Retreat Talks at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center
Talks on Buddhist Suttas by Bhante Vimalaramsi and Delson Armstrong- A variety of suttas is discussed and what they mean. We teach Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (TWIM) . We teach the BrahmaVihara Metta (Lovingkindness) practice with the goal of attaining Nibbana in this very life.
Day 5 MN 44 The Higher Attainments - Bhante Kusala
Apr 13, 2026 MN 44 Cūļāvedalla Sutta
Day 4 MN 39 Pt3 My Father- Formless Jhanas
April 12, 2026 MN 39 - explaining the higher jhānas with Stories
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Day 3 MN 39 Pt2 "The Door" Explaining Jhanas 1-4
Day 3 MN 39 Pt2 "The Door" Explaining Jhanas 1-4
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.
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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.
Jan 25 2026 SN 1.5 Arahant SN22.89 Khemakha Sutta with Delson Armstrong
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 18 2026 DN 16 Sect 35-37 Parinibbāna Sutta with Delson Armstrong
Jan 11 2026 Snp 21-25 Blessings with Delson Armstrong
Jan 11 2026 Snp 21-25 Blessings with Delson Armstrong
Feb 1 2026 Accompanied By Lovingkindess SN 46.54 with Bhante Kusala
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
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 with Delson Armstrong
Dec 28, 2025 Right View and Sila AN 1.306-309
Dec 14 MN 41 Sāleyyakasutta— with Delson Armstrong
Dec 14, 2025 Sāleyyakasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato - MN 41
Nov 16, Famous Udana 1.10 Bāhiya Sutta -In the Seen there is only the Seen...
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 9, "Dozing" Moggalana gets in trouble AN 7.62 with Delson Armstrong
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 - Gates of Liberation" SN 43.1 Delson Armstrong Sunday Sutta Series
Oct 19, 2025 SN 43.1 Delson talks about the entrance to the Unconditioned state.
Oct 12 The Fruits of Recluseship DN2
Oct 12, 2025 DN2 Samanaphala -Excellent
Oct 5 -Is the World Eternal or....MN 63
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.
The Ocean - Drowning SN 35.228 -Sunday Series with Delson
SN 35.228 & 9 'Ocean'
Day 4 8-24-25 MN 111 Higher Jhanas 5-8 with Bhante Kusala
Day 4 8-24-25 MN 111 Higher Jhanas 5-8 with Bhante Kusala
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Day 3 The Jhanas AN9.36.5 MN119 with Bhante Kusala
Day 3 The Jhanas AN9.36.5 MN119 with Bhante Kusala
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Day 9 8-29-25 Last Day Talk - MN 21 Simile of the Saw w/Bhante Kusala
The need for Lovingkindness
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Day 8 8-28-25 MN148 Reciting the 6 sets of 6
Day 8 8-28-25 MN148 Reciting the 6 sets of 6
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Day 7 8-27-25 MN18 Honeyball Sutta with Bhante Kusala
Day 7 8-27-25 MN18 Honeyball Sutta with Bhante Kusala
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Day 5 Dependent Origination w/Bhante Kusala
Day 5 8-26 SN 12.20 Dependent Origination
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Day 2 8-22-25 MN2 Hindrances w Bhante Kusala
Day 2 8-22 MN2 Hindrances
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Day 1, 8-21-25 Intro to the Metta Retreat by Bhante Kusala
Orientation and instructions for Metta to 17 retreaters.
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MN 70 Types of Stream Enterers & Health Tip
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.
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MN 48 Kosambiya Sutta - Kindness Leads to Nibbana
Aug 17, 2025 Kosambiya Sutta
Verbal Daggers!
Samadhi Sutta/Ananada Sutta AN 106/7
Aug 10, 2025 Samadhi Sutta & Ananda Sutta
What is Samadhi.
On Giving-Velama Sutta AN 9.20
Aug 3 2025 Velama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya
Talk on Dana or Generosity
AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta -Question the Teachings
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.
Letting Go of Samsara -Guided Meditation with Delson Armstrong
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.
