I've been in a 12 step recovery group for the past year, and right now I wish I could find a Buddhist sponsor. The reliance upon God, sin, and guilt as motivational tools is ringing increasingly false to me, and I fear it may be obscuring the deeper truths and spiritual practices I need to develop in order to recover.
Thanks!
seeking 12 step sponsor
Re: seeking 12 step sponsor
I think thee are a few DW members who have gone through the 12 step program. Hopefully one or more can assist.
Wishing you all the best.
Ben
Wishing you all the best.
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: seeking 12 step sponsor
From my experience of going to literally hundreds of meetings you will find that there are many Buddhist's in recovery. My sponsor is a practicing Buddhist. Keep asking around and attending different meetings and you will find one. Best wishes with your recovery.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB