Sage Lewis

And here’s an idea I have about doing an addiction speaker series or DVD series.

Sage was 225 pounds, a pack-a-day smoker, drank 2 pots of coffee a day, had 12 beers on Wednesdays, 18+ beers on Fridays, and quit it all one night 3 years ago.

He didn’t find God. He didn’t check . . . → Read More: SageLewis.com Addiction Speaker Sheet

http://www.amaravati.org/abm/english/documents/4noble2/data/04first.html#mor

With this formula of the First Noble Truth, even if we have had a pretty miserable life, what we are looking at is not that suffering which comes from out there, but what we create in our own minds around it. This is an awakening in a person — an awakening to . . . → Read More: Buddhism Notes 3

http://www.amaravati.org/abm/english/documents/4noble2/data/03intro.html

First Noble Truth: There is suffering. First Insight of the First Noble Truth: The insight is simply the acknowledgment that there is this suffering without making it personal. All life is suffering (dukkha) That acknowledgment is an important insight; just looking at mental anguish or physical pain and seeing it as dukkha rather . . . → Read More: Buddhism Notes 2

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/intro_bud.htm The problem is that the “world out there” is constantly changing, everything is impermanent and it is impossible to make a permanent relationship with anything, at all.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/5minbud.htm Buddhism teaches that the solutions to our problems are within ourselves not outside.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/intro_bud.htm It is only when we completely abandon clinging that we feel . . . → Read More: Buddhism Notes