From the perspective of inner rebellion and personal freedom, we need to form communities that include spiritual revolutionaries of both more and less wisdom and compassion than ourselves.
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One of the core teaching of the buddha is that mindfulness practice is much more than just sitting. We’re trying to develop wisdom. In this guided meditation, Noah Levine will walk you through a 30-minute Buddhist mindfulness meditation, which includes a walking practice.
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In the first foundation, after the mindfulness of breath and body, the four elements and the thirty-two parts, the Buddha says to meditate on death, meditate on this inevitable process of death and decay. In this guided meditation, Noah Levine will walk you through a 30-minute Buddhist “corpse meditation”.
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March 16, 2020. It’s so easy to forget, it’s so easy to get pissed off, and it’s so easy to choose to suffer about being right, rather than to choose to be happy. This 30-minute Buddhist guided meditation followed by a short Dharma talk is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'.
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March 13, 2020, Reflections on social distancing as a mindfulness practice, and as an opportunity to give ourselves the kind of attention that we’re so often seeking outside of ourselves & reflections on “letting go”.
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March 9, 2020. The Buddha teaches that we can get free. All of the ways we are causing our own suffering; clinging, aversion, self-centeredness, greed, hatred, delusion – our uneasiness – we have the capacity to stop creating suffering. This is the core of the Buddha’s teaching. It’s one of the most radical things, and it’s one of the things that sets him apart from almost all other traditions.
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March 2, 2020. The Buddha offered a teaching on the heart quality known as equanimity, a quality that balances generosity, compassion, and loving-kindness. Equanimity is the fourth Brahmavihārā, also known as The Wise Qualities Of The Heart.
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Feb 24, 2020 Appreciation balances compassion: We must acknowledge both the joys and sorrows in life. The practice of appreciation allows us to acknowledge the goodness and pleasure that exist side by side with the sorrows.
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Feb 17, 2020 Loving-kindness is a natural, eventual bi-product of mindfulness. Loving-kindness, as is often taught, would be considered a concentration meditation practice, because as we get into the meditation, we will be concentrating on repeating phrases and bringing intentional effort and energy to developing an attitude of mind with these words we will be using.
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Feb 10, 2020 Noah Levine Guided Meditation: How do we develop compassion? Compassion is totally natural on some level, and it’s somewhat foreign when it comes to meeting our own pain with tenderness, care, friendliness, our survival instinct when we feel pain, is to hate it. It’s radical to learn to tolerate it, to have empathy, mercy and compassion towards our own pain.
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Feb 3, 2020 Refuge in the Buddha gives us the roadmap to see things clearly. To be awake. To respond appropriately to life; with compassion, non-attachment, forgiveness, and not taking things so personally all the time. We take refuge in our own potential to do this, our own Buddha nature, and we take the action by practicing the Dharma.
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Jan 27, 2020 Guided Meditation: The Five Hinderances. Part 3, Chapter 1 of Noah Levine’s chapter by chapter journey through AGAINST THE STREAM; A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Noah Levine.
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Jan 20 2020 Guided Meditation: Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Part 2 of Noah Levine’s chapter by chapter journey through AGAINST THE STREAM; A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Noah Levine.
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Jan 17, 2020. Friday Nights on the Eastside with Noah Levine & Soma Snakeoil: The Monkey Mind. What happens when we get friendly with the mind no matter how weird things get?
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Jan 6, 2020. Who was the Buddha? Noah Levine begins a chapter by chapter journey through AGAINST THE STREAM; A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Noah Levine. You can read Part 1 of Chapter 1 of AGAINST THE STREAM on the blog page.
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Dec 23, 2019. Noah Levine Guided Meditation - The Buddha’s Teaching on the Highest Blessings
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Nov 11, 2019 Against The Stream is an American Buddhist lineage founded by Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx, Against the Stream, Heart of the Revolution and Refuge Recovery.
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Guided Meditation by Noah Levine on Right | Wise Concentration: THE NOBLE EIGHT FOLD PATH.
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Guided Meditation by Noah Levine on Right | Wise Effort: THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD.
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