The 12-step Buddhist Podcast

So called insight meditation practices are perhaps the most widely diffused in the west, in terms of what people think of as buddhism. today we'll expand our view and understand something of value when it comes to the nature and meaning of the next level of dharma teaching as it pertains to concentration, insight into our recovery and ourselves as compassion seeking addicts in recovery.  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 072 Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #29. Readings from Longchenpa. Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts  

Emotional Surrender: How to Be Non-Toxic. Addicts are very sensitive, empathic, highly emotional creatures. The inability to be comfortable in our own skin creates suffering that contributes to our addiction and other dysfunction. How does Dharma deal with toxic emotions and people? Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #28. Readings from Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva: A New Translation and Contemporary Guide. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 071 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts  

Teachings ask us to practice the perfection or paramita of patience. But as any good addict knows, it's never fast enough for us. We operate on our own time, often expecting the world to warp its perceptions to match ours. Yet, our impatience causes stress, can trigger us out of our Window of Tolerance into Allostatic Overload, leaving us in a state of alarm if not distress. The energy of our impatience extends like a net into the environment that we inhabit, affecting others in ways that we may or may not care to notice. How can we open up to the practice of patience as addicts with trauma in recovery with all of our triggers? As usual, the teachings of the Mayahana offer a clear path to compassion by the perfection of patience, among the other qualities of a bodhisattva. Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #27. Readings from Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva: A New Translation and Contemporary Guide. The Supreme Source The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 070 Want to opine? Leave a message

How does a Buddhist deal with the sex drive, sex roles, morays, expectations, taboos in the dharma, and the dharma of recovery? What role does trauma, particularly sexual trauma, play in our choices, drives as Buddhists in recovery? Why do we repeat the same roles and characters, leaving train wreck after catastrophe in our wake? Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #26. Readings from Time Travel: A History. "69" clip from Ronnie Mund, from the Howard Stern Show The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 069 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts    

How does a Buddha make amends? In 12-Step, we learn the necessity not of insincere apology, but absolute willingness to right the wrongs we've done. Given that we've accumulated infinite negative karmas in our Realm of Desire, just how long do you think your Buddhist amends list would be... Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #25. Readings from Longchenpa. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 068 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts    

If being is one thing and space is another, we suffer. In being space, we create a split between samsara and nirvana. From the beginning of beginningless time, when we separate subject and object, we create infinite causes for suffering. To see space seeing its nothingness, with no reference point or subject that percieves an object...this is the view we try to take. Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #24. Readings from Longchenpa. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 067 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts    

Join me for a special guest meditation. On this episode, we practice together with an excellent instructor in the Dzogchen space.  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 066 Igor Berkhin is a long-term meditation practitioner, a Buddhist translator, and a teacher authorized by a prominent Dzogchen master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. One of his projects is about how to apply contemplative practices for recognizing and neutralizing psychological manipulations For courses, retreats and questions, see Igor's site: https://contemplative.club/ Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts    

Do you want to be free of suffering, or do you love it too much? Training on the path of compassion will ultimately free us from all attachments, if we commit and take a long-term view. Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #23. Readings from Longchenpa. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 065 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as iTunes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Google Podcasts    

In Twelve step programs, we're taught that we must free ourselves from the "bondage of self." What does this mean for us as Buddhists in recovery? How can we apply the teachings to free ourselves? It's up to us. Liberation is in the palm of our hands.  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 064 Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #22. Readings from Longchenpa.  Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson

Is Mindfulness being co-opted by corporations or our egos? McMindfulness in the context of meaningful recovery that includes training in self-compassion and compassion for others. Want to opine? Leave a message on The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast hotline. Opine on the hotline. (505) 219-1509‬ Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #21. Readings from Longchenpa, McMindfulness and Mindfulness and its Discontents. Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson.

Learn to microtask with laser precision on absolute happiness, through practices in our relative condition.   Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #20. Reading from  A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson.

How to create and manifest authentic joy from your Buddha nature for the benefit of beings. Continuing w the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, #19. Reading from The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena, Longchen Rabjam Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast Theme by Clay Giberson.

Take your Adverse Childhood Experience test with me, as we talk about the lifelong effects of ACEs on your recovery, well into long-term sobriety. Reading from The Precious Treasury of Pith Instructions, Longchen Rabjam Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The Audiobook is available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes.

How to retrain our thinking, reasoning, organizing brain with practices of compassion. Executive Function as it is affected by trauma, addiction and principles of recovery. Reading from The Precious Treasury of The Way of Abiding Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The Audiobook is available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes.

Using skillful means to discern between a soulmate and an addiction. Applying the bodhisattva practice to our recovery.  Reading from White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The Audiobook is available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes.

How our nervous system can be retrained to contain our toxic stress by continuing with Practices of a Bodhisattva #15.  Reading from Treasures from Juniper Ridge Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Available in Kindle, Trade Paperback, Hardcover. The Audiobook is available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes. Credit always to Clay Giberson for the amazing show intro over ten years running. Sounds better than ever. Reach out to Clay for sessions. 

Discussion of the experiences of wisdom and compassion and how they relate to our confidence in recovery as well as our long-term goals of becoming a Bodhisattva. Continuing with practice #14. Reading from the New York Times, The Case for Longtermism Reading from Snellgrove, The Hevajra Tantra Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Audiobook with female narrator now available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes. Credit always to Clay Giberson for the amazing show intro over ten years running. Sounds better than ever. Reach out to Clay for sessions. 

How not to cut people's heads off, rather we offer our own. ACEs, neuropsych, how to pause when agitated as the Practice of a Bodhisattva, #13.  Reading from Kindly Bent to Ease Us - Part Three, Wonderment  Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions Audiobook with female narrator now available free with a 3-month Audible trial. Also on Amazon Music and iTunes.

Prayers for the dead. How to integrate Bodhisattva practice into recovery. Discussion of triggers as they pertain to staying in balance, within our Window of Tolerance.  Reading from Great Perfection Audiobook!!! Now on Audiobook! Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions! The audiobook is free with a 3-month Audible trial, and is also on Amazon Music and iTunes. 

How to look for, discover and cultivate a seed of aspiration or inspiration. Practices of a Bodhisattva continues with #11, which begins, "All suffering comes from yearning for your own happiness." Reading from Dakini Teachings  (Shambala 1990) Brand new! We have a soothing female narrator for Compassionate Recovery: Mindful Healing for Trauma and Addictions! The audiobook is free with a 3-month Audible trial, and is also on Amazon Music and iTunes.