Climbing The Mountain: The Complete Handbook of Buddhist Recovery An A-Z of Addiction

What this model, The Sun Lotus Recovery Model, puts forward is a spiritual approach that does not offer an intervention of a "Higher Power," but one that supports the individual to find their naturally inherent inner potential and develop themselves without an intervention from a "Higher Power." This is called in Buddhism, The Middle Way, or The Inner Way, or even The Sacred Way, which teaches that Human potential (Life), is unlimited and that by tapping into that well spring of potential (Buddha Nature) through Buddhist Practice the individual can bring about a profound positive change on the deepest and most fundamental level of Life.This is also a Human centered approach which says that the individual already has the potential for positive change and just needs the correct causes and conditions to manifest it without the need of an intervention by an exterior "God" or a "Higher Power".Buddhism is a philosophical faith that has no Godhead, or Higher Power to pray too, for salvation. (from addiction or suffering)It teaches that the individual can bring about their own Enlightenment, through their own efforts, through Buddhist Practice, thus overcoming the Four Universal Sufferings of Birth, Old Age, Sickness and Death and all the other existential Human sufferings including that of addiction.From this model and understanding Sun Lotus Recovery was devised and is the complete A to Z of Addiction and Recovery.I hope the reader truly finds something useful in this writing and that it is a tool for them to overcome the misery caused by an addiction disorder not only in their Life but in the lives of all those who are connected to them through Human bonds of family and love.I am not a special person, I am not a different person, I am in fact a very ordinary person who has been able to sustain my Recovery through this programme which I will now explain and deliver in these writings. If I am able to succeed in using this Life philosophy, faith and practice to maintain my own Recovery from my addiction disorder and to experience my own personal growth and development into a better, happier more contented Human Being, then I believe that this can also be the experience of anyone else who chooses to follow in my footsteps, whatever their nationality, gender, race or sexual orientation as these teachings and practices are truly Universal and transcend all such distinctions between us Human Beings.If this endeavour can enable and empower even a single person to t