Life doesn’t have to be so unsatisfactory. This is the good news: there is a cause to our confusion and suffering—it is our relationship to craving—and that cause can be altered to bring about a different effect.
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Noah Levine, author of Refuge Recovery, discusses the path to heartfulness.
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Noah Levine, author of Refuge Recovery, discusses the seventh factor of the eightfold path: Concentration | Meditations.
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Noah Levine, author of Refuge Recovery, discusses the seventh factor of the eightfold path: Mindfulness | Meditations.
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Noah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the sixth factor of the eightfold path: Effort | Energy
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Noah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the fifth factor of the eightfold path: Livelihood | Service
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Noah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the fourth factor of the eightfold path: Action | Engagement
Read MoreNoah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the third factor of the eightfold path: Communication | Community.
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Noah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the second factor of the eightfold path: intention.
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Noah Levine, author of refuge recovery, discusses the first factor of the eightfold path: Understanding.
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Opening up to the eightfold path of Buddhism and how we apply this to our process of recovering from addiction
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The Buddhist understanding is that all beings have the ability to awaken, to heal, to recover, based on our own efforts, our own actions; we can wake up in this lifetime.
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We have come to understand that all forms of addiction have their roots in the natural human tendency to crave for life to be more pleasurable and less painful than it actually is. The addict is not at fault for the root causes and conditions that lead to addiction, only for the habitual reactive patterns that perpetuate it.
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This is not a philosophy. It is a practice; it demands action. We must understand, acknowledge, admit, and accept all the ways addiction has caused suffering in our lives. We take this action by writing and sharing an in- depth and detailed inventory of the suffering we have experienced in association with our addictions.
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