BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Buddhist Recovery Network - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Buddhist Recovery Network X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Buddhist Recovery Network REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063035Z UID:10001595-1575194400-1575198000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Watch the Triggers: The Festive Season is Here DESCRIPTION:Top up on tips and coping mechanisms to deal with the holidays.  Do the festive season with a sense of freedom and joy. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/watch-the-triggers-the-festive-season-is-here/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200105T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200105T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063035Z UID:10001596-1578218400-1578222000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Generosity: Transforming the Heart DESCRIPTION:As we embark into a new year\, we will explore the importance of cultivating generosity (d?na) and gratitude (kataññuta) and turning our intentions toward the interrelationship of the two. The practice of generosity is at the foundation of Buddhist teachings. At its essence\, dana is radical because it is the practice of giving freely without an expectation of receiving something in return and of realizing our interconnection to all that is. Dana is a trusting step\, confidence that allows us to let go and open to life. Kara will discuss the nature of dana\, how it can be practiced\, and its connection to the path of liberation. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/generosity-transforming-the-heart/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063050Z UID:10001597-1580637600-1580641200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Concrete Beds and Wooden Pillows... Waking Up the Hard Way (or Finding Insight but not Serenity) DESCRIPTION:Sixteen years ago\, I sat my first 10-day silent ‘Anapansati’ retreat at Wat Suan Mokkh monastery in southern Thailand.  Wat Suan Mokkh has a separate retreat centre famous for its basic accommodation which includes concrete beds and wooden pillows. There\, from a seeming inability to meditate came a small but ultimately profound and eventually life-changing understanding. At the time I might have called this unexpected understanding an ‘Insight’ but right now I would say that it lacked ‘Mindfulness’ and at the time it didn’t lead to ‘Serenity’! \nThe Buddha says “…for the direct knowledge\, for the full understanding\, for the utter destruction\, for the vanishing\, for the fading away\, for the cessation\, for the giving up\, for the relinquishment of hatred\, delusion\, anger\, hostility\, envy\, miserliness\, deceitfulness\, arrogance\, intoxication these two things are to be cultivated.  Which two?  Serenity and insight.” \nTogether\, Serenity and Insight can bring an end to greed\, an end to hatred and an end of ignorance\, including all of the countless other intoxicating inclinations. \nBut both Serenity and Insight need to be supported by Right Mindfulness. \nWhen we cultivate Serenity and Insight with Mindfulness\, we open up new ways of seeing the self\, new ways of seeing the world\, and new ways of seeing ourselves in the world. \nIt is said that we are all living in a dream\, that we are all asleep\, we are all under a spell\, an enchantment that blinds us to the inherent biases\, distortions and dissonances that are deeply embedded in fundamentally and simply being human; in being ourselves. \nThe Buddha says that to find liberation\, we must become disenchanted; we must break the spell in order to reveal what has been hidden from us. You do not have to sleep on concrete beds and wooden pillows to wake up to how things really are! \nPlease join me on Sunday\, February 2\, for some Mindfulness\, some Serenity and maybe even some Insight at the Buddhist Recovery Academy. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/concrete-beds-and-wooden-pillows-waking-up-the-hard-way-or-finding-insight-but-not-serenity/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063050Z UID:10001598-1583056800-1583060400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Perfect As We Are: A Self Compassion Practice DESCRIPTION:In this session we will release self-doubt and/or self-blame\, and engage in a practice of self-love and self-forgiveness. \n  \nFresh “Lev” White is a love and compassionate activist. He offers mindfulness\, coaching\, mediation\, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic\, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus\, healing our communities\, and our planet.\nAs a coach and Founder of Affirmative Acts Consulting\, Lev supports executives\, entrepreneurs\, artists and other coaches with achieving their goals. Through value alignment\, offering accountability and helping to create individual practices of self-care\, and self-compassion\, his clients have successfully improved their management skills\, founded organizations\, and taken leadership roles in new executive and director positions. Through the practice of mindfulness\, Lev helps clients see clearly through their fears\, and improve their emotional responses to challenging situations\, which supports strengthening their efficiency and expanding their creativity\, in all areas of their life. \nLev has offered over 200 diversity trainings in the Bay Area and beyond. He earned facilitation skills through his coaching certification\, and an extensive leadership training program\, each through the Co-Active Training Institute (formally known as The Coaches Training Institute) in 2011.  He was trained on delivering LGBTQIA+ Ally trainings by CUAV in 2002\, and in 2005 became a Certified Trainer through Out and Equal Workplace Advocates.” URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/perfect-as-we-are-a-self-compassion-practice/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231223T202118Z UID:10001599-1586080800-1586084400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Effortless Mindfulness for Addiction Recovery: One Glimpse at a Time DESCRIPTION:The Effortless Mindfulness approach to addiction draws on Buddhist meditation from Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism. Effortless Mindfulness is a direct approach that considered an advanced\, yet simple way to access our true nature and treat suffering at its root. The 2 main premises are: craving is caused by living from our small separate sense of self and there is an already installed awakened consciousness that we can learn to shift into and live from.\n\nThe main practice is small glimpses many times a day\, rather than long periods of meditation. Rather than focusing and concentrating to calm our minds we begin by opening awareness to a spacious and pervasive subtle level of awareness based knowing. At this time of challenge we will learn simple effortless mindfulness practices as a way to shift out of our addictive mind and into our heart mind.\n\n\n\nThe Way of Effortless Mindfulness\n\nLoch Kelly\, M.Div.\, LCSW is author of the award-winning book\, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. He is a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation and awakening. He is the founder of the non-profit\, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute and has worked in community mental health\, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11. Loch graduated from Columbia University and received a fellowship to study in Sri Lanka and India. Loch collaborates with neuroscientists at Yale\, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. Loch is dedicated to reducing suffering and supporting people to live from open-hearted awareness. Loch is known for his warm sense of humor\, and his trust that awakening is the next natural stage of development. He teaches the advanced\, yet simple\, nondual pointers and direct methods of effortless mindfulness\, informed by psychology and social justice. Loch lives in New York City with his wife Paige and their cat Duffy. Info at www.lochkelly.org\n\nFacebook Event Link\n\nAdd to Google Calendar URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/effortless-mindfulness-for-addiction-recovery-one-glimpse-at-a-time/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063050Z UID:10001600-1588500000-1588503600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Grounding in Uncertainty DESCRIPTION:“Nothing in the whole universe is comparable to the mind or can take its place.  Everything is mind-made.” _Ayya Kheme \nI will guide our meditation on the cultivation of kindness and establishing your place of refuge during meditation so that you may begin to train the mind in stillness and peace.  Now more than ever\, the medicine of the Buddhadharma can help heal our mind-hearts and body by establishing a practice of the essentials in concentration and mindfulness. \n  \nCarol Cano\, M.A. began her practice over 30 years ago at Wat Kow Tahm in Thailand and has actively engaged in building communities and teaching Dharma internationally.  She has completed a myriad of training programs at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is currently participating in their Retreat Teacher Training.  Carol is a core teacher and was a former board member of East Bay Meditation Center.  Carol co-founded Philippine Insight Meditation Community in Philippines.  Her unique teachings are deeply grounded in Basque\, Native American and Buddhist influences that braid the Dharma along indigenous wisdom and Earth-based practices.  Carol reminds us to keep grounded in our hearts as we uphold spiritual ideals and encourages us to remain balanced within the demands of modern life. To find out more about Carol\, please visit www.carolcano.com.

URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/grounding-in-uncertainty/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200607T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200607T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063050Z UID:10001601-1591524000-1591527600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Meditation | Practice for Challenging Times DESCRIPTION:We will offer a meditation and an opportunity to be together in Sangha\, with an emphasis on sustaining practice in these challenging times. Please join us this Sunday\, June 7th\, led by Robin Smith. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/meditation-practice-for-challenging-times/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063105Z UID:10001602-1593943200-1593946800@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Reflection on Recovery DESCRIPTION:Having just passed the milestone of 35 years sober\, exactly half his life\, Kevin looks back on his own path and the lessons he has learned as a clean and sober Buddhist. \n  \nKevin Griffin is a Buddhist teacher and author in the Theravada tradition. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network and teaches internationally across Buddhist traditions. He has been a Buddhist practitioner and in recovery for over three decades. His teacher training was at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California\, where he still teaches his flagship Dharma and Recovery class. Besides teaching at Buddhist and other spiritual centers\, Kevin works with treatment centers and has consulted with leading addiction researchers. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/reflection-on-recovery/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200802T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200802T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063105Z UID:10001603-1596362400-1596366000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Emotional Sobriety: Comfortable in Your Own Skin DESCRIPTION:Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1400167713509983/

\nGary Sanders lives in Portland\, OR. He is originally from the Los Angeles area\, where he was the founder of SCV Mindfulness and led up to three weekly meditation groups for over 5 years. He was empowered to lead Buddhist meditation and dharma groups at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He helped\, from the ground level\, to found Refuge Recovery\, a Buddhist based recovery program for all addictions\, which has now spread worldwide. After moving to Portland\, Gary was asked to join the teaching staff at Portland Insight Meditation Community. Gary travels frequently and teaches daylongs and workshops all over North America and now endorses the Recovery Dharma program. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/emotional-sobriety-comfortable-in-your-own-skin/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200906T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200906T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063105Z UID:10001604-1599386400-1599390000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Embodying Emotions with Somatic Meditation DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/embodying-emotions-with-somatic-meditation/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063106Z UID:10001605-1601805600-1601809200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Liberation Now: From the Progressive Path to Direct Experience DESCRIPTION:In a progressive path approach to practice\, we sometimes fall for the idea that liberation is in the future.\n \nWe are conditioned to believe that we must end thinking\, master practices\, meditate for years\, and purify our minds. Without realizing it\, our beliefs maintain the conditioning that stands in the way of our direct realization. \n \nRather than turning the attention outward to various objects of practice–mantras\, counting the breath\, focusing on sound–what changes when we cultivate our effortless capacity to rest the attention in Awareness? \n \nWhat changes as we practice inquiry into the nature of consciousness? \n \nAnd how might this approach to practice support our recognition of what’s inherent rather than feed our conditioned tendency to strive? URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/liberation-now-from-the-progressive-path-to-direct-experience/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063106Z UID:10001606-1604224800-1604228400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Meditating during Uncertain Times DESCRIPTION:With the American election coming up\, and the spike in COVID cases around the world\, it is inevitable that many people may be experiencing PTSD\, panic attacks\, worry and concern. Many people ask how can meditation help when all you are doing is sitting on the cushion? Don’t we have to get up\, go outside and act? Yes we do. What we do off the cushions we bring onto the meditation cushion\, and what we do on the meditation cushion we take back into the world. So come and join the President of BRN and explore meditation through a trauma informed lens\, and surrender to some healing. \nAward-winning author of 8 books\, Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John is the co-founder of Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery MBAR\, a secular recovery 8-week program\, and the co-author and co-founder of Eight Step Recovery Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction. She was the co-founder of Healing and Insight a teaching faculty embracing Buddhist Recovery in all its guises. She is now responsible for programming Buddhist Recovery Retreats at the Menla Retreat Centre in Upstate New York. Chair of Vancouver Buddhist Centre\, she is a senior member of the Triratna Buddhist Order\, and tours internationally as a public speaker and trainer in the field of addictions and emotional trauma.Website: www.valeriemason-john.com URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/meditating-during-uncertain-times/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063120Z UID:10001607-1607248800-1607252400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Moving into Spaciousness DESCRIPTION:In this talk Mary will talk about identifying those constricted and frightened parts of ourselves that we may not even be aware of. When we’re caught in any type of addictive behavior\, we’re also often trapped in habits of mind that are driven by fear and an inability to be with reality. When we hold on to our beliefs of the way things are supposed to be\, or fight off the way things are\, we’re often tense and cling tightly to our ideas. This practice offers us a way to recognize what this constriction feels like in our bodies and how to let go and make more space. As we release the “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts”\, we can breathe more easily and allow ourselves to be more intimate with our experience. We learn to trust the what’s actually happening instead of what we think might happen. This moves us into the calm and ease that spaciousness allows.  URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/moving-into-spaciousness/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210103T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210103T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063120Z UID:10001608-1609668000-1609671600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Eight Step Recovery DESCRIPTION:This months teaching will take the form of an Eight Step Recovery meeting  URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/eight-step-recovery/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063120Z UID:10001609-1612692000-1612695600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Watch Your Tone: Awareness of Feeling Tones DESCRIPTION:With any experience\, there is a felt sense that arises within us before the onslaught of stories and emotions. It often happens so quickly that we are unaware of it. These feeling tones set in motion the habitual reactions of our thoughts\, emotions\, and behaviors that we get caught up in. \n \nThe Buddha taught us the cause of our suffering in the Second Noble Truth\, mainly craving for things to be different than they are. Bringing awareness\, our mindfulness\, to the subtleties in feeling tones of experiences allows the space for us to see clearly how this plays out\, and we then can expand our capacity to respond to experience as it is\, rather than react. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/watch-your-tone-awareness-of-feeling-tones/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063120Z UID:10001610-1615111200-1615114800@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Showing Up for Life As It Is DESCRIPTION:So much of our lives can be driven by unconscious reactivity: the endless struggle to avoid painful or negative feelings. With mindfulness meditation\, we can develop the skill of patience and presence\, so that we can experience calm and contentment even in the midst of all of the challenges of our lives. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/showing-up-for-life-as-it-is/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210404T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210404T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063120Z UID:10001611-1617530400-1617534000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Relax the Body\, Relax the Mind DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\nOur bodies hold so much that we’re not aware of. Our shoulders are tight\, our jaws are clenched. This tenseness is often a reaction to cravings\, aversions\, and other habits of mind that we’re also unaware of. In this meditation and talk\, Mary will invite us to relax the body and mind which allows us to be with our thoughts and feelings as they arise and develop the ability to respond with clarity and compassion. This practice is helpful in dealing both with addiction and with moving through our day to day lives. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/relax-the-body-relax-the-mind/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063135Z UID:10001612-1619949600-1619953200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Changing Poison into Medicine DESCRIPTION: \nMyokei Caine-Barrett currently holds the position of Bishop of the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America.  She is the first woman and the first American to hold this position.  She is also the first American woman and first person of African American-Japanese descent to be fully ordained\, having completed this process in 2007 with  Archbishop Nissho Uchino  in Yamanashi Prefecture\, Japan.   She is the guiding teacher and resident priest at Myoken-ji Temple in Houston\, Texas.  \n \nMyokei Shonin continues to volunteer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice as clergy to two prison Sanghas for the past 16 years in keeping with the Lotus Sutra teaching of full equality of all beings.  Her writings have been published in a variety of Buddhist magazines [Tricycle\, Lion’s Roar] and newspapers [Nichiren Shu News] and is featured in “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.” She is currently developing curriculum for (1) the Nichiren Shu tradition and the Lotus Sutra and (2) dealing with the trauma of incarceration and racism.   URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/changing-poison-into-medicine/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063135Z UID:10001613-1622973600-1622977200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Knowing I Am On The Dharma Path DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/knowing-i-am-on-the-dharma-path/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210704T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210704T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063135Z UID:10001614-1625392800-1625396400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Cabbages and Condoms DESCRIPTION:Life is naturally difficult and disappointing. All living creatures are programmed to seek security and safety\, and as humans\, we also seek certainty. As a result\, we often live life as unconscious prisoners of fear.\n \nFear of this world and of a next world\, fear of sickness and of death\, fear of insecurity and of being defenceless\, fear of the unknown and of the unexpected. In short\, fear of life itself.\n \nIn this month’s Academy talk\, I hope to explore some links between fear and craving.  I will offer some ideas\, particularly using the Heart practices including forgiveness\, for how we might meet life on life’s terms to live a compassionate\, confident and fearless life. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/cabbages-and-condoms/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063135Z UID:10001615-1627812000-1627815600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Outside Issues and All Our Affairs: The Challenge of Integrating Social Activism in Our Spiritual Practice DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/outside-issues-and-all-our-affairs-the-challenge-of-integrating-social-activism-in-our-spiritual-practice/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210905T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210905T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063135Z UID:10001616-1630836000-1630839600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Loving Ourselves Towards Freedom DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/loving-ourselves-towards-freedom/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211003T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211003T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063150Z UID:10001617-1633255200-1633258800@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Ven Pannavati Bhikkhuni - October 2021 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/ven-pannavati-bhikkhuni-october-2021/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211107T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063150Z UID:10001618-1636279200-1636282800@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:A Taste of Freedom DESCRIPTION:This month in our Buddhist Recovery Workshop series Vimalasara led us in a guided meditation and Dharma talk. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/a-taste-of-freedom/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211205T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063150Z UID:10001619-1638698400-1638702000@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Reclaiming your Own Original Medicine: The Season of Letting-go as Practice of Self-preservation DESCRIPTION:Indigenous societies recognize individuals holding our personal power as original medicine. The shadow of our false self is purified as we strengthen our authentic self through the practice of coming home to our truth and power. The teachings of the Buddha and indigenous wisdom build this foundation of truth\, trust and love. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/reclaiming-your-own-original-medicine-the-season-of-letting-go-as-practice-of-self-preservation/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220102T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220102T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063150Z UID:10001620-1641117600-1641121200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Meeting Life With Joy DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/meeting-life-with-joy/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220206T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063150Z UID:10001621-1644141600-1644145200@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:The Breath of Recovery DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness of breathing is both the most basic meditative tool and an advanced path to enlightenment\, as described by the Buddha. Kevin will discuss the range of uses of mindful breathing\, from simple stress-reduction to the higher insights and their value on the path of recovery. \nBio: \n\nKevin Griffin is a Buddhist teacher and author in the Theravada tradition. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network and teaches internationally across Buddhist traditions. He has been a Buddhist practitioner and in recovery for over three decades. His teacher training was at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California\, where he still teaches his flagship Dharma and Recovery class. Besides teaching at Buddhist and other spiritual centers\, Kevin works with treatment centers and has consulted with leading addiction researchers.His books include:A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of RecoveryOne Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve StepsBuddhism & The Twelve Steps WorkbookRecovering Joy: A Mindful Life After Addiction \nLiving Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World \nHis CDs include:Recovery One Breath at a TimeOne Breath\, Twelve StepsLaughing Buddha (music) \n\n  \nWebsite: https://www.kevingriffin.net/ URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/the-breath-of-recovery/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063448Z UID:10001622-1646560800-1646564400@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:We Were Made for These Times: Lessons for Moving Through Change\, Loss and Disruption DESCRIPTION: URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/we-were-made-for-these-times-lessons-for-moving-through-change-loss-and-disruption/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220403T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063448Z UID:10001623-1648980000-1648983600@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Looking for the Truth - The 'secret' facts of life hidden in plain view DESCRIPTION:Human beings are not meant to be ‘happy’. We are compelled to keep chasing pleasure and to avoid pain. The Buddha presented a view of our existence as being a fragile process\, ever changing\, impermanent\, inconstant\, uncertain\, subject to unavoidable pain and completely impersonal. \nAnd\, he also offered us insights and tools that encourage and facilitate the liberating possibility of seeing the basic patterns of things as they really are. But\, the choice is ours whether we follow his suggestions or not! URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/looking-for-the-truth-the-secret-facts-of-life-hidden-in-plain-view/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T163804 CREATED:20231213T063448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T063448Z UID:10001624-1651399200-1651402800@buddhistrecovery.org SUMMARY:Letting in the Joy DESCRIPTION:Our practice and our recovery are often about recognizing our struggles and where we are stuck. Although it’s necessary that we do this\, sometimes we miss the joy that is also present in our lives. Joy is one of the Seven Awakening Factors and an important experience on the path to liberation. In this talk Mary will offer suggestions on how to recognize and cultivate joy in your life\, even in the midst of difficulties. URL:https://buddhistrecovery.org/event/letting-in-the-joy/ LOCATION:BRN Academy CATEGORIES:Academy Teachings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR