MN 22, Alagaddūpama Sutta
Talks that read from it
- Ocean SN 35.228 - Drowning in the Ocean of the Senses - Sunday Talk with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on two short Samyutta Nikaya suttas (SN 35.228 and 35.229) that call the six sense bases an ocean.
- 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.
- Apr 13 2025 Inspiring Sign AN 47.10 & SN 22.37 Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN 47.10 about nuns established in the four foundations of mindfulness who perceive successively loftier stages, and explains that the 6R's act as an inspiring sign that…
- Guided Exploration: Finding Your Own Buddha-Nature. Dharma Himalaya Session 02 with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers a series of questions about whether the Buddha is always in nibbana, what Buddha nature means, what Tathagata means, and whether the Buddha was superhuman.
- Talk 7 -Bhava (Being) Q&A- Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson Armstrong answers participants' questions in a Q&A on bhava (being) within a dependent origination series.
- 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…
- June Retreat MN 38 Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (MN 38) and explains that consciousness arises dependent on conditions, so the view of a self-same consciousness passing from one life to the next…
- Dependent Origination MN38 at Dhamma Sukha with Delson Armstrong MN 38
Delson reads and comments on MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (the Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving), using it to explain dependent origination.
- Day 8 Wise Friendship
Delson closes a retreat with a talk on wise friendship (kalyanamitta), the companions who support a person's practice.
- Day 8 May Retreat MN 22 "The Simile of the Snake" with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 22, the Alagaddupama Sutta (the simile of the snake), which contrasts wrong grasp of the Dhamma with right grasp and describes seeing the five aggregates as…
- Zoom Talk MN 22 Simile of the Snake -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 22, the Alagaddupama Sutta (simile of the snake), in which the Buddha corrects the monk Arittha for holding that sensual pleasures cannot obstruct someone…
- Zoom Talk MN 106 with Delson Armstrong -The Imperturbable
Delson reads and comments on MN 106 (Ananjasappaya Sutta, "The Way to the Imperturbable"), which describes how a practitioner moves from the fourth jhana through the formless attainments…