THE CONDITIONS THAT NURTURE & SUSTAIN COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE - THE HISTORICAL STRUCTURES AND COMPONENTS The community of practitioners that surrounded the historical Buddha were introduced to the teachings, methods and psychology through a consciously created organizational structure and well thought out components. This evening with SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren will examine the […]

THE CONDITIONS THAT NURTURE & SUSTAIN COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE – CONTEMPORARY MEDITATION COMMUNITIES AND THE SACRAMENTO INSIGHT MEDITATION MODEL Please review the two following Sutta's: Dispute & Cordiality The community of practitioners that surrounded the historical Buddha were introduced to the teachings, methods and psychology through a consciously created organizational structure and well thought out […]

Infinitely Expanding Self When the Buddha spoke of selflessness and the impersonal, he never said we don't have a self, only that we have no independent, permanent self that separates us. By allowing identity to gently expand, the boundaries between self and other thin out and disappear. This leads us to the core of the […]