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Suburban Dharma
Steven Subodha Nuñez
81 episodes
1 month ago
Steven Subodha Nuñez is a Dharma Teacher at the International Buddhist Meditation Center. He shares the Kammatthana Forest Tradition of Buddhism through the stories of the Buddha and his disciples and lessons from his own life and experiences, illustrating how the historical lessons of the Buddha are just as relevant today as they were 2,600 years ago.
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Steven Subodha Nuñez is a Dharma Teacher at the International Buddhist Meditation Center. He shares the Kammatthana Forest Tradition of Buddhism through the stories of the Buddha and his disciples and lessons from his own life and experiences, illustrating how the historical lessons of the Buddha are just as relevant today as they were 2,600 years ago.
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Episodes (20/81)
Suburban Dharma
The Fifth Recollection

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 a time of balance. He shares how balance is often paired with equanimity and acceptance and how all are often mistaken for the goal of the path rather than part of the path. This is highlighted through his sharing of the five recollections and how even monks sometimes exclude the fifth recollection in favor of framing the first four around acceptance of aging, illness, death, and change. But it is the fifth recollection that has the power to change your life because it is a reminder of the power of your actions.
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1 month ago
24 minutes 43 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Dependent Co-arising Demystified

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on July 20, 2025, Subodha discusses the 12 causal conditions in paticcasamuppada (dependent co-arising) and relates them to our direct experience in the present moment, asking us to pay attention to what originates in us due to ignorance and what originates in us as we grow in our understanding of the Four Noble Truths.
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3 months ago
31 minutes 40 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Brahmaviharas on Father’s Day

In 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 says that part of a parent's job is to teach children how to be in the world. Subodha discusses the brahmaviharas, the sublime attitudes of goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity as a useful frame of reference to nurture the emotional intelligence of our youth.




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4 months ago
32 minutes 25 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Helping Others

In this Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 25, 2025, Subodha shares his thoughts on how we use Buddhism to help others, especially those going through a time of crisis. He shares stories from the Pali Canon and the commentaries while also reflecting on his education in psychotherapy and chaplaincy.
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5 months ago
28 minutes 17 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Grateful To Be Here

In this Dharma talk given at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 11, 2025, Subodha talks about the importance of being a person of integrity and teaching others by example and how that is the way the Buddha says we truly repay our parents for bringing us into the world as he reflects on Mother's Day.
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5 months ago
17 minutes 43 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Real-Life Buddhism

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on April 20, 2025, Subodha contrasts the Buddhism on display in a recent season of a popular TV show with the Buddhism that exists in real life and leads to the end of all stress and suffering.
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6 months ago
27 minutes 55 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Grasping the Dhamma

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on March 16, 2025, Subodha discusses some of the common ways that we grasp the Dhamma incorrectly in the West and what it means to confidently practice the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma.
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7 months ago
29 minutes 3 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Transcending Love and Hate

In this Dhamma talk given on February 16, 2025, at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles, Subodha talks about love and hate in the Pali Canon and how goodwill, metta, transcends both. He also shares the work of John O'Donohue to articulate the importance of knowing ourselves well to achieve true intimacy with ourselves and others.
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8 months ago
30 minutes 43 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Peace on Earth

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on December 15, 2024, Subodha shares his thoughts on people out in the world celebrating and approving of taking a life. He shares the Buddha's instructions on having goodwill for even the smallest of lifeforms and even the worst of people no matter the circumstances. Peace on Earth begins with the peace we have in our hearts.
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10 months ago
26 minutes 43 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Seclusion in a Confusing World

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on November 17, 2024, Subodha shares his thoughts on a world that often seems to make little sense and the pain and stress that comes with living in it. He shares the story of Christopher Thomas Knight, who, seeking seclusion, lived in the woods of North Pond, Maine for 27 years without human contact. Living in the woods, on the periphery, he survived through burglary, as he regularly broke into the cabins nearby, taking what he needed to survive. This story is contrasted with the skillful seclusion of the Buddhist path, which steals from no one.
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11 months ago
23 minutes 50 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Unwholesome and Wholesome Roots

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on October 20, 2024, Subodha discusses the unskillful qualities and skillful qualities inside us. Attention is given to how the Buddha talked about the unwholesome qualities and how important it is to abandon them in Itivuttaka 88 of the Pali Canon.
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1 year ago
27 minutes 12 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Bases of Power

On 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 his reflections on the bases of power as a means of cultivating consistency in cultivating the Dhamma.
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1 year ago
26 minutes 51 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Seeing the Buddha as a Father

In 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. There is a brief summary of the Buddha's lesson to his son, Rahula, and how this lesson aligns with the factors for becoming a stream-enterer.
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1 year ago
26 minutes 9 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Protect Your Goodwill

In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on May 12, 2024, Subodha talks about how all Buddhist traditions train in developing goodwill and compassion for all beings. He also elaborates on why we must protect our goodwill and our hearts if we want to ensure we are skillful in our interactions with others.
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1 year ago
24 minutes 27 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Skillful Conduct Now and Later

A Dharma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on April 21, 2024. In this Dharma talk, Subodha discusses Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood as well as how Buddhist karma differs from Jain karma. The Kumara Sutta, Udana 5:4 in the Khuddaka Nikaya is also shared in this talk.
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1 year ago
26 minutes 19 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Knowledge and Vision

In this Dhamma talk at IBMC on March 17, 2024, Subodha talks about a bad movie he watched in 2002 and uses it to have a larger discussion on knowledge and vision on the path as outlined in the Kimattha Sutta (AN 11:1).
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1 year ago
24 minutes 11 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Intention and Purpose

In this Dhamma talk at the international Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on February 25, 2024, Subodha discusses Samma Sankappa, Right Resolve, and how we are encouraged live purposeful lives of renunciation, non ill-will, and harmlessness.
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1 year ago
23 minutes 10 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Getting Caught in the Vines
In this Dhamma talk on January 21, 2024, Subodha discusses right view and right resolve and their importance on the path. An example of the importance of right view comes in the form of a commonly shared story in American Buddhist circles and the lessons we might take from it.
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1 year ago
27 minutes 16 seconds

Suburban Dharma
The Snake and the Raft
In this Dhamma talk at IBMC on December 17, 2023, Subodha talks about the Alagaddūpama Sutta (MN 22) and how unskillful views can be a detriment to our path and an obstacle to unbinding. In this, there is a discussion about things that might be allowable for laypeople but defeat a monastic, making them no longer a member of the sangha.
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1 year ago
33 minutes 39 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Householder Renunciation
In this Dhamma talk at the International Buddhist Meditation Center Los Angeles on November 19, 2023, Subodha talks about some questions he came across by lay Buddhists in regard to their spouses and romantic partners and attachment. Subodha touches upon the theme of letting go while being a layperson married and living in society.
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1 year ago
33 minutes 34 seconds

Suburban Dharma
Steven Subodha Nuñez is a Dharma Teacher at the International Buddhist Meditation Center. He shares the Kammatthana Forest Tradition of Buddhism through the stories of the Buddha and his disciples and lessons from his own life and experiences, illustrating how the historical lessons of the Buddha are just as relevant today as they were 2,600 years ago.