Academy Teachings
Events
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...