Foundations of mindfulness
- Day 9 Guided Meditation - Knowing
Delson guides a sitting that points to objectless awareness, a luminous knowing that is not an object and is not a thinking mind.
- Andrzej and Delson Podcast 3 Everyday Awareness
Delson Armstrong and Andrzej discuss everyday awareness: a simple, non-conceptual knowing of what is happening that remains when the ego's stories and identifications are let go.
- Day 4 Enlightenment Factors and 6Rs
Delson continues from yesterday's talk on the Eightfold Path by explaining the seven awakening factors (mindfulness, discernment, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness, equanimity) as…
- Day 4 High Altitude Retreat -Remember the Knowingness
Delson encourages listeners to rest in the knowing awareness they touched on the previous night, rather than trying to reach or return to it.
- Day 5 What is Mindfulness - 4 Foundations of Mindfulness-Not McMindfulness
Delson explains the four foundations of mindfulness (satipatthana) as body, feeling, mind and mind objects, and says they are anchor points for the mind rather than stages to pass through…
- MN 10 Part 2 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta-Feeling -Majjhima Series w/Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong continues his reading of the Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10), covering contemplation of feeling, mind, mind objects (the five hindrances, the aggregates, the six internal and…
- 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 10 Pt1 '4 Foundations of Mindfulness'-Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong opens his study of the Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10) by explaining the meaning of the word satipatthana as anchors for the mind in the present moment, with sati as…
- MN 5 Unblemished - Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and explains MN 5, the Anangana Sutta (Unblemished), in which Sariputta distinguishes inferior and superior persons who have or lack a blemish, depending on whether they…
- The 37 Requisites to Enlightenment -Sunday with Delson
Delson reads from the Maha Parinibbana Sutta (DN 16), where the Buddha gives his final instructions, and uses it to introduce the 37 requisites for awakening.
- DN 2 Oct 12, 2025 DN 2 Delson Armstrong Sunday Sutta Series
Delson reads from the Samannaphala Sutta (DN 2), section 42 onward, and explains the path it lays out from morality through sense restraint, mindfulness and contentment to the abandoning…
- Austria 2025 | Awakening Intuition
Delson explains the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, discernment, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity) and how they run alongside the Eightfold Path.
- 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…
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 3 - Mindfulness
Delson explains mindfulness (sati) as bare observation of what arises and passes away, together with clear comprehension (sampajanna) of where attention is.
- I ask Delson Armstrong about perceiving awareness; consciousness(es) and Abhidhamma
Delson answers an audience question on how awareness (vinnana) is perceived and how to investigate consciousness, including mano and citta.
- Delson's 4th Talk on the 8 fold path: Right Mindfulness-Smrti????
Delson continues his eightfold path series with a talk on right effort and right mindfulness (sati), explaining how the 6R's express right effort and how sati means remembering to observe…
- 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.
- Dependent Origination 2023 - Day 4 Birth
Delson explains that birth, jati, in the chain of dependent origination means coming into existence or being classified into a type of being, and that it has nothing to do with caste.
- 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.
- Day 3 Enlightenment Factors & Jhana- Japan Retreat Dec 2023
Delson explains the seven enlightenment factors (mindfulness, investigation of states, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity) as qualities that arise naturally when…
- Day 3: Awakening Factors-Netherlands Oct 2023
Delson explains the seven awakening factors as qualities that counter the five hindrances and support jhana and insight, and walks through how mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy…
- Day 3: Awakening Factors
Delson explains the seven awakening factors (mindfulness, investigation of states, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity) and how they arise together, with the first jhana…
- Day 3: Awakening Factors
Delson explains the seven awakening factors and how they relate to the five hindrances, the four foundations of mindfulness, and right effort.
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 3 Awakening Factors
Delson explains the seven enlightenment factors as a way of understanding what jhana is: the absence of the five hindrances with the enlightenment factors present to varying degrees.
- Day 9 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Noble Eightfold Path
Delson walks through the Noble Eightfold Path factor by factor, from right view and right intention through right speech, action and livelihood to right effort, mindfulness and…
- Bonhays Day 9 Noble Eight-fold Path Last Day of Retreat
Delson Armstrong gives the last-day talk of a nine-day retreat on the Noble Eightfold Path, presenting it as the practice to continue off the cushion.
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 4 Jhanas
Delson explains the jhanas as stages of samadhi that arise from a balanced, unified mind, with loving-kindness used as the object of meditation.
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 3 Awakening Factors
Delson explains the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity) as the basis for jhana and as the path to nibbana.
- Day 3 7 Enlightenment Factors, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong
Delson explains that jhana is the absence of the five hindrances together with the enlightenment factors present to varying degrees, and he walks through the seven factors (mindfulness…
- 37 Requisites with Delson Armstrong. MN 77
Delson Armstrong reads and explains MN 77, the Maha Sakuludayi Sutta, in which the Buddha says his disciples honor him for five qualities and then lists the 37 requisites of awakening.
- MN 10 Mindfulness Redefined-Satipatthana Sutta with Delson Armstrong-Very Good!
Delson reads through MN 10, the Satipatthana Sutta, and explains the four foundations of mindfulness: body, feelings, mind and mind objects.
- MN 10 Satipatthana Sutta with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong reads MN 10, the Satipatthana Sutta, and explains the four foundations of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects) as they apply to meditation practice.
- 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…
- Day 8 2022 MN 77 37 Requisites -July Retreat - -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 77, the Maha Sakuludayi Sutta, in which the Buddha explains why his disciples respect him, and uses it to introduce the 37 requisites for awakening.
- 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 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.
- Day 2 Apr Retreat -MN 39 Distractions and Hindrances
Delson reads from MN39 (the Maha Asapura Sutta) on the qualities of a recluse: shame and fear of wrongdoing, purified conduct in body, speech, mind and livelihood, sense restraint…
- Day 2 Apr Retreat -MN 39 Hindrances and Distractions
Delson Armstrong reads from MN 39 (Maha Assapura Sutta) and walks through its list of training steps, from purified conduct and the precepts to sense restraint, moderation, wakefulness and…
- 4 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A With Delson Armstrong Session 1 of 2
Delson answers questions from a retreat Q&A on doctrine and practice.
- Interview#4: Mindfulness Re-defined and the Jhanas Re-defined - Conversations with Delson
Delson explains that mindfulness (sati, from smriti, meaning to remember) is best understood as observing how the mind's attention moves, rather than focusing narrowly on an object such as…
- May 22, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – First Recitation
Delson reads the first recitation of the Sangeeti Sutta (DN 33), in which Sariputta restates the Dhamma as numbered sets from one to four, and comments on each item in terms of his TWIM…
- Jan 17 2021 - MN 3 - Heirs in Dhamma - The Noble Eightfold Path is the Inheritance
Delson reads MN 3, the Dhammadayada Sutta (Heirs in the Dhamma), from Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation and comments on it as he goes.
- Delson Armstrong talks on The Discourse about Meghiya
Delson reads the Meghiya Sutta (AN 9.3, with the Udana version noted as nearly identical) and comments on it paragraph by paragraph.
- Day-5 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from day five of an online ten-day retreat in November 2020.
- Day-2 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers participants' questions on a day-two online retreat, covering MN10 contemplation of internal and external phenomena, bare observation as mindfulness, and balancing the seven…
- Day-0 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions at the start of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day-1 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from the first day of an online 10-day retreat.
- Day 5 Foundations of Mindfulness - Discussing the Satipatthana Sutta -What is Mindfulness?
Delson explains right effort in the context of the Satipatthana teaching, describing it as abandoning unwholesome states and cultivating wholesome ones.