Center ReOpening -Volunteers Still Needed
POST UPDATED 7/30/21 DANA FOR THE SANGHA – OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AT IN-PERSON MEETINGS! Great news! SIM has opened up for hybrid in-person/ZOOM Meetings. We’re pleased and very grateful for […]
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POST UPDATED 7/30/21 DANA FOR THE SANGHA – OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AT IN-PERSON MEETINGS! Great news! SIM has opened up for hybrid in-person/ZOOM Meetings. We’re pleased and very grateful for […]
For many, sight is the primary connection to the outside world. We marvel at a sunset, smile at an infant, react to a political poster. These sights can bring pleasure […]
* Click here for the latest information about attending events in-person * The SIM Board is very happy to announce that in-person SIM meetings in the Dharma Center will resume […]
Registration is now open for SIM’s Annual Retreat, to be held online (via Zoom) over the Labor Day weekend (September 3 – 6, 2021). This year’s retreat theme is “A […]
After a year of isolation, Sacramento Insight Meditation (SIM) volunteers have again been preparing and serving dinner to the women and children who are living at St. John’s Program for […]
Like last year, this years retreat will be online, four days starting Friday evening 9/3/21 through 9/6/21. The teachers will be Kamala Masters and Steve Armstrong and the registration fee […]
The mind tends to solidify experience and to grasp for security in comfort, familiarity, and habitual patterns. This is natural, a long-established pattern to help negotiate a complex world in […]
The Relationship Between Emptiness and Suchness When we understand that direct experience is not solid/not separate, we can embrace experience in it’s changing conditionality with the heart of compassion and […]
“Insight” – It’s Meaning, Importance & Role in Practice “Insight” is considered the prime motivation and culmination of Buddhist practice because it leads to satisfaction, peace and happiness. It does […]
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