St Francis Retreat, October 2025
Retreat · 2025 · 5 talks
Day 3
- Day 3 "Gates of Liberation" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson gives a retreat talk on transcendental dependent origination, working backward from the final link, knowledge of liberation, through the links that lead to it.
Day 4
- Day 4 "Dependent Origination Part 1" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson continues a retreat talk on dependent origination, presenting the first two noble truths, suffering (dukkha) and its causes, as a way to see how each link can be released into…
Day 5
- Day 5 "Dependent Origination Part 2" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson continues his review of the links of dependent origination from the latter half of the chain, covering feeling, the underlying tendencies, contact, the six sense bases…
Day 6
- Day 6 "Karma - Misperceptions" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson explains karma as intention and separates the Buddha's teaching from other Indian views, such as fatalism and the Jain idea of karmic dust.
Day 7
- Day 7 - Seven Days at St Francis: The Final Chapter
Delson closes a seven-day series by recapping the seven enlightenment factors as the basic ingredients of practice, with mindfulness at the base, leading to tranquility, collectedness and…