Now that I have spent several episodes talking about Step 1 I feel I have laid the foundation of my program of sobriety. Once I had seen for myself that I can not control my consumption of substances that I see myself as addicted to, I was ready to listen to the possibility of there being a solution to my misery.

AA taught me that A) I have a problem and what it is, B) there is a solution being a spiritual experience and C) the action necessary to have that experience.

For me Buddha taught me the same message; A) I have a problem, life is suffering and I am the cause, B) there is a solution to be found in the path of the Dharma, C) the action to follow in the Eight-fold Path of the Dharma.