Also, when Jack Kornfield said to Ahjan Cha. 'you don't seem enlightened, you seem very ordinary'. Ahj said, 'good. then you don't see the buddha outside yourself.'
and recovery have got mixed up but that have cos of the 12 steps, I am lucky in that I 'got' buddhist stuff before the 12 steps stuff.
However they are not related, one just helps.