Click the following link and provide your RSVP to our 2024 Holiday Gathering on December 19th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. We hope you can join us!
NEWS
Have you seen the latest update from our Sacramento Dharma Center? An excerpt is shown below:
Three years ago, the Sacramento Dharma Center began a fundraising campaign to pay down $150,000 on our mortgage before we had to refinance in 2026. Astoundingly, with two years to go we have already paid down $250,000 of debt and now owe just under $132,000!
We need your help to continue this success. This year, four amazing donors have together offered $1 to $1 matching funds up to $42,000. This sets our campaign goal at $84,000. We humbly ask for your support to meet or go beyond this goal. <Read More…>
SIM once again is participating in the Saint John’s Adopt-A-Family Program this holiday season. We have a goal of $600 to purchase gifts for a family of four to five people. Help us bring joy to the women and children who are striving for a brighter future. Any money beyond what is needed for the holiday gifts will go to SIM to pay for the St. John’s monthly meal expenses. Each month SIM sponsors a dinner for the residents of St. John’s. Volunteers purchase the groceries, cook, and serve a meal of meatloaf, broccoli, rice, salad, and clementines for 80+ people. This meal costs around $300 each month. We need your help to continue this long-standing tradition that is much appreciated by all who partake in it.
Since 1985, Saint John’s Program for Real Change has supported more than 30,000 formerly homeless women and children, providing them with the essential tools and knowledge to change the trajectory of their lives.
To make a general donation to Sacramento Insight Meditation, click here.
Dear Friends,
Come join us on October 31st (7 PM – 9 PM) for a Community Night facilitated by Rich Howard. It will feature a sit, a dharmette on the theme of equanimity, and small group discussions in the first hour. The second hour will be for socializing with our community.
With the election coming up, anxiety levels may be high. We won’t be talking politics, but we’ll focus on how we use our practice to deal with the election and other world events.
In the spirit of Halloween and to have some fun, we are encouraging everyone to come in costume. Don’t worry, you won’t be alone, several board members and faculty will be in costume. Let’s have some fun together and support one another during this pre-election period.
Bring a treat to share. No tricks!
With Metta,
SIM Board and Faculty
If you want to attend any of our Thursday night talks remotely via Zoom (October 3 through December 26), use this button at the time of the meeting to join in.
Optionally, you may download and import this iCalendar (.ics) file (click here) to your calendar system.
If you don’t have a computer/smartphone/internet access, you can still join a meeting by regular phone. Simply find your local number to dial (https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdpM87GSK7) and enter the Meeting ID of 898 3348 9002 with a Passcode of 806268.
Note: When Zoom is an option for any event at SIM, you can always locate the Join Meeting link by checking our calendar (click here) for the specific day and time of the event of interest. If a meeting link ever fails, try this alternate link https://www.zoom.us/join and manually enter the posted meeting ID and passcode.
(Jan-Feb-Mar)
Starting in 2025 the zoom meeting details will switch to the following. Meeting ID: 821 5948 5895 & Passcode: 927093
with this Jan-Feb-Mar Zoom link.
For 2025, SIM is offering a 12-month course lead by SIM Community Teacher Diane Wilde. Course participants meet in-person, monthly from January through December on the third Sunday of each month from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. There will be an introduction to the course on December 22, 2024 (2:00 pm to 4:00 pm). For more information, visit the course overview page at A Year to Live.
Click here for registration details.
For the month of September SIM is having a monthly donor campaign. If you are not currently a monthly donor, consider signing up. Your monthly recurring donations will provide steady and reliable revenues, which allows us to plan responsibly and to make future commitments. As a thank you gift, we have a choice between two books,
- In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
or - In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
If you have any questions, email Amy Kovak. It’s easy to sign up online – select the Donate now button:
To submit a registration fee, exit this page and contact the retreat/course registrar for information on how to make payment.
Enter the amount you plan to give. To donate without a PayPal account, select “PayPal” along with the buttons “Donate” and “Donate with a Debit or Credit Card“. To donate by personal check, select “Offline Donation” option.
Notice: As of August 2024, this course is full; the course start date has been moved to January 7, 2025 and we invite you to add your name to the wait list.
SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren will be teaching a new three-month course “Experiencing Insight: The Defining Characteristic of Theravada/Vipassana Buddhism“.
This fundraising event is open to all community members and practitioners, allies and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) alike. Details about the fundraiser are shown below or CLICK HERE:
This is an intersangha event hosted by the Sacramento Dharma enter. Come on Saturday, June 22 for the day, the morning, or the afternoon session and help catalog the books in the SDC library. For event details, click here. Please RSVP to Jody Ansell.