Retreat Talks at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center

Day 2 'The Cat Story' - Hindrance Elimination MN 39 w/Bhante Kusala

April 10, 2026 Day 2 MN 3 Maha-Assapura Sutta 9 Apr9-19 Metta Retreat Bhante tells some wonderful stories about a cat and other analogies to make points about the mind and its ability to wander off the object.

Maha-Assapura Sutta The Buddha encourages the monks to live up to their name, by actually practicing in a way that meets or exceeds the expectations people have for renunciants.

Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

MN 9 Right View - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong

Apr 26, 2026 MN 9 Sammaditthi Sutta What perspective is needed to view the world?

A lesson on Dependent Origination

Day 1 Short Instructions for Metta Meditation-Retreat Apr 9-19 Bhante Kusala

Short Instructions for Metta Meditation

MN 8 Conceit Purifying the mind. -Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong

Apr 5, 2026 MN 8 Effacement - Sallekha Sutta How to use the 8 fold path to purify the mind-What is Conceit? The Buddha differentiates between peaceful meditation and spiritual practices that encompass the whole of life. He lists forty-four aspects, which he explains as “effacement”, the wearing away of conceit.

MN 7 -Basis of Ariya Jhanas -The Simile of the Cloth

March 29, 2026 MN7 Vatthupama Sutta -The Simile of the Cloth

The many different kinds of impurities that defile the mind are compared to a dirty cloth. When the mind is clean we find joy, which leads to states of higher consciousness. Finally, the Buddha rejects the Brahmanical notion that purity comes from bathing in sacred rivers.

MN 3 Heirs in the Teachng - Majjhima Nikaya Series with Delson Armstrong

Mar 1, 2026 Dhammadāyādasutta "Heirs in Dhamma"

Some of the Buddha’s students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sāriputta explains how by following the Buddha’s example we can experience the fruits of the path.

MN 2 Sabbasave Sutta - The Hindrances and how to handle them - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong

Feb 22, 2026 MN 2 All the Taints

Also called "All The Taints" (Bhikkhu Bodhi) This sutta explains the seven ways to remove the taints by seeing, restraining, using, enduing, avoiding, removing, and by developing.

MN 5 Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong -Without Blemishes

Mar 15, 2026 Anangana Sutta  Without Blemishes

The Buddha’s chief disciples, Sāriputta and Moggallāna, use a simile of a tarnished bowl to illustrate the blemishes of the mind and conduct. They emphasize how the crucial thing is not so much whether there are blemishes, but whether we are aware of them.

MN 4 Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong -Fear and Dread

Mar 8, 2026 Bhaya-bherava Sutta  'Fear and Dread'

The Buddha explains the difficulties of living in the wilderness, and how they are overcome by purity of conduct and meditation. He recounts some of the fears and obstacles he faced during his own practice.

MN 1 Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong-The Root Sequence

Feb 8 MN 1 Mulapariyaya Sutta - The Root Sequence

The Buddha examines how the notion of a permanent self emerges from the process of perception. A wide range of phenomena are considered, embracing both naturalistic and cosmological dimensions. An unawakened person interprets experience in terms of a self, while those more advanced have the same experiences without attachment.