Ebook {Epub PDF} The 12-Step Buddhist: Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction by Darren Littlejohn






















The Step Buddhist will enhance any program that you are currently working, or it will help you completely develop your own so that one day you may help others. I am working at developing my own. I have been told this by some of the people at my AA tables as well as other materials I have read, including this one.5/5(5).  · Littlejohn writes, “In my opinion, the ultimate solution of the 12 Steps is to find the bodhisattva path to complete enlightenment. I didn’t know that for a really long time.” (Littlejohn, ). I think in general, getting sober is about spiritual enlightenment – . The 12 Steps in the book are reinterpreted as dealing with work on the following principles at each step: (1) Acceptance of the problem; (2) Confidence in a Higher Power; (3) Surrender to your Higher Power (Littlejohn leaves it open so that your ideal could be a set of moral standards, communion with other people, or a mindful state of consciousness, or what have you); (4) Self-examination regarding the /5().


And though the step program by itself can often bring initial success, many addicts find themselves relapsing back into old ways and old patterns, or replacing one addiction with another. Author Darren Littlejohn has been there and back, and presents a complimentary guide for recovery to the traditional twelve-step program, out of his own. And lo and behold, a book suddenly fell into my hands that felt like the perfect thing to kick off such a series: The Step Buddhist: Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction, by Darren Littlejohn. I've talked here before about how meditation can help in recovery, and even about the use of mindfulness, usually thought of as a specifically. "If the Step program leads to recovery, Buddhist practice and philosophy can provide the spiritual underpinnings needed to stabilize that recovery. [Darren Littlejohn's] interpretation of the 12 Steps as seen through the lens of this wisdom tradition is fascinating and useful. A very practical and inspired guide.".


The Step Buddhist will enhance any program that you are currently working, or it will help you completely develop your own so that one day you may help others. I am working at developing my own. I have been told this by some of the people at my AA tables as well as other materials I have read, including this one. Darren Littlejohn is a recovering addict and a practitioner of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. He is the author of The 12 Step Buddhist: Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction. Review: Darren Littlejohns Step Buddhist is a Buddhist interpretation and guide for the step programs variously associated with the different Anonymous organizations (Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous).

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