The Challenge of Practicing Nonattachment as a Lay Person Monks and ascetics in the Buddha’s time practiced non-attachment which meant leaving wives, husbands, parents, children, and society. Contemporary monastics also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Attending future events at SIM: Information to help assess your Covid-19 risk for attending future Sacramento Insight Meditation sponsored events The Sacramento Insight Meditation board of directors has not yet […]
The dates of the SIM Board of Directors meetings have been changed and will now be held on the second Monday of each month, starting with April 12th at 6:00 […]
After a year of pandemic isolation, we are slowly returning to “normal.” Many of us are now vaccinated, or will be soon, we are venturing out with friends and we […]