- 249
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 383
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2005
- First episode
- 268K
- YouTube views
About Urban Dharma
Kusala Bhikshu and his Urban Dharma; an American born Buddhist monk living in Los Angeles, California. Kusala shares his understanding of Buddhism in a simple, non-technical way through stories, humor and personal insights.
- Publisher
- Kusala Bhikshu
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2005
- Latest episode
- 7 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
2 of 249 episodes have a transcript.
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Self, Non-Self and the 5 Aggregates
4 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Celebrating the Buddha's Life
2 Feb 2026
The Four Fears of Aging
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Self, Non-Self and the 5 Aggregates
Published 7 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know why? So when we come to self, we have to say, no, there probably isn't a fixed, unchanging, permanent, independent self. Now, in the 1980s, when I came to Buddhism, they would call it no self. And that wasn't actually correct either, because there is a self, it just isn't who we are. It's a relative self. It's a self that's been created so we can exist in this very complicated world. It started with our parents. They insisted on calling us our name. Whatever that name was, Jamie, Jim, Mary, Susie. And they kept repeating them and pointing at us. And eventually we figured out that they were talking to us. […]
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- YouTube views
- 267,814
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 367 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 16 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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