Very nice combination. Very good question and wonderful answers. Both of them are one of my favourite. Thanks guys. Keep on doing good to the world.
@krenx Жыл бұрын
It is an enormous blessing for anyone to come across this podcast and listen to the dharma expressed with such clarity. sadhu, sadhu, sadhu
@moonmissy2 жыл бұрын
This is the clearest and most concise explanation of the purification process of meditation that I have heard. Thank you for this interview! I can see why Bhante Viralamasi made Delson a teacher so quickly. He has a talent in explaining the practice well.
@moonmissy9 ай бұрын
Delson was a writer so he knows how to use language well. Combine that with experience of the dharma, he’s very beneficial for many beings.
@nineallday0002 жыл бұрын
"A mind without any craving is a wholesome state" Simply wonderful!
@nogaei1 Жыл бұрын
He is fenomenal. Feels like meeting Bodhisattva, no doubt.
@praxisbehindtheobscure19492 жыл бұрын
This is definitey in the top 3 best interviews / podcasts I have ever listened to. I'll have to re-listen again a few times. Keep up all the good work and thanks for putting these out for us all!
@penguin0101 Жыл бұрын
Whats the other 2? Haha
@VipassanaSadhana11 ай бұрын
What is other two??
@ipbo7 ай бұрын
I also want to know what the other two are😅
@NewAgeACIM Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this fabulous clarification of "dependent origination". I heard His Holiness speak on this topic when he graciously visited Madison, Wisconsin in 2013 but I was unable to follow His teaching! Better late than never!
@patmcd35782 жыл бұрын
Pre-comment, not sure if it bears mentioning, but this comes from the perspective of someone who had an awakening going through retreat with Delson while being guided through the dhamma of DO, so I can attest to witnessing 1) truth of dhamma, 2) truth of dependent origination, 3) wisdom of Delson in general. But, what I really want to share appreciation for is the interviewing by GV! Great listening. Great, thoughtful questions. Great intellectual knowledge of history, psychology, and emotionally intelligence. I'm new here and really appreciate your content and careful, conscious intention and deliberation during conversation. Awakened or not, brother, you definitely add to the dialogue for anyone at any point in their journey. Thank you!!
@jkmott592 жыл бұрын
Delson is the real deal. Love talks by him, so plain and direct language.
@hammothyst60052 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another stellar interview, Steve. Every discussion with Delson is an absolute treat.
@juandeloeste6138 Жыл бұрын
Best podcast, guests and interviewer ever. Thank you for sharing this.
@douglasbarnes40352 жыл бұрын
I’m currently in a self-guided Dhamma Sukha retreat and just had the MN 38 talk on dependent origination. Perfect timing to watch this. My entire perspective has shifted. Thanks to you both!
@renakmans35212 жыл бұрын
Your questions are incredibly insightful and the answers are amazingly on point. 🙏
@HansenFT2 жыл бұрын
Love delson armstrong. Meditated to one of his guided meditations right before seeing that this was released..
@pavelgrebenkov99652 жыл бұрын
This was so wonderful. Thank you Steve and Delson very much.
@lilianamontel11 ай бұрын
It is a huge blessing for anyone to come across this podcast and hear the dharma expressed so clearly. great intellectual knowledge and complete wisdom. thank you so much!!! sadhu, sadhu, sadhu
@TheWizard100082 жыл бұрын
“As a representative of the unawakened camp…” 😂❤️
@ramoesgaston99662 жыл бұрын
I must say after my journey from zen, shambala and no kadampa. I am not enlightened but I have my moments like after this comment back to practice. I can say I don't have feters like that of great demons like in my younger and past life. I have a will now that goes through revulsion at the mere idea of fall for secular pitfalls once again. Especially after receiving empowerment. I can't help but feel like it is a us versa them force of opponents. I seriously could give a rats ass what any ordinary person thinks to be frank. However this podcast explains what I am feeling at this very space in life and on 🌎. May all sentient beings witness this profound brilliant glory. Chumpa Chogong is the Buddhist name.
@a.s2118 Жыл бұрын
Gem! Thank you so much for this interview which leaves a sense of perfection in terms of the mastery of the respondent but also of the interviewer.
@heathermatsumoto6 ай бұрын
Love that he ends the interview to sum up practicing the 6 R’s and letting go as key and avoid over intellectualising to get to enjoy the fruits sooner ! Very inspiring indeed!
@Darksagan2 жыл бұрын
Delson always brings the goods. Great podcast.
@axilleaskazuya53702 жыл бұрын
This is good man, yeap, this is going where we all waited long time
@synsynsy2 жыл бұрын
karma for the algo! thanks steve, make no mistake, these interviews are really cherished. many many thanks!
@GuruViking2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Horea! 🙏
@miriamwilcox41232 жыл бұрын
“The point of lowest tension” 👌🏻🌟🙏🏻 thank you.
@sunflower4p145 ай бұрын
Wonderful interview. Watched / Listened to it for a few time by now and will be watching many more times. You did such an amazing job asking great questions. So appreciate your sincerity on this matter (not just this video).
@nicksyoutubeaccount Жыл бұрын
Amazing
@ZenPepperClub2 жыл бұрын
this is gold 😊
@DPSAX952 жыл бұрын
great thank you!
@lucidmindrevolution9 ай бұрын
Another great interview! 👌
@ricarpag11 ай бұрын
Very deep. Thank you.
@vijjanandadhammaКүн бұрын
Keep letting go of mind and body phenomenor and you will experience nibanna. Nibanna is Non self and end to suffering and experience supreme happiness.
@math13512 жыл бұрын
Thanks !✌️
@kevin-lancheros2 жыл бұрын
the goat
@philmcdonald60882 жыл бұрын
✨be here now do no harm help others be still close eyes listen to your breathing✨......book recommend: TAO TE CHING by carl abbott.
@Hermit_mouse2 жыл бұрын
What changes do you see in people who have reached stream entry
@outsaneoutsane2747 Жыл бұрын
Bit complicated, it's quite simple really. Left makes right, right makes left, that's a basic example of dependent origination
@akashakash-3512 жыл бұрын
very eloquent......
@tenzinthomasmasami10 ай бұрын
Wait, is Delson also on a houseboat? Did I miss the discussion of his surroundings?!
@ellearo5 ай бұрын
Lmao I was thinking the same thing 😂
@Buddhism4Happiness2 жыл бұрын
But what about dependencies? I realized that there can be a difference in looking at the causes versus looking at the dependencies. Well, I have to rethink it, but using a software engineering analogy or metaphor, before installing or uninstalling a piece of software component, one may have consider the dependencies, don't you think? In that way, you don't try to figure out the causes but instead the dependencies, like what happens if I remove this, what will happen to that, or alternatively, if I look at subcomponents then I can suspect that if this is not there, then I will not have a well working subject of attention. Like if I don't sleep well tonight, I won't do well the following day. Or looking back, because I didn't sleep well last night, I am not doing well today. There's a dependency, but not necessarily a direct cause, perhaps a suspected or associated cause. Perhaps conditions may be considered dependencies. Sorry, it's difficult for me to write about it.
@patmcd35782 жыл бұрын
We had several software engineers at our last retreat. In one conversation with one, after just 2 questions, I said, are you in a technical career field? There is something about the technical mind that does a great deal of thinking (over thinking?) and pouring over of small details. The details, or dependencies, are resolved through the acts of practice through faith/relaxing into guidance by intuition rather than intellect. Intellect is good for the evolution of the brain, but the evolution of the spirit requires something of a varying nature (flexibility).
@patmcd35782 жыл бұрын
P.s. human beings are not machines even though we are educated as such, treated as such, and made to think as such. Humans are meant to be human and we will struggle until we realize this.
@bunimokjh Жыл бұрын
I think it's just a matter of lexicon, in the practical sense for me they're the same. For example, following your analogy, to compile a program you need the source, the dependencies and a compiler. The cause of compiling is you giving the command in the terminal, and the dependencies are the needed files and programs. A missing dependency causes the compiler to fail, so it can be viewed as if this missing dependency is a cause for the cessation of compiling.
@midooley5433 ай бұрын
If he’s an arahant, why does he still overeat?
@backwardthoughts10222 жыл бұрын
appropriate topic but as usual the description of ignorance is utterly inadequate eg. subtle impermanence is still only understood at the level of momentary change, with no capacity to understand that disintegration of a moment is uncaused
@ejackpete3 Жыл бұрын
The integration is the “cause” of the disintegration as in an ice cube melting due to a temperature change. Causation is always at work even as U-234 releases photons.
@sidlyon8962 жыл бұрын
Neither "Key" nor "path" to Enlightenment! The meaning of " Enlightenment itself an illusion which you put straight back to "Samsara".
@user-fg3fv9hl3b Жыл бұрын
😂
@mmungara2 жыл бұрын
does anyone else think he looks like the buddha :)
@ejackpete3 Жыл бұрын
I guarantee you that this guy has no understanding of the Dharma, experientially. The key teaching of the early Buddha is anatta or no self. He only further reifies this illusory self by his discussion about how to become free of the fetters. This is the egoic view of atta or ego. There is no one to become free of the fetters. This is seen in nirvikalpa samadhi where the brain ceases generating the self illusion. Other brains are getting all titillated by this guys confused rambling, all being a further extension of his egoic intellect.
@simonsays5252 жыл бұрын
I enjoy hearing Delson very much. However, he claims arahantship and the Buddha very clearly says that it is impossible for an arahant to remain as a layman. This provides me with reserve related to his claims of enlightenment.
@lakedistrict94502 жыл бұрын
In one of Deleon’s interviews, he says he lives like a monk. I also haven’t heard him make a claim of arhantship. Personally, if someone does make such a claim, I go hyper vigilant looking for behaviour that is inconsistent with full libration…. I don’t see value in taking advice from a ‘false’ teacher. 😃
@akashicturtle18272 жыл бұрын
The Buddha said one must get rid of the fetter of the householder life, but that does not mean officially ordaining as a Bhikkhu. Remember, there was no Vinaya at the beginning of the Buddha's teaching career.
@akashicturtle18272 жыл бұрын
@@earthy7898 I think he implied being an arahant in earlier interviews, like the one with Daniel Ingram. I once met a Mae Chee in Thailand who was reputed to be an arahant, who was taught by a female lay woman (also reputed to be an arahant). Of course full vinaya ordination for women is harder for women to obtain in Theravada.
@simonsays5252 жыл бұрын
I’d like to be more clear, I haven’t heard Delson say, “I’m an arahant.” But if you listen to his last interviews with Steve to my ears it sounds as if Delson is claiming that he has reached the end of the path. Also, perhaps my understanding of the Buddha’s words is mistaken. Although I have heard numerous other monks, that I deeply respect, remark on the Buddha making such claims.
@akashicturtle18272 жыл бұрын
@@simonsays525 The Buddha did say in the Majjhima nikaya that an arahant must "leave behind the householder life." Monks I know and respect claim that it's possible to be an arahant if one hasn't *officially* ordained, but such a person would still live a renunciant lifestyle….I agree with that interpretation.
@calculusmetal Жыл бұрын
Brilliant and valuable content, thank you. A few minor issues I had hoped for: 1. Re dependant oringination section: some terms seem to be old indian hindu terms/translations, and aren't modern english eg birth, aging, death, rebirth. That is obviously not what is meant. Can Delson please retranslate these terms into modern english using mind phenomenology with examples? ie it believe that these terms are referring to mind formation in this life. 2. Using more practical examples of eg craving, clinging, "birth, aging, death", and more general simple examples throughout the discussion. 3. GV: regarding your video titles, you tend to overstate the content on occasions. This is not a clear and executable "key to enlightenment". Many other factors are essential "keys" eg jhanas etc, which weren't mentioned. Great content, thank you again, will watch a few more times to understand. Delson is a gift to dharma.