NEWS

Request Your Input on Permanent Altar

The Sacramento Dharma Center Altar Committee (AC) is displaying a design concept for the permanent altar in the South Lobby. The committee wants your comments and participation!

The Altar Committee was formed in the fall of 2016 and includes representatives of the three sustaining sanghas. Its purpose is to gift the Dharma Center with a permanent altar and teacher side table. This gift symbolizes our three sanghas joining together to establish a permanent and historical home for our sanghas.

Please leave your written comments at the display site. You will also find AC representatives at their July 21st meeting (5pm) at the SDC. However, if you cannot attend in person to share your input, you can add your comments to this news post in the “Leave a Reply” section below.

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Noliwe Alexander Dharma Talk Rescheduled

Guest teacher Noliwe Alexander let us know she is ill and will not be able to join us this Thursday, June 20, 2019. We will re-schedule her for the Fall or Winter, and SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard will substitute for her this week. The topic of Rich’s talk is “Wisdom” and details are posted on the calendar.

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Cancellation of Wednesday Morning Sits

The Wednesday morning sitting meditation that Tom Hopkins has been hosting on SIM’s behalf has been canceled as of June 12. Thanks to Tom for his volunteer commitment in leading the sits and to those who have participated in the past.

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Sangha Manifesting: New Support Group Forming

A new Support Group for Persons with Life-Threatening Illness, Disability, and Health Challenges, will be meeting in the SDC Library the first and third Tuesdays of the month starting July 2, 2019 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm . Please note this is not a drop-in group. Click the flyer image for details or visit the SDC calendar.

The group facilitator, Wendy Alger, has been a student of the Dharma since 2005 practicing under the guidance of Gil Fronsdal. She is a graduate the Sati Center Chaplaincy program applying her work as a volunteer chaplain. Wendy continues learning from programs at Insight Meditation Center and attends silent retreats yearly. 

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Rummage Sale Sat. June 15th

The Sacramento Dharma Center invites you to include your stuff in the Rummage Sale scheduled for Saturday, June 15th from 9 am until 2 pm. For details in PDF format, click here or you can check the SDC calendar.

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Facebook Page Likes Growing

Thank you to all the Facebook users who have visited our page and given it a thumbs up! Back in November 2016, our Facebook page had 398 “Likes” and today our page likes have grown to 755.  We hope you’re enjoying the links, photos, and events we’ve been posting over the years. If you haven’t had a chance yet to Like our page, please do! Just visit https://www.facebook.com/sactoinsight/ and Like our page. If you’re not sure how to do this, make a comment to this news post and we’ll send you a LIKE invitation via Facebook.

And if you’ve already given us the thumbs up, consider leaving a Facebook review of SIM. Currently our review rating is 4.9 out of 5, based on the opinion of 11 people.

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New Members Join Board of Directors

The Sacramento Insight Meditation Board is pleased to announce that we have two new members who will be joining us this summer: Alice Carney and Jon Siiteri. Please congratulate Jon and Alice when you see them, and thank them for their service to SIM.

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Sangha Dinners take a summer break

SIM will be taking a break from our monthly community dinners over the summer, so no dinner is planned for Thursday, June 13. We can re-evaluate in the fall whether we want to begin again with a monthly event, or find a new way to “nurture sangha over dinner.” Thanks to everyone who has participated in these events, and have a wonderful summer!

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May 14th, first meeting of Young Person’s Shangha

Save the date! The first Young Person’s Shangha meeting will be on May 14, 2019 at 7 PM at the Sacramento Dharma Center (SDC). You can find details about this new sangha in the news post “Young Persons Sangha forming at SIM“. The meeting is also posted to the SDC calendar.

 

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2019 Fall Beginning Meditation Course

Today we open the online registration to our six week Beginning Meditation Course that starts September 17, 2019. This course will be lead by SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren. Here is the Course Flyer in PDF format.

 

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