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Trifolds • Inquiry Sets • DIY Tools • Your Empowerment • Secret Links • Gear
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Where every link rocks. Literally.
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🆕 July 2025 at RD.Rocks:
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❖ 1st time @ RD.Rocks? Welcome! Start here with our newcomer trifold. It explains our recovery program in a simple way.
❖ Pros: All pages of KarmaGarden Worksheet/Trifold has been cleaned up and revised. (Examples updated)
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2 TRIFOLDS TO BEGIN THE PATH
6 TRIFOLDS TO DEEPEN THE PATH
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❖ 👋 NEWCOMERTRIFOLD.rd.rocks
🗺️ Looking for an RD Trifold to give to Newcomers?
Look no further. This one’s ready to print — a summary of the RD program, with top reasons we love it, in an inviting conversational format.

📍Your Local Meetings list is on the back, with nearby cities grouped together. Struggling newcomers shouldn't have to fumble on clunky phones to see if there’s a meeting.

🦮Just say: “Welcome Newcomer. Take this trifold — check the back to find us again.” It’s clear, quick, and it works — helping newcomers return, and finally, leading to sangha membership growth. 😌 		❖ 🪴KARMAGARDEN.rd.rocks (worksheet • 2pg )
🎯"How to Identify & Set Wise Boundaries for Process Addictions" (finally, guidance to a Path for non-substances.)
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❖ 🌟CODEPENDENCY.rd.rocks
"What does it look like? How do I break free?"
(with Laurarachel, RDG Board, RD Chicago's Wise Intentions/Boundaries Mtg)
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❖ ✍️ INQUIRYFAQ.rd.rocks
"How to Start an Inquiry Circle Workgroup"
(official RDG literature)
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❖ ✨AFFINITYMEETINGS.rd.rocks
📆 A complete list of RD's 80+ online "Special-Interest (Affinity)" meetings. Each Emoji maps to 1 Affinity — spot yours instantly.

• new additions:
💪 BODY MOVEMENT / QIGONG 🧸 TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT INJURY 🌞 365 DAILY MTGS

• and more:
🧏‍♂️ A.S.L. 🌱 BEGINNERS ✊🏽 BIPOC 🌟 CODEPENDENCY 🏡 FAMILY SUPPORT 🩺 HEALTHCARE 💗 HeartPractices 🧩 IFS ✍️ INQUIRY WORK 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS/NB 💡MENTAL HEALTH 🥢 MINDFUL EATING 💊 MAT/PAIN/HEALTH 🚹 MENS 💛 LOVE/SEX/PORN ⚖️ PRECEPTS 🇪🇸 SPANISH 🚺 WOMENS
❖ 👩‍🏫 MENTORSHIP.rd.rocks
"Guidelines & Pro Tips (for both Mentors & Mentees)"
(derived from Portland PDX mentorship guideline documents)
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❖ 🪑 STARTINGAMEETING.rd.rocks
"How to Start a Meeting"
(derived from the RD 2019 May Manuscript)
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❖ 🌎 INTERSANGHA.rd.rocks
"How to Start an Intersangha"
(derived from Chicago & NYC's Intersangha Handout)
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GET THE RECOVERY DHARMA BOOK
TOOLS FOR FACILITATING MEDITATIONS
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❖ 📕BOOK.rd.rocks 🤓 [PDF]
Still scrolling down to Page 100 (Unity's Story)? Here — save this PDF. 🏴‍☠️ In this time-saving bootleg PDF, the Table of Contents is *clickable* 🙀		❖ 📺MEDITATIONS.rd.rocks [YOUTUBE • AUDIO]
1 playlist of 28 Recorded RD meditations (various narrators.) 1 powerful, easy link. Great bookmark.
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❖ 🌲TREESAVER.rd.rocks 🌲 [PDF • 8.5"x11"]
It's the book in just 18 pages of paper. Ready to print.		❖ 📄MEDITATIONSCRIPTS.rd.rocks [PDF]
13 RD Meditation Scripts in 1 PDF. Text for reading.
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❖ 🔎LARGEPRINT.rd.rocks 🔎 [PDF • 8.5"x11"]
Aging is inevitable. Suffering from reading the book? Optional.		❖ 🔔insighttimer.com/ang [AUDIO]
My enhanced RD meditations are well-reviewed on Insight
Timer. Search for my Vietnamese name: "Ang" ➡ tap "Teacher"
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LISTEN TO OUR AUDIOBOOK, ANYWHERETOOLS FOR FACILITATING ZOOM MEETINGS
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❖ 🎧 AUDIOBOOK.rd.rocks 🎧 [SPOTIFY]
Stream on Spotify (or search Youtube/Apple Podcasts, etc. All free)
❖ 📕BOOK.rd.rocks 🤓 [PDF]
Still scrolling down to Unity's Story (Pg 100)? Here — save this PDF. In this time-saving bootleg PDF, the Table of Contents is *clickable* 🙀 (and each page links to the Table of Contents.)
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❖ 🎧MP3.rd.rocks🎧 [MP3]
Save the MP3's for listening offline		❖ 🖥️ SLIDES.rd.rocks ⇪
If you temporarily need slides, try these. Type: "SLIDES.rd.rocks" ➡ share. (Note: These contain some variations aimed to help beginners.) [ practice | 4 noble truths | 8-fold path | +feelings charts +more ]
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THE SECRET RD MEETING LISTSTHE SECRET RD LINKS. $7 BOOKS • FILES • MERCH
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❖ 🪑AFFINITY.rd.rocks🪑
The list of all RD Special-Interest (Affinity) Meetings. Clickable zoom links.		❖ 📚SEVENDOLLARBOOKS.rd.rocks
Did you know: We can buy RD books in bulk for $7/book! Minimum=15. Total=$105 (shipping incl.) Sometimes ppl miss it on the RDG site so here's a helpful link.
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❖ 🧑‍💻 ONLINE.rd.rocks
 For just the Online meetings
Or from recoverydharma.org/meetings, tap on "[ Any Type ]"		❖ 📂FILES.rd.rocks
Misc RD files I've collected/created since 2019+. Want a sneak peek? Tap the [FILES] tab of this Sheet.
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❖ 🪑 NEARME.rd.rocks
 For just the In-Person meetings (within 25 miles).
Or tap on the from recoverydharma.org/meetings
tap the black triangle by "Search [ 🔻]"		❖ 👜 MERCH.rd.rocks —
👕 Shirts • 🖼️ Wall Art • 👜 Tote Bags • (sold-at-cost)

New July 2025:
• Dedication of Merit (back): Now on Straight Outta Dukkha shirts.
• RD Enso'd Quotes on Mulberry (Canvas): Add another echelon of elegance to your meditation area. Or send the perfect gift a Dharma Buddy, trust me they will just absolutely love it, even at the smallest size 8"x8", it's incredible.
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the practice. ⑤ SELF-INQUIRY & INVESTIGATION. Often overlooked, yet essential to true healing in recovery. Because the book doesn't outline ways to approach them, here are some approaches that have been helpful. May they serve as inspiration for your own journey of reflection, discovery, and freedom from the suffering of addiction.
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❖ inquiryFAQ.rd.rocks[Official RD Literature] The Definitive FAQ for Inquiry Circles (inventory workgroups). Examples to start your own Inquiry Circles, based successful recovery research, and on the experiences of 20+ RD completed inquiry groups.
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❖ inquirySHEET.rd.rocks[inquiry] 6-Month+ Schedule Examples. Experientially tested & paced for less burnout. Compare Inquiry Question sets side-by-side. BONUS: 20 Weeks of easy yet effective Trauma-Informed Grounding Tips (1-minute exercises)
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❖ inquirySCRIPT.rd.rocks[inquiry] A Meeting Script Example for Inquiry Circles
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❖ GUIDELINES.rd.rocks[inquiry] A Core Guidelines Example for Inquiry Circles
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❖ whyinquire.rd.rocks[Youtube • 15 Min] This video outlines the evidence-based reasons for the framework for RD Inquiry Circles was formed. There’s an annotated research paper and a fascinating story about a rebooted NA (Narcotics Anonymous) program in the Middle East—so successful that they had to start printing their own literature, separate from rest of the world.
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ⓐ[Text Summary]:
"So, what's this fascinating story relevant to RD's beginnings?" ....or "I'm a geek for research, spill the dharma tea, pls"

When RD was founded in 2019, nobody had done the inquiries yet — not even the RD founders! Naturally, newcomers thought just attending meetings was the recovery. Yet in longterm recovery, we start to see that attending meetings are more like a band-aid, metaphorically. Rather it's Self-Inquiry & Investigation where we can identify and stop the causes of bleeding. Otherwise the bleeding re-arises when the unidentified causes inevitably re-arise. I appreciate that in 12-Step recovery, the main process of recovery (the Stepwork) is essentially 2500-year-old Buddhist inquiry & investigation. They could just as accurately call it the 12-Investigations Model. Alcoholics Anonymous hit that part of recovery spot-on.

Now the interesting part... In Iran, alcohol is forbidden but for centuries, their people have grappled with an opiate endemic. Then after starting Narcotics Anonymous in 1990, by the early 2000s, suddenly 1 out of 3 NA meetings worldwide were happening in Iran. 🤯! This was unprecedented. The world was hearing reports like, "The NA Sponsor in Iran is being regarded as the new spiritual community leader. It seems every family is feeling the impact." Iranians held large community-wide inventory-completion celebrations. Ex-drug addicts were being restored to their communities and families. NA conventions were being held in stadiums in the tens of thousands. Really beautiful recovery stories. Today, no recovery program has grown as fast nor as successfully as NA in Iran.

The recovery world wondered, • "How are they doing this?" • "What are they doing differently than the American founding 12-step programs?"

Lucky for us, (1) they are geopolitically isolated from our recovery traditions for better or worse, (2) research grants have been funded to study their recovery success, (3) enough time has passed that supposedly there have been more 12-step research studies in Iran than anywhere else in the world, and (4) we have good data on what makes their recovery miraculously strong. Let's just have a look at some key differences I've distilled from a 2019 study:
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ⓑ(1) First, Daycounting is not front and center. (For the most part, in American 12-Step culture, Daycount acts as a universal badge ID number—that is, daycounts since relapse is the measure of one's recovery. When meeting someone, a common question in is, "How much cleantime/sobertime you got?" Daycount of course does have good inherent value. And though it is very well-intended, in practice, it often plays out as: • unintended hierarchies based on time-not-healing • everyday perfection over ongoing progress • shame & isolation after slips • exclusion of harm-reduction/non-linear paths. Meanwhile, Iran’s takes the pressure and focus off daycounting, which • encourages recovery growth • instills values of progress over perfection (of daily sobriety) • encourages honesty after slips & more learning from slips • includes harm-reduction and embraces non-linear paths.

(2) Rather, their recovery focus is to *complete* Self-Inventory Work. (Iranian NA culture is based on doing the inner inquiry healing work required. Plus, they celebrate upon completing one go-around of all topics of self-investigation.)

(3) Weekly Self-Inventory Circles. (They met weekly to for inquiry work meetings. Average twice per week. That's on top of regular meetings!)

(4) Mentorship Groups means Scalable Growth (many-to-many, not mentor-to-mentee 1:1). (This 4th one is a vehicle for the Recovery Dharma Program to grow and scale exponentially. Skip reading to ⓒ below this, if you're focused on your own recovery for now. Ok, the American recovery model of writing and sharing inquiries is most often 1-on-1. Sponsor-to-sponsee. That's a showstopper for RD 2019 (like Iran's NA 1990) — having just formed, there were no mentors and fewer who completed inquiries. The general understanding is that only a mentor who has gone fully through the inquiries can help a mentor go through their inquiries. No chickens can lay eggs, no eggs can mature to become chickens — it's deadlock for mentorship & inquirywork. So Recovery Dharma absolutely had to find & proceed with a different model of mentorship framework. For Iranian NA, they did inventories within large Mentorship groups, that's right — Sanghas. So instead of a slow trickling bottleneck, they had sangha-wide inventory workgroups flowing. They met in groups of N=19 average (wow.) Even if we meet in inquiry circles/workgroups of N=4, that has a large exponential blossoming advantage over 1-on-1 mentorships. Or worse, zero mentorships happening, N=0, no one doing the self-inquiry work that is attributed as the main focus of Iran's recovery success. The take-away is that with collective wisdom, there exist viable ways to have co-mentorships as admirable friends to one another, an inquiry circle of equals, like at a round table.
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ⓒThose are my highlights. With all of this written in the research now, what I see is an engine for self-multiplicative healing and potentially exponential growth — if all avg 4 inquiry circle members go on to help some 4 more. RD members heal. RD itself grows. Repeat. Iran & Narcotics Anonymous seems an unlikely comparison to Western Recovery Dharma. But there's a lot of common ground, of going against the grain of traditional recovery, of being a very new recovery program lacking mentors. The Iranian NA model shows us compellling evidence of what happens: When self-inquiry isn’t the side project, but the heart of the path. When recovery is not restricted to one-to-one relationships, but opened up to many-to-many for closer, collective healing. When after a slip, honesty is easier, not harder. We don't have to start from scratch—we just have to be informed and let others know about what has already worked, including for ourselves.

The book talked about "forming groups to work on inquiries." But they left it up to us to blindly experiment. I think what the science points to is slightly better than what the book offered, which I interpreted as: "Folx, just try everything." From 2020 through 2022, I put in the wise effort to try forming groups to work on inquiries. I thought there was a good chance that emulating Iran NA's success of weekly self-investigating co-mentorship circles would net some beneficial recovery results. In my model of Inquiry Circle guidelines, schedules, and groups, I followed what I interpreted has been wildly successful for Iranian NA recovery. Once that was set, I of course listened to everyone and tried to adapt to feedback and everyone's needs: burn-out, trauma-activation, inquiries for substance addictions and were not inclusive of people working on process addcitions, flexibilities, potential schedule difficulties, less shameful questions, alternate questions for people with certain habits or working on certain addictions. In maybe 3 years I ended up doing 20+ inquiry circles in hopes it would jumpstart a momentum of strong grassroots recovery for Recovery Dharma, that in 20 years we might find that such studies conducted on the success of RD's phenomenon of success similar to Iran's, in large part due to emphasis on weekly-inquiry circles.
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OTHER SETS OF INQUIRY QUESTIONS. You got choices! "We encourage you to create inquiries that may help promote [recovery]"
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reordered.rd.rocks✍️[set of inquiries] Reordered for trauma-safety. Grounding exercises. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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innerchild.rd.rocks✍️[set of inquiries] Trauma-informed, explores childhood. Weekly grounding exercises.
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awesome.rd.rocks✍️[set of inquiries] An evolution of the "reordered" inquiries above.
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inquirysheet.rd.rocks ✍️[compare side-by-side] Contains most of the above plus others, so you can compare
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the practice. ① RENUNCIATION. for PROCESS ADDICTIONS, we identify and commit to wise BOUNDARIES around our harmful behaviors.
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karmagarden
.rd.rocks		Can you can relate to any of these?
🚥 • I’ve had trouble identifying or committing to boundaries.
🎯 • Sometimes it feels like my process addiction is a moving target.
🤔 • Wise boundary? I’ve never really heard of that before.

You’re not alone. That’s exactly why I developed the Karma Garden framework: to help people like us understand, adapt, and set boundaries — even when the terrain of process addiction keeps shifting.

🛑 1. “I’ve had trouble identifying or committing to boundaries.”
Many of us never learned what a boundary really is. The Karma Garden approach helps you clarify boundaries in a compassionate, practical way. Instead of forcing rigid abstinence, you get to reflect on what truly matters to you. "What do I value? What am I ready to start letting go? What brings me toward the life I really want?" That’s how we move from shame-based restriction to values-based intention.

🎯 2. “Sometimes it feels like my process addiction is a moving target.
Exactly — because process addictions (tech, sex, food, work, etc.) aren’t black-and-white. They’re woven into daily life and life changes. One day I might feel in control, and the next I’m caught in a loop again. That’s why the Three Realms tracks change across a spectrum, not just “on or off.” When I went from acting out 365 days/year to 12, I wasn't a failure every month — forget that. We are celebration-worthy works always in progress. The framework helps us recognize growth, not just resets.

🤔 3. “Wise boundary? I’ve never really heard of that before.”
In Buddhist Recovery, a wise boundary is one rooted in awareness, intention, and self-compassion. Not negative punishments so much. So instead of telling myself, “I have to stop [using porn],” I can come from a more gentler perspective of positive goals. I might instead frame it, “What is it I truly long for that will give me that quiet, long-lasting happiness?” It's not "stop using porn" — It took months for me to see that I actually want True Intimacy. The shift in perception changes everything in how I approach my recovery. With the Karma Garden, we start building toward that beautiful life we really want, one boundary at a time.

If you’re tired of rigid models that don’t reflect your reality, your goals, your joys, if you feel stuck and the target keeps moving, if you need help with boundaries, maybe it's time to try this self-loving, harm-reduction-based approach. You've nothing to lose, a life ahead to benefit.

🪴 3realms.rd.rocks | (a Buddhist adaptation that builds on the SAA 3 Circles Model) 📺 Watch the Teaching Academy session on BRN (Buddhist Recovery Network): youtube.com/watch?v=bOABFDnmeHI
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📧EMAIL:👋ABOUT rd.rocks:
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thomas@rd.rocksrd.rocks started as purely my own spreadsheet, not for the public. I needed to organize what I was learning about Buddhism. Buddhist lists, favorite RD meetings, links to good meditations. Then I shared with a handful of close friends. Some would say like, "This is kinda awesome, can I reshare?" 🙂

How rd.rocks works is simple, and that's what makes it so powerful. It's just a bunch of keywords for bookmarks. E.g.:

① Type in what you're looking for (like the RD "book")
② Then type ".rd.rocks"⮐ (type Enter too)
③ Bam! You got the best version of the book (RD2.0 PDF • Clickable Table-of-contents).

• need meeting slides? slides.rd.rocks ⏎
• stream the audiobook? audiobook.rd.rocks ⏎
• need the official RDG meeting list? meetings.rd.rocks ⏎
• pennsylvania local trifold trifold? pennsylvania.rd.rocks ⏎
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If I need anything RD in a pinch (like the Zoom ID for WestCoastWindDown), I'll try my luck randomly and type in WCWD.rd.rocks⏎. Instantly, I'm in the zoom waiting room! (Cause if it doesn't work, I'll add it, so WCWD.rd.rocks works next time for me and anyone else.) (See full list of links: SITEMAP.rd.rocks) -A. Thomas Tran (Vice President, RDG Board of Directors 2024)