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Trusting People - One Addict's Experience
Growing up the way I did, I was extremely skeptical about people. My lack of confidence was so powerful; trust wasn't something I didn't...
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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What Could Happen For Us If We Learned How to Stop Suffering with the mind suffering itself?
The practice of Zazen... deep stillness... can help us to notice that a lot of the suffering we experience started with the survivalist...
Aug 2, 20221 min read
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Just For Today | Freedom from guilt and shame | One Addict’s Experience
My spirit was broken. I was a prisoner of my own Mind. I was Condemned by my own shame, guilt, fear, anger, and resentment. I was doing...
Aug 1, 20221 min read
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The Struggle Bus of Allegedly Living Life on Life's Terms
Growing up in recovery... I heard the expression "We have to learn how to live life on life's terms," thrown around a lot. My original...
Jul 31, 20222 min read
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Self-Inventory, Looking Into a Mirror of Self, and the Connection to Meaningful Choices
Just for today, I will pause... introspect... and reflect on what I am standing within myself with depth and intentionality. In This...
Jul 30, 20221 min read
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Intimacy… Secrets… and the Worst Possible Outcomes of not Doing the Work | One Addict’s Experience
Just For Today… Be Real. Sharing forward an ongoing conversation with a friend who asked me to make videos on my experience to help him...
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Doing The Right Things For the Right Reasons | One Addict's Experience
Addiction is suffering that's happening on a spectrum. The objective goal is to be here in such a way that people have the opportunity to...
Jul 25, 20222 min read
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What makes Zazen different from other Buddhist meditation practices especially guided one's?
Answering a very legitimate question, as different meditation practices influence people in different ways, producing certain kinds of...
Jul 24, 20221 min read
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Answering a question about types and so-called sects of Buddhism
--We Are the Practice Itself
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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Open video letters on addiction, recovery, healing, and Zen to one of my friends | Being vs Becoming
--Dignity and Grace
Jul 20, 20221 min read
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Living in Reality instead of a Dream, and with an Undefended Heart
Just for today… I will live beyond the mind's wildest dreams and accept as a precious gift having an opportunity to Live in the Reality...
Jul 19, 20221 min read
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Jul 18, 20220 min read
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Zen, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Plankton
Yesterday, evening I was talking with someone that I've been practicing with. When we got close to what seemed like the end of the...
Jul 14, 20223 min read
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The Ground on Which We Stand | One Addict's Experience
There was a time when I wasn't particularly fond of the word "Humility." There was a negative mental association, because a lot of times...
Jul 13, 20222 min read
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When? | One Addict's Experience
When is it going to happen? When is that thing that I crave to change going to? When will I feel better about myself without all the...
Jul 12, 20224 min read
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Managing of our Attention Super Power
Over engagement with texting, email, (anti) social media apps, dating, Porn sites, etc... etc... are dopamine seizures... degrading and...
Jul 8, 20221 min read
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Jīkō as Jīkō
What is authentic Zen Practice? Noticing that which IS… the unstoppable, incorruptible (and) continuous identity of Universal Loving...
Jul 7, 20221 min read
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Mistake and Mis-takes and Buddha Nature
Am I allowed to get things wrong or do I have to be perfect... especially when I've never met a happy perfectionist... within myself or...
Jul 6, 20222 min read
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A Connection that Pierces Self-Obsession | One Addicts Experience
Chapter five of the Basic Text, plainly states: "Self-obsession is the core of our disease." Addiction is the disease of ideas......
Jul 5, 20222 min read
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