Refuge Recovery: Dharma as a Vehicle for Overcoming Addiction

Teacher: Dave Smith
Date: 2016-05-20
Venue: Seattle Insight Meditation Center

Description

Refuge Recovery is a mindfulness-based addiction program that utilizes Buddhist philosophy as the path of recovery. Strong emphasis is placed on both wisdom and compassion as a means for overcoming addiction and its causes. Those struggling with any form of addiction greatly benefit when they are able to understand the suffering that addiction has created while developing compassion for the pain they have experienced. During this session Dave outlines and discusses the practice of Mindfulness and the process of the Dharma as a means for overcoming all forms of addiction.

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Link to view on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/168600894

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