Academy Teachings
Events
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Venerable Pannavari Bhikkhuni – Loosening the Pain of Regret
BRN AcademyThe pain of regret can bind us. We will discuss the ways we can unbind through the Dharma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwqoakGVhpA
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How ‘Not Wanting’ is the Key
BRN AcademyNext BRN Academy teaching with Walt Opie -- June 2nd 2024 @ 10:00am US Pacific Time https://youtu.be/zR1lSWytJ-E I once heard the teacher Joseph Goldstein say on a retreat that what...
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Gary Sanders – Just assume the answer to every question is compassion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TglK7eM4csU "Just assume the answer to every question is compassion” - Father Greg Boyle in his book Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion In Buddhism, compassion is...
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The Power of Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bkltSUmaaA Choices guide the manner in which we walk the path of Dharma. Can we use suffering to build joy? Can we turn the obstacles in our lives into good...
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Rev Christy Bates – Purification or Harmony?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ed9F_YE3g Topic of the teaching: “Purification or Harmony?” We typically encounter the Teachings through the lens of a guilty self. Meanwhile, our English translations tend to skew in that direction,...
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Reaching Out and Connecting
https://youtu.be/XdQlcr-J1xc When things are difficult, it is all too easy to retreat into our own small worlds and lose connection with the bigger picture. Buddhist psychology suggests that as...
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Equanimity and Compassion for Precarious Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCLrVTjH71I Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches...
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December 2024 BRN Academy Teaching – Great Compassion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsoVswV3EIY Opportunity! MBAR (Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery) Course December 9, 2024 - January 4, 2025 28 days of support during xmas and new year - one 15 minute coaching video sent a day...
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Mature Recovery: Going Beyond the Self with Anshin Devin Ashwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX-H1Pn4TdI
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Meeting the moment with a Clear Heart with Carol Cano
BRN Academyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz1zDTXg99s Meeting the moment of high stress with a clear heart involves embracing the challenge with a sense of calm and purpose. It’s about grounding yourself in the present, acknowledging...
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How Buddhist Wisdom Helps Us Stay in Recovery – March Teaching with Walt Opie
BRN Academyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pwyr3uysg The first two path factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, namely Right View and Right Intention, combine to be the wisdom factors. When we understand and develop these to...
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Returning to Our Luminosity: The Aggañña Sutta & Breaking Free from Binding Ways
BRN Academyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJne0NH4fQMeditation and Dharma Talk with time for Q & A The Aggañña Sutta offers a striking lens through which we can understand how systems of power, craving, and division take...
