BUDDHISM DIDN’T GET ME SOBER. I’m not even sure if it helped. I needed the twelve steps to make that change. What Buddhism did do was give me a path that then sustained and deepened my recovery over almost four decades.
I was practicing Vipassana for five years before I got sober, although my practice was pretty deluded. It started out okay, but soon degenerated into a lot of magical thinking. When I finally got clean and sober (quitting
