Against the Stream

2010 | Buddha Was a Teenage Fuckup, Too

It was a shockingly aberrant youth: Suicide plans at age 5, dropping acid by the time he was 10, alcoholism, crack, heroin, serving time for felony robberies and violence. But from that abyss, Noah Levine emerged as one of the country’s most respected and popular teachers of Buddhist meditation. He’s written two books (Dharma Punx tells his story), with a third due out next month. Levine’s been teaching for 15 years now. It was his rebelliousness “that ended... More »