Josh R – Recovery Dharma – 323
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🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Do you struggle with the God language in the 12 steps? Josh did. His inability to fully engage with the steps was probably a factor in his relapses. Josh talks with us about a couple of recovery programs based on Buddhist principles, centered on meditative practices. These programs are Recovery Dharma and Refuge Recovery. Our...
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| 0:00.0 | We look at the suffering that's caused by craving, the compulsions, the underlying kind of thought patterns of, you know, something is just not okay about my life experience and I need to escape and what that craving to get away from what my current experience is |
| 0:15.8 | what that's like where that suffering is. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to episode 323 of the recovery show. This episode is brought to by Laura, Robin, Amanda, and Penelope. They used the donation button on our website. |
| 0:29.0 | Thank you, Laura, Robin, Amanda, and Penelope for your generous contributions. |
| 0:33.9 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:36.3 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity |
| 0:39.8 | and happiness. |
| 0:40.8 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of |
| 0:43.2 | addiction, understand as perhaps a few others can. So much depends on our own |
| 0:47.6 | attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:50.6 | Before we begin we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves rather |
| 0:56.5 | than any 12-step program. |
| 0:58.9 | During this show, we will share our experiences. The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 1:07.3 | Take what you like and leave the rest. We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 1:14.0 | My name is Spencer and I'm your host today and joining me today is Josh. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome Josh. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you, Spencer. |
| 1:21.0 | You are here to talk to us about an interesting different approach to recovery. |
| 1:26.0 | You have a reading that we're going to start with? |
| 1:28.1 | Yes, this is a section from the 12 Steps and 12 Tradition textbook, it relates to meditation, and it's on |
| 1:36.8 | page 98 of the 12 and 12. |
| 1:39.1 | It reads like this, we will want the good that it's in all of us, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. |
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