June 2025 Retreat
Retreat · 2025 · 8 talks
Day 1
- Day 1 June 5 -Why are you Retreating? Orientation Talk Jun5-14th 2025
Delson gives an orientation talk for a meditation retreat, explaining right intention (nekkhama, avyapada and avihimsa) and why the precepts, samadhi and wisdom form an integrated path…
Day 2
- June 6 -Day 2 -First Day Blues-Origin of Hindrances
Delson explains, on the second day of a retreat, that the difficulties beginners meet in sitting come from hindrances: the five basic distractions of sensual craving, ill will…
Day 3
- June 7 -Day 3 -In Depth Jhana Talk- Excellent! Delson Armstrong
Delson explains the jhanas as taught in the Suttavada approach, distinguishing jhanas that keep a person in samsara from the right meditation (samma samadhi) that leads to liberation.
Day 4
- June 8 -Day 4... '12 Step' to Enlightenment -Delson Armstrong
Delson presents the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) and AN 10.1-10.4 as a "12-step" sequence running from faith through gladness, joy, tranquility, comfort, samadhi and equanimity to…
Day 5
- June 9 -Day 5...Tanha to Dukkha-Paticca Samupada-Delson Armstrong
Delson explains dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the mechanics by which suffering and karma arise, beginning with aging and death and tracing back through birth, becoming…
Day 6
- June 10 -Day 6...Formations to Feeling-Paticca Samuppada-Delson Armstrong
Delson continues his series on dependent origination, picking up from feeling (vedana) and working back through contact, the six sense bases, nama-rupa, consciousness and the formations.
Day 7
- June 11 -Day 7...Karma -Delson Armstrong
Delson explains karma as the Buddha taught it: karma is intention, and it is the basis for how old and new karma arise, ripen and can cease.
Day 9
- June 13 -Day 9...Last Day Talk With Delson Armstrong
Delson closes a retreat with advice on keeping the practice going after it ends.