Kalimpong 2023, Buddha Pada Institute

18 August 2023 Talk 42 min

Delson opens a ten-day Brahmavihara retreat at Buddha Pada by explaining the loving-kindness practice: a feeling-based meditation sent first to oneself and then to a spiritual friend.

21 October 2023 Talk 29 min

Delson opens a 10-day Brahmavihara retreat at Kalimpong Buddha Pada with a feeling-based loving-kindness (metta) practice.

13 August 2023 Talk 1 h 5 min

Delson Armstrong teaches the five hindrances as they appear in sitting and daily life: sensual craving, aversion, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, and doubt.

18 August 2023 Talk 1 h 12 min

Delson Armstrong gives a day-two retreat talk on the five hindrances: sensual craving, aversion, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, and doubt.

20 August 2023 Talk 1 h 5 min

Delson teaches the five hindrances (sensual craving, aversion, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, and doubt) on the second day of a Buddha Pada retreat in Kalimpong.

14 August 2023 Talk 38 min

Delson explains that jhana is the absence of the five hindrances together with the enlightenment factors present to varying degrees, and he walks through the seven factors (mindfulness…

18 August 2023 Talk 1 h 9 min

Delson explains the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity) as the basis for jhana and as the path to nibbana.

21 October 2023 Talk 38 min

Delson explains the seven enlightenment factors as a way of understanding what jhana is: the absence of the five hindrances with the enlightenment factors present to varying degrees.

18 August 2023 Talk 1 h 6 min

Delson explains the jhanas as stages of samadhi that arise from a balanced, unified mind, with loving-kindness used as the object of meditation.

21 October 2023 Talk 42 min

Delson explains the jhanas as levels of samadhi, a balanced and unified mind that arises after right collectedness and the earlier path factors.

18 August 2023 Talk 1 h 8 min

Delson explains the four arupa states that follow the fourth jhana, which he describes as the ayatanas: infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness, and neither perception nor…

18 August 2023 Talk 46 min

Delson explains the arupa states, which he calls the ayatanas, as the stages that follow the fourth jhana: infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness, and neither perception nor…

21 October 2023 Talk 46 min

Delson explains the arupa states, which he presents as the fifth through eighth jhanas and the ayatanas, as they arise on a retreat after the fourth jhana.

19 August 2023 Talk 1 h 41 min

Delson Armstrong begins a series on dependent origination (paticca samuppada), working backwards from dukkha toward ignorance.

21 October 2023 Talk 1 h 41 min

Delson Armstrong teaches the twelve links of dependent origination, starting from dukkha and working backwards toward its causes, including the three kinds of dukkha, the birth of new…

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…

21 August 2023 Talk 1 h 34 min

Delson explains transcendental dependent origination, the sequence running from faith grounded in suffering, through virtue, the precepts, the jhanas and equanimity, to disenchantment…

21 October 2023 Talk 1 h 34 min

Delson explains transcendental dependent origination as the path side of the teaching, where the links are seen ceasing rather than arising.

21 October 2023 Talk 1 h 12 min

Delson closes a retreat by explaining how the Eightfold Path applies off the cushion.