Sinopsis
Ordinary Buddhism for Ordinary Life
Episodios
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Dealing with the Five Hindrances in Troubled Times
01/10/2021 Duración: 33minA 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 on September 11. The five hindrances are framed as coping mechanisms for troubled times. And then some tactics for working with the five hindrances are offered.
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The Power of the Present Moment
15/08/2021 Duración: 32minA 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 on the Eightfold Path reminded him of a book he read over twenty years ago called Way of the Peaceful Warrior. He then contrasts one of the teachings from the book about the present moment with the Buddha's teachings on "appropriate attention" showing how the Buddha teaches a purposeful directing of the mind to realizing the Four Noble Truths in meditation.
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Buddhism the Holistic Way
25/07/2021 Duración: 30minA 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 at an online Dharma school. This leads to a reflection of how Buddhism and the Eightfold Path encompass one's whole life.
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Happiness: The Opposite of Suffering
20/06/2021 Duración: 30minA 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 suffering and stress are shared as a contrast to the popular view that the stresses of life are to be accepted.
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Paving the Path with the Five Aggregates
30/05/2021 Duración: 25minA Dharma talk at the IBMC Zoom Sunday Service. Subodha talks about the five aggregates not as an objective description of a human being, but as the Buddha's explanation of why we suffer and how to find liberation by changing the activities of the mind by abandoning desire and developing dispassion.
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How to Know You Are Making Progress on the Path
25/04/2021 Duración: 28minA 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 and why we follow it. He also talks about meditation and its role in measuring progress, looking at heart and mind. When developing skillful mental qualities and abandoning unskillful mental qualities, how does the heart feel? Is it heavy, like dragging a cart behind you, or light like your shadow that follows you?
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True Equanimity
07/03/2021 Duración: 31minSubodha 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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Falling in Love with Meditation
14/02/2021 Duración: 29minSubodha 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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Fear and Terror in the Wilderness
06/12/2020 Duración: 32minA 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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Integrity in the Face of Ambiguous Loss
19/10/2020 Duración: 28minA 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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Is Meditation Onepointedness?
13/07/2020 Duración: 47minSubodha, still staying socially distant at home, shares his views on meditation. He specifically addresses the absorptions (jhanas) and ekaggata (stillness of mind) in regard to concentration (samadhi). He also shares his experience teaching a children’s dharma school over the weekend and his plans to begin a weekly meditation group.
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Enjoying the Silence at Home
21/05/2020 Duración: 28minSubodha 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 being more discerning about our media consumption. He also shares upcoming plans for more guided meditation and dharma discussion online through Facebook, Instagram, and Zoom.
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Bonus Episode: Guided Breath Meditation 2
14/04/2020 Duración: 11minThis 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 roughly 10 minutes in length and utilizes the breath to cultivate a calm abiding.
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Bonus Episode: Guided Breath Meditation
09/04/2020 Duración: 17minThis 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 meditation is approximately 15 minutes in length with verbal instruction and periods of silence for the meditator.
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Special Episode: Covid Chronicles Part One
22/03/2020 Duración: 49minIn 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, mindfulness of breathing and more! This is a first in a series of Dharma discussions the two plan on sharing throughout the Safer At Home shutdown in California. Any questions, … Continue reading "Special Episode: Covid Chronicles Part One"
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Making Fear Useful
18/03/2020 Duración: 41minA Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on March 17, 2020. Subodha gives a talk on Samvega (an existential dismay and urgency) and Pasada (mental clarity) as useful mental qualities that can be cultivated by reflecting on aging, illness, death, impermanence, and karma.
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Keeping the Five Faculties in Tune
17/02/2020 Duración: 36minA 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 faculty through the story of Venerable Sona as found in the Numerical Discourses of the Pali Canon.
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Not Self and Santa Claus
18/12/2019 Duración: 31minA 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 and relates that to how he first understood Anatta (not self) to mean soullessness and how his views have changed.
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Farming the Dharma
18/11/2019 Duración: 30minA 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 a Brahman farmer how training in the eightfold path is like farming.
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Is Buddhism Selfish?
23/10/2019 Duración: 32minA 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 in Pali was Medakathālikā, one he will now never forget again.