Buddhist Recovery Network

BRN Online 8 Step Recovery Meeting
2023-12-23 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-11-23 01:30 - 02:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Buddhist Recovery Network is offering meetings every Wednesday of the month, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Zoom Link

The first Wednesday of every month will be a Recovery Dharma Meeting
The second Wednesday of every month will be a Noble Steps Meeting
The third Wednesday of every month will be a Sit-and-Share meeting
The fourth wednesday of every month will be an 8 step recovery meeting
When there is a 5th Wednesday there will be a Sit-and-Share meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6794136360?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 679 413 6360
Passcode: brn

BRN Online Sit and Share Meeting
2023-12-20 08:30 - 09:30

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2023-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-05 12:00 - 13:00
8 Step Recovery Meeting for Black Indigenous People of Color and Black Asian Minority Ethnic
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6794136360?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 679 413 6360
Passcode: brn

Contact: Email- eightstepsrecovery@gmail.com

BRN Online Noble Steps Meeting
2023-12-09 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-11-09 01:30 - 02:30
Buddhist Recovery Network is offering meetings every Wednesday of the month, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Zoom Link

The first wednesday of every month will be a Recovery Dharma Meeting
The second wednesday of every month will be a Noble Steps Meeting
The third wednesday of every month will be a Sit-and-Share meeting
The fourth wednesday of every month will be an 8 step recovery meeting
When there is a 5th wednesday there will be a Sit-and-Share meeting.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6794136360?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 679 413 6360
Passcode: brn

BRN Online Recovery Dharma Meeting
2023-12-07 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-11-02 01:30 - 02:30

Topic: My Journey Into Recovery and Dharma
2023-12-03 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Since this is my first time speaking at the BRN Academy, I thought I would share some stories about my personal journey with you. I’ve been in recovery from drugs and alcohol since 1987, and there have been plenty of ups and downs along the way. Finding the practice of insight meditation and the Buddha’s path of liberation gave me a new sense of possibility in my life after years of being clean and sober in 12 step meetings.

I finally learned how to be more self-reliant. As the Buddha instructed in one sutta: “Dwell with yourselves as your own island, with yourselves as your own refuge, with no other refuge; dwell with the Dhamma as your island, with the Dhamma as your refuge, with no other refuge…” Of course, Sangha (community) is vitally important, too.

My Journey Into Recovery and Dharma
2023-12-03 10:00 - 11:00

BRN Online Sit and Share Meeting
2023-11-30 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-11-16 08:30 - 09:30

Recovering the Heart during distress times
2023-11-05 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy

Kate Johnson - October 2023
2023-10-01 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy

The Zen Way of Recovery
2023-09-03 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Laura will be sharing from her recently released book The Zen Way of Recovery: An Illuminated Path Out of the Darkness of Addiction, a collection of dharma talks on teachings that are congruent with recovery. The twin paths of Zen practice and recovery have evolved and sustained her since she got sober in 1985.
Here is a link to the book: https://www.shambhala.com/zen-way-of-recovery.html

Committing to Change
2023-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy

The Basic Pattern of Things: Managing Expectations
2023-07-02 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
The Buddha’s First Truth or Realisation was “Life is painful and then you die.” If this is true, then how do we respond to the disappointments of life and the certainty of death? This session will explore how we are conditioned to protect, promote and satisfy a ‘self’ which can never be satisfied. As the Buddha says “we are the slaves of craving”. Our wise-heartedness meditation will cultivate an appropriate attitude to the vicissitudes of life.

Understanding No Self and a World Based on Identities
2023-06-04 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
For this session, in honor of LGBTQ+ Pride, Lev will read a poem from the book Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices and talk about why it’s important to honor who we all are, or identify, while also understanding the emptiness of us.

The Karma Garden—A missing tool of Buddhist Recovery for process addictions
2023-05-07 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Do you struggle with renouncing your compulsive behavior? Thomas has readapted a vital tool for process addictions into Buddhist framework, which they call “The Karma Garden: Watering Seeds of Self-Care.”
This tool helps you:

Define the behaviors you’re renouncing (the insatiable cravings and damage of hungry ghosts)
Keep alert of risky conditions (-Bad Karma seeds / Suffering)
Fill your cup with healthy self-care choices (+Good Karma / Healing)

https://insighttimer.com/ang

https://rd.rocks

Long Enduring Mind
2023-04-02 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Recovery and dharma practice go through many ups and downs. How do we sustain our spiritual lives through the seasons of life?

Forgiveness on the Path to Recovery
2023-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
So many of us come into sobriety with a really poor relationship with ourselves and so heavily burdened with resentments towards ourselves and others. By practicing forgiveness, not in a theistic Christian outside ourselves way, but as self empowering and self healing way to start to let go, to change our relationship with, and to be truly free. It is imperative for forgiveness to be infused in all our practices and our path so that we can be liberated, experiencing the difference between just sobriety and the big Recovery, with a capital R!

All You Need is Love
2023-02-05 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
In our world it seems that hate and anger are so prevalent it can feel overwhelming at times. In our own lives, it’s also quite easy for us to slip into aversion and othering while finding it fully justified. In this talk Mary discusses the need to name love as a foundation of our practice. The Buddha gave us the Metta Sutta as well as other teachings on how to be with a mind imbued with lovingkindness and compassion. This foundation of love will allow us to fully open to the world and to ourselves, letting go of the need to create barriers. Turning towards love is the answer.

Beginning Again
2023-01-01 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
As the New Year starts, we renew our commitment to recovery and practice. This talk will focus on the importance of persistence and continuity in practice and recovery. The importance of finding joy in the simple experiences of life, in breathing, in walking, in being with others.

A Place Between: What's Along the Middle Way?
2022-11-06 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
The Buddha revealed to us an eight-fold path as a way to work with and move beyond suffering, a way to be in recovery from the three poisons in all their many forms. How do we embrace this middle way of being with curiosity, awareness and engagement, and what does it reveal to us along the way? Let’s notice the qualities of the change that comes as a result of our efforts. Let’s practice widening our view to see the distances we’ve traveled, how we’re becoming, what energizes our practice and gives life to our regular steps along the way.
