Recovery Dharma of New Haven

Recovery Dharma of New Haven We gather to explore a Buddhist-inspired approach to recovery from addiction of all kinds.

Know Your Own MindIf you discover how you oppress yourself, your uncontrolled mind will disappear. Knowing your own mind...
04/01/2026

Know Your Own Mind

If you discover how you oppress yourself, your uncontrolled mind will disappear. Knowing your own mind is the solution to all your problems.

Lama Thubten Yeshe, “Your Mind Is Your Religion”

Join us each week for our Recovery Dharma meeting.Recovery Dharma of New Haven meets weekly at the New Haven Zen Center....
03/28/2026

Join us each week for our Recovery Dharma meeting.

Recovery Dharma of New Haven meets weekly at the New Haven Zen Center.

▪Monday evenings 7:30-9 PM (doors open at 7:15)

New Haven Zen Center, 193 Mansfield St, New Haven, CT 06511

Enter at the back door. Remove shoes.
Please do not congregate near the center.
The Zen Center is a non-smoking facility.
Please do not smoke or v**e on the property or in front of the center.

Set the Compass of Your HeartWhatever your difficulties—a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the con...
03/24/2026

Set the Compass of Your Heart

Whatever your difficulties—a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness—you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do—despite your circumstances—are to be present and to be willing to love.

— Jack Kornfield, "Set the Compass of Your Heart"

Understanding RelapseMindfulness (Pāli: "satipaṭṭhāna) is a powerful antidote to the mechanism of relapse. By observing ...
02/27/2026

Understanding Relapse

Mindfulness (Pāli: "satipaṭṭhāna) is a powerful antidote to the mechanism of relapse. By observing the process of the mind, one can notice that habitual patterns fueled by disturbing emotions (e.g. greed/passion, hatred/aggression, delusion/ignorance) is a very speedy phenomenon. The tremendous good news is that mindfulness can be roused by practicing samatha (Pāli)/shamatha (Sanskrit) which means "development of peace". Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation rouses clarity and slows down the speediness of the mind. This combined with an attitude of curiosity and gentle compassion gives rise to insight and allows for the possibility that one can choose renunciation and rouse generosity, discipline, patience, diligence and motivation to employ the Eightfold Path and always remember the Three Jewels.

This is very good news! ❤

Join us for our weekly Recovery Dharma meetings

Mondays 7:30-9pm and Saturdays 6-7:30pm

New Haven Zen Center
193 Mansfield St.
New Haven, CT 06511

Spacious MindMost of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we ca...
02/24/2026

Spacious Mind

Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the important thing is not to get rid of thought, but to understand it. And we do this by concentrating on the space in the mind, rather than on the thought.

— Ajahn Sumedho, “Noticing Space”

"When we bear witness, when we become the situation — homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death — the right action...
02/17/2026

"When we bear witness, when we become the situation — homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death — the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do. We don’t have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
Loving action is right action. It’s as simple as giving a hand to someone who stumbles or picking up a child who has fallen on the floor. We take such direct, natural actions every day of our lives without considering them special. And they’re not special. Each is simply the best possible response to that situation in that moment."
—Bernie Glassman

"I’ve found that pointing people to their fundamental goodness will awaken it. It’s more skillful than pointing to the n...
02/17/2026

"I’ve found that pointing people to their fundamental goodness will awaken it. It’s more skillful than pointing to the negative. We are so loyal to our suffering and to seeing ourselves as damaged that it’s very easy to use spiritual practice to reinforce our self-judgment. That doesn’t help people become liberated."

- Jack Kornfield, "The Wise Heart"

Don’t just talk about the dharma. Go beyond the words. Put them into practice, and experience what they mean.— Chamtrul ...
02/17/2026

Don’t just talk about the dharma. Go beyond the words. Put them into practice, and experience what they mean.

— Chamtrul Rinpoche

May you have the strength and courage not only to face your suffering, but to also embrace the opportunities for love, l...
02/16/2026

May you have the strength and courage not only to face your suffering, but to also embrace the opportunities for love, laughter and compassion that are near you every day.

— Jack Kornfield

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193 Mansfield St
New Haven, CT
06511

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Monday 7:30pm - 9pm
Saturday 6pm - 7:30pm

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