Holiday Bonus Re-Issue: Noah Levine- Meditation, Suffering and Mindfulness

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Eric from the one you feed. Happy holidays to you. Whether you enjoy them or you hate them,
0:05.7	I hope you're making the best of them. As a holiday gift and as preparation for the new year, we are
0:12.3	re-releasing seven of the older episodes. If you're new to the show, all these episodes are over a year
0:19.9	old, so you may not have heard these yet if you've only been listening for a year. I pick the episodes
0:26.4	because either A, I think it's a really great episode, or B, I think it talks about behavior change,
0:32.5	which we're heading into the new year and that's on a lot of people's mind. Speaking of which,
0:37.6	we are going to try something this new year. We're going to try the first one you feed group
0:43.9	transformation program. It'll be $100 for a month. We're going to limit it to 10 people. We will
0:50.7	meet online four times that month. We'll discuss tips and tricks and different ways to ensure that
0:56.8	you stay on track behavior wise. You'll be able to ask questions of me and we'll do some things where
1:02.4	you're paired up as a group so that you can get some support outside of the calls as well to make
1:07.2	sure you get the new year off to a great start. So if you're interested, just send an email to me,
1:12.2	Eric at oneufeed.net. I hope you enjoy these episodes. I'd listen to back to a couple of them and
1:18.6	let's just leave it at we are getting better at what we do. In the very first one, I sound very
1:26.4	nervous and I was. Anyway, it's still a great interview. Enjoy these. Have a happy new year. Thank
1:34.7	you for listening and we will talk to you soon. Bye. It's actually quite normal to feed the bad wolf.
1:41.9	That's actually the norm that our body and our world and our society is based on these sort of
1:47.2	greed hatred delusion tendencies. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers
2:01.2	have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or
2:07.2	you are what you think, ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower
2:14.1	us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what
2:20.8	we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,
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