Service - August 2025 with Noah Levine

Service, in essence, addresses the topic of selfishness and self-centeredness—and how we might free ourselves from these patterns. From a Buddhist perspective, self-centeredness and related states like self-cherishing or self-hatred are not personal failings, but aspects of the human condition. None of us chose to have minds preoccupied with themselves; it arises from our survival instincts.

This self-focus often leads to unnecessary stress and suffering. One direct antidote is the act of helping others—being of service. In mutual help or peer-led recovery groups like Refuge Recovery, service is woven into the fabric of the organization, providing a path out of self-centeredness through helping one another.

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The Process- November 2024 with Noah Levine

I thought we would, look at this section of the book tonight. Back to the beginning of the book, right after the introduction, there's these pages called The Process page XI. There are three or four pages that in Refuge meetings, we read the first part of this. We read the first page about how we follow the traditional Buddhist system of the Four Noble Truths.

We read this in every meeting, but we only read it down to a sort of abbreviated version of it. So I thought I'd share it and then use this as the discussion starting on XII.

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Mindfulness- August 2024 with Noah Levine

3rd Foundation

We already did the first foundation of mindfulness and the second foundation. So tonight's topic is the third foundation of mindfulness. In the Refuge Recovery meditations, we break down the 3rd foundation into 2 parts, the process and the content.

Refuge Recovery Talks—First Thursday of the Month at 5PM PST with Noah Levine Register here to join ➤ https://www.refugerecovery.org/monthly-dharma-talk All are welcome.

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Mindfulness- May 2024 with Noah Levine

Tonight we're on the second foundation of mindfulness. These four foundations all work together. It's a little bit hard to separate them. Tonight we're going to cover the second foundation, which is bringing mindfulness, present time awareness to the feeling tone of our experience.

Refuge Recovery Talks—First Thursday of the Month at 5PM PST with Noah Levine Register here to join ➤ https://www.refugerecovery.org/monthly-dharma-talk All are welcome.

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