Suburban Dharma

Subodha 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.

A talk given by Subodha at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society on the alchemy of Buddhism. Buddhism gives us tools for transmuting greed into generosity, hatred into kindness, and delusion into wisdom. Through following the Eightfold Path, we are able to see the magic in the ordinary.

Subodha talks about reverence as an attitude we can develop toward ourselves and the world around us as a way of growing our wisdom.

Subodha gives a talk at the Sunday service at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on the topic of negative thoughts and what he means by letting go of them. Find out more about the International Buddhist Meditation Center by visiting www.ibmc-la.org and more about Subodha by visiting www.suburbandharma.org

Subodha talks about quotes by Kukai and Basho, Japanese poets, about mastery in poetry and calligraphy and how they work as analogies for the Buddhist path toward liberation, where mastery is of the self and the tools are the Noble Eightfold Path and our own bodies and minds.

Subodha discusses what role vipassana, or "insight" plays in Buddhist meditation in the Theravada tradition and in his experience as a meditator.