Noah Levine

I'm just an ordinary person who couldn't sit still for an hour when she first signed up for a Vipassana retreat yet has benefitted tremendously from the simple and challenging practice.

The Buddha taught that life by its very nature is unsatisfactory, that some level of difficulty exists for all unenlightened beings in creation.

The first teachings the Buddha gave after his enlightenment were the four noble truths. This giving of the truths is often referred to as the setting in motion of the wheel of Dharma.

(con't from Part I) He sought out all of the spiritual masters of his time. He studied with several great Hindu masters and learned all of the practi...

I came to this path and perspective from a place of deep confusion and great suffering. These teachings are not theoretical or philosophical to me; th...

Against the Stream is more than just another blog about Buddhism. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the c...