Refuge Recovery is a practice, a process, a set of tools, a treatment and a path to healing addiction and the suffering caused by addiction. The main inspiration and guiding philosophy for the Refuge Recovery program are the teachings of Siddharta Gautama, a man who lived in India twenty-five hundred years ago. Siddharta was a radical psychologist and spiritual revolutionary. Through his own efforts and practices he came to understand why human beings experience and cause so much suffering. Eventually he came to understand and experience a way of living that ended all forms of addiction. He did this through a practice and process that includes meditation, wise actions, and compassion. After freeing himself from the suffering caused by craving, he spent the rest of his life teaching others how to live a life of well-being and freedom, a life free from suffering. Refuge Recovery recognizes a non-theistic approach to spiritual practice. Our program does not ask anyone to believe anything, only to trust the process and to do the hard work of recovery. Our program is a systematic approach to treating and recovering from all forms of addiction using the traditional buddhist practices of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. It has been our experience, that when sincerely practiced, the program will ensure a full recovery from addiction and a lifelong sense of well-being and happiness.
International Sangha Bulletin March 13th 2020
As a worldwide community of recovering individuals and Refuge Recovery groups we are called upon to meet in-person, and regularly, and therefore we feel the need as the RR service board and RR world service office to offer some help, some guidance and some encouragement for this unprecedented medical situation. We believe that addressing our Refuge […]