My Experience in a Buddhist Recovery Meeting

I have recovered for more than three years. Meanwhile, I emphasized the principle of 12 steps, participated in many conferences and backed it. Therefore, as my recovery recovered, I sought more mental recovery model based on the AA principle that addiction is "psychosis" (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2001). For this work, I have studied various religions, including Buddhism, and Buddhism is my most famous religion. Therefore, for my spiritual growth and the amazing pursuit of alcoholism, I decided to participate in two Buddhist revival conferences.

If you did not abandon the 12-step plan completely, I would recommend almost all written by Buddhist nuns PemaChödrön. Two titles that are particularly emphasized in my mind and are particularly relevant to the theme of recovery are "Where do we start and when to collapse"? Both are thoughtful meditations on how hard it is to seek peace in our minds.

When we launched COLLINS ten years ago, I learned the best course for the future. I took a crew to a meditation retreat in the Hudson Valley, which is operated by a famous Buddhist nun PemaChödrön. As soon as we got there, we discovered that it was totally silent retreat. Silence No one can talk. You can only listen. So we listened to Pema for 3 days. In addition, in many things, she told us this important idea: "Completely alive, completely human, completely awake, it must be thrown out of the nest. Every moment of experience is brand new, I hope life will die many times. "

The recovery phase is complete. When I first woke up, the rehabilitation community of young people fascinated me like a sponge. I finally made a friend. Many of them are still my good friends. Then I became busy, drifting a year ago. I am sick and looking for meanings. I went to a Buddhist temple to attend class. I went to the treatment. I received a decompression course based on mindfulness. Right now, I participated again in the 12th stage conference. I can not drink it or use something safely. I know that. This is my personal choice. This is what I am recovering today. For those with analgesics or heroin problems, they may know that it is not safe for them to take opioids. Are they all else? This is their recovery, it depends on them

From a Buddhist perspective, two excellent books on twelve steps of rehabilitation come from heroin and sex addict, Russell Brand and alcohol add-on Mel Aish. Both provide a calm and interesting reflection of their illness, but each step follows the same path to recover. If you are interested in the content of the 12-step plan, but if you are deferred by God's conversation, read any of them carefully. If you did not abandon the 12-step plan completely, I would recommend almost all written by Buddhist nuns PemaChödrön. Two titles that are particularly emphasized in my mind and are particularly relevant to the theme of recovery are "Where do we start and when to collapse"? Both are thoughtful meditations on how hard it is to seek peace in our minds.