RefCon 5: State of the State presentations with Noah Levine and Amy Reed
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- This is a video from Refcon 5, the yearly conference for the Refuge Recovery community. It shows the opening presentations on behalf of the new RRWS and Recovery Dharma organizations by representatives from each.
Learn more about RRWS on their Facebook Page / refugerecoveryworldser...
Full info about Recovery Dharma (tons of links) on our Table of Contents document:
bitly.com/rd-links
Text of Amy's Recovery Dharma statement (which starts at 26:33 ) is available here:
bit.ly/rd-state...
The video was created after a democratic decision by the crowd, who agreed the initial presentations could be filmed by a community member, but not the question period that followed (which the crowd wished to be private)
I created and am sharing this video on behalf of the community, in the name of transparency and honesty.
May we all build and support the communities that heal us 🙏🏻
It’s great that Recovery Dharma has been created as a very positive response to what is obviously developing into a corporate structure with Noah as the CEO.
There’s a difference of public vs private health that’s very distinct between Canada and the US.
I’m seriously questioning the different motivations of corporate interests vs public interest recovery.
I’m reflecting on this opportunity as Canadian Buddhists we should appeal to
CAMH in asking how we can serve our community incorporated the same interest of skilled ways of living and thinking and bring the Dharma into this next century.
This helps understand the split, thank you!
I find Noah to be heartfelt, if a bit deluded as to his accountability for major harm and potential harm possibly to his alleged victims but also less allegedly and more certainly to an entire group of people whose trust in him and his ideas has been violated.
I wish him luck and I would be his friend if he came to me with regrets and wanted to unload a burden. I met Noah at a book signing in 2014 or 2015. I like him. I just wish he would have seen that his focus should have been on the precept about harmful sexual acts. He could have saved many people hurt and uncertainty, and I don't know how anyone including Noah could deny that.
Thank you Michael for letting me know about this! Powerful video and I hope many of our friends in refuge watch this.
I’m hearing a lot from Noah Levine about the importance of the fifth precept in a Buddhist community. I’d like to hear his thoughts about the third.
Noah invoking the Buddhist monk chant already gives me a sense of profound self importance that violates a recovery program of EQUALS. No one having authority OVER.☹️Jack Kornfirld, Tara Brach etc in my direct experience have never done that invocation.
Happy and sad I am
Thank you for posting this.
Also, a brilliant idea done with mutual support with an unfortunate choice to put a name on a book.☹️ Bill W was encouraged NOT to put HIS NAME on it.
"An encouragement of intoxication in Buddhist comunities????"
Im sorry, but his general demeanor from so many sources makes this super in-your-face mindfulness charade just seem phony.
The guy is megalomaniacal. Hope to see a dharmic recovery system versus some idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, punk bullshit.