Retreat Talks at Dhamma Sukha

Day 2 - 2nd Day Blues -Distractions AN5 5.51 July 14

July Retreat 7-14-23 Delson Armstrong Anuttara Nikaya 5.51 Obstructions Talking about what hinders the mind's attention to your object of meditation. https://a-buddha-ujja.hu/an-5.51/en/bodhi https://www.dhammasukha.org/getting-started-with-twim Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Day July 13 Introduction to Metta with Delson Armstrong

Day 1 of July 13-23 Retreat Metta Instructions Delson Armstrong

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

MN 43 Mahavedalla Sutta Deep Dhamma with Delson Armstrong

Delson Armstrong June 28, 2023 MN 43 Mahavedalla sutta AN 3.102 Vitality and formations.

Diving even deeper into Dhamma and Nibbana.

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

A complete guide to the meditation the way the Buddha taught: https://www.thepathtonibbana.com/

Dependent Arising Anguttara Nikaya 10.1 -Delson Armstrong

The links of Dependent Arising.  What leads you to seek out the Path to Nibbana!

You know about the 12 links but there are 11 more that the journey to the end of suffering entails.

Its called Dependent Arising. In this talk Delson instead uses the Anguttara Nikaya vs the usual Upanisa Sutta.

 

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

June Retreat MN 38 Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong

June 6, 2023

Delson Armstrong

A deep dive into Dependent Origination.

The Greater Discourse on Craving

Mahatanhasankhya Sutta MN 38

https://www.dhammasukha.org/getting-started-with-twim

Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center

https://www.dhammasukha.org

A complete guide to the meditation the way the Buddha taught: https://www.thepathtonibbana.com/

Generosity (DANA) Stories from Delson-Heartwarming! The Himalayas!

Delson Armstrong June 8, 2023

Various Suttas from the AN

MN 142 Exposition of the Offering

Precepts and their power and benefits.

Stories of the Himalayas

Benefits of Generosity

MN 10 Satipatthana Sutta with Delson Armstrong-Very Good!

When: June 4, 2023

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

A particularly clear explaination of the foundations of mindfulness. Delson goes into more detail than he ever has on the aggregates and how to let them go.

MN 111 The Path Through the Jhanas-Very Good Explanation of the Jhanas

Delson Armstrong explains each Jhana MN 111 Anupada Sutta: One by One As They Occurred This is one of his best talks on the characteristics of Jhana. Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org MN 111 Anupada Sutta: One by One As They Occurred Thus have i heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Savatthi in Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's Park. There he addressed the bhikkhus thus: "Bhikkhus, Sariputta is wise; Sariputta has great wisdom; Sariputta has wide wisdom; Sariputta has joyous wisdom; Sariputta has quick wisdom; Sariputta has keen wisdom; Sariputta has penetrative wisdom. During half a month, bhikkhus, Sariputta had insight into states one by one as they occurred. Now Sariputta's insight into states one by one as they occurred was this: "Here, bhikkhus, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, Sariputta entered upon and abided in the first jhana, which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought, with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion." "And the states in the first jhana - the applied thought, the sustained thought, the rapture, the pleasure, and the unification of mind; the contact, feeling, perception, volition, and mind; the zeal, decision, energy, mindfulness, equanimity, and attention these states were defined by him one by one as they occurred; known to him those states arose, known they were present, known they disappeared. He understood thus: 'So indeed, these states, not having been, come into being; having been, they vanish.' Regarding those states, he abided unattracted, unrepelled, independent, detached, dissociated, with a mind rid of barriers. He understood: 'There is an escape beyond,' and with the cultivation of that attainment, he confirmed that there is."

 

Continued http://www.suttas.com/mn-111-anupada-sutta-one-by-one-as-they-occurred.html

Talk on Jhanas MN 52 w/ Bhante Saccananda Day 6

May 2, 2023 The Man from Atthanagara MN 52

Dhamma Sukha hosts a 10 day retreat where all participants were ordained as Novice Monks and practice TWIM under Bhante and Delson Armstrong. In this video Bhante Saccananda, a TWIM teacher from the Brahma Vihara Meditation Center of Westbury, New York gives a talk about being a Novice or a Samenara means. Here he gives a talk, based on the Majjhima Nikaya 52.

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

Talk on Hindrances and Precepts with Bhante Saccananda -Day 3

Apr 29 2023 Hindrances - excerpts from DN 10 Dhamma Sukha hosts a 10 day retreat where all participants were ordained as Novice Monks and practice TWIM under Bhante and Delson Armstrong.

In this video Bhante Saccananda, a TWIM teacher from the Brahma Vihara Meditation Center of Westbury, New York gives a talk about being a Novice or a Samenara means.

Here he gives a talk, based on the satipatthana sutta, on the 5 hindrances. Meditators need a little help in staying on their object!

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

Brahma Vihara Meditation Center https://www.bvmcnewyork.com/