Suffering and Happiness – Both are Present, Embrace Them “Living Happily with things as they are (Drishta dharma sukha viharin) encourages an ancient Buddhist teaching. Those of us who have lived with addiction, struggled with recovery and found our common bonds: trauma and toxic shame, may find that teaching simplistic or even dismissive. As Buddhists,…

🗺️ Need a meeting? 👉buddhistrecovery.org/meetings The largest, up-to-date, comprehensive Buddhist recovery meeting list. Hundreds of meetings, various Buddhist programs. (Both Online & In-Person meetings.) 📺 Looking for a good Dharmatalk (on Recovery?) 👉buddhistrecovery.org/academy Though Dharmatalks are aplenty, it’s rare to find ones that speak directly to our addictions. Fortunately, our Academy Teachers videos are available,…

🗺️ Need a meeting? 👉buddhistrecovery.org/meetings The largest, up-to-date, comprehensive Buddhist recovery meeting list. Hundreds of meetings, various Buddhist programs. (Both Online & In-Person meetings.) 📺 Looking for a good Dharmatalk (on Recovery?) 👉buddhistrecovery.org/academy Though Dharmatalks are aplenty, it’s rare to find ones that speak directly to our addictions. Fortunately, our Academy Teachers videos are available,…

🗺️ Need a meeting? 👉buddhistrecovery.org/meetings The largest, up-to-date, comprehensive Buddhist recovery meeting list. Hundreds of meetings, various Buddhist programs. (Both Online & In-Person meetings.) 📺 Looking for a good Dharmatalk (on Recovery?) 👉buddhistrecovery.org/academy Though Dharmatalks are aplenty, it’s rare to find ones that speak directly to our addictions. Fortunately, our Academy Teachers videos are available,…

As soon as we’re born we’re faced with what life throws at us and we develop ways of coping that may or may not be beneficial. We’re also bombarded with messages from family, friends, school and society at large about who we are and what we should or shouldn’t be. These habits and messages become…

In a time of great conflict and contention in our society, it’s helpful to look to the Buddhist teachings on loving-kindness for guidance. In this evening talk, Kevin will introduce the themes of his latest project, how to live with wisdom and open-heartedness in the world. Drawing from several early suttas he will talk about…

Racism remains one of the most rooted and painful impasses of our time. It is fed through unawareness and the misuse of power. Embedded in racism is the skeletal shape of all oppressions. To understand the dynamics of racism and the flesh we put on its bones is to also understand other forms of oppression…

Recovery and gratitude seem to go hand in hand. In the heat of our addictions, whether substance or process, we all tend to really focus on the hardships of our lives, our trials and tribulations and get stuck in the old comparison game, comparing our insides to others outsides, a line heard frequently in 12…

Exploring one of the seminal text in the Buddhist teachings -‘ Non-Self’. Paraphrasing the late Pat Parker – she once wrote ‘first you remember I’m a person of color and second you forget I’m a person of color’. What would it be like to be free from all our labels and not attached to the…

The Pearl in Sorrows Hand I have recently been considering the nature of ‘Dukkha’ or ‘suffering’ or ‘stress’ in a Buddhist context, particularly how it plays itself out in my life. One ancient talk goes along the lines… “Now what, friends, is the noble truth of stress? Birth is stressful, illness is stressful, aging is…