Experiencing Emptiness of Self and Its’ Practical, Every-Day Implications Understanding and experiencing the teaching on the Emptiness-of-Self (“No-Self” / “Anatta”) is considered is to be defining and transformative. But having […]
Who Am I? What Do I Want? What Do I Believe?: Finding and Losing Your Self The Buddhist concept of “not self” can be very confusing if we let it […]
Greg Scharf uses a Jataka story (Javana Hamsa: The Swift Swan) as an introduction to a talk on insight into impermanence and its relationship to what the Buddha called “An […]
Mindfulness is the operational centerpiece of good practice, sound problem solving and living well. It supports and enables all the different teachings, methods and psychology of the historical Buddha which […]
SIM is grateful for all our donors and we’ve already emailed tax letters to those who gave $250 or more in 2020. If you have not received the tax letter […]
For 2021, we’ve changed the 6-week Beginning Meditation course meetings from Tuesday to Wednesday. The class start time has shifted 30 minutes earlier with a 90 minute duration. The Spring […]
* I think this was in Lion’s Roar Thubten Chodron: American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, …My concern with Buddhism in the West is that there’s some block to really […]
We hope you’ll join us for a mid-morning coffee/tea break with Greg Scharf. This will be a chance to get to know Greg in an informal hangout (on Zoom). Bring […]