MN 1, Mūlapariyāya Sutta

Talks that read from it

• MN 1 Majjhima Nikaya Series Number 1 with Delson Armstrong-Sunday Series

  8 February 2026 Talk 53 min

  Delson walks through MN 1, the Mula Pariyaya Sutta, which contrasts the untaught ordinary person, the trained bhikkhu, the arahant and the Tathagata in how each relates to earth, water…

• The Arhant & Khemaka Sutta with Delson Armstrong-(Revised)

  31 January 2026 Talk 1 h 22 min

  Delson Armstrong reads and comments on two suttas, SN 1.25 (the Arahant, a deva asks the Buddha whether an arahant would still say "I speak") and SN 22.89 (Khemaka, who has let go of…

• "Gates of Liberation" Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong

  19 October 2025 Talk 1 h 12 min

  Delson explains the Gates of Liberation, the three meditations of emptiness, signlessness and undirectedness, drawn from SN 43.4, as three doors into the unconditioned (nibbana-dhatu).

• When Dharmic Views Become Prisons – Tales From Nibbana Pilot Episode with Delson Armstrong

  8 March 2025 Interview 29 min

  Delson joins a conversation about how views and conceptual frames in meditation can be useful but become limiting when held on to.

• Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 2 - Dealing with Hindrances

  26 February 2025 Talk 1 h 17 min

  Delson Armstrong gives a day-two retreat talk on the five hindrances (sense craving, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and doubt) and how to work with each one.

• Day 5: Dependent Origination Part 1 Netherlands

  12 November 2023 Talk 2 h 1 min

  Delson explains dependent origination as the mechanics by which the mind causes its own suffering, and presents the Four Noble Truths as a method applied through the six R's in each link.

• Day 7 May Retreat Talk MN149 /MN77 Suttas with Delson Armstrong

  22 June 2022 Talk 1 h 14 min

  Delson reads MN 149 (Mahasalayatanika Sutta) and explains how not knowing the six sense bases as they actually are leads to craving, clinging and renewed becoming, and how seeing…

• Day 8 Apr Retreat - Mulapariyaya Sutta MN 1- The Root of All Things with D. Armstrong

  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…

• Apr 10 2021 - MN 1 - The Root of All Things - Deconceptualizing Reality through Non-Identification

  11 April 2021 Talk 1 h 9 min

  Delson reads and comments on MN 1, the Mula Pariyaya Sutta (The Root of All Things), using Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation.