The 12 Steps as a Path to Enlightenment: How the Buddha Works the Steps

by Dorena Rode

The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment - How the Buddha Works the Steps explains how the spiritual principles embodied in the Twelve Steps parallel the Buddhist teachings for reaching ultimate enlightenment. This book is perfect for Buddhists, atheists, and members of Twelve Step programs that are ready to take their personal growth to the next level. Written by spiritual teacher and life coach, Dorena Rode, this guidebook clearly presents a step by step proven method for increasing joy, making life more meaningful and destroying self-limiting beliefs. The spiritual seeker, whether in recovery or not, finds they can end their specific sufferings (addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, debting, etc) without the need to have a belief in a higher power or God.

158 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2012

About the author

Dorena Rode is an award-winning speaker with a Ph.D. in physiology (UC Davis) and a degree in behavioral health counseling (Rio Salado) and over 20 years experience helping people and organizations get unstuck using alternative medicine modalities.

Her passion is to assist people in changing the habitual ways of living and thinking that no longer serve them. In her private practice and workshops, she operates from the premise that each person has the wisdom within them about what is best for them and an innate ability to heal completely from anything. She lives in Northern California with her partner and is actively practicing to achieve freedom for the benefit of all.