Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering.… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.” — Noah Levine Copy Share
“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
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
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
We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable. — Noah Levine Copy Share
“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
“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
