Buddhist Recovery Network

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2025-02-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 4 more dates | NC
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

Meeting the moment with a Clear Heart with Carol Cano
2025-02-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BRN Academy
Meeting the moment of high stress with a clear heart involves embracing the challenge with a sense of calm and purpose. It’s about grounding yourself in the present, acknowledging the pressure without letting it overwhelm you. A clear heart means letting go of unnecessary tension, judgment, or fear, and instead responding with clarity, focus, and compassion. It’s the ability to breathe deeply, find inner strength, and choose the most thoughtful and constructive course of action. In these moments, your heart remains steady, and you allow yourself to move through the stress with grace and resilience, knowing that the situation is temporary and that you have the tools to navigate it effectively.
“Buddhadasa Bhikkhu reminds us that Dhamma is always available to us, in every moment. It is not an external concept, but an inner experience that we can touch in our daily lives.”

Kevin Griffin - Zoom Classes
2025-02-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-25 10:00 - 11:00, 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 (America/Los_Angeles) and 4 more dates | NC
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.

10th Anniversary Celebration of the Buddhism and 12 Steps Group at the Buddhist Dharma Center of Cincinnati
2025-02-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | NC
Kevin Griffin will join us via Zoom to lead a guided meditation, speak a bit and do Q&A.

7:00-8:30 pm EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84622890309?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID 846 2289 0309

Passcode CBDC
See also the sponsoring meeting’s information here
Buddhist 12 Step Group (B12) In Person and On Zoom – ET

How Buddhist Wisdom Helps Us Stay in Recovery - March Teaching with Walt Opie
2025-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BRN Academy
The first two path factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, namely Right View and Right Intention, combine to be the wisdom factors. When we understand and develop these to a certain point, we start to see how they can help aim us in the right direction and guide our thinking. This leads to healthier, more wholesome actions and habits, and it can motivate us to really want to stay in recovery from addictions. We start to see more clearly the ways we can reduce suffering in our lives.

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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | NC
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
