Podcast
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, 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.
- Buddhism chart
- #78
- Episodes
- 91
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 1 hr
- On air since
- 2024
- Latest episode
- 3 weeks ago
Episodes
91 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 5 min
October 13, 2026 Powerlessness and Agency
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Using the Daily Contemplations as a frame for exploring control and the lack of control. The challenge of Right Effort.
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56 min
October 6, 2026 How Do We Practice?
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Exploring the challenge of finding our own way on the path.
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1 hr 1 min
September 29, 2026 Concentration and Insight
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Exploring the role of concentration in meditation and its relationship to the other factors of the Eightfold Path.
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59 min
September 22, 2026 Loving Kindness Toward Oneself
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Reflecting on suttas about self-love.
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59 min
September 15, 2026 Unsettling Emotions in Meditation
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Responding to a question about difficult feelings.
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58 min
September 9, 2026 Love and Fear
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Bringing kindness to anxiety and fear. This includes trust in ourselves and in the Dharma.
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1 hr
September 1, 2026 Walt Opie on Joy in Recovery
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Walt discusses “the pleasure of non-reactivity.”
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1 hr 1 min
August 25, 2026 Four Noble Truths and Causality
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Looking at how the Four Noble Truths outline the process by which suffering arises and ceases.
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59 min
August 18, 2026 Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
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Exploring difficult experiences in meditation.
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1 hr 2 min
Don't Know
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August 11, 2026, exploring the Korean Zen saying “Don’t know,” which challenges us to examine our beliefs.
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59 min
August 4, 2026 Thought versus Proliferation
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Distinguishing ordinary passing thoughts from the ones that sweep us away in meditation. How to work with the proliferating thoughts.
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1 hr 1 min
July 28, 2026 The Obstruction of Self
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How self-consciousness gets in the way of being present and enjoying life.
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1 hr 2 min
July 21, 2026 The Mirror of the Hindrances
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Looking at the simile of the bowl of water and the five hindrances.
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57 min
July 7, 2026 The Dart
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Exploring the classic sutta The Dart which tells how aversion increases the suffering of our pain.
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1 hr 6 min
June 30, 2026 Meditation for Recovery
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Talking about what the connections are between Buddhism and recovery and the role of meditation in that connection.
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59 min
June 16, 2026 Entering Your Own Mind on Retreat
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As I leave for a weeklong self-retreat, I talk about the fear of being with my own mind.
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1 hr 1 min
June 9, 2026 The Dharma of Pain
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Looking deeply at how physical pain connects with impermanence and not self.
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1 hr 1 min
June 2, 2026 Insistent Visitors
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Reading from Jack Kornfield’s “A Path with Heart” on working with difficult emotions.
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1 hr 4 min
May 26, 2026 Chasing Comfort
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How throughout our days and lives we seek pleasure and comfort. Working to develop equanimity around the changes experiences of mind and body.
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57 min
May 19, 2026 Two Kinds of Thought
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Exploring the sutta “Two Kinds of Thoughts” (Majjhima Nikaya 19) which talks about letting go of unwholesome and cultivating wholesome thinking.
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