Board Meeting Minutes Posted
The SIM Board Meeting Minutes from Aug 22, 2016, is now available.
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Location changed for Climate Sangha meetings
The monthly Climate Sangha meetings have changed location from the Friends Meeting House to the Sacramento Dharma Center at 3111 Wissemann Dr., Sacramento, CA. The next meeting is Tuesday, September 27 from […]
Location changed for Buddhist Recovery Group meeting
The Monday meetings will be changed from the Friends Meeting House to the Sacramento Dharma Center at 3111 Wissemann Dr., Sacramento, CA. Enter through the front doors and it’s the 5th room […]
SIM 2016 Residential Retreat
SIM 2016 Residential Retreat with Dennis Warren, Diane Wilde, and Rich Howard. ** If you would like to download any of the following dharma talks, please right click on the […]
09/08/2016 “Directions to the Middle Path” with Tony Bernhard
Thursday, September 8, 7-9 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with Tony Bernhard, Visiting Teacher. Directions to the Middle Path: the Buddha’s roadmap to the end of suffering… This talk references […]
Board Meeting Minutes Posted
Just released, the SIM Board Meeting Minutes from last month is now available.
08/25/2016 “Analog or Digital?” with Rich Howard
Nature is a seamless whole, flowing and changing continuously. The world we inhabit is increasingly digital, measured, quantified, and reduced to numbers and words. How do you think of your […]
08/18/2016 “The Power of Negative Thinking” with Laura Rosenthal
In Buddhist teaching, ethical conduct constitutes an essential training: sila, one of the three trainings that form the ennobling eightfold path. While contemporary teachers frequently discuss the ethical precepts in […]
08/11/16: “Right Effort and Right Action” with Dennis Warren
The previous two talks (Jul 28, Aug 4) focused on Right Effort, or Energy, and the prominent role it plays in Buddhist practice. This talk has a focus on the […]
08/04/16: “Right Effort, Part 2” with Dennis Warren
Right Effort, or Energy, plays a prominent role in Buddhist practice. It is one of the “5 Spiritual Faculties”, one of the “7 Factors of Awakening”, one component of the […]