AN 10.5, Ānanda

Talks that read from it

• MN 20 Removal of Distracting Thoughts- Do you Destroy or Torture your Wandering Mind?

  21 September 2026 Talk 53 min

  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 5 Path to Nibbana - Upanisa Sutta-Transcendental DO - Delson Armstrong

  29 July 2025 Talk 1 h 11 min

  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.

• Day 8 Upanisa Sutta - The Path to NIbbana- Japan Retreat Dec 2023

  28 January 2024 Talk 43 min

  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

  11 November 2023 Talk 1 h 41 min

  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

  5 November 2023 Talk 55 min

  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

  21 October 2023 Talk 1 h 34 min

  Delson explains transcendental dependent origination as the path side of the teaching, where the links are seen ceasing rather than arising.

• Day 8 Transcendental DO, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong

  21 August 2023 Talk 1 h 34 min

  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

  21 July 2023 Talk 1 h 23 min

  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

  27 June 2023 Talk 2 h 10 min

  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…