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PRINCIPLES: ADDICTION & RECOVERY
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Alright - you're ready! High Bottom Drunk: A Novel...and the Truth about Addiction & Recovery, by Charles N. Roper, PhD. Read excerpts of High Bottom Drunk: A Novel... at the Website: http://www.highbottomdrunk.com =====WHAT WOULD BUDDHA DO?===== Q: What would Buddha do about the distractions of modern life? A: Tiantong said, "If you haven't understood, you get involved in everything around you." Master Yunmen countered: "If you have understood, you get involved in everything around you." --Record of Yunmen, Pilgrimage Record 284 We all get distracted by little things. We feel compelled to pursue "these" and "those" ideas and plans, and we get caught up and swept away by the current of our thoughts and actions. In the dialogue between Tiantong and Yunmen, two Zen masters explore the question of distraction. Tiantong expresses the idea that distraction is a problem. Yunmen counters with something deeper. He says that regardless of one's grasp on reality, we *still* get involved in the distractions of life. This is true because they're simply part of life. Life is lived in the present moment, with all its richness and its blooming, buzzing confusion. If we aren't involved in the distractions, we aren't involved at all. Paraphrased from: What Would Buddha Do? 101 Answers to Life's Daily Dilemmas, by Franz Metcalf. =====LINK OF THE WEEK===== This week's featured link is an interesting recovery site named "The Slugger's Path: The recovery path that looks like the base path." John Baldasare has taken basic recovery principles and placed them around baseball's basepath. Each "base" defines a principle and outlines goals associated with that principle. Completing the entire basepath designates one a "Level 5 Slugger." Visit the site at: http://www.sluggerspath.com =====PURE BOLOGNA===== A cowboy rode into town and stopped at a saloon for a drink. Now, in this particular town, the locals had a habit of picking on strangers, which of course he was. When he finished his drink, he walked outside to find that his horse had been stolen. He walked back into the bar, handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head without even looking, and fired a shot into the ceiling. "Which one of you varmints stole my damn horse?" he yelled forcefully. When no one answered, he shot another round into the ceiling and hollered, "Alright, I'm gonna have one more beer, and when I'm finished, I'm gonna go outside, and if my horse ain't back where it belongs, I'm gonna do what I done back in Texas, and I DON'T want to have to do what I done back in Texas." Some of the locals shifted restlessly and muttered nervously among themselves. Sure enough, when the cowboy finished his beer, he walked outside and found his horse standing at the hitching post. As the locals huddled by the door, the bartender wandered out and said, "Say, Mister, before you go I'd like to ask you what happened in Texas?" The cowboy turned around in his saddle, spat on the ground next to the bartender's feet, and said, "I had to walk my ass home." Submitted by: Who knows, and who cares? =====SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/COMMENT===== To SUBSCRIBE to this publication, send any e-mail to: Mailto:Principles-Newsletter-subscribe@egroups.com To UNSUBSCRIBE from this publication, send any e-mail to: Mailto:Principles-Newsletter-unsubscribe@egroups.com To COMMENT &/or SUBMIT INFORMATION, send e-mail to: Mailto:Principles-Newsletter-owner@egroups.com ========================== Till next week...do us all a favor and keep it simple. Charles Roper, Editor Principles: Addiction & Recovery Tips & Talks Alcohol & Drug Abuse - The Addiction & Recovery Information & Resources Website: http://www.alcoholanddrugabuse.com |
