Updates/Blogs
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Where's our Up to The Minute Updated Information ?
We mainly use our Buddha Blogs© to post our most Current Updates. . .
and to navigate to Class Updates, Retreats and some of the additional programs we offer –
Our Laughing Buddha Blog-pages are always a 'permanent' chaos in-process...
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_____________________________________________________________ -:¦:- Weekly MINDFULNESS MEDITATION SITTINGS Buddhist Theravada Vipassana Insight Meditation & Dharma Study The Laughing BUDDHA SANGHA RESOURCE-Site • Santa Monica Opening the "Iconoclastic-Mind" - Buddhism Without Any 'Beliefs' ! Outside~The~Box~Buddhism for a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest • Practice is Guided by Akasa Levi • Please Visit our Meditation Blog for All Class Updates and Upcoming Events & Retreats http://buddhistmindfulnessmeditation.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ -:¦:- Weekly ZEN MEN's Inner-Growth Groups Compassionately & Intelligently Explore a Man's Deeper Core Life-Issues ♦ "Yup, EVERY GUY COULD USE BEING IN A MEN’S GROUP at some time in his life" Guys learning to trust & support each other in making important life changes HONEST TALK • HEART-FELT LISTENING • MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK • STRONG FELLOWSHIP "Good Men Becoming Even Better Men !" Visit our Men's Blog http://zenmensgroup.blogspot.com/ we have a Mystic Women's Circle that is just forming... ________________________________________________________________ • Please make all inquiries by phone • Best phone times: Noon to 6pm, M-F 310-450-2268 – unfortuneately, emails do tend to get buried & we like to talk 'live'... ________________________________________________________________ -:¦:- The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD THERAPY & COUNSELING PROJECT
Buddhist-based: a more Alternative Approach to Relating with Your 'Self' & Others
Private One-to-One Individual Therapy -or- Relationship Counseling for Couples,
Marriages, Friendships & Workplaces. "Reaching Out to Reach Deeper In"
Befriending the Heart of the Mind to find the truly sane, loving & alive part of you !
Visit our Counseling Blog http://buddhistcounselingtherapy.blogspot.com/ Buddhism • a 2500 year mental wellness tradition. Mindful-Listening © |
“You take care of the Inside ~and~ the Inside will take care of the Outside” ~ The Tao |
♦ Our other Contact Information & 'Seva' Service Associations
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Please visit our 'Connectings' page ( 17 ) on main table of contents for very full Information, Links and some of our Service Associations What's there is ... • "How Can I Personally Be Helped?" You Can ! Other Laughing Buddha-Blogs are here. . . • Have QUESTIONS • QUESTIONS • QUESTIONS ? • and .. Where's UPDATED Current Information ? • "How Can I Personally Help?" Yes, You Can !
• some very good Humanitarian web-links here • and some much APPRECIATED ASSOCIATIONS • Retreat Centers: Regional & International • Other Local Sanghas & Meditation Sitting Groups • more empathy-based learning quotes • and a last rim-shot of Zen funnies – To Read more Right Here just Hand SCROLL DOWN ▼ or ~ click to go back to TABLE of CONTENTS |
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold ! ~ Service was Joy ! ~ Sri Rabindranath Tagor |
"Kindness" is more important than 'Wisdom' -
and the 'clear-recognition' of this -
IS the beginning of Wisdom." ~ Theodore Issac Rubin
"Can I Personally Be Helped?" Yes, You Certainly Can Be !
and if we can not – we'll offer you a direction, or a very good referral or resource
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♦ LITTLE or BIG HUGE QUESTIONS? or HESITATIONS? – FIRST-TIMER-NEWCOMER-BEGINNER
INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL QUESTIONS ? COMMENTS ? EXPERIENCES ? DOUBTS ? CONFUSIONS ? JOY ?
PROBLEMS ? HESITATIONS ? CONFIRMATIONS ? REALIZATIONS ? EPIPHANIES ? ANYTHING at all ?....
"Doubts & Hesitations" - Those too are ALL a major, major part of the 'Meditation' practice path".
We call it “THE PRACTICE of GREAT DOUBT” - from a Buddhist perspective, that's a very good thing !
We encourage you to examine & question absolutely everything! ( Not like other ‘religions’, huh ? )
Classes n' Retreats will also be fun ! We laugh a lot while deeply considering some serious issues
of ‘living’ & ‘dying’ & ‘existing’ & ‘suffering’ & ‘transcending’ the Ego-Life of the Mind. More Questions? –
Be very welcome to Phone us during the afternoons ( no emails please: if ya' new, it's really too detached )
Talk with us about anything spiritual or 'religious'. You can even run stuff by us. We'll tell ya' what we know –
– "just 'cause maybe we've been around the block a bit before you". Best phone times: Noon~6pm M/F
~ 310-450-2268 ~ Please, really don't hesitate to call. It's FREE.
"If they ask you where you heard that advice, tell 'em you bumped into the Rabbi on the street." ~ I.B.Singer
There is never any fee, no obligations at all for any meditation class-related topics or spiritual
issues. We’ll just help you figure it out, give you some pointers, or suggest a source here or elsewhere.
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“The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT” Healing the Spirit includes work of S.E.N.
( Spiritual Emergency-Emergence Network ) created at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
The Spiritual Adulthood Therapy & Counseling Project - 'Reaching Out, to Reach Deeper In'
~ is a Buddhist-based spiritual 'alternative' treatment-approach for the mind towards a wise and
compassionate-relating fully with yourself & others. http://buddhistcounselingtherapy.blogspot.com
We are an outreach-project of “The Laughing Buddha Sangha” Santa Monica, CA 90405
and we utilize the Mindfulness-based Insight practices and approaches that are offered
at Jack Kornfield's Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin, California. www.spiritrock.org
Should you wish to do an extended meditation retreat – a few days or a week or month – in
the beautiful rolling hills of Northern California with excellent accommodations.
Also, please go to SANGHA in section (11) on Table of Contents
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( 11 ) What is The SANGHA ? Spiritual Community 3 Jewels • Buddha • Dharma • Sangha • What is SANGHA ? – Non-Isolation & Open Sharing • Being Open to PRACTICE-SUPPORT? Nourishment? • Good Dharma-friends? • Satsang • Having a consistent ongoing meditation spiritual group(s) in your own life? |
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"Can I Personally Help?" Yes, Yes You Can !
See How ! Please visit our
'Connectings' page ( 17 )
on main table of contents for
very full Information, Links and
some of our Service Associations
The outspoken novelist Alice Walker – “The Color Purple” -said-
" Activism is my 'rent' for living on the planet – these days, the rent is always due ! " ––
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“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of that candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Generosity can bring happiness at every stage of its expression.
We experience joy in ‘forming the intention’ to be generous.
We experience joy in the ‘actual act of giving’ something.
And we experience joy in ‘remembering the fact’
that we have given or been given to...
Teach this triple truth to all:
A Generous Heart, Kind Speech, and a life of Service and
Compassion are the three things which renew humanity.”
~ The Buddha
" If there is any kindness I can show
or any good thing I can do for a fellow being -
Let me do it now - and not deter or neglect it –
as I may not pass this way again."
~ William Penn
"It is not how 'much' you do – but how much
Love you put into the 'doing' that matters.
People don't care how 'much' you know,
until they know how much you care."
~ Cavett Robert
Every man is guilty
of all that Good
he didn't do.
~ Voltaire – 1750
Our #1. Wish List Item: Mostly we're lookin' to welcome a volunteer 'Spirit' or a
Tech-angel who's a web-designer or web-master / blog mistress or meister with hands-on skills
and creative ideas – and that feels an odd-affinity for what we're about. You?
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PS: If you know someone else in your life who just may also benefit by our offerings, be very welcome to put them in phone contact with us. See "On Bringing a Friend" Go to Table of Contents see section... ( 13 ) The Big DETAILS on Evening Programs This is a much fuller version than the Brief Summary. Please try n’ inquire only by phone: 310-450-2268 Emails to us tend to get lost in the stack, the phone is still really the best. Best phone-time Noon to 6pm, Mon-Fri – or leave a Voice Mail if we don't pick-up. If you wish to leave your email address, speak slowly, clearly, then we can email Directions to you. Let's really talk n' see if this 'odd' class is even possibly for you. Be most welcome . . . maybe we'll C Ya' |
When you can create the 'reading-time', go to the Table of Contents – and choose the much more expanded full sections to read on 'Meditation' ~ and about 'Buddhist Thought' ~ that may be very 'enlightening' for you as to what some of 'Buddhism' is really about. Some surprising stuff ! It may be very helpful for your in-depth or overall understanding - as your relationship with Buddhist Practice begins to develop. BTW: None of this big site's readings are required or necessary for attending our Weekly Meditation classes. None of it is to be 'believed'. Read steady - or graze just what you want to, in any order that flows for you . . . enjoy |
“ May you and I and all beings live with a peaceful loving heart
and enjoy a healthy, happy body and mind ! “
" I love you, gentlest of Ways –
you who ripened us ...
as we wrestled with you."
~ Rainer Rilke
Mindfully Awakening the Compassionate-Insight Naturally Deep Within Us All
The Laughing Buddha Sangha ♦ Resource-site
BUDDHIST VIPASSANA INSIGHT MEDITATION & DHARMA Study with Akasa Levi
Traditional Buddhist Theravada Lineage-based Practice of Satipatthana Vipassana • The Presence of Mindfulness
The Laughing BUDDHA SANGHA • Buddhist Insight Meditation Instruction at The “BUDDHISM” Class
The LAUGHING BUDDHA MEN's LODGE • The ZEN-MEN's Inner-Growth Groups & Wisdom-Elder Council
The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT • Buddhist-based Therapy • Relationship & Couples Counseling
310-450-2268 • 2046 14th Street • Santa Monica • CA 90405 • AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com
Akasa Levi, DhMA ( D.Min ) trail guide & study-mentor • The Left Coast Buddhist Center
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There's a whole lot of Bodhi.chitta
'Connectings' on page ( 17 )
up at the MAIN Table of Contents