Noah Levine

Dharma Punx

A Memoir

Talking Points

Noah Levine is a former substance abuser, punk and all-round rebel. For the past ten years he has studied with such well-known and respected teachers as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Norman Fischer and Sylvia Boorstein. He teaches meditation in juvenile halls and prisons around the San Francisco Bay Area and is Director of the Family Program at Spirit Rock Meditation center in Woodacre, CA. The son of author and teacher Stephen Levine, Noah lives in San Francisco, where he is still deeply involved in the punk rock scene.

Description

Dharma Punx is both the story of a young man and of a generation of angry youths who rebelled against their parents and the spiritual values of the sixties. It is a rite of passage that many will identify with, as a self-destructive teenager bottoms out on drugs, drinking, and his dissatisfaction with life, and turns toward a life of spiritual practice and service.