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Notes and references

 

Foreword

1

The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya, trans. Maurice Walsh, Wisdom Publications, Boston 1995, p.70.

2

Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco 1996, p.316.

 

Introduction

1

Paramabandhu Groves and Roger Farmer, “Buddhism and Addictions,” Addiction Research & Theory, 2:2 (1994), pp.183–94.

2

Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams, and John D. Teasdale, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse, Guilford Press, New York 2002.

3

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth, trans. Piyadassi Thera, available at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.011.piya.html, accessed on September 6, 2013.

 

Step One: accepting that this human life will bring suffering

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M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, Rider, London 2003, p.3.

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Pema Chödrön, The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Shambhala, Boston 2001, p.75.

 

Step Two: seeing how we create extra suffering in our lives

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Shinzen Young, “Break through Pain: Practical Steps for Transforming Physical Pain into Spiritual Growth,” available at http://www.shinzen.org/Articles/artPain.htm, accessed on September 6, 2013.

2

See Dr. Gabor Maté’s best-selling book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Knopf Canada, Toronto 2008.

3

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living, Delta, New York 1990.

4

MESS: Acronym first coined by Abe Brown, president of the Certified Coaches Federation.

 

Step Three: embracing impermanence to show us that our suffering can end

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Mark Williams and Danny Penman, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Piatkus, London 2011.

 

Step Five: transforming our speech, actions, and livelihood

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This quote has variously been attributed to the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, the late president of BI-LO stores Frank Outlaw, and American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2

Interview with Anita Roddick (founder of the international franchise The Body Shop, which produces natural and ethical body products), available at http://
www.shareguide.com/Roddick.html, accessed on September 6, 2013.

3

“On the Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM: The Jewel Is in the Lotus or Praise to the Jewel in the Lotus,” available at http://enlight.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-AN/an141056.pdf, accessed on September 6, 2013.

 

Step Eight: helping others by sharing the benefits we have gained

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Dhammapada: The Way of Truth, trans. Sangharakshita, Windhorse Publications, Birmingham 2001, p.13.

2

The Maranasati Sutta, in The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya, trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications, Boston 2012, VI, 20.

3

The Kalama Sutta, in In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, ed. by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications, Boston 2005, pp.89–90.

 

Tools for recovery

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Buddhaghosa, Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification (traditional commentary, fifth century AD), trans. Bhikkhu Nanamoli, available at http://
www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/
nanamoli/PathofPurification2011.pdf, p.272, accessed on September 16, 2013.

2

Sharon Salzberg, Loving Kindness, Shambhala, Boston 1995, p.18.