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Recovery Dharma

General Information

Friday 10:00am - 11:15am

weekly

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Class size: 20

About the Course


Recovery Dharma offers a trauma-informed, empowered approach to recovery based on Buddhist principles. Our program is peer-led and non-theistic. We welcome all those who wish to pursue recovery as part of our community. Recovery Dharma is founded on, and inspired by, Buddhism that originated in India and later on flourished in other regions of Asia (e.g., South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia). We deeply appreciate the Buddhist heritage that was protected and freely offered by the ancestors of these cultures. We use the concepts of the 4 noble truths and the 8-fold path. Each concept provides an opportunity to deepen understanding, explore personal inquiry, and connect with others.

There is no limit to the number of participants, no experience or materials required. Currently this meeting is for women, trans-gender, and non-gendered individuals.

Lotus Flower in Pond
Reverend Daishin Eric McCabe

About the Instructor

Rev. Eric Daishin McCabe is a priest in the Soto Zen School of Buddhism in Japan. He graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, where he studied ecology and world religions. While in college, Daishin developed an interest in Indigenous lifeways and met his Soto Zen teacher, Patricia Dai-En Bennage Roshi, with whom he apprenticed for 15 years. Daishin trained at several Soto Zen monasteries in Japan and in France with the Ven.Thich Nhat Hanh. His later training was in spiritual direction and chaplaincy. Daishin is currently located in Ames, Iowa where he and his wife, also a Soto Zen priest, founded Zen Fields (see https://zenfields.org). Daishin wears many hats: He teaches at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha; offers Trauma Sensitive Yoga for mental health; lectures on World Religions, and works as a chaplain in a local medical center. He is a husband and father to two children. Examples of Daishin's calligraphy and Zen art are available on the Zen Fields website.
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