Buddhist Recovery Network

All You Need is Love
2023-02-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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!

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?

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

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 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.

Committing to Change
2023-08-06 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

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

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

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

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2023-11-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-23 12:00 - 13:00 and 1 more date
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
2023-11-09 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-12-09 01:30 - 02:30

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

BRN Online 8 Step Recovery Meeting
2023-11-23 01:30 - 02:30, 2023-12-23 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.

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

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

Topic: My Journey Into Recovery and Dharma
2023-12-03 10:00 - 11:00 | BRN Academy

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