Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
By: Noah Levine
4.24
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths …
Want to Read $ 14.99"Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, for example, rectify the assertion that "alcoholism is a disease" with the facts of my own life. The idea that by simply attending an AA meeting, without any consultation, one is expected to take on a blanket diagnosis of "diseased addict" was to me, at best, patronizing. At worst, irresponsible. Irresponsible because it doesn't encourage people to turn toward and heal the actual underlying causes of their abuse of substances. I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a disease, and all of which manifest as profound internal, mental, emotional and physical discomfort, which I sought to escape by taking external substances. It is only through one's own efforts to turn toward life on its own terms and to develop a wiser relationship to what's there through mindfulness and compassion that make freedom from addictive patterns possible. My sobriety has been sustained by facing life, processing grief, healing family relationships, accepting radically the fact of social oppression, working with my abandonment conditioning, coming into community, renegotiating trauma, making drastic diet and lifestyle changes, forgiving, and practicing mindfulness, to name just a few. Through these things, I began to relieve the very real pressure that compulsive behaviors are an attempt to resolve."-Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
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1. One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
By: Sylvia Boorstein , Kevin Griffin
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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2. Living Sober
By: Anonymous , Alcoholics Anonymous
4.35
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but doe… read more
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3. What the Buddha Taught
By: Walpola Rahula , None
4.18
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more
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"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
4. Mindfulness in Plain English
By: Henepola Gunaratana
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities… read more
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5. Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
By: Jack Kornfield , Ajahn Chah , Ajahn Amaro
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known medit… read more
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6. Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path
By: Ayya Khema , Zoketsu Norman Fischer
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the reader to the essence of the Buddh… read more
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7. The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham
By: Esther Hicks , Jerry Hicks
3.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency (Hazelden Meditation Series)
By: Melody Beattie
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Written for those of us who struggle with codependency, these daily meditations offer growth and re… read more
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9. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more
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10. The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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11. Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality
By: Pema Chödrön
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Audio CD
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12. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us … read more
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13. Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions
By: Pema Chödrön
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Audio CD
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14. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
By: Pema Chödrön
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compa… read more
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15. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
By: Sarah Hepola
4.03
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure" for Sarah Hepola. She spent her evenings at cocktail pa… read more
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"I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?"-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
16. Lit
By: Mary Karr
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
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17. Mindfulness & Psychotherapy
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Audio CD
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18. Buddhism for Beginners: A Complete Course on the Heart of the Buddha's Teachings
By: Jack Kornfield
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Audio CD
At the heart of all Buddhist wisdom lies one astonishing truth: a way out of suffering and into a m… read more
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19. Alcoholics Anonymous
By: Alcoholics Anonymous
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
It's more than a book. It's a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeli… read more
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20. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By: Jack Kornfield
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more
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21. Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.91
Format: 318 pages,
Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead f… read more
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22. The Art of Communicating
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
2.80
Format: None pages, ebook
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Stepand one of the most respected … read more
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23. Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
By: David Richo
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, explains psychotherapist David Richo. Whet… read more
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24. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
25. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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26. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
By: Laura McKowen
4.33
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
"A masterpiece. The truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s goin… read more
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"Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem"-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
"The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am …"-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
"The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am alwa…"-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
"Lying and withholding is the cheapest, easiest way to control others. You control their perception, control their response to you, control who you need them to be, In telling the truth, I was surrend…"-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
27. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)
By: Yung Pueblo
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more
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28. Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol
By: Ruby Warrington
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Would life be better without alcohol? It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding … read more
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29. Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
By: Noah Levine
4.24
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths … read more
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"Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, fo…"-Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
30. Recovery Dharma: How to Use Buddhist Practices and Principles to Heal the Suffering of Addiction
By: Recovery Dharma
4.49
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
In the Buddhist tradition, "Dharma" means "truth," or "the way things are." This book describes a w… read more
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31. Buddhism & The Twelve Steps Workbook: A Workbook for Individuals and Groups
By: Kevin Griffin
4.38
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Buddhism & The Twelve Steps is a workbook for people in recovery from addiction of any kind. The b… read more
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