Retreat Talks at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center

Apr 14, 2026 MN 38 Greater Destruction of Craving This is the premiere sutta on the subject of Dependent Origination. Reincarnation vs Rebirth. The 12 links of DO. Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Apr 13, 2026 MN 44 Cūļāvedalla Sutta

April 12, 2026 MN 39 - explaining the higher jhānas with Stories Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Day 3 MN 39 Pt2 "The Door" Explaining Jhanas 1-4

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

Apr 26, 2026 MN 9 Sammaditthi Sutta What perspective is needed to view the world? A lesson on Dependent Origination

Short Instructions for Metta Meditation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jan 25 2026 SN 1.5 Arahant   SN22.89 Khemakha Sutta with Delson Armstrong

Jan 18 2026 DN 16 Sect 35-37  Parinibbāna Sutta with Delson Armstrong

Jan 11 2026 Snp 21-25 Blessings with Delson Armstrong

Feb 1 2026 Accompanied By Lovingkindess with Bhante Kusala  Also Talks about new book "One Foot after Another"

Jan 4 2026 Ways of Practice & Crossing the Flood AN 4.170 Delson Armstrong

Dec 28, 2025 Right View and Sila AN 1.306-309

Dec 14, 2025 Sāleyyakasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato - MN 41  

Nov 16, 2025 UD 1.10 Bahiya Sutta A famous sutta which goes to the heart of the awakened mind. When seeing there is only the seen - meaning there is no reacting, no craving that attaches to the experience. This is the non-dual or non-reflective awareness.

Nov 11, 2025 AN 7.62 Moggallana is chastised by the Buddha for a little bit of sleepiness - the Buddha gives him a lot of ways to fix sloth and torpor.

Oct 19, 2025 SN 43.1 Delson talks about the entrance to the Unconditioned state.

Oct 12, 2025 DN2 Samanaphala -Excellent

Oct 5, 2025 MN 63 Malunkyaputta Sutta- Advice to Malunkya Here Malunkya ask off the wall questions of the Buddha. The Buddha explains the answers would not lead to Nibbana. He then patiently tells him why and gives the simile of the man with an arrow near his heart and stop asking nonsensical questions rather than getting treatment.

SN 35.228 & 9 'Ocean'  

Day 4 8-24-25 MN 111 Higher Jhanas 5-8 with Bhante Kusala www.dhammasuhka.org

Day 3 The Jhanas AN9.36.5 MN119  with Bhante Kusala www.dhammasukha.org

The need for Lovingkindness www.dhammasukha.org

Day 8 8-28-25 MN148 Reciting the 6 sets of 6 www.dhammasukha.org

Day 7 8-27-25 MN18 Honeyball Sutta with Bhante Kusala Dhammasukha.org

Day 5 8-26 SN 12.20  Dependent Origination www.dhammasukha.org

Day 2 8-22 MN2 Hindrances  www.dhammasukha.org

Orientation and instructions for Metta to 17 retreaters. www.dhammasukha.org

The first part of the Kitigiri sutta is the benefits monks get from eating one meal a day. The 2nd part talks about the diferent kinds of Sotapanna Attainments.   WWW.dhammasukha.org

Aug 17, 2025 Kosambiya Sutta Verbal Daggers!

Aug 10, 2025 Samadhi Sutta & Ananda Sutta What is Samadhi.

Aug 3 2025  Velama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya Talk on Dana or Generosity

July 27, 2025 Sunday Zoom Series The famous Kalama Sutta in which the Buddha instructs you to not believe him but try it for yourself. If it is helpful then do it and trust this is the Buddha's teaching.

How to prepare for the end of Life - How to avoid being caught by Samsara yet again for another life. Delson uses Lovingkindness meditation and then guides you to let go.

Sunday Sutta Session with Delson Armstrong

Podcast which discusses the main points of The Path to Nibbana   www.dhammasukha.org

From Cover to Cover he chants his book on chanting. Follow along as he chants each sutta. Slow down the playback to follow easier. Book: DSMC Chanting Book: Buddhist Chants in English and Pali Available on Amazon Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Delson Armstrong Describes his personal journey from his teens through the ascetic and meditation practices wandering the streets of Rishikesh to later find the Buddha's path. June 29, 2025 Talk to a Yoga Graduating Class. Explaining his knowledge of Yoga and then introducing them to Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Delson describes all of the types of hindrances one runs across and how they are handled using sutta MN 2. July 8, 2025  Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Day 1 Adv Retreat AN 3.32 To Ananda Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

June 29, 2025 SN 35.63 Migala Sutta This sutta talks about the sense bases and delight that arises from them. Infatuation arises and all then the rest. Craving is a partner with the Sense bases and leads to suffering. www.dhammasukha.org

44 min. Lovingkindness Meditation --Letting Go of Self Kirsten Jones

This sutta reflects on the 5 "themes" -We are liable to Old age, sickness, death...parting from ones we hold dear and we are owners of our Kamma.