"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. His Against the Stream meditation centers appealed to many people who are not easily reached by more traditional Buddhist programs. (July)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. With a body covered in tattoos, Noah Levine, the American author of Dharma Punx,is not your typical Buddhist teacher. You can view the live stream (if it's active) at. Whether the book is about a revolutionary way of life is arguable, but it is an honest book-what Buddhists would call right speech-driven by right intention. Dharma Talks by Noah Levine and other teachers filmed at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society in Los Angeles.
Levine's no-frills approach makes this a short book that will be accessible for young adults with little or no experience of Buddhism. An appendix includes to-the-point instructions for a variety of meditations that relate to essential Buddhist qualities and ideas. Considering there's a lot of Buddhism here, the book is free of a lot of Buddhist-speak. Levine has taken the Buddha's teachings to heart-he would call it heart-mind-and clearly returns to such central ideas as impermanence and suffering, giving his thinking simplicity and consistency.
He writes about the challenge of celibacy, for example, a different kind of difficulty than that posed by intimate relationships. The compelling personal narrative may be gone, but the disarming, frank tone that made the first book persuasive remains. In this book he presents what he has learned about and through Buddhism. Having escaped juvenile hall and drug addiction through the slow discipline of Buddhist practices, the son of Buddhist author Stephen Levine is now a spiritual teacher. Levine's first book, Dharma Punx, was the autobiography of a young hell-raiser.
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