Buddhist teacher Noah Levine’s punk rocker past, social advocacy, and straight-talking, subversive books like Dharma Punx and Against the Stream have earned him an avid following among the young and disaffected. Now he can add a subset of Buddhists who, like Noah, are in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. A fan of the Twelve Step program but not… Read More Refuge Recovery: Tricycle Interview with Noah Levine
I’m only a third of the way through reading Noah Levine’s Refuge Recovery (2014 Harper Collins) but I’m already deeply impressed with his take on how to apply Buddhist principles and practices to recover from addiction. I have read nearly every book that’s been published on the subject of combining Buddhism and the 12 Steps or… Read More Review: Refuge Recovery Is a Gem
From the book The Zen of Recovery, by Mel Ash ©1993 If you are here to read this, think of those who aren’t. Pray for them: good thoughts for those who lost their minds, love and years to compulsion, addiction and fears. Think of their great sacrifice. We recover on the bones of others. Wrap your… Read More We Recover on the Bones of Others
Dear Friends, In this picture, which was taken yesterday, you see me holding a copy of my book for the first time. It is called Recovery 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life and it took me just shy of 47 years to write it. What this book represents to me is triumph. In order to write… Read More Tommy Rosen: Recovery 2.0 Move Beyond Addiction
Dear Friends, I get asked all the time why I feel my recovery is so sturdy. And I will always caution myself and others not to fall prey to the idea that my recovery is sturdy beyond the 24 hours that lays ahead of me. This does not mean that I am concerned about drinking… Read More Tommy Rosen: Beware the Lemmings
