Sublime

The Program of Narcotics Anonymous provides an opportunity for us to ease the pain of living through spiritual principles.

It is the realization of “no gain” that allows us to revere each thing, each person, each moment as ends in themselves, not as means toward some personal goal. The “uselessness” of true practice keeps it at odds with our various “secret practices,”

It is not a question of improving or being reformed, but of substitution, receiving a God-given Life, a life for which we have nothing to offer to God in exchange. God tells us that the old Adamic nature within you, called the flesh, has no redeeming feature about it.

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In this program, the first thing we do is stop using drugs. At this point, we begin to feel the pain of living without drugs or anything to replace them. The pain forces us to seek a Power greater than ourselves that can relieve our obsession to use.

La question centrale, dans tout ceci, sur le plan historique, c'est qu'avec les grands systèmes non duels, de Plotin en Occident à Nagarjuna en Orient, nous voyons un accent placé sur l'équilibrage et l'intégration de ces deux mouvements. Le courant Ascendant ou transcendantal de la sagesse, ou Eros, ou prajna, doit être équilibré avec le courant

Gradually, we replace old habits with new ways of living. We become willing to change. We go to meetings regularly, get and use telephone numbers, read literature, and most importantly, we don’t use. We learn to share with others. If we don’t tell someone we are hurting, they will seldom see it. When we reach out for help, we can receive it.

Loneliness will kill us inside and the drugs that almost always come next may do the job completely. The symptoms and the feelings that we experienced at the end of our using will come back even stronger than before. This impact is sure to destroy us if we don’t surrender ourselves to the NA Program.

We come to understand the Four Noble Truths and use them as a guide for our path of recovery. This program doesn’t ask us to believe in anything other than our own potential to wake up: just allowing ourselves to believe that it’s possible, or even might be possible.