Recovery Dharma of New Haven

@rdnewhaven

Our program is peer led: we don't follow any one teacher or leader. We support each other as partners walking the path of recovery together. This is not a program based in dogma or religion, but in finding the truth for ourselves. This is wisdom that has worked for us, but it is not the only path. It is fully compatible with other spiritual paths and programs of recovery. We know from our own experience that true recovery is only possible with the intention of radical honesty, understanding, awareness, and integrity, and we trust you to discover your own path. We believe this program can help you do just that.

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Join us each week for our Recovery Dharma meeting. Recovery Dharma of New Haven meets weekly at the New Haven Zen Center. ▪Monday evenings 7:30-9 PM (doors open at 7:15) New Haven Zen Center, 193 Mansfield St, New Haven, CT 06511 Enter at the back door. Remove shoes. Please do not congregate near the center. The Zen Center is a non smoking facility. Please do not smoke or vape on the property or in front of the center. #RecoveryIsPossible #RecoveryDharma #TakeRefuge #Buddha #Dharma #Dhamma #Sangha #Recover #Recovery #Satipațțhāna (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqF4RDpu3Ud/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#recoveryispossible #recoverydharma #takerefuge #buddha #dharma #dhamma #sangha #recover #recovery #satipațțhāna

“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.” ― Mooji (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFv2qbO0PV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Power of Perspective Only a being’s perspective leads to suffering. Two people in the exact same situation, according to their outlook and expectations, can have completely different experiences. Turn that around, and any conditions can be a vehicle for bondage—or freedom and awakening. - Vinny Ferraro, "The Heartful Dodger" (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDbrIyuh39/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"Begin with the admission that you do not know and start from there. You can start only from where you are. Theories may be good as starting points, but must be abandoned, the sooner – the better. Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal." — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDCT_vuc01/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A good mind is like a rich ground of gleaming gold, lighting up the whole sky with its golden radiance. But if body, speech, and mind are not tamed, there is very little chance that you will achieve any realization whatsoever. Be aware of your thoughts, words, and actions at all times. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_fDYgMJR3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Marvelous Earth As you walked on the beach the waves were enormous and they were breaking with magnificent curve and force. You walked against the wind, and suddenly you felt there was nothing between you and the sky, and this openness was heaven. To be so completely open, vulnerable - to the hills, to the sea, and to man - is the very essence of meditation. To have no resistance, to have no barriers inwardly towards anything, to be really free, completely, from all the minor urges, compulsions, and demands, with all their little conflicts and hypocrisies, is to walk in life with open arms. And that evening, walking there on that wet sand, with the sea gulls around you, you felt the extraordinary sense of open freedom and the great beauty of love which was not in you or outside you - but everywhere. - J. Krishnamurti, All The Marvelous Earth Brockwood Park 3rd Public Talk 6th September 1980 (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7iYwOuM7S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Start to Just Be Without the feeling of separation from the rest of the world, we also lose the need to strain and stress to be better, more clever, or more accomplished. We can start to just be. — Ayya Khema, “The Elemental Self” (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7f1jbuWqt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Impermanence of Thoughts No matter how many times we’ve thought that thought in the past, the very fact that we can shift to another thought reminds us it’s not permanent. — Shaila Catherine, “Beyond Distraction: Your Virtues Are Stronger Than Your Defilements” #Anicca #Anitya (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7eeF4OvXh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#anicca #anitya

An Innocent Mind What can be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to all the images you have made, to all your experiences— dying every day so that the brain cells themselves become fresh, young, innocent. - Jiddu Krishnamurti, “A Still Mind” (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4utW0uSj8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On Not Playing the Victim One of the worst kinds of elevation of the self is playing the victim. There are times when we actually are victims, when actual blame is appropriate, but to take on the identity of a victim and be stuck blaming is something else. Surprisingly, it is actually a subtle form of elevation—I’m not responsible, you are. This is giving up all freedom. - Nancy Baker, "The Seventh Zen Precept" (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4tTmKuRhU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Try to maintain perfectly pure thoughts in all circumstances, so that even the most insignificant of your acts will preserve their positive energy until you attain enlightenment. A drop of water that falls into the ocean will last as long as the ocean itself.” — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ," The Hundred Verses of Advice – Collected Works Vol II" (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2bD-ZuE9e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Freedom from Reaction Freedom means being able to choose how we respond to things. When wisdom is not well developed, it can be easily obscured by the provocations of others. In such cases we may as well be animals or robots. If there is no space between an insulting stimulus and its immediate conditioned response—anger—then we are in fact under the control of others. Mindfulness opens up such a space, and when wisdom is there to fill it one is capable of responding with forbearance. - Andrew Olendzki, "Calm in the Face of Anger" Patience (Skt. #kṣānti; Tib. བཟོད་པ་, zöpa; Wyl. bzod pa), the third of the six paramitas, is defined as the ability not to be perturbed by anything. (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpz1PtcuO78/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kṣānti

"If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move." ~ Jeshua #Advaita (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpz0VRFuKMU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#advaita

The breath is the most important part of the [shamatha] practice. Thoughts come up with the sense of the body, the sense of "me" being here. However, if there is no central authority, if your practice is purely activity in space, thoughts become transparent. - Chögyam Trungpa, "The Path of Individual Liberation: The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One" (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpuYTavOU5n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When Pain Happens to Us We suffer because we marry our instinctive aversion to pain to the deep-seated belief that life should be free from pain. In resisting our pain by holding this belief, we strengthen just what we're trying to avoid. When we make pain the enemy, we solidify it. This resistance is where our suffering begins. — Ezra Bayda, "When It Happens to Us" (Photo: Sunrise at silent retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake, California, May 2014) (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsMvVpu7Nu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

FEAR is not the opposite of love, just as no wave is the “opposite” of the ocean. It’s not even possible. Fear is a complete expression of consciousness, the same oceanic consciousness that dances as bliss and joy and boredom and excitement “waves” too. Fear is a contracted, tense, dense and held-in form of love, but not its opposite. Opposites only exist in the mind. LOVE is not the opposite of fear, love is the vast ocean of consciousness in which fear can come and go. And you are this ocean. You have always been this ocean. Fear is just a temporary wave in you; it is not a threat and never your enemy. It is your child, your flesh and blood, and you are its loving parent. This non-dual understanding will change your life, completely transforming your relationship with fear. Fear is the excitement of being alive, close to wonder, close to death, close to yourself, close to transformation, close to fearlessness. — Jeff Foster https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpr6Uynuz41/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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