Buddhist Recovery Network

Kevin Griffin - Zoom Classes
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-08 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-22 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates
One hour Zoom classes, Tuesdays at 10am Pacific Time. Fridays at 5pm Pacific are now community classes with rotating leaders (except 2nd Fridays which are hosted by Spirit Rock). These classes are casual, drop-in events. We start with 20 minutes of guided meditation, followed by a short talk on Buddhism and recovery. Offer dana through Paypal or Venmo.

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2025-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-26 12:00 - 13:00 and 3 more dates
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

Taking Refuge in These Times: A Meditation in Recovery Sangha One-Day Retreat with Kevin Griffin and Cynthia Kear
2025-03-16 10:00 - 16:00 | San Francisco Zen Center, 300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Who: Kevin Griffin and Cynthia Kear
Where: San Francisco Zen Center, 300 Page Street, SF CA
When: March 16, 2025 / 10:00am – 4:00pm
Description:

In challenging times, the twining vines of recovery and practice offer us great solace. We look to Right View for guidance and Right Action for motivation. Held by sangha and fellowship, the path carries us forward with peace and ease, no matter the external conditions.
Please join Kevin and Cynthia for a day of Dharma talks, meditation, and sharing.
You can register HERE.

Returning to Our Luminosity: The Aggañña Sutta & Breaking Free from Binding Ways
2025-04-06 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Meditation 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 root—both in the world and within ourselves. This teaching traces the movement from a time of luminosity and ease into a world shaped by grasping, hierarchy, and suffering. How does this sutta help us better understand the forces of capitalism, oppression, and instability that reinforce patterns of craving? And more importantly, how can we break free from the binding ways that keep us caught in cycles of suffering? Through this teaching, we will examine how recognizing the constructed nature of the world and our conditioned responses allows us to loosen the grip of craving and move toward a truer liberation.

Joys & Sorrows of Addictions & Recovery with Shannon Smith
2025-04-10 17:30
Life can be challenging for all of us and finding the resources to live well isn’t always obvious . Our inability to do so often manifests in some form of addictive behavior; attempts to avoid, change, or control our painful experiences that we encounter haunt too many women. Various forms of addiction recovery have been developed to meet this crisis, pointing to solutions ranging from spirituality, community, therapy, prayer and meditation. Those who have found a lasting and meaningful form of recovery acknowledge the long journey from suffering to happiness.
During this retreat we will explore and uncover the many sorrows and joys of addiction and recovery. Utilizing a simple approach, we will develop, discuss, and practice Mindfulness and various contemplative exercises. The program will provide teaching sessions, interactive dialog, Q&A and time for solo practice on the land at Ghost Ranch.
As women we will embrace the opportunity to practice together and engage in dialogue about our experience of addiction and recovery

First Aid Kit For The Mind - San Francisco Dharma Collective
2025-04-26 19:15 - 20:45 | The San Francisco Dharma Collective, 2929 24th street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Vimalasara shares their wisdom, and insights into working with habits. The majority of us become more of our habits as we age, in this nugget of a book Vimalasara explores ways to become less of our habits. Join us for an evening of conversation, inquiry and breath.
Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John is the award winning author of 11 books, including Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction and Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Emotional Trauma. They are one of the founding facilitators of Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry, and are also trained in Internal Family Systems and Mindfulness. They have a private practice and also offer supervision. They are a senior teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Community.
First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors is Vimalasara’s newest publication, an illustrated, accessible guide to choosing recovery over addiction, reactivity, and unhelpful habits. It is a workbook, a guide to reflection, and a prompt for greater embodied mindfulness – turning away from ‘stinking thinking’ to what is meaningful in your life and relationships. The book is accompanied by guided meditations and reflections recorded by the author.
Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: [REDACTED]
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806
This class is open to everyone. No prior meditation experience is required.
Suggested donation $15 – $30. All are welcome. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

Staying Sober During Turbulent Times - with Vimalasara Mason-John and Shawna Adkins
2025-04-27 09:00 - 13:00
Sunday, April 27th 2025
9AM – 1PM PT
HYBRID at EBMC (285 17th St. Oakland, CA) and online via Zoom
With Vimalasara Mason-John and Shawna Adkins
Closed Captioning Provided on Zoom
The center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible
N95/KN95 masks required
https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-staying-sober-during-turbulent-times/

Who Is Myself?
2025-05-04 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy
Exploring identity in the context of Dharma and recovery.

Meditation and Dharma Talk with time for Q & A

Walking the Path of Recovery: Buddhism & the 12 Steps
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-18 | Dorje Denma Ling, 2280 Balmoral Road, The Falls, NS, B0K 1V0, Canada
with Margaret Jones Callahan and Brian Callahan
The path of Dharma and the path of recovery complement each other and work together to support and deepen sobriety. Buddhism and the 12 Steps each offer a template or method for one’s personal, spiritual journey. Both Buddhism and the 12 Steps begin with looking at life on its own terms: either acknowledging life’s unmanageability (as in Step 1) or acknowledging the truth of suffering. Both paths lead to the discovery of joy, compassion, and a deeper spiritual relationship to the world. Both Buddhism and the 12 Steps shine a light onto the path towards freedom.
Registration and more information

Heartful Practices During Divisive Times
2025-05-17 09:00 - 13:00
