Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery
Kevin Griffin
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April 7, 2026 Comparing Mind
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
Exploring Ajahn Pasanno’s comment that we can sense mental activity more easily through mindfulness of the body.
March 24, 2026 What Are Thoughts?
Exploring the non-verbal quality of thoughts, and the intention behind them.
March 10, 2026 Rapture in Meditation and Recovery
Exploring the uplifting energy of mindful breathing. Note: this episode has no guided meditation.
What We Resist Persists
March 3, 2026 Learning to be with the difficult without reactivity.
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Feb 17, 2026 The developmental process from the five hindrances, to the Seven Factors of Awakening, to the Four Noble Truths.
Precepts and Boundaries in Recovery
Feb 10, 2026, Reading from Ajahn Amaro on the protection of sila and sobriety.
Dharma and the World
Feb 3, 2026, Balancing engagement with the world with spiritual practice and recovery.
Understanding Mindfulness
January 20, 2026 Exploring misconceptions about mindfulness meditation.
Jan 13, 2026 Death and the Deathless
Connecting Dharma with death and the deathless.
Jan 6, 2026 The Terror of Undefined Being
Drawing from Ajahn Amaro’s teaching on watching the arising of self and the suffering that comes with it.
Concentration
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.
Watching the Wheels
Reflections on my early practice. Anecdotes from that time, including hearing John Lennon during a meditation retreats.
12/16/25 It's Like This
The non-verbal reality of experience. Referencing Ajahn Sumedho’s famous phrase.
12/9/25 Thinking vs. Feeling
Meditation focusing on feeling rather than thoughts. Connecting to the nervous system as a source of intelligence.
12/2/25 Feeling Tone in the Foundations of Mindfulness
Beginning with background on the mindfulness and Insight Meditation movement, then moving to “vedana,” the feeling tone of each experience.
11/25/25 The Inner Experience
Exploring the term “interoception,” the internal sense perception.
11/18/2025 Thoughts and Feelings in Practice
Discovering our habitual emotional states by exploring thoughts.
11/11/25 Mindfulness and Addiction
Reflecting on the the feelings that drive addiction and how mindfulness can help.
11/4/25 Forms of Concentration
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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