Conversations with Delson (2021 interviews)
Series · 2021 · 6 talks
- Interview#1: Dhamma Conversations with Delson Armstrong-Introduction & Jhanas
Delson describes his path from yoga, Yoga Sutra samadhis and Kriya Yoga to TWIM and the six R's, and explains why he sees these earlier practices as concentration that suppresses the…
- 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…
- Interview#3: 31 Planes of Existence - the Agony and the Ecstasy -Conversations with Delson
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…
- Interview#4: Mindfulness Re-defined and the Jhanas Re-defined - Conversations with Delson
Delson explains that mindfulness (sati, from smriti, meaning to remember) is best understood as observing how the mind's attention moves, rather than focusing narrowly on an object such as…
- 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#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.