April 2022 Retreat

4 May 2022 Talk 34 min

Delson gives the opening meditation instructions for a TWIM retreat.

8 May 2022 Talk 1 h 9 min

Delson Armstrong reads from MN 39 (Maha Assapura Sutta) and walks through its list of training steps, from purified conduct and the precepts to sense restraint, moderation, wakefulness and…

9 May 2022 Talk 1 h 9 min

Delson reads from MN39 (the Maha Asapura Sutta) on the qualities of a recluse: shame and fear of wrongdoing, purified conduct in body, speech, mind and livelihood, sense restraint…

12 May 2022 Talk 1 h 6 min

Delson works through the Anupada Sutta (MN 111), reading how Sariputta recognized each of the four jhanas and the four formless attainments one by one as they occurred.

13 May 2022 Talk 1 h 43 min

Delson reads section 5 of DN 22, the Maha Satipatthana Sutta, which defines each of the Four Noble Truths.

13 May 2022 Talk 1 h 38 min

Delson reads through the Maha Nidana Sutta (DN15), the Buddha's teaching to Ananda on dependent origination, and explains it link by link, from contact and feeling through craving…

11 May 2022 Talk 1 h 38 min

Delson works through DN15, the Maha Nidana Sutta, on dependent origination (paticca samuppada).

14 May 2022 Talk 29 min

Delson continues reading the Maha Nidana Sutta (DN 15), covering the seven stations of consciousness and the two realms, and relates them to the jhanas and formless attainments.

12 May 2022 Talk 29 min

Delson continues his reading of the Maha Nidana Sutta (DN 15) from a retreat, going through the seven stations of consciousness and the two spheres.

16 May 2022 Talk 1 h 4 min

Delson reads MN 1, the Mulapariyaya Sutta (the root of all things), and explains how a worldling conceives self in the five aggregates, earth, beings, jhanas and Nibbana, while a disciple…

15 May 2022 Talk 42 min

Delson Armstrong teaches the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) and its account of transcendental dependent origination, which runs from suffering through faith, gladness, joy, tranquility…