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As a Given 
Akasa's True Nature:
Someone thought

this cheeky Bio is 

supposed to be

slightly self-effacing

and funny. So it is.

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"I told you to tell 'em
Absolutely Everything --

and did you ?
Now you go back in there and..."

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♦ About MY "SELF"

I'm A Construction,

Fabricated Out of

My Own Wounded 'Idea'

of A "Self"

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" I Didn’t Get

Enough Love

As A Child "   

Everywhere,
Everybody,
Everyone,
Elsewhere,
Knows That
About Mostly 
Everyone Else,
-- Sad, Huh?

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-:¦:- AKASA  MAITREYA  LEVI - DhMA ( D.Min )
Akasa Levi guides The Laughing Buddha Sangha 
ZEN•MEN peer group • Seasoned Wisdom Sangha
Dharma Counseling / Mindfulness-based Therapy 
Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268 

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Some Time-Lines and esoteric names ~

Once upon a time, long, long ago before you were again reconsidering being born, back in the feral state of the late 60’s, Akasa Levi ( a nice Jewish NYC mensch of a man ) was a U.S.Army Vet - and by 1975, he became an officially ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu monk, six years a Sadhu in “beggar-man’s” orange robes with an alms bowl in mid-70's back country rural Asia • Trained and ordained into the Buddhist Theravada monastic Amarapura Order of The Triple Gem by the beloved and revered Bhante NyakaThera Balangoda Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa MahaThera in Kandy, Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Gelugpa Vajrayana initiate and personal gardener to Geshe Lama Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu in Nepal • Digging holes with Lama • Much later on, a resident Vipassana student of the renown Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to all newbie bodhisattvas to come • Akasa relished his annual monsoon seasons of non-duality practice in satsang under the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in India's Old Bombay. 

• The Bhikkhu monks and lay teachers of Sri Lanka were very, very good to Akasa-- Nyanaponika, Kassapa, Godwin, Lilly -- and the precocious Henri Van Zeyst up in Kandy's Bamboo Forest.• Bhante Piyadassi gave him lots of singing lessons • Back then, practice sojourns with teachers took the gift of long stays of Time at the right time - mid 70's •  BTW, all these teachings take several lifetimes to comprehend --and one can still be a jerk • Akasa’s sincere aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, like his cousin Duke did --most passed on now. The last of 'em.

• For his BA, Akasa attended SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Returning from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied 'Why' and 'How' through the aloof intricacies of Western psycho-dynamic analytic intersubjective therapy at UCLA • He currently guides Insight Awareness Mindfulness Meditation at The Laughing Buddha Sangha on 14th Street's Zafu Row • Coaches/Counsels the ZEN•MEN peer group • and offers Buddhist-based Individual Counseling and Insight Therapy • Akasa's Sri Lanka affiliate in LA is DVBV Dharma Vijaya under his decades long old friend Bhante NyakaThera Walpola Piyananda.

• Akasa now a feisty 76 - and just not a proper academic, but more of an improper 'experience provider' -- presents an odd, sort of awry, happy doubter's joy in his altruistic, aesthetic, atheistic approach to the Dharma. At heart, Akasa is a tender old school Bohemian from a NYC art-based family, that can be a perpetual nud'nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. At times without a clue, not knowing What he is, maybe play acting the curmudgeon, or maybe the Fool card - in that he didn't like the other lay-life choices offered anyway • To counter his bewilderment, he's continually serving up generous Seva and creating lots of pro-bono available time for basic heart to heart and hand holding of people in pain. He’s a really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu tribal elder. K'vetchy by genetics, but not too creepy, a flamboyant old rogue, he's definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste.

• Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the many 'contemplative' vocal aspects of the emerging 'heart-wisdom' poetry in a student's developing dharma words -- mentoring a maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the student and people he treats, teaches, counsels at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with Dharma books, tribal masks and ritual objects, and cool calm statues of the ancient Buddha.

• Akasa Levi, an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher in the Theravada lineage, guides us into the cognitive/empirical Felt Sense Awareness of a Sati-awakened present moment -- fully self-caring, fully self-aware training in his mindFULLY approach. Akasa knows that by building on inquiry and meditation practice skills, you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, wise ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor. 

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" Kindness " is more important than ' Wisdom ' -
 and the clear recognition of this -
 IS the beginning of Wisdom "  ~ Theodore Issac Rubin

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" You don't get enlightened --- 
it is 'enlightenment'
that gets enlightened."