SN 36.21, Sivaka
Talks that read from it
- Day 8 Intro to Dependent Origination-6 Craving links - Craving, Clinging, Tendencies, Birth -Part 1
Delson explains the middle links of dependent origination, from craving and clinging through becoming (bhava) and birth, as the wisdom that shows how suffering arises and ceases.
- 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.
- Austria 2025 | Karma for Dummies
Delson explains karma as the Buddha taught it: intention is karma, and the fruit of past actions (vipaka) arises through causes and conditions.
- Delson's 4th Talk on the 8 fold path-Right Mindfulness
Delson teaches right effort as the heart of the path and connects it to the 6R's, then explains right mindfulness (sati) as remembering to observe how attention moves between objects.
- Talk 9 -Kamma and Consciousness - Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson explains karma as intention and action, the energy that drives the wheel of dependent origination, and argues that the five aggregates are themselves inherited karma with no one who…
- June 4, 2022 - Questions and Answers with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong answers questions submitted through the Suttavada website about TWIM practice and Dhamma.
- Day 2 Hindrances, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong, India Metta Retreat- w/Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong teaches the five hindrances as they appear in sitting and daily life: sensual craving, aversion, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, and doubt.
- Day 4 2022 MN 139 Exposition of Non-Conflict - What is Beneficial
Delson reads MN 139, the Exposition of Non-Conflict, and explains it as a guide to avoiding conflict through the middle way and the Eightfold Path.
- Day 6 May Retreat Talk AN6.63 & SN 36.21 Penetrative Discourse with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads AN 6.63, the Nibbedhika (Penetrative) Sutta, which lists a set of things to be understood: sensual pleasures, feelings, the taints, karma and suffering.
- GTOG Sunday Meditation sessions: MN 136 The Greater Exposition of Actions by Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads and explains MN 136, the Greater Exposition of Actions, in which the Buddha corrects a claim that bodily and verbal actions are fruitless and shows that karma works…