Ep120_ Meditation Virtuoso - Delson Armstrong

Yacine HaffarNov 5, 2021 at 5:16 pm2h 3min

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In this episode, I'm joined by Delson Armstrong, spiritual teacher and star student of meditation teacher Bantay Vimala. Ramsay who's seen your student David Johnson has said, Doesn't Armstrong has mastered every practice we've given him. He is the most amazing student we've ever seen. In this interview. Delson recalls his early life training in the Himalayas, where he mastered the system of Patanjali Yoga Sutras, attaining to all of its highest states of Samadhi attained all six levels of Kriya Yoga under three separate lineages studied Sanskrit and was exposed to practices of Shiva Tantra through students of Asha Delson shares his subsequent explorations of Buddhism, including Maha Mudra Chen and the twin practice of Bantay Vemula ramsI. Delson recounts and contrasts his experiences accomplishing the eight Janas attaining the four levels of Buddhist awakening and realizing rigpa. Delson also reveals yogic feats, such as recalling past lives and entering into a type of suspended animation called nirodha Samadhi for up to six days and reveals his passion for neuroscience and recent participation in a study at the University of Amsterdam that has examined his brain and body in this state of yogic suspension. So without further ado, Delson Armstrong, does an Armstrong, welcome to the podcast.

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Thank you, Steve. It's good to be here.

SSpeaker 1

01:20

Well, I'm very pleased to be talking with you Delson and especially pleased after the introduction that David Johnston, author of a path to Nirvana, and the student of Bantay Villa ramsI. I'm even more interested after his introduction to you, which I might read to you. Now, if you don't mind. Delson Armstrong has mastered every practice we've given him. He's the most amazing student we've ever seen. And he's completely open to talking about everything and his experiences. He remembers many past lives as a yogi in the Himalayas. And in other realms, he's mastered the jhanas in the way, Bantay, that's Bantay Vimla ramsI. In the way Bantay teaches, right from the suitors as Bantay V explains them, you will be happy to explain to your audience how one goes through the Janus and makes the final leap to Nirvana and all of the four levels of attainment, he can talk about the special state of the ANA gammy and the Arhat, whereby you make a determination to sit in the state of naroda, or cessation, there's no breath, and perhaps two heartbeats a minute, he just allowed himself to be measured at another research center. So that was David's introduction to you, when he suggested we suggested you for the podcast and so amazing. And on the basis of that I'm very, very, very pleased to meet you.

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02:43

It's a wonderful introduction, I really appreciate that.

SSpeaker 1

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Could you talk a little bit about your life story, how it was you grew up, etc. And you went through a number of spiritual systems to quite a high degree of attainment. Before it was that you came to the method that you're currently working in now, this trim and so on with Pantone and other MCs teachings. So could you just take us through the arc of your story and how it was we're speaking now. Sure.

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03:11

So I was born in India. And I lived there for the first five years of my life, we move them to the US. I grew up in New Jersey, New York. So most of my life up until the age of 13, was basically barely American childhood. And I was born in that part of, well, part of this time where, you know, we were just being introduced to computers. And so I had the best of both worlds, if you would, because I I remember playing, you know, basketball and going biking in the summers, but at the same time being being able to play video games on the computer and Playstation and so on and so

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