Buddhist Recovery Circle

01/22/2025

A sparkly morning!

11/01/2024

We are called to live
lives of courage,
love, and reconciliation
in the ordinary and extraordinary moments of each day.

Padraig o’Tuama

10/26/2024

10/20/2024

This was sent to me by someone from the just concluded rereat at the NC Zen Center...

“In the king’s palace,” said the Rabbi, “there are many gates and doors, leading to many halls and chambers. The palace keepers have great rings holding many keys, each of which opens a different door.

But there is one key which unlocks all doors, and which can open the innermost chambers of the Divine palace. That master key is a broken heart.”

❤🙏🌿

10/14/2024

Hello, friends. I don’t know if you are familiar with the On Being Project (onbeing.org). It’s a wonderful resource for uplifting social thought. Krista Tippett offers five short musings she terms as “foundations for being alive now.” I’d like to share the first of them with you, “Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time.”

https://onbeing.org/starting-points/foundations-for-being-alive-now/

A special, short four-part series. Ways of seeing and living to meet the world ahead. More wisdom and practice than podcast.

09/22/2024

🙏 ❤ 🙏

08/13/2024

Trying to follow the precepts and noticing how we are in the world are not precisely the same thing. But if we engage them the same way – as matters of importance, as aspects of life with consequences for ourselves in the world – then we begin to see how our own lives and the spiritual life are not so different.

Roshi James Ford

07/20/2024

https://insig.ht/lLcW3fh3nLb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share

This is an introduction to Buddhist recovery. We discuss a number of ideas in Buddhism and how they relate to recovery, including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path; the ideas of renunciation and precepts; and what are called the four bhramaviharas: loving kindness, compassion, shared joy,...

07/06/2024

Happy, like a room without a roof.

07/02/2024

https://insighttimer.com/brc281000/guided-meditations/recovery-in-motion-rdo-higher-ground-speaker-meeting

This talk was given to the Recovery Dharma Online Higher Ground Speaker Meeting in March of 2022. The primary theme is the role of service in recovery, furthering our own sobriety and enlightenment by aiding the sobriety and enlightenment of others. These ideas are developed further in the book Budd...

07/02/2024

https://insighttimer.com/brc281000/guided-meditations/the-role-of-quiet-meditation-in-recovery

This 30 minute talk and guided meditation are excerpted from a Buddhist Recovery Circle workshop called "Deepening Our Practice in Buddhist Recovery," led by Sheldon Clark. The talk introduces ideas about the importance of quiet meditation in recovery. The meditation helps to ground the listener in....