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Integrating Buddhism and the 12 Steps of recovery from any addiction. Techniques, principles, tips, reviews, meditations. Based on The 12-Step Buddhist (2009), Perfect Practice (2012) and Th...
The Joy of Living: Don't Miss the Bliss The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 112 How do we connect with the joy of living, even when it's no...
Suffering as Compassion, Humility as Medicine: How to Overcome Arrogance The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 111 from Dodrupchen Jigme Tenp...
It's well understood in the recovery community that an attitude of gratitude isa potent antidote to much of what ails us addicts in recovery...
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 109 We're often told that what happens may be out of our control, but how we respond is up to us. That'...
What is the nature of our relationship to psychedelics? As people in recovery, we've probably abused them at one time or another. Some peopl...
Surrender to the Now: Get Grounded in Recovery The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 107 The famous now is where we want to be. But wanting g...
Life on Life's Terms: Acceptance in Recovery The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 106 "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today...
"We sought escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful han...
Mindfully Manic; How to Keep Your Head as a Buddhist in Recovery The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 104 Sutra of Golden Light: Chapter 6 o...
What is a Buddhist Higher Power and How Do Buddhists in Recovery Pray? The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 103 Sutra of Golden Light: Chapt...
Stabilizing Our Recovery with Dharma Practice The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 102 Sutra of Golden Light: Chapter 6 on Emptiness Dharma...
Addiction and Trauma: A Basis for the Practice of Recovery The Dysregulated Addict: Finding Spiritual Regulation Series Pt. 6 The 12-Step Bu...
The Dysregulated Addict: Finding Spiritual Regulation Series Pt. 5 The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 100 Part 5: Mindfulness for Addicts...
Calming the Fire Alarms - Allostatic Load, Window of Tolerance The Dysregulated Addict: Finding Spiritual Regulation Series Pt. 4 The 12-Ste...
Balancing Our Nervous System - The CNS and Stress The Disregulated Addict: Finding Spiritual Regulation Series Pt. 3 Happy First Turning of...
The Disregulated Addict: Finding Spiritual Regulation Series Pt. 2 The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 097 Episode 2: The Dance of the Nerv...
Do you get distressed easily in sobriety? You may have a disregulated nervous system. If so, it's important to not compare your insides with...
Everything is the path to enlightenment. The ground is everywhere. We can't step anywhere exept deeper into Teaching. More authentically int...
What is ego, and how does it affect our practice as Buddhists in Recovery? When we practice Dharma, are we taking refuge in our identity, ap...
To empower ourselves into a trajectory beyond suffering we must clearly understand our condition. How to arrive at this understanding, and t...
Buddha's Birthday - Saka Dawa If you were born after the 70s, your ideas of Dharma are probably your grandmothers, or even great grandmother...
Speak to him, thou, for He heareth And spirit with spirit can meet. Closer is He than breathing. And nearer than hands and feet. -Tennyson A...
The notion of getting into a flow state, otherwise known as zen af, while maintaining our sobriety and living to our full potential. As Bodh...
We've spent many sessions on refuge and bodhicitta, compassion. For this episode, let's get into something that I wrote about in Step 11 in...
Instead of putting ourselves in a position to be hurt, we place ourselves in a position to be blessed. What is Grace? We can discuss in a tr...
We can apply our development of refuge and bodhicitta on the path of recovery. We use rituals that include motions, breathwork, sounds and v...
Who is our Sangha? Choose wisely. In this aspect of the path, we study and try to understand our effect on other beings and our energy. The...
What is this Dharma that we are offered to take refuge in? Can it be defined? Continuing our discussion of what, and what not to take refuge...
This week we continue deepening our understanding of precisely what it means to us to take refuge, in the Buddha, in recovery. Last episode,...
Work with refuge in our meditations with "objects" to take refuge in. We started the topic on a simple way. Now, we get into the weeds on re...
Two weeks of dental suffering brought my practice, and my sobriety, to the test. This week we take a deeper look at refuge and it's applicat...
To understand what is meant by refuge in recovery, we must first understand and integrate some basic Buddhist principles. Intellectual under...
If you've ever been to a 12-step meeting, you've probably seen the famous sign, "Easy Does It". Some who've clawed our way out of hell to sc...
Direct from Peru, Charo Verastegui (María del Rosario Verástegui Schmitt), a fellow practitioner of the Chod, as well as indigenous spiritua...
Addicts are seekers. What do we seek? Transcendence. The mystical . The sacred. Why do we seek the type of experiences that are outside what...
As addicts in any form of Buddhist Recovery, Dharma Recovery , Refuge Recovery, we try to focus on mindful, compassionate presence in the fo...
We can pretend that we're not angry, but it will make us feel less in control. How does anger affect us in our recovery? We're told in 12-St...
What is the best thing that we can gift each other? Our mindful, compassionate presence. We discuss the mahayana *(greater) path of dharma,...
Being present with loss and grief. while loss is universal, the experience of grief is individual. it cannot be compared to previous experie...
celebrating 25 years of sobriety 12-4-97 how the past influences our perception and therefore experience of this infamous now. the holy now....
So called insight meditation practices are perhaps the most widely diffused in the west, in terms of what people think of as buddhism. today...
Emotional Surrender: How to Be Non-Toxic. Addicts are very sensitive, empathic, highly emotional creatures. The inability to be comfortable...
Teachings ask us to practice the perfection or paramita of patience. But as any good addict knows, it's never fast enough for us. We operate...
How does a Buddhist deal with the sex drive, sex roles, morays, expectations, taboos in the dharma, and the dharma of recovery? What role do...
How does a Buddha make amends? In 12-Step, we learn the necessity not of insincere apology, but absolute willingness to right the wrongs we'...
If being is one thing and space is another, we suffer. In being space, we create a split between samsara and nirvana. From the beginning of...
Join me for a special guest meditation. On this episode, we practice together with an excellent instructor in the Dzogchen space. The 12-Ste...
Do you want to be free of suffering? Training on the path of compassion will ultimately free us from all attachments, if we commit and take...
In Twelve step programs, we're taught that we must free ourselves from the "bondage of self." What does this mean for us as Buddhists in rec...
Is Mindfulness being co-opted more by corporations, or our egos? McMindfulness in the context of meaningful recovery that includes training...