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We are friends in Recovery Dharma. We take action for our recovery
We explore how the Buddhist view of Community and Friendship shows up in Recovery Dharma Practice. We read the book, meditate with the Equanimity meditation and start to inquire about the relationships we have started in Recovery Dharma.
About this Page
About this Page
Introduction of the Concepts and Practices on this page and how they relate to recovery
Introduction of the Concepts and Practices on this page and how they relate to recovery
How this Concept Applies to Recovery
How this Concept Applies to Recovery
Community and Sangha
Community and Sangha
The essence of a sangha is awareness, understanding, acceptance, harmony, integrity, and lovingkindness. Recovery begins when we learn to pay attention to and investigate experience in the present moment. It’s through the sangha that we first learn to be fully present—that we stop trying to satisfy our craving and turn to an understanding of our thoughts, feelings, sense experience, and actions that includes others.
How The Practice Helps
How The Practice Helps
Three Jewels Inquiry Practice
Three Jewels Inquiry Practice
Refuge in Dharma (Buddhist Wisdom)
Learn about the Buddhist indicators of a good companion
Refuge in Buddha (Inner Wisdom)
Reflect on friendship: past positive experiences, your needs, indicators that someone is a reliable refuge for recovery
Refuge in Sangha (Community Wisdom)
Reach out to other memebers
Refuge in the Dharma
Refuge in the Dharma
Practices that explore and deepen understanding of the Concepts
Practices that explore and deepen understanding of the Concepts
The Path
The Path
Read the Book
The Path and Growth
The Path and Growth
Listen to Talks
Listen to Talks
Belonging
Belonging
Here is a talak that helps expand on the Third Noble Truth.
Talk: Remembering our Belonging (Part II) - Tara Brach - IMC Washington DC
Talk: Together We Rise, Larry Yang, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Scroll down to the Playlists for links to more recorded talks meditation, articles, and books.
Use the phrases listed under Concepts to search for relevant talks and meditations in Buddhist Sources.
Growth
Growth
Learn about the Concepts
Refuge in Community
Refuge in Community
Lists
Lists
Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
Ten Pāramitās: Perfections or Wise Practices
Four Heart Practices: Kindness, Compassion, Equanimity, Appreciative Joy
Five Hindrances: Craving, Resentment, Sloth, Worry, Doubt
Refuge in the Buddha
Refuge in the Buddha
Practices that connect us to our deepest Wisdom
Practices that connect us to our deepest Wisdom
Meditation
Meditation
Rewire the Brain for Recovery
Mindfulness of Foot Steps
Mindfulness of Foot Steps
As you walk through your week, pay attention to your feet hitting the ground.
Repeat a supportive phrase
May I be happy, healthy, safe, and live with ease.
Sitting Practice
Sitting Practice
Take time to sit in meditation
Inquiry and Investigation
Inquiry and Investigation
Reflect
If you need inspiration with this part of the practice, return to the Inquiry heading on the Title Page of the Practice Guide
RAIN
Recognize | Allow | Inquire | Nurture
By engaging in community with others on this path, we cultivate a supportive network with Dharma Friends and Mentors.
INQUIRIES
What is an indicator that this might be a safe place to begin healing?
What would you look for in a peer in recovery?
What are some examples of your acting kindly towards others and yourself?
How do you recognize and cultivate dharma friendships that are supportive and healing?
How can engaging in dharma friendships cultivate curiosity, kindness, compassion, and renunciation?
How have others found dharma friends and mentors?
Renunciation
Renunciation
Let go of hindrances and intoxicants
Renunciation -Learning to Let Go
Renunciation -Learning to Let Go
Under Construction.
In the meantime, feel free to explore how these practices around refuge support the rest of the concepts on this page.
Refuge in the Sangha
Refuge in the Sangha
Practices that cultivate connections with wise friends and mentors
Practices that cultivate connections with wise friends and mentors
Meetings
Meetings
Attend and Befriend
Meetings
Meetings
Find more meetings to attend
Sart to participate in meetings by sharing or reading.
Find out if the meeting has an online discussion group on Facebook, Slack, Whatsapp, or Discord. Ask how to join.
Wise Friends and Mentors
Wise Friends and Mentors
Develop Deep Friendships
Wise Friends and Mentors
Wise Friends and Mentors
Look for people who share is about how this program has helped them.
Look for people who talk about the practices they engage in between meetings such as meditation, inquiry, or talking to wise friends.
Get their contact information and ask them about the best way to connect with them.
Core Intentions
Core Intentions
Support the Sangha
Sangha Support
Hospitality Practice
Hospitality Practice
Have a plan to welcome visitors and new members with a sense of Loving Kindness
Ideas include:
Have greeter volunteer/s be a resource before and after the meeting.
Include logistics in the opening
Invite others to read and share through direct invitation. (X, would you like to?)
Playlist
Connect with others who have traveled this path. Each of the links on this list addresses the concepts of this section. So feel free to start with any link. If none of these recordings interest you, then use the concepts listed under the Growth heading to search for talks from the Buddhist Sources page.
Playlist
Connect with others who have traveled this path. Each of the links on this list addresses the concepts of this section. So feel free to start with any link. If none of these recordings interest you, then use the concepts listed under the Growth heading to search for talks from the Buddhist Sources page.
Insight Community
Insight Community
Insight
Insight
Talk: Refuge in Sangha and & Spiritual Friends - James Baraz - IMC Berkeley
Talk: Refuge in Sangha -Mark Nunberg - Common Ground Meditation Center
Talk: Generosity - Vinny Ferraro
Talk: When You are Struggling and You Need a Friend - Matthew Hepburn - Insight Meditation Society 58:50
Talk: Community: A Part of the Whole - IMC Washing - 43:31 -
Talk: Transmission of the Teaching Through Community - IMC Redwood City - 44:45
Talk: Taking Refuges and Precepts - Aukland IMC - 31:56
Retreats
The links to these specific retreats will be repeated throughout the Practice Resources section of this site. You can focus your listening on these talks as you work through the Recovery Dharma Program.
Insight Meditation Retreat 2022
Mindfulness Meditation and Heart Practices
James Baraz, Tempel Smith, JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Forest Refuge, Theravada
Forest Refuge, Theravada
Thai Forrest / Theravada
Thai Forrest / Theravada
15;089 - Admirable Friendship - Metta Forest Monastery
35:28 - Make Time for Connection with Others Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Secular, Academic, Therapeutic
Secular, Academic, Therapeutic
Secular | Academic
Secular | Academic
Quiz - Connection To Humanity - UC Berkeley
16:37 - No Local Meditation Group? Six S olutions - SBA
29:21 - Loving Kindness Meditation: First of the Brahmaviharas - SBA
Buddhist Recovery
Buddhist Recovery
Zen
Zen
Zen
Talk: Sangha as Refuge - Mushim Ikeda - East Bay Meditation Center
Talk: Dana: the Practice of Giving - Thich Nhat Hanh
Tibetan
Tibetan
Amplified Voices
Amplified Voices
Workbooks
Workbooks
Books
Books
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