodha-samāpatti (Delson Armstrong)
Delson explains nirodha-samapatti, usually translated as the cessation of perception, feeling and consciousness, in which concepts, bare sensations and awareness all stop.
- 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 11 -Nirodha and Nibbana- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson gives a final talk on nirodha (cessation) and Nibbana, reading from several suttas: SN 41.6 and 41.7, AN 10.6 and 10.7, Iti 44, and an excerpt from DN 11.
- What Exactly is the Deep End of Meditation? | Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong describes his own path, from hatha yoga as a teenager through Himalayan training, Kriya, Tibetan practices and metta to TWIM.
- Day 8 Upanisa Sutta - The Path to NIbbana- Japan Retreat Dec 2023
Delson walks through the transcendental links of dependent origination from the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23), asking how suffering leads to a path out and to the total cessation of suffering.
- The Deep End of Meditation - Rebooting the Brain | Delson Armstrong
In this interview, Delson Armstrong traces his meditation path from hatha yoga, Kriya Yoga and Tibetan practices to TWIM, and describes the jhanas, the samadhi states of yoga, and a…
- Day 8- 10 Day Retreat June 2022 MN 43 Voidness and Vital Formations
Delson reads through MN 43, the Maha Vedalla Sutta, with commentary, from a 2022 retreat.
- Day 7 - Talk on Nibbana, Cessation, Nirodha- MN121, SN 41.6&7 with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 121 (the Shorter Discourse on Voidness) and SN 41.6 and SN 41.7.
- 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.
- 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.
- Zoom Talk MN 106 with Delson Armstrong -The Imperturbable
Delson reads and comments on MN 106 (Ananjasappaya Sutta, "The Way to the Imperturbable"), which describes how a practitioner moves from the fourth jhana through the formless attainments…
- 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.
- Apr 3 2021 - Snp 1.8 - Metta Sutta - The Path of Metta towards Nibbana
Delson reads the Metta Sutta (Sutta Nipata 1.8) and explains it as a progression that starts with keeping the precepts and right intention, grows into loving-kindness, and leads toward the…
- Mar 28 2021 - MN 113 - The True Person - Total Non-Identification with Experiences Leads to Nibbana
Delson reads MN 113 (the Sappurisa Sutta, "The True Person") and explains how the Buddha contrasts an untrue person, who takes pride in family, status, gain, learning, ascetic practices or…
- Feb 7 2021 - MN 18 - The Honeyball - Cessation of Mental Proliferation is Nibbana
Delson reads and comments on MN 18, the Madhupindika (Honeyball) Sutta, and explains how perceptions and notions born of mental proliferation arise through contact, feeling, perception and…
- Dec 13 2020 – MN 152 - The Development of the Faculties – Awakening Beyond the Senses
Delson reads MN 152, the Indriya Bhavana Sutta, and explains that the Buddha's supreme development of the faculties is meeting sense contact with equanimity rather than suppressing the…
- Nov 29 2020 - MN 11 - The Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar - Cessation of Clinging and Being
Delson reads MN 11, the Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar, and explains the four kinds of clinging (to sensual pleasures, views, rites and rituals, and a doctrine of self).
- 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-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.
- Nov 15 2020 - MN 143 - Advice to Anāthapiṇḍika - Disengaging Consciousness Towards Nibbana
Delson reads and comments on MN 143, the Anathapindikovada Sutta, in which Sariputta advises the dying householder Anathapindika to stop clinging to the six senses, their contact and…
Talks that also touch on it
- MN 18 The Honeyball - Perceptions and Notions - Self Being Created-Madhupindika Sutta
Delson reads and explains MN 18, the Madhupindika Sutta (the Honeyball), covering the Buddha's answer to Dandapani, Maha Kachana's detailed exposition, and Ananda's closing remarks.
- Day 6 Transcendental Origination
Delson explains transcendental dependent origination as the chain of conditions that leads to liberation of the mind.
- Day 3 High Altitude Retreat - "Liberation" & a Guided Meditation in "Knowingness"
Delson explains liberation as an ongoing practice rather than a one-time event, and describes the three gates of liberation (signless, undirected, empty) as a way past object-based…
- MN 9 Right View - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson walks through MN 9, the Sammaditthi Sutta (which he calls the Samadhiti Sutta), on right view.
- MN 41 'Conduct leading to Heaven or Hell' -Sunday Sutta Series - Good Conduct leads to Nibbana.
Delson reads through MN 41, the Sala Brahmins discourse, in which the Buddha lists bodily, verbal and mental conduct that is skillful or unskillful and explains how each leads toward a…
- MN 48 Kosambiya Metta Leading to Nibbana- Sunday Talk with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads and comments on MN 48, the Kosambiya Sutta, in which the Buddha addresses monks in Kosambi who were quarreling and calls them to acts of loving-kindness toward their…
- June 29 SN 35.63 'Craving is a Partner' - Migala Sutta
Delson reads and discusses SN 35.63 (Migajala Sutta), in which the Buddha contrasts a lone dweller with one who dwells with a partner, the partner being craving.
- Levi Hart Podcast #6 w/ Delson Armstrong - Kundalini , Kriya Yoga, Nirodha Samapatti
Delson Armstrong is interviewed on Levi Hart's podcast about Levi's intense meditation and breathing experiences, including visions he took to be Vishnu's and Brahma's light.
- Delson's True Path, Message to Dharma Community – Tales From Nibbana Episode 4 with Delson Armstrong
Delson clarifies statements he made in his earlier Guru Viking interviews, where he presented himself as a fully awakened arahant reached through TWIM.
- Unlock the Mystery of Bhava in Buddhism -AN3.76 Bhava Sutta -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads AN3.76 and refers to AN3.77 on bhava (becoming), following the Buddha's answer that existence in each realm arises when karma ripens, with consciousness as the seed and…
- Sex as Path – Tales From Nibbana Episode 3 with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong discusses sex, desire and craving in this interview from Tales From Nibbana.
- Don't Talk About Nibbana – Tales From Nibbana Episode 2 With Delson Armstrong
Delson and his interviewer discuss Nibbana: what it is, how the mind of an arahant relates to it, and how it differs from nirodha samapati.
- When Dharmic Views Become Prisons – Tales From Nibbana Pilot Episode with Delson Armstrong
Delson joins a conversation about how views and conceptual frames in meditation can be useful but become limiting when held on to.
- Transcending the Sutta Dharma – Tales From Nibbana Episode 1 with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong and his hosts talk informally about whether an arahant still has karma to work through after the lower fetters are gone.
- DO Series - Guided Meditation 6 sets 6 & Nibbana Explained
Delson guides a short meditation: loving-kindness to settle the mind, then an abbreviated version of the six sets of six from MN 148, moving through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind…
- Talk 13 -Closing Talk- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong
Delson closes a multi-day dependent origination event by urging participants to see the links of dependent origination in everyday life, citing MN28, where Sariputta says that one who sees…
- Meditation Master Achieves Human Hibernation (Delson Armstrong)
Delson talks about nirodha, a cessation state entered by intention and ended at a set time, and about early research suggesting that long sessions lower heart rate, metabolism and blood…
- Day 4:Transcendental Dependent Origination -The Path to Nibbana
Delson explains the transcendental links of dependent origination, a sequence from suffering and faith through virtue, gladness, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity to…
- Day 8 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Transcendental Dependent Liberation
Delson explains what he calls transcendental dependent origination, the eleven links that run from suffering to liberation, and how they relate to the Eightfold Path and the enlightenment…
- Upanisa Sutta and a Deep Dependent origination discussion with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads and explains the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) on transcendental dependent origination, showing how liberation comes through a chain of supporting conditions that runs…
- Ep201: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti - Delson Armstrong, Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Laukkonen
This panel interview, hosted by Steve (Guru Viking), discusses the study "Cessations of Consciousness in Meditation" on nirodha samapatti.
- Deerpark Retreat Day 8 'Deeper Aspects of Dhamma Pt 2' w/Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through MN44, the discourse where the nun Dhammadinna explains identity, its origin, its cessation and the path to Visakha, and he comments on each answer.
- Ep156: Key To Enlightenment - Delson Armstrong 3
Delson explains dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the elaboration of the second noble truth in its forward order, showing how craving leads to suffering, and in its reverse…
- Day 5 -2022 10 Day June Retreat - MN 38 Dependent Origination -Intro
Delson Armstrong reads and explains MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, on the destruction of craving.
- Interview#6: Dependent Origination, Nibbana, Relax Step & 6Rs with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong explains nibbana as the quenching of the fires of greed, hatred and delusion, and as the stopping of mental proliferation.
- Interview#5: Does Metta/Lovingkindness practice lead to Nibbana. What is Enlightenment?
Delson answers questions about using metta and the other brahmaviharas to enter jhana, which he says works because the uplifted feeling draws the mind into collectedness.
- Interview#2: Upcoming Research with Delson -What will Jhana or Cessation look like?
Delson describes a two-day study with researchers from the University of Amsterdam that recorded his brain and body during waking, focused attention, sleep and nirodha (cessation of…
- June 2021 Online Retreat Q&A 2
Delson answers audience questions on the second Q&A of a June 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.
- Mar 21 2021 - MN 74 - To Dighanaka - Non-attachment to Views through Non-attachment to Feeling
Delson reads and comments on MN 74, the Diganaka Sutta, in which the wanderer Diganaka says "nothing is acceptable to me" and the Buddha shows that holding even that view is still clinging.
- Day-4 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from a day-4 online retreat Q&A.
- 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.
- Nov 8 2020 - MN 138 - The Exposition of a Summary - Non-Grasping Consciousness Leads to Nibbana
Delson reads MN 138 (the Exposition of a Summary), in which Maha Kacchana explains the Buddha's brief teaching that a mind not scattered externally, not stuck internally, and not clinging…