Academy Teachings
Events
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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...
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Who Is Myself?
BRN AcademyExploring identity in the context of Dharma and recovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0aofOnrzls Meditation and Dharma Talk with time for Q & A
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Building a Foundation for Freedom
BRN Academyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJ0EZVG0Uk When we are caught in addictive behaviors, we’re often acting from habits that have been strengthened over the years, and which can be difficult to break. The Buddha’s teaching...
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Recovering the Heart: Loving Kindness as a Path to Addiction Recovery
Featuredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNzP2jAJGM Mikey Livid (he/him) is a Buddhist teacher, author, and counselor. Mikey is the guiding teacher at Wild Heart Meditation Center in Nashville, TN. He regularly brings Buddhist meditation classes...
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Building a RAFT: From Addicted Doctor to Freedom
FeaturedBRN AcademyBRN Academy with Dr. Cathryn Jacob - August 3, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIFmeuR3tQ Cathryn Jacob is a retired medical doctor who has dedicated herself to the study and teachings of Secular Dharma...
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The Buddha’s Intoxications
FeaturedBRN Academyhttps://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...
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Starting Over: Recovery and the Courage to Begin Again
BRN Academyhttps://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...
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Angulimala and the Wreckage of our Past
FeaturedBRN Academyhttps://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....
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Liberate Yourself from Addictive Behaviors
FeaturedBRN AcademyMeditation 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...