| 词条 | Stephen Levine (author) |
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Life and careerBorn in Albany, New York, Levine attended the University of Miami. He published his first work, A Resonance of Hope, in 1959. After working as an editor and writer in New York City, Levine was one of the founders of the San Francisco Oracle in 1966. He spent time helping the sick and dying, using meditation as a method of treatment; a program he shared with psychologist Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. [1]The author of several books about dying, Levine and his wife Ondrea spent one year living as if it were their last.[2] Levine's son Noah initially rejected his father's work, then started to teach meditation on his own.[3] Levine and his wife Ondrea appeared in the 2007 documentary, Meditate and Destroy, that focuses on the life of their son Noah Levine. For many years, Stephen and Ondrea lived in near seclusion in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.[4] Ondrea still lives in Northern New Mexico.[5] Stephen Levine died at his home after a long illness on January 17, 2016 at the age of 78.[6] TeachingAlthough drawing upon the teachings of a variety of wisdom traditions, including Native American, Sufism and mystical interpretations of Christianity, Stephen's writing was most significantly informed by the teaching of the Theravada branch of Buddhism. Grief WorkOne of the most significant aspects of Stephen's work, and one for which he was perhaps best known, was his pioneering approach to working with the experience of grief. Over 34 years, Stephen and his wife Ondrea counselled concentration camp survivors and their children, Vietnam War veterans as well as victims of sexual abuse.[7] Although Stephen acknowledged that our experience of grief is perhaps at its most intense when a loved one dies, he also drew our attention to grief's more subtle incarnations. "Our ordinary, everyday grief" accumulates as a response to the "burdens of disappointments and disillusionment, the loss of trust and confidence that follows the increasingly less satisfactory arch of our lives."[8] In order to avoid feeling this grief we "armour our hearts," which leads to a gradual deadening of our experience of the world[9] When a loved one dies, or indeed when our own death approaches, the intensity of the loss often renders our defenses ineffective and we are swept up by a deluge of griefs, both old and new. TeachersIn the acknowledgements section of his book "Who Dies: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying" (1986), Stephen paid tribute to a number of spiritual teachers whose work he acknowledged to have influenced his writing. As well as crediting "years of Buddhist practice and teaching," he cited the writings of Nisargadatta Maharaj, an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), as well as Neem Karoli Baba and Ramana Maharshi. References1. ^Branfman, Fred (June 2, 1997). [https://www.salon.com/1997/06/02/levine/ suicide isn't painless.] Salon.com 2. ^Flynn, Rochelle O'Gorman (March 9, 1998). "A Year to Live" By Stephen Levine [review]. Los Angeles Times 3. ^[https://www.salon.com/2002/11/19/noah_levine/ From street thug to dharma punk.] Salon.com 4. ^See "Embracing the Beloved" (1995) p. 95 5. ^{{YouTube|id=DssOU6MN0FY&feature=PlayList&p=EB071E2705648B21&playnext=1&index=13|title=interview conducted for a benefit held at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre}} 6. ^[https://www.ramdass.org/remembering-stephen-levine-1937-2016/ Remembering Stephen Levine] Published by ramdass.org 7. ^See "Unattended Sorrow" (2007) p. 1 8. ^See "Unattended Sorrow" (2007) p. 2 9. ^. This notion of a constant subterranean murmuring of dissatisfaction may be seen as analogous to the Buddha's definition of Dukkha. External links
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