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A Message from Akasa Levi
I'm currently on an extended medical leave
from teaching due to a Parkinson's diagnosis -
what Michael J. Fox has & Robin Williams had.
Sad huh... well, go back and sit some more !
Possibly in the Spring or Summer
I may be open to a simple, small
mindfulness meditation sitting group.
At present, I'm seeing a few
highly motivated individuals for
Buddhist-based 1-on-1 counseling,
and longer term practice-mentoring.
Be very welcome to inquire further.
Please make first contact by email.
____________________________
May the Many Many Buddha-Blessings of
Wisdom-Kindness Radiate from within You All
~A~
" WE Must Be The Change
We Wish To See In The World " ~ Gandhi.
♦ The Laughing Buddha Sangha Santa Monica encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest through
a "Mindfulness-Awakening" style of meditation practice that nourishes a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence and
a Big Good-Hearted Mind where eventually the 'me' discovers my own empty True 'Buddha-Nature' ! Awakening the CompassionateHealing Awareness, of a Wise Empathy Naturally Deep Within Us All.
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'Thera-vada' -- the original, earliest 'Path of The Elders' – is a Buddhist South Asia and Sri Lanka lineage-based practice of Vipassana Sati’patthana Mindfulness Meditation – alongside a skillful, eclectic-mix of other world-wide Buddhist teachings.
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'Our Suffering' the 'Impermanence' --the 'Not-Self' of it All –
is at the very Basic Core of Buddhist Philosophy – in that...
"All Our Suffering in Life is from our
Mental-Attachments that Continually Mistake
the 'Impermanent' as being Permanent."
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" You are more attached to your 'desire-thoughts' themselves -
- than you are attached to the actual 'object' of desire itself.
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" What is 'accepted' by the majority of people -
- does not mean it is Real."
~ Gautama the Buddha, 500 BC India
~ Gautama the Buddha, 500 BC India
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Namo Budd-Ho ! – Nama'ste Every One !
The Laughing Buddha Sangha - Santa Monica
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I'm currently on an extended medical leave
from teaching due to a Parkinson's diagnosis -
what Michael J. Fox has & Robin Williams had.
Sad huh... well, go back and sit some more !
Possibly in the Spring or Summer
I may be open to a simple, small
mindfulness meditation sitting group.
At present, I'm seeing a few
highly motivated individuals for
Buddhist-based 1-on-1 counseling,
and longer term practice-mentoring.
Be very welcome to inquire further.
Please make first contact by email.
____________________________
May the Many Many Buddha-Blessings of
Wisdom-Kindness Radiate from within You All
~A~
" WE Must Be The Change
We Wish To See In The World " ~ Gandhi.
♦ The Laughing Buddha Sangha Santa Monica
encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest through
a "Mindfulness-Awakening" style of meditation practice
that nourishes a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence and
a Big Good-Hearted Mind
where eventually the 'me' discovers my own empty
True 'Buddha-Nature' !
Awakening
the Compassionate
Healing Awareness,
of a Wise Empathy
Naturally Deep Within Us All.
The Completed Old One
RE-DIRECTED Here successfully.
This is our Most Current updated site:
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_______________________
A Message from Akasa Levi
I'm currently on an extended medical leave
from teaching due to a Parkinson's diagnosis -
what Michael J. Fox has & Robin Williams had.
Sad huh... well, go back and sit some more !
Possibly in the Spring or Summer
I may be open to a simple, small
mindfulness meditation sitting group.
At present, I'm seeing a few
highly motivated individuals for
Buddhist-based 1-on-1 counseling,
and longer term practice-mentoring.
Be very welcome to inquire further.
Please make first contact by email.
____________________________
May the Many Many Buddha-Blessings of
Wisdom-Kindness Radiate from within You All
~A~
" WE Must Be The Change
We Wish To See In The World " ~ Gandhi.
♦ The Laughing Buddha Sangha Santa Monica
encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest through
a "Mindfulness-Awakening" style of meditation practice
that nourishes a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence and
a Big Good-Hearted Mind
where eventually the 'me'
discovers my own empty
True 'Buddha-Nature' !
Awakening the CompassionateHealing Awareness,
of a Wise Empathy
Naturally Deep Within Us All.
_______________________________
'Thera-vada' -- the original, earliest 'Path of The Elders' –
is a Buddhist South Asia & Sri Lanka lineage-based practice
of Vipassana Sati’patthana Mindfulness Meditation – alongside
a skillful, eclectic-mix of other world-wide Buddhist teachings.
•♦•
Please use the Table of Contents here to your right& gt;>>>>
Go ahead n' graze, read onward ...Wonder, Ponder and Enjoy !
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..q(~?~)p update about AKASA LEVI
"Awakening Mindfulness" Meditation
at The LAUGHING BUDDHA SANGHA
Santa Monica CA 90405 ~ 310-450-2268
email: AkasaLeviZZ@msn.com
in-site: www.DharmaHere.blogspot.com
_____________________________________
'Our Suffering' the 'Impermanence' & 'Not-Self' of it All –
is at the very Basic Core of Buddhist Philosophy – in that...
"All Our Suffering in Life is from our
Mental-Attachments that Continually Mistake
the 'Impermanent' as being Permanent."
_______________________________
" You are more attached to your 'desire-thoughts' themselves -
- than you are attached to the actual 'object' of desire itself.
______________________________
" What is 'accepted' by the majority of people -
- does not mean it is Real."
~ Gautama the Buddha, 500 BC India
~ Gautama the Buddha, 500 BC India
Completed Old One
Namo Budd-Ho ! – Nama'ste Every One !
The Laughing Buddha Sangha - Santa Monica
_/\_
with palms joined together
A Most Current
Hi and Welcome!
You've been
RE-DIRECTED Here successfully.
This is our Most Current updated site:
www.ListeningBuddha.blogspot.com
_______________________
A Message from Akasa Levi
I'm currently on an extended medical leave
from teaching due to a Parkinson's diagnosis -
what Michael J. Fox has & Robin Williams had.
Sad huh... well, go back and sit some more !
Possibly in the Spring or Summer
I may be open to a simple, small
mindfulness meditation sitting group.
At present, I'm seeing a few
highly motivated individuals for
Buddhist-based 1-on-1 counseling,
and longer term practice-mentoring.
Be very welcome to inquire further.
Please make first contact by email.
____________________________
May the Many Many Buddha-Blessings of
Wisdom-Kindness Radiate from within You All
~A~
" WE Must Be The Change
We Wish To See In The World " ~ Gandhi.
♦ The Laughing Buddha Sangha Santa Monica
encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest through
a "Mindfulness-Awakening" style of meditation practice
that nourishes a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence and
a Big Good-Hearted Mind
where eventually the 'me' discovers my own empty
True 'Buddha-Nature' !
Awakening
the Compassionate
Healing Awareness,
of a Wise Empathy
Naturally Deep Within Us All.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and presents an odd, unclassifiable sort of doubter's joy in his altruistic, aesthetic, atheistic approach to the Dharma - Akasa is a bohemian-being that is a perpetual nud'nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. At times, an adorable jerk. Alas alack, identity amiss, adjustment disorder in place, play acting the curmudgeon, or maybe the Fool card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Identity-bewildered, meanwhile continually serving up Seva and lot'sa pro-bono available time for basic heart and hand holding of people - he’s a really funny, odd, eccentric Dharma Dude - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder. K'vetchy by nature, but not too creepy, a flamboyant old rogue, he's definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste.
Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging poetry in a person - personally mentoring a/ Mindfulness Therapy • ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
• " Kindness " is more important than ' Wisdom ' -
and the clear recognition of this -
IS the beginning of Wisdom. ~ Theodore Issac Rubin
and the clear recognition of this -
IS the beginning of Wisdom. ~ Theodore Issac Rubin
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
“Attending spiritual schooling abroad for 10 years, was great -- coming home to 'Americans' themselves has been a lot of work ever since. And so expensive” !
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
“Attending spiritual schooling abroad for 10 years, was great -- coming home to 'Americans' themselves has been a lot of work ever since. And so expensive” !
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people.
Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with Dharma books, old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
__________________________________________________
• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
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• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
WHAT DID I KNOW ?
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WHAT COULD I KNOW ?
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WHAT ABOUT MY "SELF" ?
I'M A CONSTRUCTION --
I'M A CONSTRUCTION --
FABRICATED OUT OF
MY OWN WOUNDED 'IDEA'
OF A "SELF"….
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Currently diagnosed a person Living with Parkinsons, a big energy drain of Chi - Akasa now teaches privately on a much more limited individual basis: Mindfulness Insight Meditation, guides a ZEN•MEN growth group - and offers individual Buddhist-based Counseling and Therapy. He is open to meeting with meditators on a
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Still We'll Search the LANDSCAPE of YOUR BEWILDERED SUFFERING, Together
On The Road Children ~
The Old Rogue --
is an Archetype
form of
The Angelic
Troublemaker
Trickster Fool.
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and funny. So it is.
We are non-denominational
and definitely non-religious
and welcome all journeyers
of all Ways or even none.
Testimonial:
Esteemed Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield refers
to Akasa as
The Old Rogue -- is an archetype form
of The Angelic Troublemaker Trickster Fool.
On The Road Children
I grew up on a Long Island NY suburban housing construction site. This section in work.. IN WORK... is really more about the freedom seeking 60's cultural template that put all these middleclass On The Road Children after Beat literally took themselves Way Out there, each of us to our own individual meetings with remarkable people. Our parallel karma life choices arose simultaneously ready enough to be open enough, ready enough with us to be here nowthe renown 'influences' that penetrate to the Core of our parched soul when we are in he right place at the right time. I and a small handful of new friends traveled months what was called 'overland' to India. It was dangerous, we didn't know it . that they were their own generation's best. and the teachers were the We couldn't help it more ....
♦ Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual‘ ~
NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'…
( The spiritual science of an applied 'meditation'
as a part of good therapy )
WE’RE ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE: Sensitive, creative, individualistic, intelligent people - higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, or even spiritual. Non-traditional, non-mainstream, non-Matrix lifestyle - uncommon, non-ordinary - a very individual person,living their own sense of being 'civilized', compassionate and inward oriented with integrity as well. And who also have an insatiable curiosity...
UPDATE: 2016 ~ Joyfully, THIS is it. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in early 2014. Truthfully, and Joyfully, to make a turn of phrase: There’s no Love Lost as there’s a good and plenty supply of fine senior meditation teachers and mindfulness trainers and young upcoming guides in the Buddha’s Dharma that now abundantly populate and abound in the land … 310-450-2268• Prior to Akasa Levi’s partial retirement from group meditation teaching in 2014 with a Parkinson’ diagnosis
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Akasa's US Army deployment as Go To Guy for his boss
George S. Patton, Jr -- Robert Duval portrayed him
in Francis Copula's Apocalypse Now -- 'Old Ironsides" emblem and 45 caliber twin ivory handled silver pistols and all... "I love the smell of burning napalm in the morning.."
1st Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment Headquarters of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before Patton served a total of three tours of duty in South Vietnam,
the first from April 1962 to April 1963 at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, during which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
FIRST of The EIGHTY FIRST !
He then took command of the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before his second tour in 1967, this one lasting only three months.[4] During Patton's final and most intense tour, lasting from January 1968 to January 1969, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions on the battlefield.[5] During this final tour, he was initially assigned as Chief of Operations and Plans at Headquarters, United States Army Vietnam. However, after his promotion to colonel in April 1968, he was given command of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. During his three tours in Vietnam, Patton, who frequently used helicopters as a mobile command post, was shot down three times[citation needed] and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
__________________________________________________
• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
Someone thought
this Profile / Bio
is supposed to be
slightly self-effacing
and funny. So it is.
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
__________________________________________________• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
“Attending spiritual schooling abroad for 10 years, was great -- coming home to 'Americans' themselves has been a lot of work ever since. And so expensive” !
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
“Attending spiritual schooling abroad for 10 years, was great -- coming home to 'Americans' themselves has been a lot of work ever since. And so expensive” !
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people.
Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with Dharma books, old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
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• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
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• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
WHAT DID I KNOW ?
I WAS A KID,
WHAT COULD I KNOW ?
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WHAT ABOUT MY "SELF" ?
I'M A CONSTRUCTION --
I'M A CONSTRUCTION --
FABRICATED OUT OF
MY OWN WOUNDED 'IDEA'
OF A "SELF"….
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Currently diagnosed a person Living with Parkinsons, a big energy drain of Chi - Akasa now teaches privately on a much more limited individual basis: Mindfulness Insight Meditation, guides a ZEN•MEN growth group - and offers individual Buddhist-based Counseling and Therapy. He is open to meeting with meditators on a
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Still We'll Search the LANDSCAPE of YOUR BEWILDERED SUFFERING, Together
On The Road Children ~
The Old Rogue --
is an Archetype
form of
The Angelic
Troublemaker
Trickster Fool.
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We are non-denominational
and definitely non-religious
and welcome all journeyers
of all Ways or even none.
Testimonial:
Esteemed Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield refers
to Akasa as
The Old Rogue -- is an archetype form
of The Angelic Troublemaker Trickster Fool.
On The Road Children
I grew up on a Long Island NY suburban housing construction site. This section in work.. IN WORK... is really more about the freedom seeking 60's cultural template that put all these middleclass On The Road Children after Beat literally took themselves Way Out there, each of us to our own individual meetings with remarkable people. Our parallel karma life choices arose simultaneously ready enough to be open enough, ready enough with us to be here nowthe renown 'influences' that penetrate to the Core of our parched soul when we are in he right place at the right time. I and a small handful of new friends traveled months what was called 'overland' to India. It was dangerous, we didn't know it . that they were their own generation's best. and the teachers were the We couldn't help it more ....
♦ Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual‘ ~
NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'…
( The spiritual science of an applied 'meditation'
as a part of good therapy )
WE’RE ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE: Sensitive, creative, individualistic, intelligent people - higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, or even spiritual. Non-traditional, non-mainstream, non-Matrix lifestyle - uncommon, non-ordinary - a very individual person,living their own sense of being 'civilized', compassionate and inward oriented with integrity as well. And who also have an insatiable curiosity...
UPDATE: 2016 ~ Joyfully, THIS is it. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in early 2014. Truthfully, and Joyfully, to make a turn of phrase: There’s no Love Lost as there’s a good and plenty supply of fine senior meditation teachers and mindfulness trainers and young upcoming guides in the Buddha’s Dharma that now abundantly populate and abound in the land … 310-450-2268• Prior to Akasa Levi’s partial retirement from group meditation teaching in 2014 with a Parkinson’ diagnosis
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2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment
of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before
Patton served a total of three tours of duty in South Vietnam,
the first from April 1962 to April 1963 at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam,
during which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
He then took command of the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before his second tour in 1967, this one lasting only three months.[4] During Patton's final and most intense tour, lasting from January 1968 to January 1969, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions on the battlefield.[5] During this final tour, he was initially assigned as Chief of Operations and Plans at Headquarters, United States Army Vietnam. However, after his promotion to colonel in April 1968, he was given command of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. During his three tours in Vietnam, Patton, who frequently used helicopters as a mobile command post, was shot down three times[citation needed] and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
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• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
Someone thought
this Profile / Bio
is supposed to be
slightly self-effacing
and funny. So it is.
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • consults and guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • • The Laughing Buddha Dharma Sangha • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • Buddhist-based Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • the ZEN♦MEN group • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
•♦• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the feral late-60’s, Akasa Levi, a U.S.Army Vet - had by 1975, become an ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu Monk - six years in “beggar-man’s” orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic order by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Previously, Akasa was a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Kathmandu in Nepal - and then a resident Vipassana student of the renown Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua, the leading teaching master of Satipatthana Mindfulness, in Bodhgaya, India where the ancient Bodhi Tree still stands giving refuge to Buddhas to come.
Later Akasa dialogued Non-Duality daily in satsang with the notorious ‘Bede Baba’ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Old Bombay - and a lengthy tutoring by Henri Van Zeyst in Kandy, Sri Lanka.• These protracted studies went on for several lifetimes • Akasa’s aspiration: To Be Directly With the Last Living Buddhist Meditation Teachers of the Pre-Global Era, most passed on now • Returning stateside from a whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic analytic therapy at UCLA, guiding and growing a private practice in Santa Monica California offering Buddhist-based individual counseling and therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and a perpetual nud’nik to the gravitas of established Buddhist composure. Being the compassionate, yet authentic curmudgeon that he is, or maybe the Fool Card - in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered anyway. Continually serving up Seva and giving lots of pro-bono time for basic metta ‘ministering’ to people. Full of mischief, he’s an oddly sweet, really funny, eccentric Grandpa Dharma - and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder in other settings. K'vetchy by genetic nature, but not too creepy - he’s a flamboyant old rogue, definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Seriously: Akasa is into nourishing the 'contemplative' aspects of the emerging ‘poetry’ in a person -personally mentoring a breakthrough, maverick “iconoclast intelligence” in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or Dharma-Life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa Levi, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, guides us into the secular spirit of the present moment of mindfulness - in a pragmatic yet caring, aware, empirical psychological approach. He knows that by steady ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
__________________________________________________• AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa Levi guides The BUDDHIST MENTOR PROJECT • The Seasoned Wisdom Sangha • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • and ZEN•MEN • Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
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♦ AKASA-MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA (D.Min)
~ SUNY Harpur College / Binghamton University, New York – an American that
went to live a full decade in Asia in the 1970s - to be directly with the
last living spiritual teachers of the pre-global era. He was a Vipassana
Buddhist forest monk for six years - trained and ordained into the Theravada
monastic lineage by the revered Bhante Ananda Maitreya & Kassapa
Mahathera of Sri Lanka. Arriving in India in 1972 as a filmmaker &
student of the Gurdjieff 'Work', Akasa became a Vajrayana initiate of Lama
Thubten Yeshe & Zopa Rinpoche in Nepal – a Vipassana student of Sri
Munindra & S.N. Goenka, and sitting Zazen with Subhuti Shibuya Sensei:
all in Bodhgaya, India - and Non-Duality Advaita with Nisargadatta Maharaj in
Bombay. Akasa studied Western analytic therapy at UCLA on returning to
America. He teaches Mindfulness Insight-Meditation at The Laughing Buddha
Sangha - leads ZEN•MEN inner-growth groups - and offers buddhist-based
counseling and therapy. Akasa is now a 'Bodhi-Acharya' lineage-holder of the
Theravada teaching transmission. He is known for his spontaneity, ready
warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
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