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  • The Buddha’s Intoxications

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    BRN Academy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdPy16xHJA In this session, Vince explored Gotama's early life and his own "intoxications" with youth, health, and life itself, drawing parallels to the universal human journey of recognising the patterns that hold us back and embarking on a noble search for freedom.   The talk is based on chapter two of the RAFT to Freedom Workbook that is...

  • Starting Over: Recovery and the Courage to Begin Again

    BRN Academy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loJyLe_wOgc Recovery is not about perfection. It’s about beginning again—again and again. In this month’s BRN Academy talk Silasiri explores the courage and compassion it takes to let go of the past, return to the present, and choose a new way forward. The Buddha’s teachings remind us that each moment is a fresh start. With...

  • Angulimala and the Wreckage of our Past

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    BRN Academy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KskmIGMG_5o Many of us come into recovery, change our lives completely, and then get utterly surprised and disappointed when the closest ones around us still don’t trust or believe us. Some of us have to gruelingly trudge through legal repercussions for many years after committing to recovery.  These issues and an infinite of other problems commonly...

  • Liberate Yourself from Addictive Behaviors

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    BRN Academy

    Meditation and Dharma Talk with time for Q & AJoin the Teaching https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87579202512?pwd=b3PXF6s4kd3HHgoqSeZNzNDhzdcYnw.1      Meeting ID: 875 7920 2512 and passcode: 414176 Signup and Support herehttps://givebutter.com/DEC25More About the Teaching Are you navigating the challenges of recovery, seeking a deeper, more integrated path to healing? Join Vimalasara, co-founder of the groundbreaking 8 Step Recovery and...

  • Remembering to Remember. What would be wise for us to remember?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VteHFB5z4  As we enter a new (Gregorian) new year (also, a new day, moment, hour) we can take a moment to reflect on this practice of remembering to remember as well as our practice of recovery and how they support one another. What would be wise for us to remember? In this time together, we...

  • Living in Vow – BRN Academy with Ryuko Laura Burges

    Living in Vow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlhuUIVbOKs Ryuko Laura Burges is a lay entrusted dharma teacher in the Soto Zen tradition, teaching and leading retreats in California. She received monastic training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. A longtime educator, Laura co-founded the Meditation in Recovery programs at San Francisco Zen Center. She has been featured in Tricycle Magazine and Buddhadharma and her books...

  • Happiness Follows Like a Never-Departing Shadow

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQE4JxOfHM More About George George Beecher first encountered the Dharma in 2010 when he read Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung’s book Savor, about mindful eating and the Buddhist path. Over the next 11 months, George lost 110 pounds and found a passion for the Dharma. This passion for sharing the Dharma led him...

  • Transforming the Heart

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-rgfe1z3IApril BRN Academy SUNDAY April 5, 2026 at 10AM PST  With BRN Board President Walt Opie Transforming the Heart Both Buddhist practice and recovery from addiction point to an inner transformation of the heart. As practicing addicts, our hearts may have been pretty shut down, which we may not even realize until it starts to open in...

  • June BRN Academy with Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett

    BRN Online Meetings
    Virtual Event

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHTxkaDTuA More About the Academy The Academy has invited some of the leading teachers in the field of Buddhist recovery. On the first Sunday of every month for an hour each teacher will explore the sharp edges of suffering through the lens of the Buddhist Teachings. The Academy brings together teachers from different Buddhist lineages...

  • The Unshakeable Heart with BRN July Academy with Vince Cullen

    BRN Online Meetings
    Virtual Event

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-T9LdUD1Q Gotama, the Buddha, taught processes, not virtues. Equanimity is the clear‑eyed balance that stops us taking the world's friction personally. Resilience is the active staying power to endure that friction without striking out. And forgiveness is their most radical by‑product. In this unsentimental talk, Vince reframes equanimity as grounded awareness, resilience as a practical...

  • BRN August Academy with Ven. Dayananda

    BRN Online Meetings
    Virtual Event

    To Sign Up and Give Dana and Get Reminders Click Here The True Nature of Existence: Deconstructing the Sensation of Incompleteness This talk investigates the true nature of existence through the Buddha's teaching on the four inversions of perception, mind, and view, found in the Vipallasa Sutta. Rather than viewing our lives through personal narratives,...

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