Kevin Griffin
Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery
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...
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Episodes
October 13, 2026 Powerlessness and Agency 13.10.2026 1:05:05
Using the Daily Contemplations as a frame for exploring control and the lack of control. The challenge of Right Effort.
October 6, 2026 How Do We Practice? 13.10.2026 56:16
Exploring the challenge of finding our own way on the path.
September 29, 2026 Concentration and Insight 13.10.2026 1:00:50
Exploring the role of concentration in meditation and its relationship to the other factors of the Eightfold Path.
September 22, 2026 Loving Kindness Toward Oneself 13.10.2026 58:43
Reflecting on suttas about self-love.
September 15, 2026 Unsettling Emotions in Meditation 13.10.2026 58:57
Responding to a question about difficult feelings.
September 9, 2026 Love and Fear 13.10.2026 58:20
Bringing kindness to anxiety and fear. This includes trust in ourselves and in the Dharma.
September 1, 2026 Walt Opie on Joy in Recovery 13.10.2026 1:00:24
Walt discusses “the pleasure of non-reactivity.”
August 25, 2026 Four Noble Truths and Causality 13.10.2026 1:01:26
Looking at how the Four Noble Truths outline the process by which suffering arises and ceases.
August 18, 2026 Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness 13.10.2026 59:16
Exploring difficult experiences in meditation.
Don't Know 13.10.2026 1:02:19
August 11, 2026, exploring the Korean Zen saying “Don’t know,” which challenges us to examine our beliefs.
August 4, 2026 Thought versus Proliferation 07.08.2026 59:24
Distinguishing ordinary passing thoughts from the ones that sweep us away in meditation. How to work with the proliferating thoughts.
July 28, 2026 The Obstruction of Self 07.08.2026 1:01:01
How self-consciousness gets in the way of being present and enjoying life.
July 21, 2026 The Mirror of the Hindrances 07.08.2026 1:01:41
Looking at the simile of the bowl of water and the five hindrances.
July 7, 2026 The Dart 07.08.2026 57:04
Exploring the classic sutta The Dart which tells how aversion increases the suffering of our pain.
June 30, 2026 Meditation for Recovery 07.08.2026 1:05:37
Talking about what the connections are between Buddhism and recovery and the role of meditation in that connection.
June 16, 2026 Entering Your Own Mind on Retreat 07.08.2026 59:13
As I leave for a weeklong self-retreat, I talk about the fear of being with my own mind.
June 9, 2026 The Dharma of Pain 07.08.2026 1:01:09
Looking deeply at how physical pain connects with impermanence and not self.
June 2, 2026 Insistent Visitors 07.08.2026 1:00:42
Reading from Jack Kornfield’s “A Path with Heart” on working with difficult emotions.
May 26, 2026 Chasing Comfort 07.08.2026 1:04:07
How throughout our days and lives we seek pleasure and comfort. Working to develop equanimity around the changes experiences of mind and body.
May 19, 2026 Two Kinds of Thought 07.08.2026 57:14
Exploring the sutta “Two Kinds of Thoughts” (Majjhima Nikaya 19) which talks about letting go of unwholesome and cultivating wholesome thinking.
May 12, 2026 Working with Thoughts 07.08.2026 52:05
Drawing from Ajahn Pasanno’s “Abundant, Exalted, Immeasurable,” to explore how we work with thoughts in meditation.
May 5, 2026 Breathing with Energy 07.08.2026 58:18
Using the breath to modulate the nervous system. This is how we work with emotions and moods in meditation.
April 14, 2026 Body Mirrors Mind 07.08.2026 1:01:20
Exploring what makes Dharma a unique way of working with recovery.
April 7, 2026 Comparing Mind 10.04.2026 1:05:32
Drawing from Ajahn Pasanno’s book “abundant, exalted, immeasurable.” To skip the guided meditation, scroll ahead about 20 minutes.
March 30, 2026 The Body Mirrors the Mind 10.04.2026 1:00:10
Exploring Ajahn Pasanno’s comment that we can sense mental activity more easily through mindfulness of the body.
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