Episodes 68
Avg. Duration 1h 3m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 5.0 (7)
Since Oct 2024
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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About This Podcast

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 book Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled Mind is a deeply personal exploration of the Buddha’s discourses on loving-kindness and compassion through the suttas of the Pali Canon.

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Recent Episodes

April 7, 2026 Comparing Mind

Apr 10, 2026 1h 5m

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

Apr 10, 2026 1h

Exploring Ajahn Pasanno’s comment that we can sense mental activity more easily through mindfulness of the body.

March 24, 2026 What Are Thoughts?

Apr 10, 2026 59m

Exploring the non-verbal quality of thoughts, and the intention behind them.

March 10, 2026 Rapture in Meditation and Recovery

Apr 10, 2026 41m

Exploring the uplifting energy of mindful breathing. Note: this episode has no guided meditation.

What We Resist Persists

Mar 10, 2026 1h 4m

March 3, 2026 Learning to be with the difficult without reactivity.

Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness

Mar 10, 2026 59m

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

Mar 10, 2026 1h 5m

Feb 10, 2026, Reading from Ajahn Amaro on the protection of sila and sobriety.

Dharma and the World

Mar 10, 2026 1h 5m

Feb 3, 2026, Balancing engagement with the world with spiritual practice and recovery.

Understanding Mindfulness

Mar 10, 2026 58m

January 20, 2026 Exploring misconceptions about mindfulness meditation.

Jan 13, 2026 Death and the Deathless

Jan 15, 2026 1h 2m

Connecting Dharma with death and the deathless.

Jan 6, 2026 The Terror of Undefined Being

Jan 15, 2026 1h 2m

Drawing from Ajahn Amaro’s teaching on watching the arising of self and the suffering that comes with it.

Concentration

Jan 15, 2026 1h 10m

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

Jan 15, 2026 1h 2m

Reflections on my early practice. Anecdotes from that time, including hearing John Lennon during a meditation retreats.

12/16/25 It's Like This

Dec 17, 2025 1h 2m

The non-verbal reality of experience. Referencing Ajahn Sumedho’s famous phrase.

12/9/25 Thinking vs. Feeling

Dec 17, 2025 1h 7m

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

Dec 17, 2025 1h 5m

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

Dec 17, 2025 59m

Exploring the term “interoception,” the internal sense perception.

11/18/2025 Thoughts and Feelings in Practice

Dec 17, 2025 1h 2m

Discovering our habitual emotional states by exploring thoughts.

11/11/25 Mindfulness and Addiction

Dec 17, 2025 1h 9m

Reflecting on the the feelings that drive addiction and how mindfulness can help.

11/4/25 Forms of Concentration

Dec 17, 2025 58m

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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Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery has published 68 episodes since October 2024, covering topics in Arts, Books.

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