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THE LAUGHING BUDDHA SANGHA
nourishing an iconoclast intelligence
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W i n t e r 2012-2013 !
.Tuesday Nite Meditation Class
Warm Laughter on a Chilly Winter's Eve...
.*T U E S D A Y S !
Santa Monica 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Begin MEDITATION on Any TUESDAY.
Come Sit Down with us to 'Practice' Meditation
Come Sit Down with us to 'Practice' Meditation
For both Beginners or those more experienced.
Weekly Tuesday Ongoing Open Meditation Class
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• Buddhist 'Mindfulness-Awakening' Meditation Class
• Dharma Discussion and Wisdom-Understanding Study
• Deep Inner-Observation Mindfulness 'Process'-Work
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If You Do Want to Attend:
Please phone or email ahead. Let us know you're coming.
Space gets limited… Come on ANY Tuesday...
See if this could work for you, your heart and your intellect.
FYI ~ Nothing in our classes is ever ‘required’ of you !
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FYI ~ Nothing in our classes is ever ‘required’ of you !
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This practice-group encourages highly inquisitive, unruffled,
curious people with a natural, deep love of learning –
who invite and even relish the profoundly abstract,
and even the absurd – with a genuine taste for
the indefinable 'existential' stuff.
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Santa Monica 90405 ~ near Santa Monica College.
Contact: the best phone-times to catch someone 'live'
for a phone inquiry: Noon to 5pm – Monday / Friday.
Class-Fee, Teacher-profile - Go to side-bar section # 5 – It's all there !
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ALL DETAILS, Location DIRECTIONS, also What to Bring,
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" Learning 'INNER-STILLNESS' Itself !
That's what really Awakens
Your Deep Radiant Heart
That's what really Awakens
Your Deep Radiant Heart
of Natural Grace, Compassion and Wisdom."
And that's really all it's ever, ever been about !
" INNER-STILLNESS has now silenced the noise of Fear. "
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BUDDHIST MEDITATION develops A Quieter Mind
Simply The Power of Much Much More Inner-Silence
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Weekly Tuesday Classes are very suitable
for both BEGINNERS -or- even
mediators with more experience.
And you may be a more 'experienced meditator' who is now seeking
a deeper questioning into the 'Idea of a Self' - and a more de-mystifying,
open-minded, caring 'conversation' into Wisdom, Empathy and what is
Spiritual 'Reality' in our Western life-style today + poetry, and laughing!
Yet our modern, eclectic practice is still well informed by the unembellished,
ancient, original Theravada Buddha Dharma for clarity of view.
.In these very troubled times -
meditation can really help !
*Friends, in these very troubled times we're in . . .
We're very sincerely serious about encouraging you to take up a beginning
meditation practice -or- to bravely continue the challenge of your current practice –
with a full measure of renewed good-hearted faith and confidence ~ either way,
please just do some sort of Meditation-practice, here or somewhere else –
as a potent 'preventative', or as a compassionate 'adjunct' to your other heath
and healing work, or as a wise, resilient 'antidote vaccine' ... and at last,
there is now a very rapidly growing national-trend towards
a secular 'mindfulness' meditation.
Hooray !
please just do some sort of Meditation-practice, here or somewhere else –
as a potent 'preventative', or as a compassionate 'adjunct' to your other heath
and healing work, or as a wise, resilient 'antidote vaccine' ... and at last,
there is now a very rapidly growing national-trend towards
a secular 'mindfulness' meditation.
Hooray !
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We are ALL Newcomers to these
'American-style' Spiritual Journeys,
these Pilgrimages of Holy Shopping that we seem to be nationally on -
- sort of our own self-styled 'Fumbling Towards Enlightenment'. . .
and for sure, awkwardly at times. So Be Aware of your spiritual-longings,
your notions, projections, and especially any of your impatient 'expectations'
that you may experience - even about our little class and it's
'American-style' Spiritual Journeys,
these Pilgrimages of Holy Shopping that we seem to be nationally on -
- sort of our own self-styled 'Fumbling Towards Enlightenment'. . .
and for sure, awkwardly at times. So Be Aware of your spiritual-longings,
your notions, projections, and especially any of your impatient 'expectations'
that you may experience - even about our little class and it's
sorta' eccentric teacher.
.Be Very Welcome to come begin the practice of Insight Meditation,
and stumble along with us for awhile... we all have "Beginners Mind" !
'Inner-Liberation' is a very long road - and we'll help you find and discover
your own way through the beginner's spiritual notions and 'fascinations'
with all these newly-emerging 'Spiritual'-technologies in the West.
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.Be Very Welcome to come begin the practice of Insight Meditation,
and stumble along with us for awhile... we all have "Beginners Mind" !
'Inner-Liberation' is a very long road - and we'll help you find and discover
your own way through the beginner's spiritual notions and 'fascinations'
with all these newly-emerging 'Spiritual'-technologies in the West.
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PROGRAM Notes – for the Tuesday Open Class
.Come on ANY Tuesday... at least for a one-time visit ~
to see if it could work for you, your heart and your intellect.
• Buddhist Awareness Mindfulness Meditation Class
• Dharma Discussion and Wisdom-Understanding Study
• Deep Inner-Observation Mindfulness 'Process'-Work
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OPEN CLASS: 7:30pm - 9:30pm - Tuesday Evenings Include:
– Newcomer's Instruction – 30 to 45 min. Silent Meditation – 'after-sit' pointers
– Dharma Discourse and Theory-Study with lots of Satsang group interaction
– Q&A - plenty of opportunities, lively Dialogue and absurd Laughing
– Metta-style 'Loving-Kindness' meditation or sacred poetry to conclude
• The Big BOOK - "A Path With Heart" by Jack Kornfield
is our only 'recommended' text for current class study
+ plus some optional, FREE online readings.
FYI ~ Nothing in our class is ever ‘required’ of you !
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• RSVP ~ important: please email or phone-ahead...
Only for the first time to let us know you're coming... thanks
AkasaLevi@msn.com ~ 310-450-2268
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• NEWCOMER'S 'Optional Class' ~ please ask about it....
All Beginners are also welcome to try a
'Dedicated Optional 6-Week Practice-Class'
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You will be very patiently guided and gently coached
during your whole course. Class is also once a week.
( more on this at the above site )
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♦ Sure guys,
Taking up a New Meditation Practice and sticking with it,
takes a little bit of some dedicated WORK ! . . . .
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Yet, the long-time, long-term, long-range results
are so peacefully, quietly worth it..
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" Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger the wind ~ the stronger the trees." ~ Willard Marriot
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HESITATIONS get in the Way ?. . .
GOT INNER-DIALOGUE ? BIG DOUBTS ? CONFUSIONS ?
OPINIONS ? HESITATIONS ? UNCERTAINTY ? GOT QUESTIONS ? ...
ANYTHING at all ?... Ask ! CLASSES ARE HERE FOR QUESTIONS !!!
and 'Spiritual-Questions' make it all the more juicy !
We teach an open and very easy-going permissive approach
to Buddhist meditation as well as all facets of 'spirituality'...
Taking up a New Meditation Practice and sticking with it,
takes a little bit of some dedicated WORK ! . . . .
.
Yet, the long-time, long-term, long-range results
are so peacefully, quietly worth it..
.
" Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger the wind ~ the stronger the trees." ~ Willard Marriot
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HESITATIONS get in the Way ?. . .
GOT INNER-DIALOGUE ? BIG DOUBTS ? CONFUSIONS ?
OPINIONS ? HESITATIONS ? UNCERTAINTY ? GOT QUESTIONS ? ...
ANYTHING at all ?... Ask ! CLASSES ARE HERE FOR QUESTIONS !!!
and 'Spiritual-Questions' make it all the more juicy !
We teach an open and very easy-going permissive approach
to Buddhist meditation as well as all facets of 'spirituality'...
" The Greatest Risk Is Not Taking One "
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Q. GOT LITTLE or BIG HUGE QUESTIONS ?
Email or Phone us, it's no bother. Ask away !
AkasaLevi@msn.com ~ 310-450-2268
Peruse and continue to read on this site for awhile...
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Are You a BEGINNER-NEWCOMER-or EXPERIENCED ?
Have INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL QUESTIONS ? Stalled ?
Having Journeying DIFFICULTIES on "THE QUEST" ?
Have COMMENTS ? EXPERIENCES ? DOUBTS ?
CONFUSIONS ? GOOD CONFIRMATIONS ? JOY ?
INTUITIVE REALIZATIONS ? EPIPHANIES ?.... So ASK !
Are You a BEGINNER-NEWCOMER-or EXPERIENCED ?
Have INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL QUESTIONS ? Stalled ?
Having Journeying DIFFICULTIES on "THE QUEST" ?
Have COMMENTS ? EXPERIENCES ? DOUBTS ?
CONFUSIONS ? GOOD CONFIRMATIONS ? JOY ?
INTUITIVE REALIZATIONS ? EPIPHANIES ?.... So ASK !
" While one person hesitates
because they 'feel' inferior
because they 'feel' inferior
and 'think' insecure thoughts –
the other person is just busy
making mistakes a p l e n t y –
the other person is just busy
making mistakes a p l e n t y –
and becoming quite superior " ~ The Tao
" In this very Open Meditation-style,
absolutely Everything you ‘experience’
is 'Mindfully Observed'
right in the meditation itself.
Then what is the meditation ?
‘EVERYTHNG’ is the meditation –
That's it, – it's just THAT ! . . .
'Knowing' the "What Is" -- Just As It Is . . .
is a pivotal, basic, yet quite advanced level
of comprehension you'll gradually acquire." ~ Billy Bo Sat
__________________________________absolutely Everything you ‘experience’
is 'Mindfully Observed'
right in the meditation itself.
Then what is the meditation ?
‘EVERYTHNG’ is the meditation –
That's it, – it's just THAT ! . . .
'Knowing' the "What Is" -- Just As It Is . . .
is a pivotal, basic, yet quite advanced level
of comprehension you'll gradually acquire." ~ Billy Bo Sat
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Make it a regular 'Favorite' ~ SAVE these sites
and read them in little chunks, sorta graze around -
or just simply continue to read right here ...and enjoy !
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• TOO MUCH Reading ? – Uh-Oh !
Hey, if this Big chunky chatty site seems like much too much reading
– well then, please read only some parts and pieces of this, or
ponder & graze a lot, think and read very slowly – slow is good !
ponder & graze a lot, think and read very slowly – slow is good !
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• BTW ~ more reading. . . . if you really DO like to read –
please go to our bigger Archive-site at some other time:
please go to our bigger Archive-site at some other time:
There's a hefty bunch of very interesting Buddhist articles,
more poetry and wisdom readings.
more poetry and wisdom readings.
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• ALL DETAILS, Location DIRECTIONS, also What to Bring
and Class-Fee, Teacher-profile…
go to side-bar section # 5 . . . It's all there !
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go to side-bar section # 5 . . . It's all there !
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• Daylong and Workshop Retreats are on a separate emailing:
To be on that E-List - Send us an 'email-reply' Subject-bar put ADD.
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• Burning QUESTIONS ? Phone us, it's no bother. Ask away !
310-450-2268 or better, if appropriate, let's bring it up during class....
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"80% of Success Is Just Showing Up." ~ Woody Allen
Maybe we'll C Ya' at Your First Tuesday Class... ~ Akasa
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Also see these sites below for more info,
Dharma-study classes, group-work or private visits
Dharma-study classes, group-work or private visits
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to CONTACT us:
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The LAUGHING BUDDHA SANGHA ~ Weekly MEDITATION CLASSES
-:¦:- Vipassana Mindfulness with Akasa Levi ~ Tuesdays 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
..... AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com ~ best phone time: Noon to 6 pm 310-450-2268
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A Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest with Buddhist Insight Meditation
Nourishing an Iconoclast Intelligence and A Good-Hearted Mind
" What is accepted by the majority of people
~ does not mean it is Real." ~ The Buddha
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..... Buddhist-based, more Alternative Approach to Relating with Your "Self"
..... Individual One-On-One Therapy & Relationship Counseling for Couples,
..... Marriages, Friendships & Workplace "Reaching Out to Reach Deep In"
..... http://buddhistcounselingtherapy.blogspot.com/ ( free phone consult )
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" BE the changes you want to see in the world." ~ Gandhi
PLEASE REMEMBER . . .
Taking up a New Meditation Practice and sticking with it, is Work !
Yet the long-time, long-range results are so peacefully, quietly worth it.
Taking up a New Meditation Practice and sticking with it, is Work !
Yet the long-time, long-range results are so peacefully, quietly worth it.
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BUDDHIST MEDITATION:
Simply The Power of Much More Inner-Silence
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