07/22/2021 “Where is Right View?” with Rich Howard
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 […]
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Returning To The Dharma Center!
* 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 Open for our Annual Retreat
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 […]
Volunteers Needed at St. John’s
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 […]
Annual Retreat 2021
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 […]
05/13/2021 “Nothing or No Thing? Reframing our Experience” with Rich Howard
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 […]
05/06/2021 “Between Emptiness and Suchness” with Heather Sundberg
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 […]
04/29/2021 “Insight – Meaning, Importance, Role” with Dennis Warren
“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 […]
Take this SDC sponsored survey
The Sacramento Dharma Center board of directors requests that we take a short survey to share how we feel about returning to the center and they’ll use the survey results […]