About Delson
I am a mirror, reflecting what is given to me. Do not seek perfection in me as a teacher. I see myself as a conduit for various teachings from the Great Wisdom schools from time immemorial. I teach from my direct experience.
I want to offer you what I can based on what you’re seeking and is worthwhile for your growth as a fellow spiritual traveler. My aim is to hold space for you and be the vessel you require for the purposes of awakening at all levels.
The Truth everyone speaks about can be uncovered through similar practices, including those that encourage relaxation and the release from suffering. My aim is to reveal that Truth to all those who are ready.
One Goal, Many Paths
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Optimal Mind System
This is the essence of Delson’s experience as a meditation teacher. Integrating the essence of many diverse practices, Delson has formulated a methodology to address the key components of human life – body, mind, energy, heart, and consciousness – for the benefit of the evolution of the individual at the highest possible levels.
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Awakening
Awakening demystifies the true nature of reality as we understand it through various personalized pointing out instructions. These instructions are intuited by Delson in tandem with his extensive experience in ancient wisdom traditions to bring one to a level of awakening using modern contexts through innovative methods.
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Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is rooted in ancient texts like the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. It evolved over the centuries before being reintroduced to the modern world by Lahiri Mahasaya. Kriya helps clear energetic blocks in the system, reduces the fear of letting go, and can provide a repeatable formula for attaining high states of non-dual experiences. As a lineage holder of Lahiri’s Kriya, Delson has been initiated in all seven stages and is authorized to disseminate this knowledge to those who seek it.
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Jhānas
Rooted in the Pāli Canon and spanning the centuries through time-tested practice of great meditative masters in the Buddhist traditions, the jhānas are sublime levels of elevated awareness and insight. The jhānas, as taught by Delson, allow for an integrated approach to achieving more emotional resilience, a collected focus, and greater degrees of clarity. They are also powerful stepping stones to Nibbana or awakening, the fundamental personality shifts we call the Reboot.
From an early age, Delson immersed himself with extraordinary diligence in spiritual training. He delved deeply into the core principles of Buddhist practice and philosophy, gaining particularly profound insight into the Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination. Prior to his Buddhist studies, Delson explored a broad range of other spiritual traditions, including Christian mysticism, Hinduism, Sufism, Kabbalah, and Taoism. He practiced different forms of meditation, studied sacred texts, and obtained guidance from masters of these disciplines. This comprehensive spiritual education enriched his understanding and provided him with a broad perspective on the universal principles underlying different paths to awakening. Delson’s dedication to his practice led him to attain various levels of meditative states, which traditionalists call samādhī in Yoga and jhāna in Buddhism. He is also known for his mastery of rarified states of mind and body, known by some as nirodha-samapatti and arahatta phala samadhi. Despite what these words suggest, Delson chooses to remain universal in his approach and does not subscribe to any one model or path to awakening. He believes any idealized path belonging to certain cultural norms and structures must be updated and innovated for modern times.
A Life in the Dharma
Living and Teaching the Path
Delson Armstrong lives at the nexus of traditional models of awakening and emerging trends toward secularization and evidence-based approaches to inner transformation. He is dedicated to adapting timeless truths to changing times, focusing on practices that work instead of dogma-based, cookie-cutter solutions. Whether it's the brahmaviharas, forgiveness practice, or initiations into Kriya Yoga and other supportive techniques aimed at supporting the mind and body for deeper states of collectedness and tranquility, the emphasis is always on guiding individuals from distress and suffering through understanding and acceptance to individual realization and freedom of mind.
“Knowledge is one thing, and practice is another, and when you listen to Delson, you can see — you can feel — it is not only the Dharma knowledge but the practice speaking.”
— BHANTE KUSALA