Weekly Meditation

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 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 […]

Thursday, August 25, 7-9 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with Rich Howard, SIM Community Mentor. Analog or Digital? 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 practice? Minutes on the cushion? Days in […]

Thursday, September 1, 7-9 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk with Diane Wilde, SIM Community Mentor. How do we know that we are acting appropriately? Buddhist practice is not a set of black and white rules.  Just as in life, situations are nuanced, fluid with different strategies for situations, which on the surface, might seem to […]

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...

The talk topic is "The World IS a Benevolent Place" OK we all know the world is not always a Benevolent Place.  But what if, as a practice, we occasionally oriented towards the amazing acts of kindness, generosity and discernment manifesting in our lives and on our planet right now?  Heather will share how this […]

Thursday, September 22, 7-9:15. Sitting and Dharma Talk/Discussion with Dennis Warren, SIM Founding Instructor. Talk Topic: BEING OF SERVICE TO OTHERS & OURSELVES It’s not unusual to think of “service” as something special we do: working at a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, dog shelter, the pediatric unit in a hospital, a clothing donation center. But […]

Faith and Challenges/Sustaining Practice In the Insight Meditation tradition as practiced at SIM, faith is an experiential quality of engagement rather than doctrinaire adherence to a top-down belief system. And obstacles to practice, however unwelcome they may feel, are the field of practice through which we learn about our own minds and the path away […]