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Noah Levine is someone whose name I was familiar with long before I had the opportunity to record with him last fall in Los Angeles. I\u2019d been intrigued by his story. He was someone from my own generation, 20 or 30 years younger than the most prominent American-born Buddhist teachers. He had a punk sensibility and a made-for-movies backstory of anguished teen years filled with drug use, incarceration, and suicide attempts\u2014all chronicled in his first book Dharma Punx<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Through Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society<\/a>, which he founded, Noah has worked to bring the dharma to inner city youths, prisoners, and many others. With his shaved head and tattooed torso featuring a giant OM symbol over the heart, he seemed like the quintessential outsider.<\/p>\n

Yes, he was also an insider, inheriting a rich lineage through his father, Stephen Levine<\/a> and his teacher Jack Kornfield<\/a>. As I headed west for our recording, I wondered how those two strands would weave together.<\/p>\n

Effortlessly, as it turns out. Noah\u2019s desire to make the tools of meditation available to all certainly stems from his own experience as an outsider, and the sense of rebellion that fueled his teen years has not diminished\u2014but now it\u2019s turned inward, toward an inner revolution whose goal is ultimate freedom.<\/p>\n

His teachings\u2014especially on lovingkindness practice and what he terms \u201ckind awareness\u201d\u2014fall squarely within the tradition, but have a flavor and energy that I find really resonate for me.<\/p>\n

My usual meditation practice, such as it is, is simply to sit and see what arises. The more formal structure of lovingkindness practice took me a little while to get used to, but, while editing the program I recorded with Noah last fall\u2014Kind Awareness: Guided Meditations for an Inner Revolution<\/i>\u2014I took time to work with all the guided practices, and I found them to be extraordinarily powerful.<\/p>\n

In particular, I was moved by the practice of asking for forgiveness from those I\u2019ve harmed, and in turning compassionate acceptance toward myself. Doing so, I discovered a tenderness just beneath the surface\u2014one that, when I softened, brought me to a new sense of openness and quietude. If you haven\u2019t done a guided lovingkindness practice recently, give it a try\u2014especially if you ever find your meditation practice becoming dry or detached. There\u2019s an emotional sweetness to be found here\u2014right on the other side of our vulnerability.<\/p>\n

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