Against The Stream

By Noah LevineHealth & Fitness Mental Health Religion & Spirituality Education Self-Improvement Buddhism

Against The Stream episodes

January 08, 2022 We're Here to Awaken with Noah Levine
Dec 27, 2021
From a Buddhist perspective, we're here to heal. We're here to awaken. We're here to experience freedom, and with that freedom, create a positive change. With that freedom we help others be compassionate, be generous, be of service. And from that perspective, everything is an opportunity for your own liberation.

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1 hr 28 min
December 27, 2021 Practicing Buddhism with Noah Levine
Dec 20, 2021
Everyone's welcome here. You don't have to be a Buddhist to participate here at Against The Stream. I very intentionally haven't secularized Buddhism, and kind of pretended like it's not a religion, like a lot of meditation centers and Buddhist communities do. We kind of pretend like Buddhism, isn't a religion and that we're just doing mindfulness. So is it a religion? Is it religion to you? Is it your religion? Are you a Buddhist, or are you practicing Buddhism? I don't think it's very important to take on the label of being a Buddhist. And so it's a sort of an interesting question. I don't think it's important, but I do think it's interesting to just watch your own mind around. Can I have this label on me? At the end of the day - if you're practicing mindfulness, you're practicing Buddhism.

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1 hr 23 min
December 17, 2021 Generosity with Noah Levine
Dec 13, 2021
Reflect on your feelings around generosity?
Is it easier for you to give or receive? Sometimes the vulnerability of accepting or receiving generosity can feel very unpleasant. Meditation can be an act of giving and receiving. In meditation, we give our full attention to our moment to moment experience, while receiving all of the emotions that can arise from that attention.

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1 hr 28 min
December 16, 2021 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 the 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.
1 hr 29 min
December 04, 2021 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
1 hr 25 min
November 30, 2021 Acceptance with Noah Levine
What do you find unacceptable? Acceptance is not the same as complacency. The more mindful we are, the more we can see that everything is constantly changing. Understanding with wisdom that everything is impermanent and accepting this is the reality.
1 hr 22 min
November 26, 2021 Live Dharma Q&A with Noah Levine
It's not going to work, but go for it anyway. Live Dharma Q&A with Noah Levine
1 hr 28 min
November 15, 2021 Learning to be at Peace in Neutrality with Noah Levine
Learning to be at peace in neutrality typically means learning to be bored. Our relationship to boredom and neutrality are often the same.
When things are neither pleasant or unpleasant we sit in neutrality.
It can be easy to identify your relationship to pain and pleasure, but what is your relationship to neutrality?When things are neither pleasant or unpleasant we sit in neutrality.
It can be easy to identify your relationship to pain and pleasure, but what is your relationship to neutrality?
1 hr 29 min
November 15, 2021 The Path to Freedom: Mindfulness with Jason Murphy
The Eight Fold Path to Freedom:
Mindfulness of the Breath
1 hr 22 min
November 15, 2021 Who dies; A Contemplation of Death Practice with Jason Murphy
We all die. The Buddhist view on death.
30-minute guided meditation and dharma talk with Jason Murphy at Against The Stream, Venice, CA.
1 hr 15 min

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Dharma talks and guided meditations at Against The Stream Meditation Center. Against The Stream is an American Buddhist lineage founded by Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx, Against the Stream, Heart…