Recovery Dharma Boise

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

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

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

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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.
🙏🧘‍♀️

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! 🪷

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.

i was never addicted
to one thing;
i was addicted to filling
a void
within myself
with things other
than my own love

Yung Pueblo

(Shared by a member of our Sangha.)

Please come and check things out at a meeting! Our current schedule is -

Mondays - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesdays - 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Saturdays - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sundays - 9:00 am to 10:00 am

We meet at the Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies (BIBS), located at 901 N 15th St in Boise’s North End.

See you soon! Namaste! 🙏

Join us this Saturday, December 2nd! Sometimes the holiday season can be stressful. So, to help you honor your recovery, we’ll have speakers who will provide self-care strategies for the holidays. (Includes a fun interactive workshop where we’ll each create our own relapse-prevention-plan.)

In the last hour, we’ll hold an RD meeting—you can meet members from all over the world!

To get the Zoom ID and link access, register for free at: tinyurl.com/healingfortheholidays and join the event (time zones listed below):

USA

1pm PT

2pm MT

3pm CT

4pm ET

LONDON

9pm UK

AUSTRALIA (Dec 3)

5:00am AWST

6:30am ACST

7:00am AEST

7.30am ACDT

8:00am AEDT

For your local time:

tinyurl.com/world-tz

All are welcome, join us! Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-Chqz0vGtaSmvkWezpi9GVFIgPUwgT4 #/registration

Our Sangha is having a Pot Luck/Get Together this coming Saturday evening, December 2nd from 6 pm - 8 pm! Message us privately if you would like more information and/or would be able to attend. If you can also share food or drink, that would be great! It promises to be a wonderful celebration! 🙏🏻🪷

A Moment For Mindfulness

“Think of your mind like a pond full of fish and each fish has a feeling. Try to be the pond, not the fish.”

The Board of Directors of Recovery Dharma Global invites you to the November Town Hall this Saturday (11/04) at 4 PM ET!

Here is the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88084836438

Meeting ID: 880 8483 6438

The November Town Hall will focus on Recovery Dharma's commitment to inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility. The Board recently underwent training with Race Forward, and we are excited to share what we learned with the community!

We hope to see you there!

“It is possible to end our suffering. When we come to understand the nature of our craving and realize that our all our experiences are temporary by nature, we can begin a more skillful way to live with the dissatisfaction that is part of being human….Each of us has the capacity for recovery.”

The Third Noble Truth
Recovery Dharma, 2nd Edition, p. 15

“Enlightenment is not separate from washing dishes or growing lettuce. Learning to live each moment of our daily life
deeply, in mindfulness and concentration, is the practice.”

Thích Nhất Hạnh

“No mud, no lotus.”

Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Having suffered and struggled with addiction in its many forms, we’ve come to understand this first truth, as it relates to recovery: Addiction IS suffering. We suffer when we obsess, when we cling and grasp onto all of the delusions of addiction, all the impermanent solutions to our discomfort and pain. We’ve tried to cure our suffering by using the very substances and behaviors that create more discomfort and pain. All our attempts to control our habits demonstrate how we’ve been clinging to the illusion that we can somehow control our experiences of the world or how others have treated us. We’re still trapped in the prison of suffering. In fact, we’re reinforcing its walls with every time we act on our addictions.
Liberation comes when we gain a clear understanding of where our real power lies, and when we are throwing it away.
This is a program of empowerment. It’s a path of letting go of behavior that no longer serves us and cultivating that which does.”

Recovery Dharma, 2nd Edition, pp 9-10

What does this mean to you and for you today? What is its impact in and on your life?

Here are a few more pictures of where our Sangha meets, at the Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies (BIBS) -

“Our senses (which the Buddha understood to include not just hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touch, but also thinking) are often unreliable and temporary, which means that the way we experience and make sense of the world is constantly changing and subjective. We suffer because we keep expecting those temporary experiences to be permanent and absolute, and to satisfy our craving for pleasure or to avoid pain.”

Recovery Dharma, 2nd Edition, p. 9

Please come and check things out at a meeting! Our current schedule is -

Mondays - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesdays - 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Saturdays - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sundays - 9:00 am to 10:00 am

We meet at the Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies (BIBS), located at 901 N 15th St in Boise’s North End.

See you soon! Namaste! 🙏

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