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The 12-Step Buddhist: Enhance Recovery from Any Addiction
The face of addiction and alcoholism is a face that many have seen before -- it may be a celebrity, a colleague, or even a family member. And though the 12-step program by itself can often bring initial success, many addicts find themselves relapsing back into old ways and old patterns, or replacing one addiction with another. Author Darren Littlejohn has been there and back, and presents a complimentary guide for recovery to the traditional twelve-step program, out of his own struggles and successes through the study of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
Working with the traditional 12-Step philosophy, the author first shares his own life path, and how he came to find the spiritual solace that has greatly enhanced his life in recovery. Then, he details out how his work integrating Buddhism into the traditional twelve-step programs validates both aspects of the recovery process. While being careful not to present himself as a Tibetan lama or Zen master, the author shows how each step -- such as admitting there is a problem, seeking help, engaging in a thorough self-examination, making amends for harm done, and helping other drug addicts who want to recover -- fits into the Bodhisattva path. This integration makes Buddhism accessible for addicts, and the 12 Steps understandable for Buddhists who may otherwise be at a loss to help those in need.
The 12-Step Buddhist is designed to be a complimentary practice to the traditional 12-step journey, not a replacement. While traditional twelve-step programs help addicts become sober by removing the drug of choice and providing a spiritual path, they rarely delve deep into what causes people to suffer in the first place. The integration of Buddhism with the traditional process provides the wisdom and meditations that can help addicts truly find a deep, spiritual liberation from all causes and conditions of suffering -- for good.
Working with the traditional 12-Step philosophy, the author first shares his own life path, and how he came to find the spiritual solace that has greatly enhanced his life in recovery. Then, he details out how his work integrating Buddhism into the traditional twelve-step programs validates both aspects of the recovery process. While being careful not to present himself as a Tibetan lama or Zen master, the author shows how each step -- such as admitting there is a problem, seeking help, engaging in a thorough self-examination, making amends for harm done, and helping other drug addicts who want to recover -- fits into the Bodhisattva path. This integration makes Buddhism accessible for addicts, and the 12 Steps understandable for Buddhists who may otherwise be at a loss to help those in need.
The 12-Step Buddhist is designed to be a complimentary practice to the traditional 12-step journey, not a replacement. While traditional twelve-step programs help addicts become sober by removing the drug of choice and providing a spiritual path, they rarely delve deep into what causes people to suffer in the first place. The integration of Buddhism with the traditional process provides the wisdom and meditations that can help addicts truly find a deep, spiritual liberation from all causes and conditions of suffering -- for good.
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First published March 10, 2009
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About the author
Darren Littlejohn
13 books65 followersDarren Littlejohn is a recovering addict and a practitioner of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a former mental health specialist. He earned a BA in Psych in 1991 and worked in chemical dependency and acute psychiatric care facilities during college. Darren took 2 years of graduate school and earned All But Thesis of a Masters degree in Research Methods for Psychology. He has been a Buddhist practitioner since the mid 80s.
A spiritual crisis led to a relapse in 1994 with 10 years of sobriety. After regaining sobriety in 1997, Darren worked on recovery with a new zeal, incorporating many years of psychotherapy, 12-Step work, Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practices. While relapse with long-term sobriety is common, returning for a sustained duration is extremely rare. Darren's program, which became the basis for the book the 12-Step Buddhist, is an integrated approach that is hard one over a span of more than twenty years.
Darren, a jazz guitarist and dog lover, now lives in San Diego, with his wife and dog. Hes been involved with many community projects, including the fight against smoking, creating dog parks, community television and a spiritually driven jazz program.
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A spiritual crisis led to a relapse in 1994 with 10 years of sobriety. After regaining sobriety in 1997, Darren worked on recovery with a new zeal, incorporating many years of psychotherapy, 12-Step work, Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practices. While relapse with long-term sobriety is common, returning for a sustained duration is extremely rare. Darren's program, which became the basis for the book the 12-Step Buddhist, is an integrated approach that is hard one over a span of more than twenty years.
Darren, a jazz guitarist and dog lover, now lives in San Diego, with his wife and dog. Hes been involved with many community projects, including the fight against smoking, creating dog parks, community television and a spiritually driven jazz program.
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July 22, 2009
I wrote this book to flesh out my own thoughts and experiences as a lifetime addict and Buddhist. What I'm learning as I do workshops and talks about the book is that this process is really just beginning. There is a lot to learn and apply. My hope is that people around the world will take the journey of the 12-Step Buddhist seriously and in turn create new groups and methods. The work is deep and powerful and can be applied by anyone, be they addict, non-addict Buddhist or not.
May it be of benefit.
-d
May it be of benefit.
-d
August 12, 2014
"filter and apply with simpliciy and ease"
In my autographed copy, Darren Littlejohn wrote "I hope the book helps you filter and apply with simplicity and ease." That is exactly what this book helps me to do. More than just a memoir and more than just a buddhist treatise, this book is a spiritual guide of recovery and the 12 steps.
My own journey has led me to the 12 steps and like Darren, the god concept worked until it didn't work anymore. Knowing that I needed to continue to grow spiritually and knowing that the 12 steps had to be the foundation of my recovery, I began looking outside to find strength and hope, to find a path. The principles of Buddhism very much fit with my own understanding and so without a guide or a teacher I began to explore. I was lead to read the works of Tolle, Joko Beck, Osho, the Dalai Lama and others. Still it was difficult to find the words and develop an "understanding" that satisfied my belief in the 12 steps and my belief in the "great reality".
Darren's book provides a useful tool for applying the 12 steps in a Buddhist practice. The meditations on the steps are insightful, moving and incredibly useful. The integration of the steps and Buddhist principles provide practical everyday methods that enhance recovery and build on the spiritual journey started by the 12 steps. For anyone who struggles with the christian language of 12 step programs, this just might be the book for you. Even if you're not a Buddhist, The 12 Step Buddhist is a manual for compassionate spiritual living; supplementing the 12 steps while navigating a spiritual path. Thanks Darren, you have spoken directly to me in this book and I am forever grateful.
June 20, 2011
As is often the case on "the journey" this book fell into my hands at just the right time. I have been involved in Buddhist study and practice for about three years. It was Meditation that provided me with the "spiritual awakening" and since then exploration of Buddhism and how to apply the teachings to my life has been the central focus of my being. At the same time I found that I was experiencing some dissatisfaction and frustration with AA, both at meetings and in exchanges with my fellow travelers and my commitment to the 12 steps of the program seemed to lose ground in my daily practice. Darren Littlejohn shares many elements of my own story and so the identification that was such a huge attraction when I first entered the fellowship was very strong in this instance, both as an alcoholic and as a practicing Buddhist. He was able to give voice to many of the feelings I had been experiencing and to point the way to integration of both these spiritual paths that have been so central to my life. I feel excited, rejuvenated and more deeply committed than ever to pursuit of freedom from the "bondage of self." I found the book very accessible and a number of his suggestions very powerful. I will be incorporating them into my own daily practice. I did find some of the references to Tibetan Buddhism and some of his explorations of that tradition a bit difficult to relate to since my own tradition is drawn from the Thervada school....but hey I have learned through all of this that the AA trinity Honesty Open mindedness and Willingness can be brought to anything and the results are always astounding. I will take the Buddhas advice in this regard "ehi passiko" (Australian translation suck it and see!)
I recommend the book to anyone who is involved with the 12 steps and any practicing Buddhist, there is much common ground hers and perspectives that illuminate both ways. Read it and more shall be revealed!
I recommend the book to anyone who is involved with the 12 steps and any practicing Buddhist, there is much common ground hers and perspectives that illuminate both ways. Read it and more shall be revealed!
April 11, 2014
I picked this up after talking with an acquaintance who is a Buddhist in recovery; his passing remarks on how the two frameworks complemented each other piqued my curiosity.
There's lots of good stuff in here, and much of it is in the illumination of the similarities between the paths. For me, though, there was too much; the author has been a student of a few types of Buddhism, and shares so much from so many traditions that the end result was overwhelming, and (for me, anyway), a bit messy. Which is not to say that the whole process of spiritual growth isn't messy—it absolutely is. If it had stuck to raising questions and telling stories, though, rather than offering so many prescriptives, it would have been a more valuable tool for me.
There's lots of good stuff in here, and much of it is in the illumination of the similarities between the paths. For me, though, there was too much; the author has been a student of a few types of Buddhism, and shares so much from so many traditions that the end result was overwhelming, and (for me, anyway), a bit messy. Which is not to say that the whole process of spiritual growth isn't messy—it absolutely is. If it had stuck to raising questions and telling stories, though, rather than offering so many prescriptives, it would have been a more valuable tool for me.
April 20, 2010
The journey I have been on to find my path in this short and and sometimes overwhealming existance has lead me to a new friend and his amazing book. I have not only been reading the book, but I also take a course which is based on Darren's writings. Thank you Darren for giving me the "something new" for which I had searched.
June 28, 2009
Excellent book on dealing with addiction issues while avoiding the typical Judeo-Christian ideologies that often accompany recovery programs. My full review: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/0...
September 22, 2012
Would keep this at a five were it not for the use of the "alcoholic" model -- not the addict model of NA. Personal stuff, not to worry. A true staple for us Eastern Thinkers
December 19, 2016
Best book I've read on 12 Step Spirituality in a very long time. Incredibly, human, wise and useful. This is my go to guide.
September 15, 2014
If you find yourself in need of working the 12 steps but want to run out of the room over the Judeo-Christian/Creator god foundation, this book will show you how to stay with it, that is, if you are on board with the principles of buddhism. Before reading this, I really did not understand why I would even want to practice spirituality (I believe in science and not fond of religion, to put it mildly). The reason for practicing spirituality, from Littlejohn's perspective, is to minimize/refrain from causing suffering to yourself and others. If you don't practice, according to the Buddhist principles outlined here, you will most likely get stuck in a default position of delusion and ignorance, both which cause suffering. For an addict, spirituality is an ongoing practice that keeps your negative thoughts and behaviors in check, the very things that drive you numb out. For a person who has to deal with addiction, I know I need something else other than myself, and I trust the wisdom of thousands of years of Buddhism's study of the mind and the many mental states which they have identified that do and do not lead to suffering. I see science as confirming that my life is in fact meaningless- really there is no purpose to it, so in order to give it purpose the best I can do is try to cause the least amount of suffering to myself and others. Well, it's worth a shot...as I say begrudgingly :)
March 28, 2021
Like most books about buddhism, too many words. And as Littlejohn mentioned one of his friends said of his interest in Tibetan Buddhism, at times I found this book "too churchy." But I felt his suggestions for certain practices, such as for the 8th and 9th steps, were incredibly profound and strong. I found the latter half of this book far more interesting than the first half
August 11, 2014
I haven't finished this book yet, but I'm very disappointed so far. About ½ way through, and struggling to keep going with it. Very slow and rather self absorbed in places. More like a biography than anything else, though some nice pointers and quotes along the way.
June 8, 2010
I actually learned nothing from this book -the other buddhist-related recovery books are far superior to this one.
August 10, 2012
I couldn't get past the second chapter of this book. The author comes off as really arrogant and rubbed me the wrong way.
April 27, 2022
"filter and apply with simpliciy and ease"
In my autographed copy, Darren Littlejohn wrote "I hope the book helps you filter and apply with simplicity and ease." That is exactly what this book helps me to do. More than just a memoir and more than just a buddhist treatise, this book is a spiritual guide of recovery and the 12 steps.
My own journey has led me to the 12 steps and like Darren, the god concept worked until it didn't work anymore. Knowing that I needed to continue to grow spiritually and knowing that the 12 steps had to be the foundation of my recovery, I began looking outside to find strength and hope, to find a path. The principles of Buddhism very much fit with my own understanding and so without a guide or a teacher I began to explore. I was lead to read the works of Tolle, Joko Beck, Osho, the Dalai Lama and others. Still it was difficult to find the words and develop an "understanding" that satisfied my belief in the 12 steps and my belief in the "great reality".
Darren's book provides a useful tool for applying the 12 steps in a Buddhist practice. The meditations on the steps are insightful, moving and incredibly useful. The integration of the steps and Buddhist principles provide practical everyday methods that enhance recovery and build on the spiritual journey started by the 12 steps. For anyone who struggles with the christian language of 12 step programs, this just might be the book for you. Even if you're not a Buddhist, The 12 Step Buddhist is a manual for compassionate spiritual living; supplementing the 12 steps while navigating a spiritual path. Thanks Darren, you have spoken directly to me in this book and I am forever grateful.
July 15, 2013
As a Life-Long Spiritual Seeker and Addict, which took me both into recovery (all sorts, but 12-Steps is what i use today, and 'tis true what they say: It Works If Your Work It!
My buddhist oath began over 16 years ago, and the Real Tipping-Point/Critical Mass was attained in December 2012 with the loss of a separate self and the gain of Insight into the True Nature of Reality, which occurred after being sober for a few years, and as i noted, after ~ 15 years as a "devout" Buddhist Practitioner. I follow what is referred to as an Ecumenical Buddhist Path, which is basically saying it's eclectic, yet all forms of Buddhism containing certain unified principles it isn't eclectic, because eclectic means it's derived from various, separate sources, where ecumenical is the essence of all schools of Buddhism, which are fundamentally Not separate sources. As the Buddha out it: "Just as All the oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too does the dharma have but one taste, the taste of freedom."
Having had the experience to incorporate the 12 Steps into my very consciousness, I was/am able to envelope the 12 Steps and, in the positive sense; "make them my own." A statement I would be/am very careful in how I say it, or to whom and how i explain that.
It doesn't mean that I made the 12 Steps customized to fit me, butt hat I was able to process their essence and make them art of me, which this give me my own experience and understanding of the Steps. Which is truly essential, in my opinion, for real, quality, long0term sobriety, as well as the ability to sponsor others, and teach the steps directly as they are outlined, but in my own words, from my own experience. the Steps dissolved me, and in essence the new me evolved with 12-Step cognition, and thus I, in-turn, dissolved the steps into me.
So I have the most profound experiences of my life; The Buddha Dharma and Recovery as the central themes in my life, which has also led to a third experience that I find really round out these two others, and makes the third most profound experience of my life, and the guiding principles, and this third one has been the year spent doing real, true P{psychoanalysis (modern Jungian type, 5 days/week, 52 weeks per year, under the care and direction of an exceptional Human Being, (I am not one that is easily impressed or gives a lot of credibility to schooling, as my Analysts is a Psychiatrist, which means at full-time, full speed, does 4 years university, 4 years Medical School, 5 or 6 years of residency to become a psychiatrists, and only then beginning the Psychoanalyst training which takes an additional 12 years! Not that spending 26 years in school AFTER graduating High School/secondary school, is what does really impress me is that from day 1 of Psychoanalysis school, the doctor is undergoing Psychoanalysis. SO, it's not so much the 26 years of University, as much as the 12 years of Psychoanalysis that is really impressive and really shows. As many long-term addicts, I have been to see countless Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors and Clinical Social Workers. I have met three in all, although one of each, 1 PhD Psychologist, 1 Clinical Social Worker, and 1 Psychiatrist; and that is my Analyst, to be Amazingly helpful and talented, extraordinary, Self-Actualized. SO they do exist, they are out there, but they are the rare minority of Health Professional, and I've seen tons, as well as the best Addictionologists from all over, and other sponsors and substance abuse counselors, etc.
Sorry about that, I got off track, but my experience in Psychoanalysis is so profound that I wish to elaborate on it, and still to point out that the title doesn't necessarily mean anything, although with the Analysts, because I think we all probably know, or know of someone that become a counselor or Psychologist because they were/are a bit cuckoo for coco puffs, thus they figure the schooling will "fix" them, and the only treatments that i've received in my over 40 years of living that actually Cured the underlying Cause has been Craniosacral Therapy and Psychoanalysis. But I wasn't ready for that therapy until my Stream Entry, spiritual awakening to the experience of reality, of No-Self, of Literal Oneness, which was after years of sobriety.
Either way, we are all addicts in our own ways. If we exist, we do so from ignorance and grasping, and in that way we are all addicted to Samsara (Conditioned Existence) so I am doing all i can to truly be the best possible manner of usefulness and genuine compassion and sympathy. Stream Entry is the technical point at which one becomes a Bodhisattva, albeit the lowest levels of Bodhisattvas, and what Bodhisattvas are traditionally known for it their compassion element. Now i don't see much resemblance between myself and Avalokiteśvara, BUT I DO see clearly howe it is Unfathomable to lead a life that was Not directly motivated to help others to find the solution to this "dilemma" of samsara.
THAT SAID: Navigating the 12-Steps as a Buddhist is hard, So is it as a Spiritual Atheist. ANYTHING that is truly beneficial, and This book is definitely beneficial. As is "One Breath At A Time" which is another buddhist recovery book, and one that i strongly recommend.
Thanks, and if you're involved with recovery and buddhism, or just recovery, or just buddhism, or neither but suffering in realms of samsara, please feel free to ask for help My website is http://BuddhistInsight.com
Thanks, Love and Health,
Dharmamitra Jeff Stefani
My buddhist oath began over 16 years ago, and the Real Tipping-Point/Critical Mass was attained in December 2012 with the loss of a separate self and the gain of Insight into the True Nature of Reality, which occurred after being sober for a few years, and as i noted, after ~ 15 years as a "devout" Buddhist Practitioner. I follow what is referred to as an Ecumenical Buddhist Path, which is basically saying it's eclectic, yet all forms of Buddhism containing certain unified principles it isn't eclectic, because eclectic means it's derived from various, separate sources, where ecumenical is the essence of all schools of Buddhism, which are fundamentally Not separate sources. As the Buddha out it: "Just as All the oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too does the dharma have but one taste, the taste of freedom."
Having had the experience to incorporate the 12 Steps into my very consciousness, I was/am able to envelope the 12 Steps and, in the positive sense; "make them my own." A statement I would be/am very careful in how I say it, or to whom and how i explain that.
It doesn't mean that I made the 12 Steps customized to fit me, butt hat I was able to process their essence and make them art of me, which this give me my own experience and understanding of the Steps. Which is truly essential, in my opinion, for real, quality, long0term sobriety, as well as the ability to sponsor others, and teach the steps directly as they are outlined, but in my own words, from my own experience. the Steps dissolved me, and in essence the new me evolved with 12-Step cognition, and thus I, in-turn, dissolved the steps into me.
So I have the most profound experiences of my life; The Buddha Dharma and Recovery as the central themes in my life, which has also led to a third experience that I find really round out these two others, and makes the third most profound experience of my life, and the guiding principles, and this third one has been the year spent doing real, true P{psychoanalysis (modern Jungian type, 5 days/week, 52 weeks per year, under the care and direction of an exceptional Human Being, (I am not one that is easily impressed or gives a lot of credibility to schooling, as my Analysts is a Psychiatrist, which means at full-time, full speed, does 4 years university, 4 years Medical School, 5 or 6 years of residency to become a psychiatrists, and only then beginning the Psychoanalyst training which takes an additional 12 years! Not that spending 26 years in school AFTER graduating High School/secondary school, is what does really impress me is that from day 1 of Psychoanalysis school, the doctor is undergoing Psychoanalysis. SO, it's not so much the 26 years of University, as much as the 12 years of Psychoanalysis that is really impressive and really shows. As many long-term addicts, I have been to see countless Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors and Clinical Social Workers. I have met three in all, although one of each, 1 PhD Psychologist, 1 Clinical Social Worker, and 1 Psychiatrist; and that is my Analyst, to be Amazingly helpful and talented, extraordinary, Self-Actualized. SO they do exist, they are out there, but they are the rare minority of Health Professional, and I've seen tons, as well as the best Addictionologists from all over, and other sponsors and substance abuse counselors, etc.
Sorry about that, I got off track, but my experience in Psychoanalysis is so profound that I wish to elaborate on it, and still to point out that the title doesn't necessarily mean anything, although with the Analysts, because I think we all probably know, or know of someone that become a counselor or Psychologist because they were/are a bit cuckoo for coco puffs, thus they figure the schooling will "fix" them, and the only treatments that i've received in my over 40 years of living that actually Cured the underlying Cause has been Craniosacral Therapy and Psychoanalysis. But I wasn't ready for that therapy until my Stream Entry, spiritual awakening to the experience of reality, of No-Self, of Literal Oneness, which was after years of sobriety.
Either way, we are all addicts in our own ways. If we exist, we do so from ignorance and grasping, and in that way we are all addicted to Samsara (Conditioned Existence) so I am doing all i can to truly be the best possible manner of usefulness and genuine compassion and sympathy. Stream Entry is the technical point at which one becomes a Bodhisattva, albeit the lowest levels of Bodhisattvas, and what Bodhisattvas are traditionally known for it their compassion element. Now i don't see much resemblance between myself and Avalokiteśvara, BUT I DO see clearly howe it is Unfathomable to lead a life that was Not directly motivated to help others to find the solution to this "dilemma" of samsara.
THAT SAID: Navigating the 12-Steps as a Buddhist is hard, So is it as a Spiritual Atheist. ANYTHING that is truly beneficial, and This book is definitely beneficial. As is "One Breath At A Time" which is another buddhist recovery book, and one that i strongly recommend.
Thanks, and if you're involved with recovery and buddhism, or just recovery, or just buddhism, or neither but suffering in realms of samsara, please feel free to ask for help My website is http://BuddhistInsight.com
Thanks, Love and Health,
Dharmamitra Jeff Stefani
December 10, 2019
I won this book in the giveaway! This classic has been recommended to me by countless people and I can see why. I found bountiful knowledge and light.
October 23, 2015
Darren Littlejohn's 12-Step Buddhist is a Buddhist interpretation and guide for the 12-step programs variously associated with the different Anonymous organizations (Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous...). Perhaps one impetus some readers might have for having picked this book is no doubt its approach to the 12-step program that does not make use of a concept of God (Buddhists are not obligated to believe in God). It is not really my impetus for reading the book, however; rather, I was more interested in how Littlejohn would synthesize the 12 Steps and Buddhism.
The 12 Steps in the book are reinterpreted as dealing with work on the following principles at each step: (1) Acceptance of the problem; (2) Confidence in a Higher Power; (3) Surrender to your Higher Power (Littlejohn leaves it open so that your ideal could be a set of moral standards, communion with other people, or a mindful state of consciousness, or what have you); (4) Self-examination regarding the wrongs you have done because of your problem; (5) Self-honesty in confession of wrongdoing to yourself, your Higher Power, and a close confidant; (6) Willingness to let your HP remove your shortcomings; (7) Humility toward your HP and asking for help to remove your shortcomings; (8) Forgiveness toward those who have harmed you and the hope that others will forgive you for the harm you have done to them; (9) Restitution toward those you have harmed; (10) Admission of further harm or wrongdoing; (11) Seeking through prayer and meditation toward a better life; and (12) Unconditional Love toward other people.
What was especially helpful in Littlejohn's book is his exercises where you are supposed to address different aspects of yourself, for example your inner Sufferer, inner Addict, inner Sanity, and so on, and the role-play questions he set up for you to interact with these different aspects of oneself.
The 12 Steps in the book are reinterpreted as dealing with work on the following principles at each step: (1) Acceptance of the problem; (2) Confidence in a Higher Power; (3) Surrender to your Higher Power (Littlejohn leaves it open so that your ideal could be a set of moral standards, communion with other people, or a mindful state of consciousness, or what have you); (4) Self-examination regarding the wrongs you have done because of your problem; (5) Self-honesty in confession of wrongdoing to yourself, your Higher Power, and a close confidant; (6) Willingness to let your HP remove your shortcomings; (7) Humility toward your HP and asking for help to remove your shortcomings; (8) Forgiveness toward those who have harmed you and the hope that others will forgive you for the harm you have done to them; (9) Restitution toward those you have harmed; (10) Admission of further harm or wrongdoing; (11) Seeking through prayer and meditation toward a better life; and (12) Unconditional Love toward other people.
What was especially helpful in Littlejohn's book is his exercises where you are supposed to address different aspects of yourself, for example your inner Sufferer, inner Addict, inner Sanity, and so on, and the role-play questions he set up for you to interact with these different aspects of oneself.
December 16, 2014
Very disappointed. To much Tibetan Buddhism for me. I prefer a more clinical down to earth approach, Theravada for example. This book is on a high horse and isn't that informative. I guess if you like Tibetan Buddhism you will/should like this. However, I don't. So for that reason I'll give it two stars.
December 11, 2008
I edited this title, and it was a really interesting combination of 12-Step philosophy and Buddhism, which I had never seen before, as 12-Step gets a lot of philosophy from Christianity. I really enjoyed working on this one.
January 22, 2016
The title is self explanatory. Not being a buddhist, I did not find the book very illuminating, although I did read the entire volume and tried with an open mind. I hope many enjoy the book.
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