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 […]
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SBMG invites SIM to In-Person Events
A message from Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG) You are invited to attend in-person. We will not be turning anyone away due to capacity limits, and we will strive to […]
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 […]
06/10/2021 “Grief, Loss and Change” with Jeff Hardin
Grief: Meditation practice with loss and change Change is a constant in life but for many of us the last year has brought more intense and radical change, much of […]
06/03/2021 “Practicing Nonattachment” with Diane Wilde
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 […]
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 […]