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Wise Habits Reminders

027: Noah Levine (Against the Stream)

May 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Noah Levine- The One you Feed

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This week on The One You Feed we have Noah Levine.

We were lucky enough to sit down with Noah in the Against the Stream headquarters in Los Angeles. Noah’s teachings are core to everything that I have come to believe over the years. I’m really excited to present this interview.

Noah Levine (born 1971) is an American Buddhist teacher and the author of the books Dharma Punx: A Memoir , Against the Stream,  and The Heart of The Revolution. As a counselor known for his philosophical alignment with Buddhism and punk ideology, he founded Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. 

As a youth, Levine was incarcerated several times. His first book, Dharma Punx, details teenage years filled with drugs, violence, and multiple suicide attempts—choices fuelled by disillusionment with American mainstream culture. His substance abuse started early in life—at age six he began smoking marijuana—and finally ended in a padded detoxification cell in juvenile prison 11 years later. It was in this cell where he hit “an emotional rock bottom” and began his Buddhist practice “out of a place of extreme drug addiction and violence”.

He recently started Refuge Recovery which is a community of people who are using the practices of mindfulness, compassion, forgiveness and generosity to heal the pain and suffering that addiction has caused. His new book is titled Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovery from Addiction.

In This Interview Noah and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • How he found Buddhism through his life failures.
  • What “going against the stream” means.
  • That the bad wolf has a stronger tendency in us and wins by default.
  • How our capacity for kindness, generosity, and love have to be cultivated.
  • Why the path of the Buddha is revolutionary.
  • Going against the status quo.
  • How to be in the world but not of it.
  • The distinction between suffering and pain.
  • The difference between craving and desire.
  • Why suffering is not your fault.
  • How the 1st Noble Truth normalizes the experience of suffering.
  • The impermanent nature of all things.
  • How we can never satisfy happiness through sense pleasure.
  • How we layer suffering on top of our pain.
  • Not asking “why” but instead asking “how do I respond”
  • Meeting pain with compassion and kindness.
  • Learning to include ourselves in our circle of compassion.
  • The crippling power of doubt in our growth.
  • The gradual nature of spiritual growth.
  • How sometimes the first things we find in our spiritual practice is the bad stuff.
  • His new program, Refuge Recovery.

Noah Levine Links

Against the Stream homepage

Against the Stream audio archives

Noah Levine Homepage

Noah Levine Amazon Author Page

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