Contents:  12 Steps on Buddha's Path
	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xv
	Part One: Bill W.
1.	Has It Come to This?	3
2.	Strangers Loved Me Back to Life	7
3.	One Step at a Time	11
	Step One	13
	Step Two	15
	Step Three	17
	Step Four	18
	Step Five	19
	Step Six	20
	Step Seven	21
	Step Eight	23
	Step Nine	25
	Step Ten	26
	Step Eleven	27
	Step Twelve	28
4.	Promises of Things to Come	31
	Part Two: Buddha
5.	Looking for the Buddha	43
6.	Changing My Mind	51
7.	The First Noble Truth	55
	Not-Self	56
8.	The Second and Third Noble Truths	60
	Nirvana	62
	Dependent Origination	63
	Karma	67
10.	The Fourth Noble Truth	69
	The Eightfold Path	70
	Wisdom Teachings	70
	Morality Tachings	72
	Mental Discipline Teachings	76
	Meditation Instructions	77
	The Five Hindrances	79
	Part Three: We
10.	The Four Sover Truths: Alcoholism Is Dukka	83
	The Dependent Origination of Drunk Dukkha	84
	Karma in a Bottle	87
	Sober Karma	88
	Roadmap for Sobriety	89
11.	Taking Sober Refuge in the Steps	91
	Sober Refuge	92
	Taking Sober Steps	93
	Step One	94
	Step Two	96
	Step Three	97
	Step Four and Five	99
	Step Six and Seven	100
	Step Eight	101
	Step Nine	102
	Step Ten	102
	Step Eleven	104
	Step Twelve	105
12.	The Eightfold Sober Path	109
	Sober Understanding	110
	Sober Thought / Sober Intention	112
	Sober Speech	113
	Sober Action	115
	Sober Livelihood	118
	Sober Effort	120
	Sober Mindfulness	120
	Sober Concentration	121
13.	The Dharma-Promises	125
	We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness	127
	We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it	129
	We will comprhend the word serenity and we will know peace	130
	No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others; That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear; We will lose interst in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows; Self-seeking will slip away.	131
	Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.	135
	Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.	136
	We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us	138
	We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves	140
14.	Sublime Abiding	142
	Lovingkindness / Metta	143
	Compassion / Karuna	155
	Sympathetic Joy / Mudita	158
	Equanimity / Upekkha	160
	Works Cited and Suggested Readings	163
	Brief Glossary and Selected Terms in Buddhism	165
	Appendix: Twelve Steps and Twlve Traditions	173
	Index