For the SIM Community, All are invited to the Celebration of Life for Roseanne de Vlaming. Roseanne passed away on August 10, 2016. SIM friends are invited to a celebration of life memorial service scheduled for Tuesday, October 4, 2016 beginning at 2 PM. The service will be held at 4281 Winding Woods Way, Fair […]
Depends on What?: An Exploration of Causes and Conditions You may have heard about the importance of "causes and conditions" but what does that mean to our practice in formal meditation and daily life? Can we learn to recognize how causes and conditions work in our lives experientially without making it into an intellectual analysis? […]
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Sacramento Dharma Center, 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA 95826 (off Folsom Blvd. between Howe and Watt Avenues). We explore how the Buddha's teachings -- the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path – can heal the pain and suffering that addiction […]
Topic: Better than, worse than, the same as... The habit of fault-finding and comparison is part of a larger pattern of insecurity in which we always feel the need to judge ourselves in regards to other people. It is as though we need to convince ourselves that we are okay, which we can only do […]
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Sacramento Dharma Center, 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA 95826 (off Folsom Blvd. between Howe and Watt Avenues). We explore how the Buddha's teachings -- the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path – can heal the pain and suffering that addiction […]
CHANGE & ADAPTING TO CHANGE While change is inevitable in our lives, the appearance of things remaining the same seems to be the constant focus of our attention. Many, if not most, of our decisions are based on an assumption – the assumption that things will remain as they are. Why do our minds do […]
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Sacramento Dharma Center, 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA 95826 (off Folsom Blvd. between Howe and Watt Avenues). We explore how the Buddha's teachings -- the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path – can heal the pain and suffering that addiction […]
Meeting the 4th Tuesday of each month, the Sacramento Climate Sangha provides a refuge for exploration of our hopes and fears about climate change and how our dharma practice can address them. For more information, email SBMG's Susan Orr or SIM's Rich Howard. Want to join our mailing list? Email Margaret Buss.
The SIM Board of Directors meets every 4th Monday of the month at 7 pm. Please join us. All are welcome. For more information, please contact info@sactoinsight.org
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.