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Re: [FOTM:2527] Digest for friends-of-thamkrabok-monastery@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

2009-11-29T02:03:43Z

I think what you say is at the heart of why a buddhist recovery can be effective, it's finding that 3rd way between desire/craving and compleate self denial. This is effectivly the crux of what made buddhism different from the existing faith/religions at the time of the Buddha.
Coxy
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Re: [FOTM:2526] Digest for friends-of-thamkrabok-monastery@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

2009-11-29T00:35:38Z

Thank you Ian,for reply.
I always say I haven't seen any one signing books in any of the big book stores,who has been in trouble with alcohol or drugs,who has not gone to AA or NA or what ever they are into group signing any autographs in them stores.You will get by for a while and either will go insane or do as they have done before.Dont do the Billy Crystal and annylise everything,its a waste of time energy effort....

Re: [FOTM:0] Digest for friends-of-thamkrabok-monastery@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

2009-11-28T17:48:59Z

jimmy how ya doin.
I take from u mail addy ur in irl. I myself as always freaked by Na but in
the last week r so I started givin it a go again but this time with an open
mind and without any prejudgements. (prejudgements is that even a word?)
anyway. I am at a point where I just need the support n someplace to spill

Re: [FOTM:2523] Re: Friends

2009-11-27T22:59:46Z

2009/11/27 John Cox <johncox2...@ymail.com>:

John, I got put off AA when a flustery oul fecker asked me "how long
it took me to make my wife the way she was" - I'd joined the whinging
brigade and was complaining that nothing I did seemed to satisfy her.
Nag nag nag..

Of course he was right. But the inner beast, the shitty committee

Re: [FOTM:2523] Re: Friends

2009-11-27T22:36:16Z

Well done.Good luck for the future.
Jimmy
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It's a tight rope in so many ways. I'm actually scared of NA coz I know it
will be full of junkies so I've only been once and that was back in 99. I

Re: [FOTM:2521] Re: Friends

2009-11-27T11:35:39Z

It's a tight rope in so many ways. I'm actually scared of NA coz I know it will be full of junkies so I've only been once and that was back in 99. I also disliked it coz I felt people there were either playing the victim or were just geniunly bad people. I think addiction only goes so far as an excuse, man there was one girl their with a string of dead and fostered out kids and that's just alian to me. I was a junkie from 12, lived on the streets and was a violent crimal at times but I still had a moral frame work. So that one visit scared me off NA, however I'm going back for my first meeting on Monday, I reckon it's a personal experience and I can't judge others so harshly by my morality. I can still have a view but it's not a place for that and I just wanna stay clean and after 19 months I know I can't keep doing this alone.

Re: [FOTM:2521] Re: Friends

2009-11-26T11:03:13Z

yo BG i'm happy for you.
remember emotions are temporary and perhaps allow yourself permission to feel.
it's time .
surround yourself with supportive people , not just folks who co sign any b.s. ,
but that's why 12 step groups are REAL.

remember , us vomatorium alumni are never far at heart.

Re: Friends

2009-11-26T05:23:28Z

i just spit me drink all ovr the pc when i read that! jeez that was
too CREEPY, being accused of not livin in reality..lols yea ive heard
that most me life,in fact planet jenni or crapear (as me da calls me
on me betr days) is a realplace for this family i dont think it was
until tonite that ive realized just how disconnected ive been with the

Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-23T16:33:02Z

na bill ima square head allthe way,lols..norweigen to the non new york
slang speaker,that second name i use is the one me ex blasted me in a
song years back,very flattering i may add,NOT. happy tosay hes gotten
ovr it n its funny now. havin an easy daygot the ipod rollin goinout
wth the dog for a while..jeez can life be this easy ALL the time?? hey

Re: [FOTM:2517] Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-23T13:28:49Z

RIGHT ON !!
Y O U R O C K ,
remember , it's the first one that gets you started.
meetings or dope......it's up to you..
keep it simple ,sistah

Addendum to my previous rants or reactions
to mr robbie williams and
paolo nutini.........i've been east so long i thought maybe the second name

Re: [FOTM:2517] Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-22T17:20:42Z

Hi Jenni,

I'm holding on to my hat as tight as tight can be... it is great to see your
spirits a little bit lighter... if that's due to the NA meetings then maybe
you should just keep going... for now at least. But whatever you decide to
do... do it gently and be kind to yourself.

Without being a sycophant, if the 'Pencil full of Lead' lyrics brought a

Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-21T18:56:29Z

just wanted to say thanxs vince, thats a language me eyes get easy. u
just made everythng so simple. good reminder not to wreck the head
over what i have no authority over, just work on what i can upstairs
for now at a real "easy cat" pace.
no way are u guys done with me, back to wreck havoc on fot..but not a

Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-21T14:52:18Z

...have to say-them Nuttini lyrics just about sum up my recovary fron
Start to Here.(especially the bit about the Teeth).Very nice.mfk

Re: [FOTM:2513] Re: Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-21T14:11:01Z

more likely ,whattszname is advertising for that new age bookstore in hollywood ca.
on the chance someone will come to hear him in north america.
but again as some of us who lived in temple have witnessed , many will grasp at straws for acclaim.
sorry to be bitter , i am reacting to the decibel level in this shop .

Re: [FOTM:2512] Is Paolo Nutini a Buddhist?

2009-11-21T14:03:22Z

VINCE DID YOU KNOW THAT AS A CHILD , NONE OF THE BHUDDAS
FRIENDS WERE BHUDDISTS ??
I HEARD JESUS HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ......SORTA.

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