Insight into What?, Practices of a Bodhisattva #29
Release Date: 12/04/2022
How to Take Refuge in Recovery: Refuge in the Dharma
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
What is this Dharma that we are offered to take refuge in? Can it be defined? Continuing our discussion of what, and what not to take refuge in. Now that we have some sense of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths and basic principles, we'll add the Refuge Field, and all Dharmas in our next Object of Refuge: The Dharma. As always, we'll use the instructions as tools to unlock our realizations and insights that are beyond words and concepts. The path has many layers, join us as we delve into the second of the Three Jewels. Readings from The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast: Episode 85 Available in...
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How to Take Refuge in Recovery: Refuge in the Buddha cont.
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
This week we continue deepening our understanding of precisely what it means to us to take refuge, in the Buddha, in recovery. Last episode, we discussed the Four Kayas of a Buddha. This episode continues the discussion of Objects of Refuge, Refuge in the Buddha, The Five Wisdom aspects. Don't worry, we'll break it down simply, and do some practice to gain direct knowledge of refuge in the Buddha. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast: Episode 84 From and rigpawiki.org The Buddha is endowed with the Four Kayas and the Five Wisdoms. We continue with the Five Wisdoms. The Five WisdomsThe...
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How to Take Refuge in Recovery: Refuge in the Buddha
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
Work with refuge in our meditations with "objects" to take refuge in. We started the topic on a simple way. Now, we get into the weeds on refuge in this ongoing series. Drawing from a rare translation on Refuge and Bodhicitta by Patrul Rinpoche and having received many teachings on esoteric texts by this amazing master, I comment in terms of the application of refuge in recovery. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast: Episode 83 How to Take Refuge in Recovery, Part 2: Objects of Refuge - The Buddha Join me weekly on Fridays for practices integrated with words and sounds on this and all the...
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How to Take Refuge in Recovery: Objects of Refuge
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
Two weeks of dental suffering brought my practice, and my sobriety, to the test. This week we take a deeper look at refuge and it's application to our lives as Buddhists in recovery. More personal sharing this week as I talk about managing pain, with an without an opiate at hand. This is how I dealt with it, in the context of refuge and bodhicitta - compassion, but Supreme, not only relative. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast: Episode 82 Join me for practices integrated with words and sounds on this and all the shows! This is the path of bodhisattvas, yogis and Buddhists in...
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How to Take Refuge in Recovery: Being Refuge
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
To understand what is meant by refuge in recovery, we must first understand and integrate some basic Buddhist principles. Intellectual understanding is not sufficient, but we gotta start somewhere. We discuss the meaning of refuge in Buddhism. It There are many lineages and views to consider! It depends on what the Tibetans call Thowa, or the view that the teaching begins with and is based upon. Believe it or not, there are different views! Today we open a Series on Refuge in Recovery. Our show begins with the reasons why addicts would be motivated to make the move of Buddhist refuge as part...
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Easy Does It Dharma; Practices of a Bodhisattva #37 ccl.
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
If you've ever been to a 12-step meeting, you've probably seen the famous sign, "Easy Does It". Some who've clawed our way out of hell to scratch a morsel of serenity have done so out of sheer force, which can beg the question of how to go easy, when everything has always been hard? Others w/ACEs in recovery may react w/passivity, thus reinforcing a negative action toward ourselves not by what we do, but what we don't do to protect ourselves. Concluding Practices of a Bodhisattva w/#37 The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast: Episode 80 This is the path of bodhisattvas, yogis and Buddhists in recovery....
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Shamanic Meditation From Peru w/Charo; Practices of a Bodhisattva #36
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
Direct from Peru, Charo Verastegui (María del Rosario Verástegui Schmitt), a fellow practitioner of the Chod, as well as indigenous spiritual practices. See past and future books and episodes for more on Chod as the best tool available to cut the root of attachment, which is the root of addiction. Continuing with Practices of a Bodhisattva, #36. This is the path of bodhisattvas, yogis and Buddhists in recovery. "You can judge me, but please take what's in my hand." All are welcome. Send questions to Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the...
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Is Suffering Really Optional?; Practices of a Bodhisattva #35
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
Addicts are seekers. What do we seek? Transcendence. The mystical. The sacred. Why do we seek the type of experiences that are outside what we call ordinary consciousness? Rather than look for answers out of pure scientific curiosity, we're more likely seeking a way out of suffering, albeit in addictive ways. Yet, when we turn to twelve step programs for refuge, we're often told that suffering is optional. It's a popular meme, but is there any truth to it? Join me this week as we meditate, analyze and discuss this notion from the perspective of Buddhists in recovery, or whatever kind of seeker...
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What We Resist Persists, But Resistance is Futile; Practices of a Bodhisattva #34
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
As addicts in any form of Buddhist Recovery, Dharma Recovery, Refuge Recovery, we try to focus on mindful, compassionate presence in the four moments that Buddha described. Yet, when we have ACEs and are in working with Trauma and Recovery, our resistance seems to persists despite our best efforts. Or is it because of them? Learn how to apply the Backwards Law, and the Law of Inverse Proportion to release our deepest attachments -even our addiction to suffering. Note: this show has been reuploaded due to a file error, but only a few hours after it was published. The 12-Step Buddhist...
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Release Your Anger; Practices of a Bodhisattva #33
The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast
We can pretend that we're not angry, but it will make us feel less in control. How does anger affect us in our recovery? We're told in 12-Step meetings that anger is a dubious luxury for "normal" people. Yet it continues to arise and cause problems no matter how long we're sober. How can we deal with the root our anger as Buddhists in recovery to find compassion, peace and ease? The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Episode 076 Readings from , New York Times, December 17th 2022 Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #33 This is the path of bodhisattvas, yogis and Buddhists in recovery....
info_outlineSo called insight meditation practices are perhaps the most widely diffused in the west, in terms of what people think of as buddhism. today we'll expand our view and understand something of value when it comes to the nature and meaning of the next level of dharma teaching as it pertains to concentration, insight into our recovery and ourselves as compassion seeking addicts in recovery.
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Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #29.
Readings from Longchenpa.
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