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Practicing Buddhism with Noah Levine

Mindfulness starts to reveal to us that it's not so much what's happening as how we are relating to what's happening. Mindfulness reveals the impermanent, the unreliable or unsatisfactory and the impersonal. Buddhism says, if you are mindful, if you practice, if you follow this path, you can come to a place of non suffering. Freedom, from the definition of Nirvana of enlightenment, is that you can be free from suffering in this lifetime.

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Generosity with Noah Levine

Mindfulness starts to reveal to us that it's not so much what's happening as how we are relating to what's happening. Mindfulness reveals the impermanent, the unreliable or unsatisfactory and the impersonal. Buddhism says, if you are mindful, if you practice, if you follow this path, you can come to a place of non suffering. Freedom, from the definition of Nirvana of enlightenment, is that you can be free from suffering in this lifetime.

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Mindfulness with Noah Levine

Mindfulness starts to reveal to us that it's not so much what's happening as how we are relating to what's happening. Mindfulness reveals the impermanent, the unreliable or unsatisfactory and the impersonal. Buddhism says, if you are mindful, if you practice, if you follow this path, you can come to a place of non suffering. Freedom, from the definition of Nirvana of enlightenment, is that you can be free from suffering in this lifetime.

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The Five Precepts with Noah Levine

We can end suffering in this lifetime with our own efforts, but the meditation practice is only one part of this path to freedom.

The Five Precepts: 1. Abstain form taking life 2. Abstain from taking what is not given 3. Abstain from sexual misconduct 4. Abstain from lying or harmful speech 5. Abstain from drugs and alcohol

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Forgiveness with Noah Levine

How to cultivate a mind that is forgiving.

I forgive you not because you deserve it or don't deserve it, but because I don't want to hold on to the suffering of hatred. I do it for my own happiness. I forgive you, as much as I can in this moment, whether it was intentional or unintentional.

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Pleasure and Pain with Noah Levine

The Buddha. As he discovered mindfulness and really started to investigate his own direct experience, he saw everything perceived as, “pleasant and unpleasant and neutral” But, we have this instinctual craving - drive - to cling to the pleasure; to want it to feel good. And we don't have much built-in tolerance for pain. We have aversion. We have resistance to pain.

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