Description: "The Heart of the Revolution" is a step-by-step guide to finding freedom and showing compassion in everyday circumstances. In this new book, bad boy Buddhist Levine offers a hip and edgy instruction manual on how to apply Buddhist practices to daily challenges.
Brief description:
Noah Levine, M.A., has been using Buddhist practices to recover from addiction since 1988. He is the founding teacher of Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society.
Review Quotes:
"You can feel it in the very sentences - Levine's earnest drive to share what he's learned, to bring us along into the open heart of revolution. This is a terrific new take on the old teachings - and I believe him. I want to join." - Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
"A passionate and timely appeal to overcome self-centredness through love and compassion, combined with eminently practical meditations to help you do so." - Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
"The Heart of the Revolution is refreshing, relevant and to the point. A great manual for developing love and compassion in these difficult times." - Martine Batchelor, Author of Let Go and The Spirit of the Buddha
"Noah is in the fore among Young Buddhas of America, a rebel with both a good cause and the noble heart and spiritual awareness to prove it. He is among the most dynamic and effective of the new generation of Dharma teachers. I highly recommend this book to those who want to join us on this joyful path of mindfulness and awakening." - Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within
"It offers a fresh look at mercy, a term not frequently used in Buddhism; includes an extensive commentary on the Metta Sutta; gives the lowdown on personal and romantic love; and explores cosmology and the three personality types according to traditional Buddhist thought." - Shambhala Sun
"Bluntly, boldly, this book urges Buddhists to adapt its "radical teachings on forgiveness, compassion, and kindness." Readers of Noah Levine's streetwise memoir Dharma Punx will find in his third book a familiar blend of sharp talk and elevated reflection....Sixteen chapters brief enough to be sampled each at once, long enough that they combine inspirational suggestions with often practical advice drawn from his study and his life, direct the reader into this hidden treasure." - The New York Journal of Books