" Teachers and Teachings
only do but point The Way >>>
'The Journey' Itself - is All Yours." ~ said The Buddha
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Akasa-Maitreya Levi, DhMA / D.Min
SUNY Harpur College / Binghamton University, New York –
an ex-pat American of the Sixties counter-culture generation
that went to live a full decade in Asia during the 1970s - to be
directly with the last living spiritual teachers of the pre-global era.
Akasa was a Vipassana Buddhist forest monk for six years – trained
and ordained into the Theravada monastic lineage by the revered
Bhante Ananda Maitreya, the Amarapura Maha Nayake of Sri Lanka -
and by his leading disciple Kassapa Maha Thera.
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Originally arriving overland, hitch-hiking to India in 1972 as a filmmaker
and student of the Gurdjieff 'Work' -- Akasa became a Vajrayana initiate
of Gelugpa Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery
in Nepal – later, a Vipassana student of Sri Anagarika Munindra and Goenka,
and sitting Zazen with Subhuti Shibuya Sensei: all in Bodhgaya, India – and
practicing Non-Duality Advaita in satsang with Nisargadatta Maharaj in Bombay.
He is so very grateful for the gift of these long ’practice’ experiences. Some
of the 'transmissions' stuck.
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Akasa studied Western analytic therapy at UCLA after returning to America.
Akasa studied Western analytic therapy at UCLA after returning to America.
He teaches Mindfulness Insight-Meditation at The Laughing Buddha Sangha -
and leads ZEN•MEN inner-growth groups - and also offers individual therapy
and couples counseling sessions at The Spiritual Adulthood Project. Akasa is
a 'Bodhi-Acharya' lineage-holder of the Theravada teaching-transmission.
a 'Bodhi-Acharya' lineage-holder of the Theravada teaching-transmission.
He is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth and wry unpredictable humor.
When I see I am Nothing – that is Wisdom.
When I see I am Everything – that is Love.
And between these two, my life flows . . . ~ Nisargadatta
AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com ... 310-450-2268
When I see I am Everything – that is Love.
And between these two, my life flows . . . ~ Nisargadatta
AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com ... 310-450-2268