The Four Noble Truths
- He Meditated 30,000 Hours. The End of Suffering Isn't What You Were Promised | Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong responds to the question of whether the end of suffering is possible, especially for householders.
- Day 7 Dependent origination Part 1 of 2 The Craving and Clinging Mind
Delson presents dependent origination as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths, retelling the Buddha's awakening story and then tracing suffering back through birth, becoming, and…
- Day 6 AN 6.63 Penetrative Discourse -The workings of Karma
Delson works through AN 6.63, the Penetrative Discourse, which lists six subjects to be understood: sensual pleasures, feelings, perceptions, the taints, karma, and suffering.
- Day 2 Setting in Motion the wheel of Dhamma -8 Fold Path
Delson introduces the morning refuges, precepts and recollections as a way of setting intention for practice, then reads SN 56.11, the Buddha's first sermon on the middle way and the Four…
- MN 13 The Greater Discourse on Suffering - Majjhima Series w/ Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 13, the Greater Discourse on Suffering (Maha Dukkhakhandha Sutta).
- Spotkanie naszej sanghi z gościem specjalnym Delsonem Armstrogimem.
Delson Armstrong answers questions from a Polish sangha in an online Q&A.
- Day 3 8 Fold Path June Retreat with Delson Armstrong
Delson explains the Buddha's first sermon (SN 56.11) and walks through the Noble Eightfold Path as a foundation for meditation, starting with right view and ending in right collectedness.
- MN 11 The Shorter Discourse of the Lion's Roar - Only one Path to the Unconditioned
Delson works through MN 11, the Culasihanada Sutta (the Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar).
- Day 2 What is Meditation - The Brahmviharas
Delson explains what meditation is for in the TWIM practice, distinguishing meditation with an object from objectless observation and framing the aim as a collected, clear mind in which…
- Przebudzenie i popularne mity. Rozmowa z Delsonem Armstrog. Odosobnienie w Polsce11-20.praździenika
Delson Armstrong discusses what awakening means in the Buddhist context, presenting it as freedom from identification with a permanent self and from craving, and as an ongoing process…
- Day 7 Introduction to Dependent Origination -Clinging-Craving
Delson introduces dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the core of the Buddha's teaching on causality and conditionality, and as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths.
- Day 4 Foundations of Mindfulness and the Hindrances -Retreat Talk
Delson explains that hindrances should be released and relaxed rather than pushed away, using the six R's as the practical method.
- MN 9 Right View - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson walks through MN 9, the Sammaditthi Sutta (which he calls the Samadhiti Sutta), on right view.
- MN 2 Sabbasave Sutta-Taints -Sunday Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson walks through MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the Buddha's teaching that they are abandoned in six ways: by seeing, restraining, using, enduring, avoiding…
- "Gems" The Ratana Sutta -Inspiring Sunday Talk with Delson Armstrong
Delson opens with photos from a recent trip to Sarnath, Varanasi and Prayagraj, where he and his group offered food and supplies to a line of about 120 Thai monks walking across northern…
- "Refuge" How To Practice for Arahatship -Crossing of the Flood-Sunday with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on AN 4.170, where Ananda lists four paths to arahatship, and on SN 1.1, Crossing the Flood.
- Day 4 "Dependent Origination Part 1" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson continues a retreat talk on dependent origination, presenting the first two noble truths, suffering (dukkha) and its causes, as a way to see how each link can be released into…
- Austria 2025 | Mechanics of Karma
Delson explains the first and second Noble Truths by unpacking dukkha as instability or "bummer" and its three categories: dukkha-dukkha, viparinama dukkha and sankhara dukkha.
- Austria 2025 | The Awakened Lifestyle
Delson explains the Eightfold Path as a practical, non-religious lifestyle and walks through each factor in turn, grouping them under sila, samadhi and panna.
- Austria 2025 | Introduction - Just Relax!
Delson gives the opening instructions for a retreat on the Brahmaviharas, starting with metta as friendliness based on recognising one's own innate goodness and that of other beings.
- Is the World Eternal or....MN 63 - Sunday Talk with Delson Armstrong
Delson teaches from MN 63, the Cula Malunkyovada Sutta, in which the monk Malunkyaputta refuses to train unless the Buddha answers speculative questions about the world and the Tathagata…
- Day 7 First 6 Links of Dependent Origination
Delson walks through the early links of dependent origination, starting from suffering and tracing back through craving, feeling, the underlying tendencies, contact, the six sense bases…
- Day 8 What is Karma? Delson Armstrong
Delson explains karma as the Buddha taught it: intention (chetana) is karma, expressed through body, speech and mind, while vipaka is the result that is experienced.
- Day 6 "Dukkha to Tanha" the Links of Craving and what they are.
Delson continues his teaching on dependent origination (paticca samuppada), linking it to the Four Noble Truths.
- July 27 AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta Sunday Sutta Series-Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on AN 3.65, the Kalama Sutta, in which the Buddha advises the Kalamas to judge teachings by what they know for themselves to lead to harm or welfare.
- Delson Armstrong - Awakening Beyond Spiritual Idealization | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #61
Delson Armstrong discusses his path across traditions, including Kriya, Vedanta, Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Theravada through TWIM, and how integral theory has reframed it for him.
- Day 2 All the Taints MN 2 -Hindrances!- Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the six ways they are abandoned: by seeing, restraining, using, enduring, avoiding, removing and…
- June 9 -Day 5...Tanha to Dukkha-Paticca Samupada-Delson Armstrong
Delson explains dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the mechanics by which suffering and karma arise, beginning with aging and death and tracing back through birth, becoming…
- May 25 All is Burning Adhittasutta Sunday Sutta study with Delson Armstrong
Delson works through SN 22.61 (Adittasutta, "Burning"), which says form, feeling, perception, volitional formations and consciousness are all burning, and that seeing this leads to…
- Apr 6 2025 Sunday Suttas "Origin of Suffering" AN 6.63 Penetrative Discourse w/Delson Armstrong
Delson works through AN 6.63, the Nibbedhika Sutta (Penetrative Discourse), which lists sensual pleasures, feelings, perceptions, taints, karma and suffering as things to be understood…
- Mar 30 MN 2 Sabbasava Sutta with Delson Armstrong - Sunday Zoom
Delson reads MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the seven ways they are abandoned: by seeing, restraining, using, enduring, avoiding, removing and developing.
- Mar 30 2025 Sunday Sutta Study "All the Taints" MN 2-Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta (All the Taints), and comments on it section by section.
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 2 - Dealing with Hindrances
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.
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 7 - Dependent Origination
Delson explains dependent origination as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths that shows how the mind creates its own suffering.
- 2025 SN 12.15 'Origin of Suffering'; Sn12.26 'Existence' with Delson Armstrong Sunday Zoom Series
Delson reads and explains two Samyutta suttas on dependent origination, SN 12.26 (Upavana) and SN 12.15 (Kaccanagotta).
- DO Series - Dukkha -the link of Suffering -The Delson Bot Introduced
Delson opens by demonstrating the Delson Bot, an AI chatbot built on his teachings, and promotes an AMA session.
- Is Reality A Projection? (Delson Armstrong)
Delson responds to a question about whether reality is a projection of the mind, and he treats the two readings of that idea as different perspectives on the same experience.
- Talk 10 -Transcendental DO- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson works through transcendental dependent origination, reading from SN 12.23 (the Upanisa Sutta), and explains how its links run from suffering to the destruction of the taints.
- Delson's 1st talk: 8 Fold Path Series-RIGHT VIEW
Delson opens a series on the Eightfold Path by explaining that the path is the fourth noble truth and that right effort runs through all of its factors.
- 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.
- Dependent Origination 2023 - Day 3 Dukkha
Delson explains dukkha as the unsatisfactory, unstable nature of conditioned existence, using the etymology of su and du with ka (stability) and the image of an off-balance chariot wheel.
- Talk 3 -Dukkha (Suffering) Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong
Delson explains dukkha as the unsatisfactory, unstable nature of conditioned existence, using the etymology of sukha and dukkha and the chariot-axle image.
- Day 7 8 Fold Path- Japan Retreat Dec 2023
Delson explains the Noble Eightfold Path as the fourth noble truth and as a practical lifestyle, going through each factor from right view to right collectedness.
- Day 5: Dependent Origination Part 1 Netherlands
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 6: Dependent Origination part 1
Delson explains the first part of dependent origination (paticca samuppada), beginning with the links suffering (dukkha), birth, becoming, clinging and craving, in reverse order.
- Day 5: Dependent Origination part 1
Delson explains dependent origination as the framework in which the four noble truths operate, and shows how the links can be worked with through the 6R's in daily life and meditation.
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 6 Dependent Origination Pt 1
Delson Armstrong teaches the twelve links of dependent origination, starting from dukkha and working backwards toward its causes, including the three kinds of dukkha, the birth of new…
- 16 April 22 MN 9
Delson reads MN 9 (the Sammaditthi Sutta, Right View) and works through the links of dependent origination in reverse order, from aging and death back to ignorance, applying the Four Noble…
- Day 5 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Dependent Origination
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.
- Zoom: Process of Dependent Origination Explained Quickly.
Delson explains how mental proliferation (papancha) grows out of contact, feeling and perception, and how craving turns into clinging (upadana).
- Day 6 Dependent Origination Pt 1, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong begins a series on dependent origination (paticca samuppada), working backwards from dukkha toward ignorance.
- Dependent Origination Pt 1 with Delson Armstrong-July Retreat
Delson explains dependent origination as an elaboration of the First and Second Noble Truths, working backward through its links from suffering to birth, becoming, clinging and craving.
- MN 43 Mahavedalla Sutta AN3.102 Deep Dhamma
Delson reads the Mahavedalla Sutta (MN43), a dialogue between Maha Kotthita and Sariputta, and explains its teaching on wisdom, consciousness, feeling, perception, the five faculties, and…
- June 25, 2023 MN 9 Right View and Dependent Origination - We are going deep.
Delson reads and comments on MN 9, the Samma Ditthi Sutta, in which Sariputta explains right view through the wholesome and unwholesome, the four noble truths, and each link of dependent…
- Delson Armstrong at Dsmc -Day 7- DN 14 Dependent Origination - Introduction
Delson introduces dependent origination by reading from DN 14, the Mahapadana Sutta, where the Bodhisatta Vipassi sees sickness, death, old age and a wandering ascetic and then reflects on…
- Deerpark Retreat Day 4 Noble Truths w/Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads the Four Noble Truths section of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta (DN 22) and explains it as a practical diagnosis: suffering, its origin in craving, its cessation, and…
- First Discourse of the Buddha at Deerpark - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
Delson reads and comments on SN 56.11, the Buddha's first discourse at Isipatana (Deer Park) near Varanasi.
- First Discourse at Deerpark - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
Delson visits Deer Park (Isipatana) and reads through the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11), the Buddha's first teaching to the group of five.
- Deerpark Retreat Day 5 'Right View' w/Delson Armstrong
Delson reads from the Sammaditthi Sutta (MN 9) on right view and explains its list of wrong and right views, wholesome and unwholesome conduct, and the links of dependent origination.
- Day 10 The Buddha's Awakening Part 2
Delson, with a co-speaker, continues the account of the Buddha's awakening from the Mahavagga and the Udana, covering the seven weeks after his awakening under different trees.
- 2022 Aug Retreat Sn 12.23 Upanisa 8-12-22
Delson reads and comments on the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) during an August retreat.
- 2022 Aug Retreat MN 18 Honeyball -Proliferation
Delson reads and explains MN 18, the Madhupindika Sutta (honey ball discourse), and the exposition given by Maha Kaccana.
- Day 5 2022 MN 18 Honey Ball Sutta - Proliferation-with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and explains MN 18, the Madhupindika Sutta (the honey ball discourse), in which the Buddha and then Maha Kaccana describe how perceptions born of mental proliferation arise…
- A 'Mind without Craving' and a LIVE Meditation Experiment -Conversations with Delson Armstrong
In this FitMind podcast interview, Delson Armstrong explains what he means by "a mind without craving": a mind free of mental suffering, though it still feels bodily pain, and which he…
- Day 5 2022 July#2 Retreat SN 12.33 7-25-22 - The Cases of Knowledge
Delson reads SN 12.33, the Cases of Knowledge, and works through its 44 cases as the eleven links of dependent origination, each seen in terms of its arising, its cessation, and the Noble…
- Day 5 2022 July#2 Retreat SN 33 7-25-22 - The 44 Knowledges
Delson reads SN 33, the Cases of Knowledge, and explains the 44 cases as the eleven links of dependent origination, each with its origin, cessation and the path to its cessation, set…
- Day 7 2022 MN 74 Dighanakha Sutta -July Retreat - -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 74, the Dighanakha Sutta, in which the wanderer Dighanakha holds that nothing is acceptable to him and is led to see that clinging even to a view of no…
- Day 5 2022 SN 12.2 DO Analysis -July 4th -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through SN 12.2 on dependent origination, working link by link from aging and death back to ignorance.
- Day 4 2022 MN 10 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta -July Retreat - -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through MN10, the Satipatthana Sutta, and explains the four foundations of mindfulness (body, feeling, mind, and mind objects) as different ways the mind becomes mindful, not…
- Day 8- 10 Day Retreat June 2022 MN 43 Voidness and Vital Formations
Delson reads through MN 43, the Maha Vedalla Sutta, with commentary, from a 2022 retreat.
- Day 5 -2022 10 Day June Retreat - MN 38 Dependent Origination -Intro
Delson Armstrong reads and explains MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, on the destruction of craving.
- 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.
- Day 5 May Retreat SN 12.2 (2) Pt.2 Analysis of Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN 12.2, the Buddha's Analysis of Dependent Origination, and works through each link from ignorance to birth and aging-and-death.
- Day 4 May Retreat DN 14 Dependent Origination Pt. 1 with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads from the Mahapadana Sutta (DN 14) on Prince Vipassi, who sees old age, sickness and death, goes forth, and through wisdom born of collectedness works out the chain of…
- Day 4 Apr Retreat DN 22 (5)- The Foundations of Mindfulness - 4 Noble Truths - D. Armstrong
Delson reads section 5 of DN 22, the Maha Satipatthana Sutta, which defines each of the Four Noble Truths.
- Online Retreat 20 Dec 2021 Dhamma talk MN 38 and Q & A With Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, and explains dependent origination as a chain from ignorance through formations, consciousness, contact, feeling, craving and clinging to…
- 1 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A with Delson # 1 part 1 of 2 - AUDIO ONLY
Delson answers questions from retreat participants in the first online retreat Q&A.
- MN 9 Samma Ditthi Sutta with Delson Armstrong at DSMC
Delson Armstrong works through MN 9, the Sammaditthi Sutta on right view, in which Sariputta explains right view as understanding the unwholesome and the wholesome and the Four Noble Truths.
- Samma Ditthi Sutta MN 9 with Delson Armstrong - The Personality Oct 20, 2021
Delson Armstrong works through the Samma Ditthi Sutta (MN 9), in which Sariputta explains right view by taking up the wholesome and unwholesome, the four noble truths and each link of…
- Interview#5: Does Metta/Lovingkindness practice lead to Nibbana. What is Enlightenment?
Delson answers questions about using metta and the other brahmaviharas to enter jhana, which he says works because the uplifted feeling draws the mind into collectedness.
- Introductory Talk on TWIM to Zen Community in Netherlands
Delson introduces TWIM, the meditation practice he teaches, and explains the brahmaviharas as a way to uplift the mind and let go of hindrances, especially ill-will.
- GTOG Sunday Meditation Session: Sutta reading (MN2 - Sabbasava Sutta) by Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the six ways the Buddha gives for abandoning them.
- June 12, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – Fourth Recitation – Sets of seven
Delson recites and comments on the fourth recitation of DN 33, the sets of seven, covering the seven Aryan treasures, the seven factors of enlightenment, the seven stations of…
- June 5, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – Third Recitation – sets of six
Delson Armstrong works through the third recitation of the Sangiti Sutta (DN 33), the sets of six, reading each set and explaining it in his own terms.
- May 8, 2021 - MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Many Aspects of the Dhamma
Delson walks through MN 44, the Shorter Discourse on Questions and Answers, in which the nun Dhammadinna explains identity, its origin, its cessation and the path to it.
- Mar 21 2021 - MN 74 - To Dighanaka - Non-attachment to Views through Non-attachment to Feeling
Delson reads and comments on MN 74, the Diganaka Sutta, in which the wanderer Diganaka says "nothing is acceptable to me" and the Buddha shows that holding even that view is still clinging.
- Mar 14 2021 - MN 146 - Advice from Nandaka - The Unfolding Path to Reality
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
Delson reads and explains SN 22.86 (the Anuradha Sutta), in which Anuradha answers wanderers' questions about the Tathagata after death.
- Dec 6 MN 28 The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint - The Four Noble Truths
Delson reads MN 28 and explains how Sariputta's discourse analyses the Four Noble Truths, with the five aggregates affected by clinging as suffering.
- Nov 1 2020 - MN 141 The Analysis of the Truths - Applying the Four Noble Truths
Delson reads MN 141, the Analysis of the Truths, in which Sariputta explains the four noble truths, including suffering in the five aggregates and the eightfold path ending in right…