How to Use a Buddhist Understanding of “The Self”…and also understanding the no-self,and the not-self,and the non-self, and in Pali what’s called an’atta: all without-self. We’ll practice how to Lose YourSelf! “But I’ve been trying so hard to find mySelf!” … and yes, “You need to be Somebody before you can be Nobody ” ~ Jack Engler
Cost: $50, plus optional Dana to the teacher. No one is ever turned away for lesser or lack of funds.
Scholarships and work study are available. 323.665.4300 or email us: service@againstthestream.org
http://www.againstthestream.org/pdfs/AkasaSelf.pdf
Akasa Levi – an American filmmaker & student of the Gurdjief ‘Work’ that went to live in Asia for the full decade of the 1970’s to be directly with the last living spiritual teachers of the pre-global era. He was mentored by Lama Thubten Yeshe & Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan, Nepal – Munindra & Goenka in Bodhgaya, India – and by Nisargadatta Maharaj in Bombay. Akasa was a forest bhikkhu monk for six years in Sri Lanka – trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera. Now 69, he guides Vipassana insight meditation at The Laughing Buddha Sangha in Santa Monica – and offers buddhist-based counseling-therapy and life-coaching. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, warmth and wry unpredictable humor.