Mumbai Retreat, February 2025

26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 17 min

Delson Armstrong gives a day-two retreat talk on the five hindrances (sense craving, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and doubt) and how to work with each one.

26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 16 min

Delson explains mindfulness (sati) as bare observation of what arises and passes away, together with clear comprehension (sampajanna) of where attention is.

26 February 2025 Talk 59 min

Delson explains liberation in Buddhist terms as the destruction of greed, hatred and delusion, and describes a path to it through relaxation, tranquility, comfort, collectedness…

26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 14 min

Delson explains the jhanas as levels of cessation, moving from the first jhana, where the hindrances fall away, through the four formless ayatanas of infinite space, infinite…

26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 51 min

Delson explains dependent origination as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths that shows how the mind creates its own suffering.

26 February 2025 Guided meditation 1 h 2 min

Delson leads a guided sit that begins with relaxing the body and developing loving-kindness, first toward oneself and then extended outward to others in the room, the city, all directions…

26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 27 min

Delson gives the final Dharma talk of a Mumbai retreat, on how to carry the practice back into daily life.