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Jer Clarke
Canada
Приєднався 29 тра 2006
Buddhism, recovery, and meditation. I share about the Recovery Dharma program and how it has helped me with addiction and life in general.
Karma and Addiction - Recovery Dharma Thoughts
What does "karma" mean in Buddhism and how does it relate to recovery? I share my thoughts on how this idea has a simple, secular meaning that applies directly to our lives, and how we can strengthen our sobriety by keeping it in mind.
Join a Recovery Dharma meeting:
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jerclarke.org
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Join a Recovery Dharma meeting:
recoverydharma.org/meetings/
Get the RD book for free:
recoverydharma.org/book/
Jer's website:
jerclarke.org
Like the RD book, this video is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0:
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Forgiveness Meditation from Recovery Dharma
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This is my personal adaptation of the Forgiveness Meditation that's part of the Recovery Dharma program. You can find the script for this meditation here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZNKzM_7baqS_T3wThN9KrIoL1VF7ToX8xwMa5Dr6S_g/edit Like the RD book, this video is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en Learn more about Recovery Dharma, a buddhis...
What is Recovery Dharma? Intro to Buddhist Recovery
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An introduction to the Recovery Dharma program and community, focusing on the Buddhist philosophies and practices that can help us heal from addiction. FIND A MEETING recoverydharma.org/meetings/ GET THE FREE BOOK recoverydharma.org/book/
Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma: What Happened?
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Learn how Recovery Dharma was created to escape controversy surrounding its predecessor program, Refuge Recovery. In this video, I go over the history in broad strokes, then fill in the details I think are most important to people participating in Recovery Dharma. May we all live at ease 🙏🏻 Recovery Dharma: recoverydharma.org/ Refuge Recovery: www.refugerecovery.org/ LINKS MENTIONED IN THE VIDE...
Breathing Meditation - Recovery Dharma
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A guided meditation on mindfulness of breath based on the one in the Recovery Dharma book. This 20 minute meditation is appropriate for anyone of any skill level. RECOVERY DHARMA RD uses Buddhist practices and principles to heal the suffering of addiction. We are an international community of recovery meetings, both in person and online. Find out more at: recoverydharma.org Get the free ebook (...
Lovingkindness Meditation - Recovery Dharma
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A guided meditation on lovingkindness (Metta) based on the Lovingkindness meditation in the Recovery Dharma book. This 20 minute meditation is ideal for anyone hoping to grow their connection to themselves and others in their lives. RECOVERY DHARMA RD uses Buddhist practices and principles to heal the suffering of addiction. We are an international community of recovery meetings, both in person...
Compassion Meditation - Recovery Dharma
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A guided meditation on compassion (Karuna) based on the Lovingkindness meditation in the Recovery Dharma book. This 20 minute meditation is ideal for anyone hoping to grow their connection to themselves and others in their lives. RECOVERY DHARMA RD uses Buddhist practices and principles to heal the suffering of addiction. We are an international community of recovery meetings, both in person an...
A Buddhist Guide to Life (and WordPress) - My first dharma talk
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This talk was given at WordCamp Montreal 2018, a conference about the website software WordPress. In it I discuss the basics of Buddhism and the role that meditation and Buddhist teachings can play in our lives. Includes a brief and easy guided meditation at 12:22 Find the full slides and references on my blog: jerclarke.org/2018/08/11/buddhist-guide-to-wordpress/ Topics covered: Impermanence, ...
RefCon 5: State of the State presentations with Noah Levine and Amy Reed
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This is a video from Refcon 5, the yearly conference for the Refuge Recovery community. It shows the opening presentations on behalf of the new RRWS and Recovery Dharma organizations by representatives from each. Learn more about RRWS on their Facebook Page refugerecoveryworldservices Full info about Recovery Dharma (tons of links) on our Table of Contents document: bitly.com/rd-li...
GARBAGE BAG BUDDHA - A Birthday Message
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May contain: My thoughts on the year that passed and what I've learned, unsubtle metaphors, Michoacano handicrafts, accepting and letting go, mind-bending earnestness. Check out my site for more article and videos about Buddhism and Recovery: jerclarke.org If you suffer from addiction to things that hurt you, join me at Recovery Dharma 🙏🏻 recoverydharma.org
Refuge Recovery Guided Breathing Meditation
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This is a 20 minute, guided mindfulness of breathing meditation. By watching our breath, we can cultivate concentration and a sense of peace that will help us get through the hard moments in life. The script for this meditation comes from the Refuge Recovery program. View this video on my website: jerclarke.org/2019/03/06/refuge-recovery-breathing-meditation-guided-meditation-video/ If you suff...
Guided Lovingkindness Meditation - Refuge Recovery
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This is a 23 minute, guided "metta" (lovingkindness) meditation. In lovingkindness practice we cultivate a sense of friendliness, compassion and acceptance by mindfully wishing ourselves and others well. The script for this meditation comes from the Refuge Recovery program. If you suffer from addiction to things that hurt you, join me at Recovery Dharma 🙏🏻 recoverydharma.org Watch my earlier vi...
Mexican Protest Against Kidnappings and Femicide Feb 2, 2019 #UnidasNosMantenemosVivas
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I made a tiny documentary about the march on Feb2, 2019 against femicide and kidnapping of women in Mexico City. The situation here has been awful for a long time, but the recent revelations of coordinated kidnappings in the metro gives it all a sense of horrible urgency. Here's the facebook event for the protest: events/2034812503222998/ Here's an article about the kidnappings in ...
Guided Forgiveness Meditation - Refuge Recovery
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This is a 23 minute, guided meditation that encourages you to ask for forgiveness, forgive others and finally to forgive yourself, with a brief introduction. The meditation is derived from the Refuge Recovery tradition with modifications. View this post on my website: jerclarke.org/2019/02/06/refuge-recovery-forgiveness-meditation-guided-video/ If you suffer from addiction to things that hurt y...
History of the Refuge Recovery Book and Early Meetings
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Gary Sanders, one of the original founders of the Refuge Recovery program, sits down with me to discuss how the RR book was written collectively based on the meetings that were already happening in LA. We discuss the program itself, the early days when the program was being developed by a group at Against the Stream, the process of collectively assembling the book and much more! LINKS, REFERENC...
Thanks for this information! I’ve been briefly looking into both but chose RD only because they do have in-penson meetings here in South FL
Starting my own meetings look out for the esoteric association of psychedelic recovery 🙏 we we have mind melds instead of dogma
I sincerely appreciate the education my friend.
I’m new here and although I understand Levine’s perspective, his over zealous ‘attachment’ to the or a brand seems antithetical to both Buddhist philosophy and/or 12 step principles. I’m sure this irony was immediately…
Thanks for the breakdown. I’m not a fan of the recovery dharma book but went to a couple good meetings, and glad it exists for people. Also, Noah is a great person and RR is beautiful.
Refuge recovery saved me and RefConX was amazing! We carry the baggage if we choose. I appreciate the transparency of RR about what happened. We let go and move on and commit to dharma, Buddha, and more greatly the sangha!
It’s been 5 years just went to Refcon 10! It was awesome!! Noah is taking his name off the book for the 2nd edition of the refuge recovery book! I’m really grateful for my refuge recovery sahnga but I understand and respect it’s not for everyone :) all peace and love
Refuge recovery has been great for me!
Thanks for the video im new to Recovery Dharma :)
Best and most easily understandable explanation of karma I’ve ever heard. Thanks for this. ❤
Honestly great video. Both are great if your trying to get clean.
Thank you, this is helpful. I'm grateful to have found Recovery Dharma! I'll just throw it out there that a lot of folks in the US can probably find Refuge Recovery at their public library if they want to read it but prefer not to buy a copy.
I’ve come to this video a year after it was released, but am grateful for coming across it and having the subject disentangled. I started AA just before the pandemic and had noticed a lot of similarities with Buddhism, and didn’t accept that I was the first to notice. One day at lunch, I searched a bit about the subject, and read about Refuge Recovery. I was fascinated to find something that very clearly found a lot of the same similarities that I had noticed. At the end of lunch, I left my studio, which is next to my town’s public library. On the free giveaway book cart at the library was the RR book, right there for my taking, only 20 minutes after learning about it. The schism of RR and RD was unfolding at the time, and it made my relationship to the book difficult. Also, certain factions at my AA home group disapproved of anyone working with literature that was not AA in origin. I fully appreciate AA, and respect the process and what it has done for so many people, but i realized it wasn’t for me. I managed 1.5 years sober, and returned to drinking. I won’t go into details here, but it was worthwhile at the time, and I benefitted greatly from the experience, but i recognize it is time again to be sober. I am uncomfortable returning to AA, which is the only option where I live. All this to say, I am looking at alternatives, and the RR book keeps presenting itself to me, and I appreciate your explanation of the relationship, the separation of the quality of the RR book from the personality of Noah, so that I can be comfortable working from that book.
"Through prayer and meditation we sought to..." but no one in AA meditates!!
Very interested in this. Thank you for posting
"What waits for me? A whore , a bullet or thug,.. what waits for me? A whore a bullet or thug. Room 13.. room 13. That's cool 😎 bro that's cool cuz... (Rm 13). Didn't want to stay there anyway.....❤
Thanks for having done this. I moved and my community in Florida is nothing like it was in Philadelphia. I needed to come back to this. Ty again
I love the first edition of RD and I credit this program for my sobriety. I do not like the new second edition and our Sangha has considered switching to Refuge. I find some of the new verbage to be controversial and discriminatory. The second edition has truly split up and hurt the Sangha I was apart of. I don't partake in this cancel culture society we live in, and RD 2.0 is "tolerance for everyone, except for those we don't agree with."
sorry i will have to stick to aa although i had so much hope. starts with disrespecting the lord buddha 'he believee in gods in the sky". fantastic that u r doing public domain. fine to be an atheist. but despicable to be disrespectful to the lord buddha. 5 years sobriety, no contact with monastics, i am so sad. please at least put kevin griffin on the board or adjahn amaro who has also overcome addiction. 😢
Thanks for the video my friend!
I love Jer's meditations on zoom Recovery Dharma groups. I really can't comment about Refuge Recovery....though I have the book. I have the Recovery Dharma book. I really don't know why, but the title of RECOVERY DHARMA drew me to it. I've been going to meetings ever since. I like how it addresses many additions and cross-addictions and habits. May All Beings Live Happily 🙏
Just went to my first RD meeting last night and felt as if id come home. I read RR and also felt i had made a momentous discovery 🤷 i think refuge is better written but i feel more comfortable getting behind RD, at the end of the day ill do ANYTHING to stay sober... I feel similar to how i do with the bassnectar scandal, sure hes a POS but it doesnt make the music he produced any less impressive.
Thank you for your videos. I watched the one about Refuge/Dharma first and now that I know why Recovery Dharma exists I think I’ll try some meetings. I’ve been in Refuge for a year but never knew the whole story. In fact, I was told at one point that both groups were Noah’s 😮
Thanks for this. ❤
I met noah while all this was happening. Along with some of his close acquaintances. It was blown way out of proportion for sure he's a good dude
I don't know or care either way at this point, but I do believe these programs should be decentralized. The RD model is just better bc of that. That is what works and what has kept AA/NA alive.
Refuge recovery was better imo
I am new to Recovery Dharma. 3 online meetings. I have done many programs. This one is what I have prayed about. I would like to know how to attend your meetings. Thank u-thank u-thank u.
Hope you are well!
Also as a recovering addict those books are very valuable much more effective than AA or NA imho
Thanks for that interesting video. I have a question, I don't wanna be unpolite and english is not my language. You say your pronouns are they and them. Does that mean plural? In german it would be plural, i think. So if I say something about you, do I have to say "They have" or "They has"? If it is plural, do you feel like more than one person? Sorry, I am really curios. I already heard someone else say that his pronoun is they, but I did not undestand it, because in german we don't have it. ❤ Lots of love
pronouns.org/they-them 🙏🏻
Thank you for this informative video
It sounds like the board wanted Noah to step away so they had him Me Too’d.
Dharma recovery has really helped me a lot! A couple years ago when I first got clean I brought it to the halfway house i was living in and the house started having a meeting once a week forllowing the guidelines in the book - we all really enjoyed it and found it spoke to us. I wish there was more of it here in CT!
Such a great delivery of the RR book's meditation! Thank you!
I’m having an extremely challenging time coming back to NA/AA and how rigid I’ve been digging into my step one and the massive shame. AA feels like a really disappointed parent and it’s just tough. I wanna check it out and I’m so grateful to have other options. I really need some help but I’m so scared to hurt myself again with the beating up my shame. It’s really hurting me
Im 3 seconds in and hit the like button. Thanks Jer ❤
Meditation is potent. I really enjoyed this video and am so grateful to have found R D❤
Recovery Dharma has been great for me.
I'm someone who was greatly harmed in a lifelong relationship with evangelical Christianity. I'm also a childhood abuse survivor. I literally found out about this program on Reddit yesterday and Googled it and found this video. I'm devastated. Where we can turn where there are good people? What I'm hearing is it's impossible to trust even a Buddha teacher..... Do I need people to be perfect ? No, but I need them to be good . At least have goodness they can access when dealing with other humans .... To read his quotes in LA article made my skin crawl. I hear you saying that no program is safe because it contains humans. Pretty much my experience of my childhood. So devastating. There is literally nothing for people who want to not be harmed inside of a group.... Literally nothing.
Hi L. Please rewatch the video if that’s the impression you got. I talk about how Recovery Dharma is a totally different program with a big focus on safety.
@@jerclarkedotorgok, I will. I got halfway through and was so triggered I had to stop. I'm an SA survivor trying to still believe in human goodness.
I'm an addictions counselor and this makes me sad. I have 12 years in recovery and I'm a wholelistic counselor I started refuge at my facilities. Even if Noah isn't good the program is.
If you want the program without the association to Noah, I can say from experience that transitioning to Recovery Dharma is painless. It’s the same system, but free and open.
Thanks or explaining this. I'd like to add, the Jezebel article is terrible "journalism" it's not a good source to site.
"An encouragement of intoxication in Buddhist comunities????"
Also, a brilliant idea done with mutual support with an unfortunate choice to put a name on a book.☹️ Bill W was encouraged NOT to put HIS NAME on it.
Noah invoking the Buddhist monk chant already gives me a sense of profound self importance that violates a recovery program of EQUALS. No one having authority OVER.☹️Jack Kornfirld, Tara Brach etc in my direct experience have never done that invocation.
There are a lot of things I don't like about AA, but the tradition of anonymity is crucial. What I am witnessing here is the complete opposite.
I would like to add my personal, direct experience of both of these groups and books. I am a process addiction and relationship addiction individual. I struggled in The Refuge Recovery meetings because they were so focused on substance addiction that I often felt uncomfortable when I shared. But the joy that brought me to the room itself was the uniting of all of us as human beings who suffer by attaching just something on the healthy in order to avoid facing the suffering inherent in reality. There was a lessening of the "us against them" syndrome. When the meeting started shifting to using the Recovery Dharma book all my discomfort dissipated. Each of us as individuals were able to focus on our personal recovery from whatever our addictive-obsessive behavior was and there was no seemingly narrow or more acceptable focus. I am very grateful for ALL recovery, but especially Recovery Dharma🙏
I am a process guy and have been through the transition too but found no significant difference. In fact, all the local RD meetings evaporated during Covid except one on Zoom where they were never connected with the other meetings anyway. My experience is reflective of why there are so many issue specific fellowships, which of course is 12 Step and frankly how unless people have the same issue there is little interest in understanding it. I would love to see an integrative approach where people actually understand not just specific issues whether that's substance use or something else, but after exploring much of the recovery world innan area especially rich with meetings I have found it is simply unrealistic, it's just what is.
Greatful for your effort to share your experience🙏 love RD - my personal preference💕
I started going to Refuge Recovery 8 years ago. My previous sponsor of 4 years ended up getting into codependency, dating ex cons, hanging out more with the NA crowd. I saw a very negative change and she was running the Refuge Recovery meeting here for years. First in person, then the venue closed then online. She just let the meeting die. I would’ve taken it over if I could. It gives me hope this is a new thing. Are they popping up everywhere? Could I run one in my city?
You can start one anywhere any time. The hard part is finding a location (e.g. a church room, yoga studio, coffee shop). We have one in ultra-conservative small town South Carolina that has been passed along from one "facilitator" to another over the past year. The person who started our meeting just printed out the meeting scripts from a Recovery Dharma website. The attendance has gone up and down, but that happens in 12 step meetings, too, so don't get discouraged if it's just you in a room meditating. If you build it, they will come. 😄 I hope you are well, wise friend. ✌️
Yeah you can NOT have a program with leaders who have special status. Duh. The Twelve Traditions wins AGAIN. JFC. 🤦🏻♂️