AN 10.4, Proximate Cause
Talks that read from it
- MN 20 Removal of Distracting Thoughts- Do you Destroy or Torture your Wandering Mind?
Delson reads through MN 20 (Vitakkasanthana Sutta, the removal of distracting thoughts) and explains its five methods: replace an unwholesome sign with a wholesome one, examine its danger…
- 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 5 Path to Nibbana - Upanisa Sutta-Transcendental DO - Delson Armstrong
Delson recaps the higher jhanas (the arupa ayatanas, from infinite space through neither-perception-nor-non-perception) and how the mind moves through them toward cessation.
- 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…
- Talk 10 -Transcendental DO- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson works through transcendental dependent origination, reading from SN 12.23 (the Upanisa Sutta), and explains how its links run from suffering to the destruction of the taints.
- Day 8 Upanisa Sutta - The Path to NIbbana- Japan Retreat Dec 2023
Delson walks through the transcendental links of dependent origination from the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23), asking how suffering leads to a path out and to the total cessation of suffering.
- Day 4:Transcendental Dependent Origination -The Path to Nibbana
Delson explains the transcendental links of dependent origination, a sequence from suffering and faith through virtue, gladness, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity to…
- Day 8: Transcendental Dependant Liberation
Delson explains the links of transcendental dependent origination, which he also calls the links of transcendental dependent liberation.
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 8 Transcendental DO- Upanisa Sutta
Delson explains transcendental dependent origination as the path side of the teaching, where the links are seen ceasing rather than arising.
- Day 8 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Transcendental Dependent Liberation
Delson explains what he calls transcendental dependent origination, the eleven links that run from suffering to liberation, and how they relate to the Eightfold Path and the enlightenment…
- Day 8 Transcendental DO, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong
Delson explains transcendental dependent origination, the sequence running from faith grounded in suffering, through virtue, the precepts, the jhanas and equanimity, to disenchantment…
- Upanisa sutta Transcendental DO with Delson Armstrong July 20,2023
Delson explains the transcendental links of dependent origination, the sequence that leads from suffering and faith through virtue, gladness, the jhanas, equanimity and disenchantment to…
- Upanisa Sutta and a Deep Dependent origination discussion with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads and explains the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) on transcendental dependent origination, showing how liberation comes through a chain of supporting conditions that runs…