Al Sevo
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![[*]](./images/engage/default_icon.gif) posted on 26-8-10 at 05:21 PM |
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Anyone else from non-Abrahamic and non-Buddhist faiths?
Just curious for myself because that's my category. I'm not an atheist or agnostic, I just follow another tradition...
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| posted on 29-8-10 at 12:25 PM |
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Ooh, tell tell.
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Al Sevo
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| posted on 29-8-10 at 01:52 PM |
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You first! Are you also in the same category?
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| posted on 30-8-10 at 06:53 AM |
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Alas no, just a curious Buddhist...
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| posted on 30-8-10 at 10:21 AM |
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I've known at least one Hindu and one person who identifies as a pagan with a focus on the beliefs of the medicine wheel cultures in recovery, and
there is at least one story in the 4th edition of the AA Big Book from a practitioner of a Native American way, but none of that describes me.
Tim M.
"We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper." -Suzuki Roshi
"In other traditions demons are expelled externally. But in my tradition demons are accepted with compassion." -Machig Labdrön
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Al Sevo
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| posted on 30-8-10 at 04:47 PM |
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None of those describe me, either, although there are similarities in Hinduism, Native American spirituality, Shinto and traditional Chinese religion
to my path. But it's not any of those, so...I guess we're in the same boat in a way.
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Al Sevo
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| posted on 30-8-10 at 04:51 PM |
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The 12 steps, as non-denominational (Unitarian?) as it is, seems to me, to be fundamentally Judeo-Christian in its outlook starting with Step 1. I
don't know that powerlessness (and conflating that with unmanageability, the latter which I can relate to) and an acceptance of such is necessarily
gonna work when your framework begins with different fundamental suppositions--infinite choice and balance as opposed to powerlessness and surrender.
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spoogleman
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| posted on 1-9-10 at 06:19 AM |
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Taoism?
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Al Sevo
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| posted on 3-9-10 at 05:34 AM |
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Yoruba religion.
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