Recovery Dharma Boise

05/04/2025

Support Boise’s RD meetings with Venmo to the Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies. Put “Recovery Dharma” in the description

06/22/2024

Reminder: Tonight’s meeting starts at 6PM due to another group having a day retreat at the meditation center.

06/03/2024

An important reminder 🪷

Forgiveness is essential for recovery. We forgive when we focus on the person, rather than the action. We forgive only in the present when our hurt and anger make us aware that our resentment is blocking our own compassionate and generous responses. Forgiveness is not so much something we are giving to the person who hurt us, but something we give to ourselves. It’s centered more on our own conscious intention in how we choose to respond to them. Just as we sometimes act out of fear, greed, or confusion, we see that others do too. Forgiveness doesn’t mean we accept or tolerate harm. It comes from understanding and accepting that the person causing us harm is doing so from a place of pain and confusion. We extend compassion and goodwill to that person, even as we actively try to end the harm. This may mean creating safe boundaries or removing ourselves from exposure to harm. But we do this from a place of compassion and understanding, not resentment.

It is essential that we extend the healing of forgiveness and compassion to ourselves. Forgiveness allows us to let go of the guilt and shame of our own harmful actions. We remember that compassion is an action, so when we forgive ourselves we also set an intention not to re-create or continue the harm we have caused to others and to ourselves.

From the Second Edition of the Recovery Dharma Book, p. 23

04/09/2024

01/13/2024

Due to the severity of the current winter conditions, today's 01/13/2024 Recovery Dharma meeting at 4:30 pm is cancelled.

Our regular schedule will resume with our 01/14/2024 Sunday meeting at 9 am.

Be safe. Be Well.

Namaste,

Louie Quintana

12/27/2023

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Find online meetings on the Phoenix app in "Spaces" and widen your circle of wise friends in recovery! We have added several meetings to the Space, including many affinity meetings and a select few in-person meetings!

https://links.thephoenix.org/Recovery_Dharma

We are so excited to join with The Phoenix to support our shared mission of providing holistic and inclusive recovery options for everyone in the community. There is no one right way to recover.. the more tools you have in your toolbox, the better!

May all beings be healthy.
May all beings be at ease.
May all beings be safe.
May all beings be free from suffering.
🙏🧘‍♀️

12/15/2023

The start time for the Saturday 12/16/2023 Recovery Dharma meeting will move to 6:00 pm in order to accommodate an all day meditation retreat being held by another Sangha at BIBS. Thank you! 🪷

12/14/2023

During this Holiday time period, our Sangha will be offering regularly scheduled meetings on Christmas evening, Monday 12/25/2023 and on New Year's evening, Monday 01/01/2024. Both meetings will begin at 6:00 pm at BIBS, as usual.