Buddhist Recovery Network

Kevin Griffin - Zoom Classes
2025-04-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-29 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-13 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-27 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 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.

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2025-04-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-24 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-31 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 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

First Aid Kit For The Mind - San Francisco Dharma Collective
2025-04-26 19:15 - 20:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | NC
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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | NC

Building a Foundation for Freedom
2025-06-01 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BRN Academy
When we are caught in addictive behaviors, we’re often acting from habits that have been strengthened over the years, and which can be difficult to break. The Buddha’s teaching on liberation and awakening, the Eightfold Path, also offers us a path to freedom from these habits. When we intentionally use this path as a roadmap for how we move through the world, we are building a foundation that is strong and serves us in all aspects of our lives. It’s a foundation that offers freedom from addiction.

Refcon 2025 - Refuge Recovery Conference
2025-06-05 - 2025-06-08 | Craigville Retreat Center, 39 Prospect Avenue, Centerville, MA, 02632, United States

Online: A Verified Kind of Faith – Buddhism & Addiction Recovery with Walt Opie
2025-06-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | NC
Online: A Verified Kind of Faith – Buddhism & Addiction Recovery
with Walt Opie
Thursday, June 5, 2025 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET (via Zoom)
For many of us in recovery from addiction, the word “faith” can conjure up memories of being forced to participate in organized religion or it can feel related to a so-called “higher power.”
When Buddhist teachings refer to faith, it’s different. The Buddha himself discouraged people from acting out of blind faith. Instead, Buddhism describes three ways that faith, or confidence, can manifest or build over time, including: bright faith, verified faith, and unshakeable faith.
According to the well-known teacher Gil Fronsdal, faith in Buddhism is not a belief system but a faculty or a capacity we have that we can develop further. In fact, faith, just like recovery, can be a kind of empowerment. With support from the teachings and others on similar journeys, we learn how to trust our inner wisdom. We gain a new kind of inner confidence.
During this program, we will explore the three different types of faith, as well as how faith in the Buddhist teachings and practices can help keep us on the path of recovery. There will be guided meditation, a dharma talk, and time for sharing and discussion.
Please join us for this special evening of learning to strengthen our inner resources through the Buddhist teachings.

Insight Recovery Sangha
2025-06-19 21:30 - 22:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | NC
The Insight Recovery Sangha will meet monthly on Zoom and is for anyone (self-identified) who is working with strong cravings or addictions. We will meditate, hear short dharma talks related to Buddhist teachings and recovery, and share candidly with each other in community. The purpose of this group is to foster community and learn how to apply teachings on mindfulness, compassion and wisdom to our recovery program.
The emphasis will be on how craving causes suffering and how cultivating insight into the nature of craving can greatly ease our suffering, and help us lead more peaceful and contented lives. We have no affiliations with any other organizations and this is not a 12-Step group, although various known addiction recovery modalities may be referred to from time to time.
This group is open to everyone. There is no need to qualify for membership when you introduce yourself to the group. However, we do believe this group will work best for those committed to a life free from substance abuse and harmful addictive behaviors.
The teachers, Walt Opie and Dalila Bothwell, will serve as group facilitators, dharma teachers, and sangha (community) members. Over time, there will be guest teachers, as well.
There is no fee to enroll in the Insight Recovery Sangha. If you would like to support this program or your teachers, you may make an offering within the program platform after you enroll.
Enroll at
ims.dharma.org/courses/insight-recovery-sangha-2025

Metta: Cultivating A Boundless Heart with Gary Sanders
2025-06-21 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC
A day-long workshop with Gary Sanders of Boundless Heart Dharma hosted by Recovery Dharma Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 21 · 10am – 4pm EDT. Doors at 9:15am
