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A full‑size 8½×11 recovery manual with 270 pages built for studying, teaching, and sponsorship. This volume includes charts, lists and worksheets for all phases of hands‑on step work. For those who prefer audio books, the Kindle digital version has read-aloud capability on your existing device, laptop, phone, etc.
What is Recovery from Addiction?
It’s the recognition that addiction is not only a chemical or behavioral problem, but a deeper human condition — losing our way, losing clarity, or feeling disconnected from agency — and the realization that we can be restored through compassion, mindfulness, and the path of awakening.
Addiction Recovery for Buddhists offers a Dharma centered path to healing through mindfulness, ethical living, and spiritual transformation. This Structure of Sustainable Recovery is written for participants, sponsors, families, and anyone seeking to understand the spiritual architecture of successful recovery programs. Wherever you stand, you’ll find clear principles that strengthen agency, deepen awareness, and support lasting change through wisdom and compassion.
This framework unites the strongest elements of major recovery traditions — spiritual, secular, therapeutic, and communal — by revealing the universal structure beneath them and grounding it in the teachings of the Buddha. It illuminates the architecture that makes them work while clarifying how we come to know truth through experience, commitment, and transformation.
Built on clean logic, lived experience, and the Dharma, this edition offers a clear, principle driven path for Buddhists seeking healing through mindfulness and compassion. It preserves right view, right intention, and right action while honoring the real complexities of addiction, trauma, and human struggle.
There is no “easier, softer way” here — only a transparent, honest framework that clarifies the mechanism of awakening, strengthens daily practice, and invites readers to walk the path at their own pace. This is not a simplified version of recovery. It is the clear version — one that finally makes sense because it draws clarity from the best of what is available in the recovery landscape while remaining fully adaptable to the Buddhist worldview and the hope of real healing.