Hosted by Kevin Griffin · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 68 episodes
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This podcast is from Kevin Griffin's Tuesday morning Zoom classes exploring Dharma and Recovery. Topics cover meditation, Buddhism, addiction, depression, anxiety, and spirituality.Kevin Griffin is the bestselling author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and several other books bridging dharma and recovery. A co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, he is a leader in the mindful recovery movement and a sought after speaker and teacher. He offers retreats, workshops, and public talks internationally. He was trained and teaches regularly at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the West Coast’s leading Buddhist retreat center. He has been featured in such Buddhist publications as Tricycle Magazine and Inquiring Mind, the Journal of Vipassana Meditation. He has appeared on Krista Tippett’s public radio show, “Speaking of Faith” (now “On Being”), and been a guest on many popular podcasts.Kevin is steeped in the early Buddhist teachings of the Theravadan tradition. His
Kevin Griffin hosts Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery, a religion show with 68 episodes published.
Drawing from Ajahn Pasanno’s book “abundant, exalted, immeasurable.” To skip the guided meditation, scroll ahead about 20 minutes.
Exploring Ajahn Pasanno’s comment that we can sense mental activity more easily through mindfulness of the body.
Exploring the non-verbal quality of thoughts, and the intention behind them.
Exploring the uplifting energy of mindful breathing. Note: this episode has no guided meditation.
March 3, 2026 Learning to be with the difficult without reactivity.
Feb 17, 2026 The developmental process from the five hindrances, to the Seven Factors of Awakening, to the Four Noble Truths.
Feb 10, 2026, Reading from Ajahn Amaro on the protection of sila and sobriety.
Feb 3, 2026, Balancing engagement with the world with spiritual practice and recovery.
January 20, 2026 Exploring misconceptions about mindfulness meditation.
Connecting Dharma with death and the deathless.
Drawing from Ajahn Amaro’s teaching on watching the arising of self and the suffering that comes with it.
Reflections on the role of concentration in meditation. Exploring different challenges and subtleties of practice. How we get stuck in striving or judgment when the mind doesn’t get quiet.
Reflections on my early practice. Anecdotes from that time, including hearing John Lennon during a meditation retreats.
The non-verbal reality of experience. Referencing Ajahn Sumedho’s famous phrase.
Meditation focusing on feeling rather than thoughts. Connecting to the nervous system as a source of intelligence.
Beginning with background on the mindfulness and Insight Meditation movement, then moving to “vedana,” the feeling tone of each experience.
Exploring the term “interoception,” the internal sense perception.
Discovering our habitual emotional states by exploring thoughts.
Reflecting on the the feelings that drive addiction and how mindfulness can help.
Reading from Joseph Goldstein’s “Mindfulness” and Bhikkhu Analayo’s “Mindfulness of Breathing” to understand what meditative concentration is and how to approach it.
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