“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.” — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Actually a solution & a path to personal freedom. My own life's experience w/ both Dharma practice & punk rock inspired me to try… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Loving-kindness is the experience of having a friendly and loving relationship toward ourselves as well as all others. The experience of sending loving-kindness toward… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings… — noah levine Copy Share Image
“An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.” — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion, in a… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable. — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering & the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
