Arahant

31 January 2026 Talk 1 h 22 min

Delson Armstrong reads and comments on two suttas, SN 1.25 (the Arahant, a deva asks the Buddha whether an arahant would still say "I speak") and SN 22.89 (Khemaka, who has let go of…

4 January 2026 Talk 24 min

Delson reads and comments on AN 4.170, where Ananda lists four paths to arahatship, and on SN 1.1, Crossing the Flood.

31 July 2024 Talk 55 min

Delson Armstrong answers questions about awakening, which he describes as seeing experience in a less personal way so that the sticky sense of "me" and "mine" loosens, even if everyday…

5 November 2023 Talk 55 min

Delson explains the links of transcendental dependent origination, which he also calls the links of transcendental dependent liberation.

10 October 2023 Talk 1 h 42 min

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…

7 September 2022 Talk 1 h 14 min

Delson reads MN 112, the Chabbisodhana Sutta on the six-fold purity, and comments on it section by section.

29 November 2021 Q&A 1 h 11 min

Delson answers audience questions on the Buddhist teaching of rebirth and intermediate states, near-death visions, and how precepts relate to hindrances.

1 March 2021 Talk 57 min

Delson reads and explains MN 23, the Vammika Sutta, in which the Buddha explains to Kumara Kassapa the riddle of the anthill, the brahmin and the knife.

13 October 2020 Q&A 3 min

Delson discusses the idea of a path and fruition in the context of the stages of awakening.

16 August 2026 Talk 58 min

Delson reads and interprets AN 7.57, the Siha Sutta, in which the Buddha lists the benefits of giving.

16 November 2025 Talk 1 h 12 min

Delson presents his own rendering of the Bahiya Sutta (Udana 1.10), focusing on the instruction 'in the seen, only the seen', and explains it as experiencing without a sense of 'I' that…

6 June 2025 Interview 1 h 26 min

Delson clarifies statements he made in his earlier Guru Viking interviews, where he presented himself as a fully awakened arahant reached through TWIM.

25 March 2025 Interview 1 h 2 min

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.

15 November 2024 Interview 1 h 36 min

In this interview on the Guru Viking podcast, Delson explains his written declaration that he renounces all claims to specific spiritual attainments, including the four-stage path from…

9 September 2024 Guided meditation 1 h 36 min

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…

31 March 2024 Talk 1 h 21 min

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.

17 March 2024 Talk 1 h 54 min

Delson opens a series on the Eightfold Path by explaining that the path is the fourth noble truth and that right effort runs through all of its factors.

10 March 2024 Q&A 1 h 27 min

Delson Armstrong answers participants' questions in a Q&A on bhava (being) within a dependent origination series.

30 November 2023 Q&A 1 h 13 min

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…

21 October 2023 Q&A 58 min

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…

10 October 2023 Talk 1 h 33 min

Delson teaches dependent origination as an explanation of the Four Noble Truths, working backwards from dukkha through clinging, craving, feeling, contact and the other links.

3 October 2023 Talk 59 min

Delson Armstrong gives the last-day talk of a nine-day retreat on the Noble Eightfold Path, presenting it as the practice to continue off the cushion.

19 August 2023 Talk 1 h 38 min

Delson continues his account of dependent origination, starting from contact and the six sense bases and moving through mentality-materiality (nama-rupa), the sankharas, the taints…

3 March 2023 Talk 54 min

Delson reads SN 35.95, in which Malunkyaputta asks for a brief exhortation, and explains it with the Bahiya Sutta (Ud 1.10) and SN 42.11.

7 September 2022 Talk 1 h 26 min

Delson walks through MN 117, the Great Forty discourse, explaining the eight factors of the noble path as supports for right collectedness.

2 September 2022 Talk 54 min

Delson reads SN35.95, in which Malunkyaputta asks for a brief teaching and the Buddha explains that craving arises only through contact and feeling.

29 June 2022 Talk 1 h 18 min

Delson reads and explains SN 12.32, the Kalara discourse, in which Sariputta explains dependent origination in answer to the Buddha's questions about how his arahatship was attained.

16 October 2021 Interview 1 h 17 min

Delson Armstrong, interviewed by Karuna at Dhammasukha Meditation Center, explains samsara as conditioned existence driven by karma and describes the 31 planes of existence in Buddhist…

5 July 2021 Talk 1 h 53 min

Delson reads MN2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the six ways the Buddha gives for abandoning them.

30 May 2021 Talk 1 h 39 min

Delson continues his series on the sets of five in DN33, the Sangiti Sutta, the second recitation.

18 November 2020 Q&A 32 min

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.