Buddhist Recovery Network

Kevin Griffin - Zoom Classes
2024-06-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-30 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-08-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 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
2024-06-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-08-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-08-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 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

BUDDHISM AND RECOVERY A five-day intensive Meditation Retreat with KEVIN GRIFFIN
2024-07-02 - 2024-07-07
Sorry this Retreat is Full! – Waitlist can be found at the link
Join us for a unique meditation retreat combining traditional Buddhist practices with recovery and Twelve Step work. Primarily conducted in silence, the retreat focuses on insight/mindfulness meditation, with additional interactive exercises, lecture, and meetings exploring ways that Buddhism and the Steps can complement each other. Daily Qigong practice brings added benefit and energy to the retreat.
The emphasis will be on bringing mindfulness to all our activities, whether in formal meditation, movement, speaking, listening, or eating. Participants will practice Noble Silence outside of the interactive exercises and 12-Step-style meetings. All recovery paths are welcome, whether Twelve Step, Refuge Recovery, substance, process, or relationship-oriented.
The intensive nature of the retreat allows for profound personal openings, insight, and transformation. The support of the community carries us through the sometimes challenging, sometimes inspiring elements of this deep inner work.

BRN Online Recovery Dharma Meeting
2024-07-03 01:30 - 02:30, 2024-08-07 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.

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

Gary Sanders - Just assume the answer to every question is compassion
2024-07-07 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“Just assume the answer to every question is compassion” – Father Greg Boyle in his book Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

In Buddhism, compassion is the appropriate response to pain and whether we are new to sobriety and suffering the special kind of newcomer pain, or in long term recovery and suffering the pain of everyday life…compassion is ALWAYS the answer.

My hope this BRN Academy session is to explore some areas in recovery that aren’t talked about a whole lot: interpersonal relationships, secondary addictions, untreated or under treated trauma, and other topics that all can be proactively prepared for and met will compassion.

Freedom without Expectations
2024-07-20 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | The King Alfred School, 149 N End Rd, London, NW11 7HY, United Kingdom
The way out of suffering, the Buddha said, is the Middle Way; the middle path between the extremes of sensual existence. The first and most critical step of the Middle Way is appropriate understanding. And the first things we need to understand correctly are the realities, limitations and possibilities of being human.
The Buddha’s primary insight can be paraphrased as life is painful and then you die. If this is true, then how do we respond to the difficulties and disappointments of this life and the certainty of death?
Through talks, meditations and group work we will explore the ‘true’ realities of existence and what an appropriate response might be in both our mental attitude and our engagement with the spectrum of sensuality, and the unavoidable vicissitudes of life.

2024 Recovery Dharma Sangha Summit
2024-07-26 14:00 - 2024-07-28 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University Place Hotel & Conference Center, 310 Southwest Lincoln Street, Portland, OR, United States
2024 Sangha Summit

The Power of Choice
2024-08-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Choices guide the manner in which we walk the path of Dharma. Can we use suffering to build joy? Can we turn the obstacles in our lives into good medicine for our growth?

Prayer

Nama Butsu, Nama Hou, Nama Sou

We honor our teachers, our teachings, and our communities,
Knowing that as we do so, we connect with that sacred center within each of us
that is the home of our deliverance from suffering.
It is our place of belonging, our place of unity, of communion, of oneness—
it is the Buddha nature which we all aspire to awaken.
It is the one Buddha mind that uplifts, supports, nurtures and encompasses us all.

As we unite together in oneness, each reflecting upon our own lives
and hearing the stories of other lives,
we come to a place of understanding our common ground and our sameness
and we release the suffering we have caused ourselves and others.
This moment is a change in our thinking, our behavior, our voices—
we come together in this truth—there is no separation between us.

Our participation today, is the beginning of a new way of showing up,
a new understanding of well considered causes,
in recognition that we are interconnected and that all our actions have impact,
and always we are one.
The truth of this recognition fuels every moment of intentional interaction
as we walk forward together on this day.

We are grateful for our awareness of our oneness in the Dharma;
we are grateful to know that we are victorious in our efforts for seeking awakening;
we are grateful to be alive to have each and every opportunity to transform our lives;
we are grateful that our hearts are a place of prayer;
always mindful, always intent on walking this path of liberation.

Each of our voices is a song of liberation;
together we form a chorus of awakening that lifts us all out of suffering.
This is our truth—we are the Buddha’s children,

we are the emissaries of love and compassion.

Teacher Bio
Myokei Caine-Barrett currently holds the position of Bishop of the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America. She is the first woman and the first American to hold this position. She is also the first American woman and first person of African American-Japanese descent to be fully ordained, having completed this process in 2007 with Archbishop Nissho Uchino in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. She is the guiding teacher and resident priest at Myoken-ji Temple in Houston, Texas.

Myokei Shonin continues to volunteer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice as clergy to two prison Sanghas for the past 16 years in keeping with the Lotus Sutra teaching of full equality of all beings. Her writings have been published in a variety of Buddhist magazines [Tricycle, Lion’s Roar] and newspapers [Nichiren Shu News] and is featured in “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.” She is currently developing curriculum for (1) the Nichiren Shu tradition and the Lotus Sutra and (2) dealing with the trauma of incarceration and racism.

She also supports weekend trainings for Healing Warrior Hearts, a Texas for Heroes project designed to truly welcome veterans home. Myokei Shonin is a facilitator in dialogues on racism and managing conflict mindfully. She is also a licensed Religious Science practitioner.

First Aid Kit for the Mind Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors
2024-08-25 09:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle Buddhist Center, 2056 15th Avenue NE, Unit C-2., Seattle, WA, 98125, United States
ONE DAY WORKSHOP
at the Seattle Buddhist Center
Sunday, August 25, 9:30-4:00
For questions, contact: info@seattlebuddhistcenter.org

This workshop will attend to the resilient heart/mind with
meditation, breath work, inquiry and compassion. Vimalasara will
share practices from their latest book that help soothe trauma, anxiety and habitual behaviors.

A day for anyone who wants to pay attention to their heart/mind.

Vimalasara, an Order Member from Vancouver, BC, is an international public speaker
and has been named one of the leading voices in Mindfulness approaches for
addiction. They work as a space holder for healing, has a private practice, and trains
both professionals and the general public in the field of trauma and addiction. Professor

Ken Hardy writes: “As a clinician, educator, and trainer, this inspiring and insightful
book left me in absolute awe of Mason-John’s wisdom and guidance as one of the
premier social, cultural, and psychological healers of our time.

Please bring a vegetarian potluck item to share or your own food.
Suggested donation is $25.

Buddhism and Recovery with Kevin Griffin and Greg Pergament
2024-08-27 - 2024-09-02 | Southern Dharma Retreat Center, 1661 W Rd, Hot Springs, NC, United States
Join us for a unique meditation retreat combining traditional Buddhist practices with recovery and Twelve Step work. Primarily conducted in silence, the retreat focuses on mindfulness meditation and heart practices, with additional interactive exercises, lectures, and meetings exploring ways that Buddhism, recovery, and the Steps can complement each other. The emphasis will be on bringing mindfulness to all our activities, whether in formal meditation, movement, speaking, listening, or eating. Daily Qigong practice offered by Greg Pergament will bring added healing and energy to the retreat.
Participants will practice Noble Silence outside of the interactive exercises and 12-Step-style meetings. All recovery paths are welcome, whether Twelve Step, Refuge Recovery, substance, process, or relationship-oriented. The intensive nature of the retreat allows for profound personal openings, insight, and transformation. The support of the community carries us through the sometimes challenging, sometimes inspiring elements of this deep inner work. You must be at least 30 days clean and sober in order to attend the retreat.

Rev Christy Bates - Purification or Harmony?
2024-09-01 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Topic of the teaching: “Purification or Harmony?”

We typically encounter the Teachings through the lens of a guilty self. Meanwhile, our English translations tend to skew in that direction, too. And we know that the suffering of greed, hatred and delusion first-hand. What might it be like to encounter the Dhamma with an intent to harmonize and transmute these energies? Come join Christie Bates (Passatininna) as we explore together!

Christy’s Website – https://www.passaticounseling.com/meditation
Christy’s App – https://www.passaticounseling.com/thebeautifulhuman
Aṅgulimāla Sutta – https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN86.html
