Reconnecting with the sangha to celebrate the unity of having suffered isolation alone together.
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Compassion: The Path to Freedom
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Reflecting on how incredibly radical this proposal is; the Buddha’s proposal that we can be at ease, we can be at peace, we can be free from suffering no matter what is happening.
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May 19, 2020 Nothing must be accepted on blind faith.
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Mindfulness dharma talk with Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx, Against the Stream, Heart of the Revolution and Refuge Recovery.
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May 12, 2020 For a real revolution to take place, our spiritual life and practice have to be so much more than just getting our ass on the meditation cushion for a period of time each day
Our sitting meditation is only the formal training period in our spiritual life.
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The Buddha – in the Satipatthana; translated as the word for mindfulness - the four foundations, levels, the four aspects we are mindful of; the body, the feeling tone – pleasant, unpleasant neutral perception of all sensations in the body, the mind – turning towards our mind, the truth of your experience and the experience of awakened factors, “Sukha”, the happiness, joy and pleasure that comes from our meditation; the spiritual experiences coming from our own heart and mind
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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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Breaking our addiction to our minds. Do you consider yourself a thinking addict? How often are you drawn into thought you don’t really want to be thinking? Identified with those voices in our head that are not wise, are not friendly, are not compassionate?
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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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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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The Buddha’s teaching our quite clear; he only teaches the truth of human suffering, what causes our suffering, our happiness, and a method, a technique, an experience that leads to the end of suffering.
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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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No where to go. Nothing to do. No one to be. How do we bring mindfulness into all aspects of our being, of our activities? One of the core traditional ways we get the training off of the cushion and into activity, is walking meditation.
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Of all of the energies that we experience, the Buddha spoke of sexual desire as being the strongest. When we practice mindfulness and allow sexual energy to be the object of awareness, rather than allowing ourselves to be a slave to the libido’s every request, we begin to relate to sexuality rather than from it.
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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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From Chiang Mai Thailand: Noah Levine Dharma Talk Guided Meditation.
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The Brahmavihārās | Heart Practices are a series of four Buddhist virtues: 1. Loving-kindness or benevolence (metta) 2. Compassion (karuna) 3. Empathetic joy (mudita) 4. Equanimity (upekkha)
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The Brahmavihārās | Heart Practices are a series of four Buddhist virtues:
1. Loving-kindness or benevolence (metta) 2. Compassion (karuna) 3. Empathetic joy (mudita) 4. Equanimity (upekkha)
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Dharma Talk & Guided Meditation by Noah Levine on Equanimity: The Brahmavihārās | Heart Practices
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