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SUMMARY:Sit & Dharma talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 4\, 7-9:15 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Instructor\, Dennis Warren. RIGHT EFFORT\, PART II  \nRight 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  “8 Fold Path”\, and is a foundation for the “4 Foundations of Mindfulness.” It’s obviously pretty important for the Buddha to have included it as an element in all of these groupings of core spiritual tools. \nThis evening will be a follow up to the initial discussion of Right Effort last Thursday evening\, July 28. We’ll switch gears and look at Right Effort or Energy from a different perspective – as the application\, monitoring\, and adjustment of both physical and mental energy as the basic underpinning of all of our practice efforts. \nIn its most basic form\, this involves non-conceptually figuring out\, and using our effort to support\, what works — what allows us to remain mindful and see into the nature and consequences of what is unfolding — in any moment of experience. In this sense\, Right Effort’s contribution to helping us get free of suffering in our lives involves using it to stay focused on a particular way of investigating our experience and the nature of our lives. Understanding Effort in the context of meditative psychology\, and how to use it as a reliable and practical tool in formal meditation practice\, as well as daily life\, is essential to developing\, stabilizing\, and maturing our practice. \nThis evening of meditation and discussion\, led by SIM’s Founding Instructor\, will further explore the meanings of Right Effort\, its role in practice and its place in Buddhist psychology.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/dharma-talk-sit-sim-founding-teacher-dennis-warren-2/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, 890 57th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95819-3327\, United States
CATEGORIES:News,Weekly Meditation
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SUMMARY:Sit & Dharma talk with SIM Founding Teacher\, Dennis Warren
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 11\, 7-9:15 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Instructor\, Dennis Warren. RIGHT EFFORT and RIGHT ACTION \nOur last two Thursday evenings at SIM have focused on Right Effort\, or Energy\, and the prominent role it plays in Buddhist practice. This Thursday evening will focus on the important relationships between Right Effort or Energy\, on the one hand\, and Right Action on the other. \nUnderstanding these two different elements of practice; how they are similar; and how they are different is an important step in making them operational in daily life. \nThis evening of meditation and discussion\, led by SIM’s Founding Instructor\, will explore the meanings of Right Effort and Right Action\, their role in practice and their place in Buddhist psychology.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/dharma-talk-sit-sim-founding-teacher-dennis-warren/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, 890 57th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95819-3327\, United States
CATEGORIES:News,Weekly Meditation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160818T211500
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SUMMARY:Sit & Dharma Talk with Long-time SIM Community Member\, Laura Rosenthal
DESCRIPTION:Sitting and Dharma Talk – “The Power of Negative Thinking”: Five Ethical Precepts – With Longtime SIM Participant Laura Rosenthal – Thursday\, August 18\, 2016\, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm \nIn 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 positive terms\, emphasizing the wholesome qualities we are cultivating\, traditional Buddhist teaching frames them in the negative\, as core unwholesome behaviors with respect to which we practice renunciation. In this dharma talk and group discussion\, we will explore why the precepts may have been framed in this way as well as the freedom and richness found in exploring this path of “not doing.” \nLaura Rosenthal\, a long-time participant in the SIM community\, is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP 4) and is currently participating in Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioners Program (APP).
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/sit-dharma-talk-long-time-sim-community-member-laura-rosenthal-2/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, 890 57th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95819-3327\, United States
CATEGORIES:News,Weekly Meditation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160823T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160823T200000
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SUMMARY:Climate Sangha
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Sangha is meeting Tuesday\, August 23\, at 7 pm.\, at 2232 10th Ave (near City College). The Climate Sangha meets to provide a place for members concerned about the future that climate change will bring us to discuss those issues openly\, to use Buddhist practice to face the changes\, and to provide mutual support.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/climate-sangha-201608/
CATEGORIES:Community Service,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160825T184500
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Meditation with SIM Community Mentor\, Rich Howard
DESCRIPTION:This 45-minute course is suitable for beginners or anyone who would like a refresher. It is offered on the fourth Thursday of every month before the regular sitting and dharma talk. There is no fee.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/introduction-meditation-sim-community-mentor-rich-howard-2-2/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, 890 57th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95819-3327\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meditation Course,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160825T211500
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SUMMARY:Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Mentor\, Rich Howard
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 25\, 7-9 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with Rich Howard\, SIM Community Mentor. \nAnalog or Digital? \nNature 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 practice? Minutes on the cushion? Days in retreat? Years of practice? Or does the practice flow through every waking moment? We will spend this evening examining our view of practice as analog or digital. We will ask ourselves if it makes a difference. Think about your own practice and come prepared to discuss how it might be digital\, analog\, neither\, or both. And how that serves your life and the world.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/sit-dharma-talk-sim-community-mentor-rich-howard-5-3/
CATEGORIES:News,Weekly Meditation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160827T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160827T163000
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SUMMARY:Day-long Retreat with Nuns of the Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
DESCRIPTION:Day-long Retreat with the Nuns of the Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery on Saturday\, August 27\, 2016\, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm at the Sacramento Friends Meeting House.  The retreat will be a potluck (no meat dishes\, please). Offerings will be made to the Nuns. Volunteers are needed to help setup the room\, make offerings\, clean-up\, etc. Contact  james@sactoinsight.org for information or to sign up as a volunteer for this special event. To view photo\, click here.
URL:https://sactoinsight.org/event/day-long-saranaloka-nuns/
CATEGORIES:News,Retreat
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