A young persons group (Young Persons Sangha) that studies mindfulness and meditation. On the first Tuesday of the month, the group meets remotely via Zoom. On the second and fourth Tuesdays the group utilizes a hybrid format, meeting both via Zoom and in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. (The schedule venue and title description indicate the meeting type and location.)
To attend via Zoom, scroll down and click the “Join Zoom Meeting” meeting button or use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82379725848 with passcode: 586497
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 823 7972 5848 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.
Young Person Sangha Dana
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For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to support our Young Persons Sangha.
A young persons group (Young Persons Sangha) that studies mindfulness and meditation. On the first Tuesday of the month, the group meets remotely via Zoom. On the second and fourth Tuesdays the group utilizes a hybrid format, meeting both via Zoom and in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. (The schedule venue and title description indicate the meeting type and location.)
To attend via Zoom, scroll down and click the “Join Zoom Meeting” meeting button or use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82379725848 with passcode: 586497
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 823 7972 5848 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.
Young Person Sangha Dana
[give_form id=”15771″ 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 support our Young Persons Sangha.
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Join Senior Visiting Teacher Walt Opie this Thursday, December 2 at 7:00 PM for a meditation and dharma talk: “Feeding on Joy“. Also, this Sunday, December 5, Insight Meditation Society sponsors’ Walt for an online mini retreat: “Freedom from Craving“.
Craving leads to suffering whenever we fail to see that what we crave won’t really provide us with the kind of lasting satisfaction or happiness that we are seeking. The nature of craving is not to be satisfied. It is about lack. When we get stuck in this place of lacking something that we believe will bring us happiness, then we can really suffer.
Walt Opie
Walt Opie is a dharma teacher in the insight meditation tradition. He is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s teacher training program and the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders training program. Walt began leading sitting groups specifically for people in addiction recovery in 2011. He started assisting and teaching on residential insight meditation retreats in 2017. Walt’s writing appears in the book collection Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaosedited by Angela Dews. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley, CA, which is located on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people.
The Historical Buddha’s Guidance on Establishing Mindfulness In Meditation
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The Historical Buddha’s formula for being skillful in meditation starts with “establishing Mindfulness” as a foundational element. This guidance points to the fact that the kind of Mindfulness needed in meditation does not just happen or appear by itself. It is something that needs to be intentionally established, monitored and sustained every time we meditate in order for our meditation practices to be skillful. During this evening we’ll take a hands-on-look at: What does it mean to “establish Mindfulness” in our meditation practices? What does one do to establish Mindfulness? How do we know if it has been established? If established, how is it sustained? These are basic, practical, experiential questions that provide a framework for helping us evaluate the soundness and quality of our meditation practice.
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Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard
Developing a Mind/Heart of Peace The Paramis are qualities of heart that when developed bring the highest blessing, which is peace. In honor of the passing of Thich Nhat Hanh, Rich will use illustrations from the beloved Zen Master’s life for development of the Paramis in daily life. We will see how Thay embodied patience, renunciation, determination, truthfulness, and other qualities of the heart to bring peace at the individual, community, and global scales. Please bring a story of how you have been influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching, in person, online, or through his writing: a short quote, a song, a poem, or one of his books. We have invited special guest Helen Hobart to share her experience practicing with Thay.
Rich will donate all the dana he receives from tonight’s presentation to the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.
Thursday Night Talk Dana [give_form id=”10304″ show_title=”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 75% of your donation will be shared with the Thich Hanh Foundation (via Rich Howard).
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Thursday Night Talk Dana [give_form id=”10310″ 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 Dennis Warren.
Topic details:
Buddhist practice has a unique approach to problem solving and healing. The teachings, methods and underlying psychology dismantle the confusing, and sometimes overwhelming, emotional energy of difficult reactive patterns and our attachment to a biographical narrative that identifies us as damaged. This approach focuses on how we relate to the narrative, not the biographical details of the narrative.
This evening will explore two practical questions:
What is the Buddhist approach to problem solving and healing?
What role does our individual biographical narratives play in this process?
The subject matter of this evening is appropriate for all stages of practice. You can attend in person or by ZOOM.
“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
We recognize that donating by cash or check at the time you attend this event may not always be convenient for you. If that’s the case, please use the form below 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 Rev. Diane Wilde.
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Did you know that listening is a learned skill?Unlike speech which comes naturally to us, REALLY listening isn’t an innate trait. Why is that? Listening requires taming the ego-driven addiction to being center stage, and trying to take over another’s “air time”. To speak is to articulate words that convey meaning, and to listen is to understand the true intent behind words being spoken. When the Buddha spoke about Right Speech, he was including both sides of the communication equation; skillful means of intentional speech as well as intentional listening.Skillful listening means listening mindfully to others, especially when we habitually discount what “they” have to say. It also means listening deeply to our own innate wisdom, which we too frequently ignore because it may not align with our long-held beliefs about ourselves. Learning how to deeply listen is a skill that changes attitudes and beliefs as well as enhancing empathy and community.Deep listening is a great skill to learn for the new year.
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This year has continued to be challenging for all of us and we hope that you are well. We are proud to have offered continuing support for those practicing in the Insight (Vipassana) Meditation tradition throughout 2021 and grateful to each of you for your help.
A major accomplishment this year was the return to in-person practice events at the Sacramento Dharma Center, while continuing to welcome those who preferred to join us from home via Zoom. Technical and staffing challenges were handled by resourceful and dedicated volunteers from SIM and the Young Person’s Sangha, to whom we are profoundly grateful. Another highlight of 2021 was our second on-line annual retreat with Senior Teachers Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters, with over 80 people attending.
In addition to our dedicated faculty of Dennis Warren, Rich Howard, and Diane Wilde, visiting teachers rounded out a rich year of teaching at SIM. We were especially pleased to host graduation events and offer dana to a diverse group of recent graduates from teaching programs at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. We continue to focus on being an inclusive and welcoming community.
Our fund-raising goals for 2022 include the continued expression of gratitude to our faculty through a year-end dana contribution as well as ongoing support for SIM’s Teaching and Development Initiative. It is crucial that we have the resources to support bringing new teachers to SIM.
As you plan your year-end giving, we sincerely hope that you will continue to support SIM. You can do so through a one-time, year-end contribution and/or signing up for a monthly, automatic on-line contribution to SIM. Monthly contributions are key to our long-term financial health, and all donations are received with deep gratitude.
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 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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(Remote) Young Persons Sangha
Online Remote, Young Person SanghaJanuary 11, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST
A young persons group (Young Persons Sangha) that studies mindfulness and meditation. On the first Tuesday of the month, the group meets remotely via Zoom. On the second and fourth Tuesdays the group utilizes a hybrid format, meeting both via Zoom and in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. (The schedule venue and title description indicate the meeting type and location.)
To attend via Zoom, scroll down and click the “Join Zoom Meeting” meeting button or use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82379725848 with passcode: 586497
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 823 7972 5848 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.
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(Remote) Young Persons Sangha
Online Remote, Young Person SanghaA young persons group (Young Persons Sangha) that studies mindfulness and meditation. On the first Tuesday of the month, the group meets remotely via Zoom. On the second and fourth Tuesdays the group utilizes a hybrid format, meeting both via Zoom and in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. (The schedule venue and title description indicate the meeting type and location.)
To attend via Zoom, scroll down and click the “Join Zoom Meeting” meeting button or use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82379725848 with passcode: 586497
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 823 7972 5848 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.
12/02/2021 “Feeding on Joy” with Walt Opie
Audio DharmaDharma Teacher Walt Opie
NewsJoin Senior Visiting Teacher Walt Opie this Thursday, December 2 at 7:00 PM for a meditation and dharma talk: “Feeding on Joy“.
Also, this Sunday, December 5, Insight Meditation Society sponsors’ Walt for an online mini retreat: “Freedom from Craving“.
Walt Opie is a dharma teacher in the insight meditation tradition. He is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s teacher training program and the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders training program. Walt began leading sitting groups specifically for people in addiction recovery in 2011. He started assisting and teaching on residential insight meditation retreats in 2017. Walt’s writing appears in the book collection Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos edited by Angela Dews. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley, CA, which is located on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people.
11/18/2021 “Guidance on Establishing Mindfulness” with Dennis Warren
Audio DharmaThe Historical Buddha’s Guidance on Establishing Mindfulness In Meditation
The Historical Buddha’s formula for being skillful in meditation starts with “establishing Mindfulness” as a foundational element. This guidance points to the fact that the kind of Mindfulness needed in meditation does not just happen or appear by itself. It is something that needs to be intentionally established, monitored and sustained every time we meditate in order for our meditation practices to be skillful.
During this evening we’ll take a hands-on-look at: What does it mean to “establish Mindfulness” in our meditation practices? What does one do to establish Mindfulness? How do we know if it has been established? If established, how is it sustained?
These are basic, practical, experiential questions that provide a framework for helping us evaluate the soundness and quality of our meditation practice.
(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – The Paramis
Online Remote, Weekly MeditationJanuary 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST
The Paramis
Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard
Developing a Mind/Heart of Peace The Paramis are qualities of heart that when developed bring the highest blessing, which is peace. In honor of the passing of Thich Nhat Hanh, Rich will use illustrations from the beloved Zen Master’s life for development of the Paramis in daily life. We will see how Thay embodied patience, renunciation, determination, truthfulness, and other qualities of the heart to bring peace at the individual, community, and global scales. Please bring a story of how you have been influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching, in person, online, or through his writing: a short quote, a song, a poem, or one of his books. We have invited special guest Helen Hobart to share her experience practicing with Thay.
Rich will donate all the dana he receives from tonight’s presentation to the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81034206363 , Passcode: 690543
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 810 3420 6363 )
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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Dennis Warren – Healing and Our Biographical Narratives
Online Remote, Weekly MeditationJanuary 20, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST
Healing and Our Biographical Narratives
Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81262809252
Passcode: 036347
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 812 6280 9252 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.
Topic details:
Buddhist practice has a unique approach to problem solving and healing. The teachings, methods and underlying psychology dismantle the confusing, and sometimes overwhelming, emotional energy of difficult reactive patterns and our attachment to a biographical narrative that identifies us as damaged. This approach focuses on how we relate to the narrative, not the biographical details of the narrative.
This evening will explore two practical questions:
The subject matter of this evening is appropriate for all stages of practice. You can attend in person or by ZOOM.
Details
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Diane Wilde – Are You Listening?
Online Remote, Weekly MeditationJanuary 6, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST
Are You Listening?
Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rev. Diane Wilde
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89174387201
Passcode: 218936
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 891 7438 7201 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.
Topic details:
Did you know that listening is a learned skill? Unlike speech which comes naturally to us, REALLY listening isn’t an innate trait. Why is that? Listening requires taming the ego-driven addiction to being center stage, and trying to take over another’s “air time”. To speak is to articulate words that convey meaning, and to listen is to understand the true intent behind words being spoken. When the Buddha spoke about Right Speech, he was including both sides of the communication equation; skillful means of intentional speech as well as intentional listening. Skillful listening means listening mindfully to others, especially when we habitually discount what “they” have to say. It also means listening deeply to our own innate wisdom, which we too frequently ignore because it may not align with our long-held beliefs about ourselves. Learning how to deeply listen is a skill that changes attitudes and beliefs as well as enhancing empathy and community. Deep listening is a great skill to learn for the new year.
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Hybrid (in-person and online)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
Your generosity helps SIM thrive!
NewsDear SIM Friends,
This year has continued to be challenging for all of us and we hope that you are well. We are proud to have offered continuing support for those practicing in the Insight (Vipassana) Meditation tradition throughout 2021 and grateful to each of you for your help.
A major accomplishment this year was the return to in-person practice events at the Sacramento Dharma Center, while continuing to welcome those who preferred to join us from home via Zoom. Technical and staffing challenges were handled by resourceful and dedicated volunteers from SIM and the Young Person’s Sangha, to whom we are profoundly grateful. Another highlight of 2021 was our second on-line annual retreat with Senior Teachers Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters, with over 80 people attending.
In addition to our dedicated faculty of Dennis Warren, Rich Howard, and Diane Wilde, visiting teachers rounded out a rich year of teaching at SIM. We were especially pleased to host graduation events and offer dana to a diverse group of recent graduates from teaching programs at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. We continue to focus on being an inclusive and welcoming community.
Our fund-raising goals for 2022 include the continued expression of gratitude to our faculty through a year-end dana contribution as well as ongoing support for SIM’s Teaching and Development Initiative. It is crucial that we have the resources to support bringing new teachers to SIM.
As you plan your year-end giving, we sincerely hope that you will continue to support SIM. You can do so through a one-time, year-end contribution and/or signing up for a monthly, automatic on-line contribution to SIM. Monthly contributions are key to our long-term financial health, and all donations are received with deep gratitude.
To donate today, click here to donate online or by check.
Looking forward to continuing to strengthen our community and our practice together in the coming year.
Warmly,
Sara E. Denzler
Treasurer, SIM Board of Directors
(Remote) Introduction to Meditation with Rich Howard
Meditation Course, Online Remote, Upcoming ClassesTo participate, note the following:
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.
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“.