🤘RD.Rocks🎸Inquiry Sets • Recovery Tools • Trifolds

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44			Trifolds • Inquiry Sets • DIY Tools • Your Empowerment • Secret Links • RD Merch — ———— ——————————————— ———— — Where every link rocks. Literally.
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47	so, what's new?	♻️ REORDERED.rd.rocks: The Reordered Inquiries Set, added the text readings for convenience. 2026-03-13
48		📖 FREEBOOKLET.rd.rocks: Print our RD Book in 18-pages, give it to newcomers! (Example image to the right ➡) (This idea is thanks to Jason Spurlin RD@Revive Nashua) 2025-11-13
49		🕊️ MAKINGAMENDS.rd.rocks: Trifold. Guidance for making amends — it's more than saying sorry and more akin to committing to personal transformation. In RD, amends are about restoring karmic balance. 2025-11-02
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52		🗺️ ALLTRIFOLDS.rd.rocks: Get all the RD.Rocks Trifolds in 1 PDF. (NO NEED TO DOWNLOAD EACH SEPARATELY. GET THIS AND PRINT) 🗺️ ALLSTATES.rd.rocks : All of the 50 State In-Person meeting lists. (NOW UPDATED DAILY)
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54		2 TRIFOLDS FOR BEGINNING			6 TRIFOLDS FOR DEEPENING
55		❖ 👋 NEWCOMERTRIFOLD.rd.rocks Looking for an RD Trifold to give to Newcomers? This one’s ready to print — a summary of the RD program, with top reasons we love it, in an inviting conversational format. (But free to edit to your needs!) 📍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, are you new to RD? 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. 😌			❖ 🌟CODEPENDENCY.rd.rocks "What does it look like? How do I break free?" (with Laurarachel, RDG Board, RD Chicago's Wise Intentions/Boundaries Mtg)
56					❖ 👩‍🏫 MENTORSHIP.rd.rocks "Pro Tips & Guidelines (for both Mentors & Mentees)" (derived from Portland PDX mentorship guideline documents)
57					❖ ✍️ INQUIRYFAQ.rd.rocks "How to Start an Inquiry Circle Workgroup" (official RDG literature)
58		❖ 🪑 STARTINGAMEETING.rd.rocks "How to Start a Meeting" (derived from the RD 2019 May Manuscript)			❖ 🪴KARMAGARDEN.rd.rocks (worksheet • 2pg ) 🎯"How to Identify & Set Wise Boundaries for Process Addictions" (finally, guidance to a Path for non-substances.)
59		❖ 🌎 STARTINGANINTERSANGHA.rd.rocks "How to Start an Intersangha" (derived from Chicago & NYC's Intersangha Handout)			❖ 🕊️MAKINGAMENDS.rd.rocks: Suggestions on making amends based on lived experiences. In RD, amends are about restoring balance.
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66		📕 THE BOOK: "Where do we get the RD Book?"			🧘‍♀️ MEDITATION: FACILITATION RESOURCES
67		❖ 📕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.
68		❖ 📖FREEBOOKLET.rd.rocks 🌲 [PDF] It's the book in just 18 pages of paper. Prints 2-up in booklet mode — staple the middle & give it to newcomers FREE!			❖ 📄MEDITATIONSCRIPTS.rd.rocks [PDF] 13 RD Meditation Scripts in 1 PDF. Text for reading.
69		❖ 🔎LARGEPRINT.rd.rocks 🔎 [PDF] [8.5"x11"] Aging is inevitable. Suffering from reading the book? Optional.			❖ 🔔insighttimer.com/ang [AUDIO recordings] My evolved RD meditations are well-reviewed on Insight Timer! Search for (my vietnamese name) "Ang" ➡ tap "Teacher"
70		❖ 🌍 (p.s. did you know: We have book translations?) 🇳🇱dutch.rd.rocks \| 🇩🇪german.rd.rocks \| 🇫🇷french.rd.rocks \| 🇪🇸spanish.rd.rocks
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72		🎧 AUDIOBOOK: "Is there an Audiobook?"			👩‍🏫 ZOOM: FACILITATION RESOURCES:
73		❖ 🎧 AUDIOBOOK.rd.rocks 🎧 [SPOTIFY/YT/Podcasts] Stream on Spotify (or search Youtube/Apple Podcasts, 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 back to Contents)
74		❖ 🎧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 screen. (Note: These contain some variations aimed to help beginners.) [ practice \| 4 noble truths \| 8-fold path \| +feelings charts +more ]
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76		MEETINGS: Peep these secret meeting links			MERCH • FILES • $7 BOOKS: (More secret links!)
77		❖ 🪑 NEARME.rd.rocks (25 miles) In-Person meetings within 25 miles of you!			❖ 📚SEVENDOLLARBOOKS.rd.rocks Did you know: We can buy RD books in bulk for $7/book! Minimum=15. Total=$105.
78		❖ 🧑‍💻 ONLINE.rd.rocks For just the Online meetings			❖ 📂FILES.rd.rocks Misc RD files I've collected/created since 2019+. (Sneak peek: tap [FILES] tab of this Sheet.)
79					❖ 👜 MERCH.rd.rocks — (sold-at-cost) 👕 Shirts • 🖼️ Art • 👜 RD Facilitator's Bag
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81		the practice ⑤ SELF-INQUIRY & INVESTIGATION. Inquiries are one of the most critical parts of recovery, in every recovery program. The RD book doesn't say much about how to approach them, so here are some of the human-tested approaches that have already helped so many others. In my humble experience, Inquiry Circles are the ultimate weapon of Recovery Dharma.
82		❖ inquiryFAQ.rd.rocks		[Official RD Literature] The Definitive FAQ for Inquiry Circles (inventory workgroups). Examples to start your own Inquiry Circles, based on research, developed from the experiences of 20+ RD completed inquiry groups.
83		❖ inquirySHEET.rd.rocks		[inquiry] 6-Month+ Schedule Examples. Experientially tested & paced for less burnout. Compare Inquiry Question sets side-by-side. BONUS: We made 20 Weeks of 60sec Trauma-Informed Grounding Tips.
84		❖ inquirySCRIPT.rd.rocks		[inquiry] A Meeting Script Example for Inquiry Circles
85		❖ GUIDELINES.rd.rocks		[inquiry] A Core Guidelines Example for Inquiry Circles
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87		SETS OF INQUIRY QUESTIONS. Alternatives to the book. These have made a difference for many RD members.
88		• reordered.rd.rocks		✍️[set of inquiries] Reordered for trauma-safety. Grounding tips. 💯 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. First time doing inquiries? ...Use this.
89		• queer.rd.rocks		✍️[set of inquiries] "Alternate LGBTQIA+" Inquiries focused on queer identity. (from 🌈 Rainbow RD Sangha)
90		• innerchild.rd.rocks		✍️[set of inquiries] Trauma-informed, explores childhood. Weekly grounding exercises.
91		• awesome.rd.rocks		✍️[set of inquiries] An evolution of the "reordered" inquiries above.
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93		❖ whyinquire.rd.rocks		[Youtube • 15 Min] This video outlines the evidence-based reasons for the framework for how RD Inquiry Circles was formulated. 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.
94		ⓐ		[Here's a 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 end 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 evidence-based study:
95		ⓑ		(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 • daily abstinence perfection over ongoing progress • shame & isolation after lapses • exclusion of harm-reduction/non-linear paths. Meanwhile, since Iran takes the focus (and pressure) off of daycounting traditions, it plays out as: • encourages recovery growth • instills values of progress over perfection (of perfect daily abstinence) • encourages honesty & collective learning from lapses • includes harm-reduction and embraces non-linear paths. (2) Rather, their true recovery focus is to complete Self-Inventory Work and celebrate those completions. (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 EVERY week for dedicated inquiry work meetings. Yep, that's on top of regular meetings!) (4) Mentorship Groups means Scalable Growth (many-to-many, not mentor-to-mentee 1:1) for a new Recovery Program. (This 4th one, mentorship groups, is an engine for the Recovery Dharma program to grow and scale exponentially. 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 (mirroring 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.
96		ⓒ		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 compelling evidence of what happens when self-inquiry isn’t an optional side project, but the heart of recovery. When recovery isn't restricted to one-to-one relationships, but opened up to many-to-many for closer, collective healing. When after a lapse, 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. The book talked about "forming groups to work on inquiries." But they left it up to us to blindly experiment. I think what the research points to is slightly better than what the RD 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, grounding exercises for less trauma-activation, inquiries written for substance addictions — without inclusion or testing by those working on process addictions, 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's like doing the Stepwork 20 times. My hope was in 20 years we might find many studies conducted on the success of "RD's phenomenon of success," similar to Iran's, in large part due to the emphasis on weekly-inquiry circles.
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105		karmagarden.rd.rocks		Are you recovering from PROCESS ADDICTIONS? —Do you 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, set boundaries, and re-adapt — because the terrain of our process addiction keeps shifting. _____
106				🚦 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 define your own sobriety. And each definition of your sobriety translates to a clear, no-nonsense boundary, you get to decide on. It's looking at the world not just in black and white. What's crazy is this is such a completely foreign concept to the substance recovery world who often think sobriety is all or nothing. They don't get why our recovery is so nuanced. You get to reflect on what truly matters to you. "What do I value? What am I for real ready to let go of first, without overwhelming myself? What brings me toward the life I really want?" That’s how we move from shame-based restriction to values-based motivation. _____
107				🎯 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 every day. One day I might feel in control, and the next I’m caught in a loop again. That’s why the Karma Garden 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 emphasizes on-going growth, instead of # days since my last "failure." _____
108				🤔 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. _____
109		karmagarden.rd.rocks		SO... • If chasing a Black & White linear traditional recovery doesn’t reflect your reality, goals, nor joys; • If you feel stuck and the target keeps moving; • If you want help with boundaries to help navigate your process addiction; ...then you could make remarkable progress from trying this self-loving, harm-reduction-based non-linear approach — countless others in recovery already have benefited. 🪴 karmagarden.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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140		📧CONTACT:		👋ABOUT rd.rocks:
141		recoverydharmarocks@gmail.com		rd.rocks started humbly as my own spreadsheet. I needed to organize what I was learning about Buddhism. I kept Buddhist lists, favorite RD meetings info, links to good meditations. Then I shared with a handful of close friends. Many would basically say, "Woah. This is kinda awesome, can I reshare?" 🙂 So I made it public & chose the 2-letter domain "RD" so it'd be hella quick to type. How rd.rocks works is simple, and that's what makes it so powerful. I designed it so we only need to remember an obvious keyword (because who can actually remember/type a crazy-long URL?) Usage: ① Type in what you're looking for (like the "book"). Then Type ".rd.rocks⮐" ② (ZOO-WEE MAMA!) Instantly, you're looking at the best version of the "book" But it works for everything, like: 👩‍🏫 • need meeting slides? slides.rd.rocks ⏎ 🎧 • listen to the audiobook? audiobook.rd.rocks ⏎ 🗺️ • need the official RDG meetings list? meetings.rd.rocks ⏎ 🌎 • local meetings trifold for your state? pennsylvania.rd.rocks ⏎ (Type any state)
142				So when I need anything RD quickly (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 when it doesn't work, I add it, so WCWD.rd.rocks works next time not just for me but for everyone.) (See full list of links: SITEMAP.rd.rocks) -A. Thomas Tran (Vice President, RD Global Board of Directors 2024)