Advanced Retreat, July 2025
Retreat · 2025 · 4 talks
Day 1
- 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…
Day 3
- Day 3 Adv Retreat -SN 35.95 Malunkyaputta Sutta - I need to know now!
Delson introduces the Bahiya Sutta (Ud 1.10), where the Buddha gives a brief teaching that in the seen there is only the seen, and then reads and explains SN 35.95, the Malunkyaputta…
Day 4
- Day 4 Adv Retreat MN 109 Full Moon Night -Amazing Talk-Consciousness and Karma
Delson reads and comments on MN 109, the Mahapunnama Sutta, the full moon discourse, on the five aggregates affected by clinging.
Day 5
- Day 5 Adv Retreat -Sn 41.7 With Godatta -Liberations -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN 41.7, the Godatta Sutta, in which Venerable Godatta asks whether the measureless, nothingness, emptiness and signless liberations of mind are one in meaning.