SN 44.10, Ānanda Is There a Self?

Talks that read from it

• Day 5 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Dependent Origination

  10 October 2023 Talk 1 h 33 min

  Delson teaches dependent origination as an explanation of the Four Noble Truths, working backwards from dukkha through clinging, craving, feeling, contact and the other links.

• May 29, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – Second Recitation

  30 May 2021 Talk 1 h 39 min

  Delson continues his series on the sets of five in DN33, the Sangiti Sutta, the second recitation.

• Mar 28 2021 - MN 113 - The True Person - Total Non-Identification with Experiences Leads to Nibbana

  29 March 2021 Talk 1 h 6 min

  Delson reads MN 113 (the Sappurisa Sutta, "The True Person") and explains how the Buddha contrasts an untrue person, who takes pride in family, status, gain, learning, ascetic practices or…

• Mar 14 2021 - MN 146 - Advice from Nandaka - The Unfolding Path to Reality

  15 March 2021 Talk 1 h 13 min

  Delson reads and comments on MN 146 (Nandakovada Sutta), in which the elder Nandaka teaches the Buddha's foster mother Maha Pajapati Gotami and her five hundred nuns by asking them whether…

• Mar 7 2021 - SN 22.86 - With Anuradha - Self and Not-Self and the Four Noble Truths

  8 March 2021 Talk 1 h 21 min

  Delson reads and explains SN 22.86 (the Anuradha Sutta), in which Anuradha answers wanderers' questions about the Tathagata after death.