Recovery Dharma: How to Use Buddhist Practices and Principles

Recovery Dharma: How to Use Buddhist Practices and Principles to Heal the Suffering of Addiction

In the Buddhist tradition, "Dharma" means "truth," or "the way things are." This book describes a way to free ourselves from the suffering of addiction using Buddhist practices and principles. Our program is based on the idea that every one of us is our own guide in recovery from addiction, with the help and understanding of our wise friends and sangha (community). We believe thatâ€™s what the Dharma teaches us. The Buddha knew that all human beings, to one degree or another, struggle with cravingâ€”the powerful, sometimes blinding desire to change our thoughts, feelings, and circumstances. Those of us who experience addiction have been more driven to use substances or behaviors to do this, but the underlying craving is the same. And even though the Buddha didnâ€™t talk specifically about addiction, he understood the obsessive nature of the human mind. He understood our attachment to pleasure and aversion to pain. He understood the extreme lengths we can sometimes go to, chasing what we want to feel and running away from the feelings we fear. And he found a solution. This program leads to recovery from addiction to substances like alcohol and drugs, and also from what we refer to as process addictions. We can also become addicted to sex, gambling, technology, work, codependence, shopping, food, media, self-harm, lying, stealing, obsessive worrying. This is a path to freedom from any repetitive and habitual behavior that causes suffering. Recovery Dharma is a peer-led movement and a community that is unified by the potential in each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. We approach recovery from a place of individual and collective empowerment and we support each other as we walk this path of recovery together.
Country USA
Brand UrGod
Manufacturer Independently published
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781086040005
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	UrGod
Manufacturer	Independently published
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781086040005
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Recovery Dharma: How to Use Buddhist Practices and Principles to Heal the Suffering of Addiction

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