A Practical Teaching on the Bhayabherava Sutta (MN 4) with Delson Armstrong —————————————————————————————————————————————— This talk guides meditators beyond basic mindfulness into deep states of mental unification and insight. Delson Armstrong explains how practices like loving-kindness and relaxation lead to jhāna (meditative states). He describes how jhanas ultimately lead to profound clarity about the nature of […]
Characteristics of Non-Self, SN 22.59 with Kirsten Jones ———————————————————————————————————————————————— In the video featured below, TWIM instructor Kirsten Jones presents a reading and discussion of Non-Self” (Anattā-lakkhaṇa Sutta) from the Pāli Canon. In it, the Buddha explains how the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness—are not self because they are impermanent and subject to
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A Practical Teaching on the Mūlapariyāya Sutta (MN 3) with Delson Armstrong —————————————————————————————————————— In this talk, Delson Armstrong examines how the mind creates suffering through perception and identification. The Buddha describes how ordinary people conceive experience as “mine,” “I am,” or “my self.” As a result, craving and attachment arise. However, a trained meditator learns
