Mindful Recovery Group

Every Sunday ~ 4:00pm to 5:30pm

LOCATION: Sacramento Friend's Meeting Hall, 890 57th St., Sacramento, CA 95819 mapit

This group offers a Buddhist perspective on the healing process of addictive behaviors. The group is open to people suffering from all types of addictions, including substances (food, alcohol, drugs, etc.), and behaviors (co-dependency, sex, gambling, etc.). We offer a safe, confidential, non-judgmental environment, open to people of all spiritual beliefs and backgrounds.

The Twelve Steps*

  1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction and our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power as we understood our Higher Power.
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. We admitted to our Higher Power, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. We’re entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, as we understood it, praying only for the knowledge of our Higher Power’s will for us and the power to carry it out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the results of these steps, we tried to carry this message to the addict who still suffers and to practice these principles in all of our affairs.

*An excerpt from Darren Littlejohn’s “The Twelve Step Buddhist"

Mindful Recovery Brochure

The fifth householder precept is “to refrain from intoxicating substances.”

LRDC has Sangha members who are working a 12 step recovery program and are willing to be available as sponsors.

Lama Jinpa has written his own version of the the 12 steps called the "Twelve Steps of Liberation" in accordance with "The Four Noble Truths" and the "The Eightfold Path."

“The Twelve Steps of Liberation”

For more information ~

Lama J.
916 224-2163 or at jinpa@middlewayhealth.com