Bringing the Forest Tradition Home
In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on September 21, 2025, Subodha shares his thoughts on the autumn equinox as…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on July 20, 2025, Subodha discusses the 12 causal conditions in paticcasamuppada (dependent…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk on June 15, 2025, at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles, Subodha reflects on Father’s Day and how the Buddha…
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Comments closedIn this Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 25, 2025, Subodha shares his thoughts on how we use Buddhism…
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Comments closedIn this Dharma talk given at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 11, 2025, Subodha talks about the importance of being a…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on April 20, 2025, Subodha contrasts the Buddhism on display in a recent…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on March 16, 2025, Subodha discusses some of the common ways that we…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk given on February 16, 2025, at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles, Subodha talks about love and hate in the…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on December 15, 2024, Subodha shares his thoughts on people out in the…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on November 17, 2024, Subodha shares his thoughts on a world that often…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on October 20, 2024, Subodha discusses the unskillful qualities and skillful qualities inside…
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Comments closedOn this talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on September 15, 2024, Subodha shares about his ongoing recovery from Bell’s Palsy and…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at IBMC on 6/16/24, Subodha discusses the Buddha’s fear and discontent that made him leave his home and become a renunciant.…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 12, 2024, Subodha talks about how all Buddhist traditions train in…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on April 21, 2024. In this Dharma talk, Subodha discusses Right Speech, Right Action,…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at IBMC on March 17, 2024, Subodha talks about a bad movie he watched in 2002 and uses it to have…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the international Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on February 25, 2024, Subodha discusses Samma Sankappa, Right Resolve, and how we…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk on January 21, 2024, Subodha discusses right view and right resolve and their importance on the path. An example of the…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at IBMC on December 17, 2023, Subodha talks about the Alagaddūpama Sutta (MN 22) and how unskillful views can be a…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on November 19, 2023, Subodha talks about some questions he came across by…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at IBMC on October 15, 2023, Subodha shares a concern that a friend of his shared that the Dhamma is harder…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the IBMC Los Angeles on September 17, 2023, Subodha discusses how, once we are well established in the Dhamma and…
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Comments closedIn this talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on August 20, 2023, Subodha discusses the growing dichotomy between religion and science in…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center on July 16, 2023, Subodha reflects on getting older and the maturity that we often…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on June 18, 2023, Subodha reflects on his complex relationship with Father’s Day…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 21, 2023, Subodha discusses five of the six characteristics of the…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on April 16, 2023, Subodha discusses the misconception that it is the torture…
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Comments closedIn this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 3/19/23, Subodha shares his thoughts on Ven. Thich Thien-An’s legacy as the…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk given at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 2/19/23. Subodha shares his first encounter with Buddhism as a child and…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 1/15/23. Subodha shares a story from the Pali Canon about two monks who…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 12/18/22. Subodha shares lessons from the Pali Canon on what constitutes true happiness…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 11/13/22. Subodha shares thoughts on living a quiet life in the forest being…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 10/23/22. Subodha discusses what it means to practice the Buddha’s teachings in our…
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Comments closedA Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 9/18/22. Subodha shares a story about driving by a casino and then shortly…
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Comments closedA talk at IBMC Los Angeles on 8/14/22. Subodha begins with a story about an encounter with a rattlesnake to build on the themes of…
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Comments closedA talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 7/10/22. Not getting caught up on arguing over maps when they can be so…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 6/5/22. Subodha shares his experience of practicing meditation while sick and severely short…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 4/24/22.
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 3/13/22
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 1/2/2022. Subodha shares the Yoga Sutta (AN 4:10) and the four burdens of…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 12/12/21. Subodha reflects on the importance of simplicity and contentment on the path…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Sunday service on Zoom 11/21/2021. Subodha talks about the problem with the modern temptation to view traditional Buddhism as…
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Comments closedA talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles Sunday service on 10/10/21. In memory of his late friend, Subodha gives a Dharma talk…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles Sunday Zoom service on 9/12/21. Tragedies large and small are discussed, including the attack…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Sunday service on Zoom, 8/15/21. Subodha shares how the lesson he is preparing for the kids in Dharma school…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Sunday service on Zoom 7/25/21. Subodha shares some of his thoughts on teaching the Noble Eightfold Path to children…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk given at the IBMC Sunday Service on Zoom, 6/20/21. The Buddha’s lessons on developing path factors to a reliable happiness and transcend…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Zoom Sunday Service. Subodha talks about the five aggregates not as an objective description of a human being, but…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Sunday service on Zoom, 4/25/21. Subodha discusses the Devadaha Sutta (SN 22:2) as a good summary of the path…
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Comments closedSubodha gives a Dharma talk at the IBMC Zoom Sunday service on 3-7-21. He shares life lessons with his grandfather and lessons that the Buddha…
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Comments closedSubodha gives a talk at the IBMC on 2/14/21, Valentine’s Day, about falling in love with meditation and entering into a committed relationship with Buddhist…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Meditation Center Los Angeles Zoom Sunday service on 11/29/2020. Subodha discusses the fear and anxiety that he felt being…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC Zoom Sunday service on 10/18/20. Subodha talks about the importance of being honest and upright about our practice, even…
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Comments closedSubodha, still staying socially distant at home, shares his views on meditation. He specifically addresses the absorptions (jhanas) and ekaggata (stillness of mind) in regard…
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Comments closedSubodha gives an informal talk in his home on 5/21/2020. He discusses the importance on cultivating an enjoyment for silence, solo retreating at home, and…
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Comments closedThis guided meditation was recorded via Zoom on 4/14/2020 for the University of the West Chaplaincy Club and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. This meditation is…
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Comments closedThis guided breath meditation was recorded live via Zoom on 3-31-2020 for the University of the West Chaplaincy Club and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The…
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Comments closedIn this special episode recorded on 3/21/2020, Subodha is accompanied by his wife Christina. They discuss many topics including right effort, the eight-fold path, meditation,…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on March 17, 2020. Subodha gives a talk on Samvega (an existential dismay and…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 2/16/20. Subodha discusses the Five Faculties with a special focus on the second…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 12/15/19. Subodha discusses how he learned the truth about Santa Claus not existing…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk given at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 11/17/19. Subodha discusses the Kasibharadvaja Sutta, in which the Buddha explains to…
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Comments closedA talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on 10/20/19. Subodha discusses the Sedaka Sutta from the Samyutta Nikāya. The name he forgot…
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC on 9/15/19. Subodha talks about being diligent on the path when we are busy being happy and even when…
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Comments closedA Father’s Day Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on June 16, 2019.
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Comments closedA talk at the IBMC on 4/21/19.
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Comments closedA Dharma talk at the IBMC on 3/31/19.
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Comments closedThere are some changes in store for Suburban Dharma in 2019, including a new RSS feed, new recording equipment, production software, and upcoming guided meditations…
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Comments closedSubodha talks about having a birthday the day after Christmas and mudita, sympathetic joy.
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Comments closedSubodha shares some thoughts on the similarities between the views of the human condition in existential therapy and those found in Buddhism.
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Comments closedSubodha shares some thoughts on how the fetter of conceit manifests on the path and how we might respond to it skillfully.
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Comments closedSubodha shares his views on Buddhism as one of the best forms of self-care. Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, mentioned in the Dhamma talk, can be found…
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Comments closedAt Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society on 8/19/18, Subodha discusses a recent news story about psychedelic drugs and Buddhist practice and his belief that…
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Comments closedSubodha gives a talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center in Los Angeles on 7/15/18 sharing stories of escape, how they failed, and how that…
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Comments closedSubodha shares stories about growing up and the relationship he has with his father in honor of Father’s Day.
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Comments closedSubodha gives an overview of the six sense bases and the thirty-seven qualities of awakening as presented in the Mahasalayatanika Sutta from the Majjhima Nikaya.
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Comments closedA talk given by Subodha at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society on the alchemy of Buddhism. Buddhism gives us tools for transmuting greed into…
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Comments closedSubodha talks about reverence as an attitude we can develop toward ourselves and the world around us as a way of growing our wisdom.
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