Against The Stream

Oct 28 2024 100 ep. 83 mins 232

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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 of the Revolution and Refuge Recovery.

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The Great Physician with Noah Levine

Oct 28 2024 81 mins

I'm going to talk about this perspective that the Buddha is referred to as the great physician. That Buddhism is medicine to heal and treat the human condition. The First Noble Truth, the suffering of the human condition, and that it can be treated.

Inquiry & Questioning with Noah Levine

Oct 24 2024 82 mins

Tonight, I'm going to talk about the Buddhists emphasis on inquiry and questioning. I don't know exactly where the talk will go, but I want to bring up the importance of questioning, questioning your own mind, questioning your own views and opinions. Questioning society's views and opinions, questioning religion, questioning teachers. I feel like Buddhism maybe one of the few relig

Loving Kindness with Noah Levine

Oct 14 2024 88 mins

My topic for tonight, what I've been thinking about today, and what I want to talk about in the meditation, we're going to do loving kindness. The Buddhist word is metta, loving kindness meditation. It's going to be about how we treat ourselves, how we feel about ourselves.

No Topic with Noah Levine

Oct 07 2024 89 mins

I don't have a topic for you tonight, but I'd like to encourage you to just, introduce yourself to some people that you don't know yet and take a couple minutes to meet some new folks.

Enlightenment with Noah Levine

Sep 30 2024 76 mins

The topic tonight is enlightenment, awakening and liberation. The big picture, the big promise of Buddhism. The third noble truth, the end of suffering is possible in this life. You can become a Arahant, a fully awakened being in this life, if you want to. If you're willing to do the work is the teaching of the Buddha. How enlightened do you want to be? How free do you want to be?

Suffering with Noah Levine

Sep 23 2024 89 mins

I'm going to talk a lot tonight about suffering because that's what we do in Buddhism. We talk about suffering and the causes of suffering and how to end suffering… or try to end suffering. What is your favorite thing to suffer about? What do you cling to?

36th Anniversary with Noah Levine

Sep 09 2024 87 mins

Instead of giving a lecture tonight, I'm going to reflect on some of the changes that I've noticed over these last 36 years of practice and reflect a little bit on that. How my process has unfolded in a very personal way. What changes have you seen with your practice? What kind of progress have you seen? How has it helped you?

6 Realms of Existence with Noah Levine

Sep 02 2024 95 mins

So I was going to do the six realms of existence tonight. Buddhist cosmology. I'm going to take it from both a cosmological as well as a psychological perspective. Before telling you what the six realms are, for the small groups, what I'd like you to talk about with each other is your own views, your own opinions, your own perspectives. Do you believe, do you think, are you open to

Innate Personality Tendencies with Noah Levine

Aug 26 2024 87 mins

I'm going to talk tonight about a combination of some of the Buddhist teachings about our innate personality tendencies. I'm also going to talk about some of the ways that maybe we are perceived and tend to behave in the world.

Sense Pleasures with Noah Levine

Aug 24 2024 79 mins

I often find it a little bit of a dilemma to be a householder Buddhist. To be following these teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who was a renunciate, who was a celibate monk. This topic of pleasure and indulgence I find it a little bit of a dilemma that a lot of my teachers who are monks, are choosing this path of celibacy, renunciation and simplicity. They're not indulg