Going To NextLine In Java Buffered Reader

I have a text and I am reading each line in the text with the simple while loop:

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(a.txt)));
string line = new String();
while((line = br.readLine())!=null){
if(line.equals("john"))
//skip to next line
else{
//continue something else..
}
}

My question is how do I skip to the next line ? Using apache.commons.io.FileUtils; one could easily have done something like this:

LineIterator it = FileUtils.lineIterator(file, "UTF-8");
String line = it.nextLine(); //this goes to the next line..

How can this be done using BufferedReader ?