Feb. 4 2025 Powerless
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Making the connections between the 12 Step idea of Powerlessness and Buddhist teachings on impermanence and agency.
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Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery
Jan 28, 2025 Compassion in a Troubled World
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Compassion and Loving Kindness as an antidote to current world affairs. Referencing my book “Living Kindness.”
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Jan 21, 2025 Stages of Mindfulness
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Drawing from Ajahn Pasanno’s “Nourishing the Roots.”
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Jan 14, 2025 One Breath at a Time
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I tell the story of how I came to write my first book.
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Jan 7, 2025, Varieties of Karma
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Not all karma is personal. The weather, biology, physics and more are impersonal. And we are not responsible for other people’s karma.
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Dec 31, 2024 Sila, the Wholesome
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Reflecting on Hiri and Ottappa, the inner guides for ethical living. Drawing from Ajahn Pasanno’s “Nourishing the Roots.”
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Craving and the Holidays
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The holidays are a time of high-risk for addicts to relapse. This is an important time to stay close to your recovery community and committed to your recovery program.
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Our Relationship to Thoughts
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“Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” – let the thoughts come and let them go. Don’t get into a conflict with thoughts, don’t analyze, don’t try to figure out. Let them be.
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Working with Feelings
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Reading from “Why We Meditate” by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Daniel Goleman
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Step Twelve: Spiritual Awakening
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From a Buddhism and the Twelve Steps class series at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Spring 2011. Many of the ideas in these classes can be found in my books, especially Budddhism & the Twelve Steps Workbook, and Higher Power: Buddhism & the Twelve Steps.
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