Posts in Dharma Talk & Meditation
Beware of Teachers!: Noah Levine Dharma Talk & Meditation

Obviously we need to learn the practices that will reveal the truth to us—but that is all. A teacher’s role is only to point out the instructions and encourage students to do the work for themselves. A good teacher constantly empowers students to trust themselves, to train their minds, and to uncover their own heart’s wisdom. A good teacher is nothing more than a wise and caring friend who has traveled the terrain on which the students are now treading. The teacher can point out the pitfalls and detours of the path, but we each must do the walking for ourselves

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Defy the Lies: Noah Levine Dharma Talk and Meditation

We have all been seduced by the world’s enchanting offers of happiness through pleasure and accumulation, but they are lies, shams, fallacies. In order to find the true happiness and freedom that are available, we must understand this clearly. We must experience a revolution in our perception of the material world. Inside each one of us resides the truth; and however deeply buried or obscured that truth has become, we have the ability to uncover and experience it for ourselves— and happiness and freedom will follow.

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The Deathless: Defy The Lies

Defiance means standing up for what you know is right, rejecting patriarchal human dogma, and embracing the search for meaning with a steadfast engagement with reality. It means seeing clearly our mind’s fears and attachments as impersonal, conditioned phenomena and destroying the misidentification with the mind’s confusion. Beneath the confusion we will find the heart’s natural wisdom and compassion. The spiritual revolutionary defies both the internal and external forces of oppression.

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Noah Levine Dharma Talk and Meditation: Money $$$

Money is energy: we exert our energy in some sort of livelihood, and in exchange we are offered currency. In and of itself, money is nothing more than paper and metal to which societies have assigned great meaning. Yet it has become a necessity for most of us. We need money to survive in the modern world. Regrettably, the human tendencies toward greed and jealousy often turn money into a source of suffering.

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Noah Levine Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Loving-Kindness

The Practice and Application of Loving-Kindness. Free yourself from the unnecessary suffering of life and join the rebellion fueled not by hatred but by forgiveness, compassion, and kindness. In this Buddhist Dharma talk and guided meditation, Noah Levine will give a brief introduction talk on loving-kindness, then guide you through a 30-minute Buddhist loving kindness meditation, and then give a dharma talk on loving kindness based on his book, “Heart of the Revolution”.

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