• Sample Recovery Dharma Format

• Sample Online Format

Read

• First NobleTruth

• Start: Page 8, 1st paragraph:

• End: Last paragraph: "...our way in recovery."

• Length: 5 paragraphs, 212 words, ~2 minutes

Discuss

• The truth of suffering

• Craving leads to suffering

• Less craving leads to less suffering

• Cultivating The Path

Read

• First NobleTruth

• Start: Page 9, 1st Paragraph: "Some of the ways..."

• End: Page 10, 3rd Paragraph: "...cultivating that which does."

• Length: 4 paragraphs, 293 words, ~3 minutes

Discuss

• Experiences are impermanent and impersonal

• We suffer when we grasp onto all the impermanent solutions to our discomfort

• We cling to the illusion that we can control our experience

• Where our real power lies

Read

• First NobleTruth

• Start: Page 1, 2nd paragraph: Trauma and attachment issues

• End: Page 13, 1st paragraph: "...an important part of that healing."

• Length: 2 paragraphs, 241 words, ~2 minutes

Discuss

• No two will react to the same experience in the same way

• Meeting our experience with compassion

• Our trauma is not our fault, but healing from it is both our right and our responsibility

Learning the Concepts

• Choose just one of the readings or the whole chapter to read, underline and study.

• Think about or write about the title of the reading or the discussion topics listed above

Brief Personal Meditation

Pause - at least once a day, for a minute or two - to practice any of the following meditations.

• Mindfulness of Sound: Listen to sounds and notice how they arise and pass.

• Concentration on Loving Kindness: Repeat to yourself: "May I be safe from inner and outer dangers.

Renunciation Inquiry

• List five of your most important values in a friend. Write briefly about each one.

Sangha

• Meetings: Notice how your insights from this practice relate to the meetings you attend this week.

Wise Friends and Mentors

• Survey: Every day, practice reaching out to 1-3 Wise Friends you have met at the meeting.

• Ask each one about their experience with this week's meditation practice or topic.

• If you don't reach someone, leave a message with your question, and try with 1-3 other Wise Friends tomorrow.