RECOVERY DHARMA

DEDICATION OF MERIT

(Volunteer may read, or pass out copies to read as a group. Individual meetings and sanghas may choose to write their own dedications of merit.)

Refuge does not arise in a particular place, but in the space within the goodness of our hearts. When this space is imbued with wisdom, respect, and love, we call it sangha. We hope that the pain of addiction, trauma, and feeling “apart” actually leads us back toward the heart and that we might understand compassion, wisdom, and change ever more deeply. As we have learned from practice, great pain does not erase goodness, but in fact informs it.

May we make the best use of our practice, and whatever freedom arises from our efforts here today. May this be a cause and condition for less suffering and more safety in our world.

DEDICATION OF MERIT

We close each meeting with a “dedication of merit”, where we gather up all the good karma we’ve accumulated through our mutual support, and send it out to all those suffering in the world.

Recovery of Dharma DoM

Refuge does not arise in a particular place, but in the space within the goodness of our hearts.

When this space is imbued with wisdom, respect, and love, we call it sangha.

We hope that the pain of addiction, trauma, and feeling “apart” actually leads us back toward the heart and that we might understand compassion, wisdom, and change ever more deeply.

As we have learned from practice, great pain does not erase goodness, but in fact informs it.

May we make the best use of our practice, and whatever freedom arises from our efforts here today.

May this be a cause and condition for less suffering and more safety in our world.

Ring closing bell.

Classic DoM

We dedicate the merits of this Recovery Dharma Meeting to all suffering addicts.

May all who cling with fear accept the freedom of letting go.

May all minds & hearts awaken to the possibility of recovery, compassion and peace.

May all learn to embrace change and uncertainty as part of life’s fullness.

May we give freely and wisely all that we have been given.

May our recovery be an offering to all beings everywhere.

Ring closing bell.