Deerpark Retreat, December 2022

23 December 2022 Talk 1 h 20 min

Delson gives orientation for a 10-day retreat, covering the metta practice with a smile, the choice of a spiritual friend, and the six R's for handling distractions and hindrances.

24 December 2022 Talk 2 h 4 min

Delson reads MN 107, the Ganakamoggallana Sutta, as a summary of the gradual path, and uses it to explain how to deal with the five hindrances during a retreat.

26 December 2022 Talk 2 h 7 min

Delson reads through MN 111, where Sariputta distinguishes each jhana and formless attainment as it occurs, and explains each stage in TWIM terms.

6 March 2023 Talk 1 h 27 min

Delson Armstrong reads the Four Noble Truths section of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta (DN 22) and explains it as a practical diagnosis: suffering, its origin in craving, its cessation, and…

28 December 2022 Talk 3 h 13 min

Delson reads from the Sammaditthi Sutta (MN 9) on right view and explains its list of wrong and right views, wholesome and unwholesome conduct, and the links of dependent origination.

30 December 2022 Guided meditation 1 h 58 min

Delson reads and explains two suttas on how the sense of "I" feeds mental proliferation: the Madhupindika Sutta (MN 18), where contact, feeling, perception and thinking are traced to…

1 January 2023 Talk 2 h 34 min

Delson reads and explains Majjhima Nikaya 43, the Maha Vedalla Sutta, in which Sariputta answers Maha Kotthita's questions on wisdom, consciousness, feeling and perception, the jhanas, the…

3 January 2023 Talk 2 h 29 min

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.

7 January 2023 Talk 2 h 4 min

Delson reads SN 12.23 (the Upanisa Sutta) and AN 10.1 to show the path to cessation as a chain of conditions, where each factor is the proximate cause of the next, running from ignorance…