09/30/2021 “Understanding Emptiness: Action without actors” with Tony Bernhard

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(Onsite) A Year to Live (4 of 13)

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March 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher, Reverend Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2021. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit https://sactoinsight.org/activities/study-groups/a-year-to-live/.

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  • Date: March 20, 2022
  • Time:
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT
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(Onsite) A Year to Live (3 of 13)

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This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher, Reverend Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2021. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit https://sactoinsight.org/activities/study-groups/a-year-to-live/.

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(Remote) A Year to Live (2 of 13)

Virtual Event

January 16, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher, Reverend Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2021. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit https://sactoinsight.org/activities/study-groups/a-year-to-live/.

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  • Date: January 16, 2022
  • Time:
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST

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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83436463247
Passcode: 112161
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 834 3646 3247 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

To make a donation for this event, click here.

Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening. For additional information, visit the 12 Step Sangha page at https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/.

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NO EVENTS TODAY

There are no events scheduled by SIM today due to the regional holiday.

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Vance Pryor – Practicing with Kind Awareness

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Virtual Event

November 11, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST

Practicing with Kind Awareness

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Senior Teacher Vance Pryor

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88981134566 Passcode: 151438 Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 889 8113 4566 ) For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.
Thursday Night Talk Dana [give_form id=”19397″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and 100% of your donation will be shared with Vance Pryor.
VANCE PRYOR, PsyD, began insight meditation in 1998. He has been deeply influenced by the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. His training to become a teacher has been supported by the mentorship of Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters. He is currently participating in IMS’s 2017-2021 Teacher Training Program.   Topic Details: to be announced

Details

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Remote) Introduction to Meditation with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

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To participate, note the following:

Join Online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85170824677
Passcode: 571863
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 851 7082 4677 )
For instructions on how to join the meeting, click here.

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.

Rich Howard

RICH HOWARD has been an active practitioner and volunteer at SIM since 2004. His area of interest is bringing meditative awareness into everyday life. He participated in SIM’s 2007 India Pilgrimage and is a graduate of SIM’s second Practice Development and Leadership (PDL) program. He served on the Board from 2010 until 2015, the last two years as president. He was one of the SIM representatives to the Inter-Sangha Coordinating Committee, predecessor to the Sacramento Dharma Center Board, which now runs our shared space for Buddhist sanghas in Sacramento. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Africa in the 1970s and is fluent in Spanish. His teachers are Dennis Warren, Tony Bernhard, and Steve Armstrong. Rich completed online courses with Steve on the Abhidhamma (the Buddhist psychology) and the Manual of Insight. He took Gil Fronsdal’s online course on the Majjhima Nikaya (Middle-length Discourses of the Buddha). His interest in the environment led him to the One Small Planet training with Kerry Nelson and the Ecosattva training with One Earth Sangha. In 2018, he completed a 10-month Dhamma Awareness Training with Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters called Touching the Earth. In 2019, he completed Meg Gawler’s 8-month course Preparing the Ground for Samadhi.

Sacramento Insight Meditation events are sustained by the generosity of instructors in offering teachings freely and on the generosity of students and members of the meditative community in the form of financial support, service and participation in events. With our practice of dana, we support our Sangha. If you wish to make a donation, click here.

At the bottom of this page, you may enter the number of people planning to attend and select the button “Confirm RSVP“.
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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Heather Sundberg – Not Moving Forwards, Backwards…

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Virtual Event

October 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PDT

Not Moving Forwards, Backwards, or Standing Still

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Senior Teacher Heather Sundberg
* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center.
Join online meeting:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89060507662 Passcode: 962089 Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 890 6050 7662 ) For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.
Thursday Night Talk Dana “Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha [give_form id=”4336″ show_title=”false” show_goal=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and this donation will be shared 100% with Heather Sundberg.
This talk will not be recorded. Topic details:  In these times of a particular amount of making, changing and breaking plans, this Talk uses a teaching from Ajahn Chah to explore an alternative attitude of mind to bring to the fluctuations of life, based in wisdom-awareness.

Details

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Seth Castleman – I WANT BURNING

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I WANT BURNING: Finding passion and meaning in life and dharma practice

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Rabbi Seth Castleman

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center. The teacher will attend the meeting in-person.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89712116819
Passcode: 939610
Join by phone: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 897 1211 6819 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

Thursday Night Talk Dana
[give_form id=”16677″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and 75% of your donation will be shared with Seth Castleman.

RABBI SETH CASTLEMAN is a teacher, writer, and storyteller with over twenty years experience teaching mindfulness and spiritual practice. Castleman is trained in both the Jewish and Buddhist traditions. After 20 years of meditation practice and two years of silent retreat as a lay-person in the US, India, and Nepal and as a monk in Burma, Seth was trained as a teacher by Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. He was authorized as a meditation/dharma teacher in 2008. Following eight years of rabbinical studies in the US and Israel/Palestine, Castleman was ordained in 2011 as a rabbi by one Orthodox, one Conservative, and one Reform rabbi. Castleman has published in two dozen newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies on the intersection of contemplative practice and social justice and the transformational power of brokenness. As a storyteller, Seth has performed in theaters, on radio and television, and at countless kitchen tables. Seth uses myth, storytelling, and humor as central tools in his teaching and counseling work. Seth Castleman is married to Reverend Elizabeth Griswold, making them, quite possibly, the only rabbi—Christian minister married couple in the US. Seth and Elizabeth live in Davis, CA with their three children.

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