(Remote) Introduction to Meditation with Diane Wilde

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Join Online: https://zoom.us/j/96793230011
Passcode: 604444
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 967 9323 0011 )
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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.

Diane Wilde

REV. DIANE WILDE has studied meditation in various traditions since 1990. In 2001 she was a founding member of Sacramento Insight Meditation. She founded Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (aka Boundless Freedom Project) in 2010 and has been a prison chaplain for 18 years. She is a graduate of Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy program and graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leadership Training Program. She is a board member of Sati Center for Buddhist Studies at the Sacramento Dharma Center. In 2015 she was lay-ordained as a Buddhist minister by Gil Fronsdal.

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.

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(Remote) Introduction to Meditation with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

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To join this remote meeting, note the following:

Join Online: https://zoom.us/j/94244780689
Passcode: 174462
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 942 4478 0689 )
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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 HowardRICH 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.

 

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Walt Opie – Inclining the Mind Towards the Dhamma

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Inclining the Mind Towards the Dhamma

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Walt Opie

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. For this event, the teacher will attend remote, via Zoom.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/98114940451
Passcode: 944613
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 981 1494 0451 )
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Thursday Night Talk Dana

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“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
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Topic details:  to be announced

WALT OPIE was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 at Spirit Rock and began attending regular residential retreats in 2005. He is a graduate of both the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders’ (CDL4) training program and the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy program. He has led sitting groups for people in recovery since 2011. Walt also serves as a volunteer chaplain with Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (BP3) at Solano state prison in Vacaville, CA. In addition, he is currently a trainee in the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Teacher Training program based in Barre, MA. Visit https://www.waltopie.com/ for more information.

 

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – Where is Right View?

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Looking, Seeing, Focusing: Where is Right View?

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center

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Thursday Night Talk 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 give and 75% of your donation will be shared with Rich Howard.

Topic details:
For many, sight is the primary connection to the outside world. We marvel at a sunset, smile at an infant, react to a political poster. These sights can bring pleasure or anger, connection or revulsion. But are we aware of the act of seeing itself? “Why have we never noticed seeing?” asks Sayadaw U Tejaniya. We will explore the differences between looking and seeing and its implications for our formal meditation and daily life practice.

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Dennis Warren (via Zoom) – Is Movement Meditation?

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Is Movement “Meditation”? An Exploration

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. For this event, the teacher will attend remote, via Zoom.

Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81132858630
Passcode: 073492
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 811 3285 8630 )
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Thursday Night Talk Dana
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Topic details:
You hear people say “running is my meditation.” Or maybe yoga, biking, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, kayaking, archery, dancing, golf, swimming or gardening. Or how about aerobic exercise and weight lifting?
Are people who talk this way talking about the same thing? Or different things? Can we be in movement, even vigorous movement, and simultaneously be in “meditation”?
During this evening we’ll explore whether movement, in its many different forms, is “meditation.” If the answer is “Yes,” what allows movement, or a particular activity, to become meditation? If the answer is “No,” why not? And a pivotal question: can movement be meditation when done by one person, but not when done by another person? What if the person is a world class Olympic athlete?
This will be a practical dive into a rich and wonderful field of exploration. There is a wealth of commonalities, and valuable practice and life lessons, that emerge from an investigation of the relationship between movement and meditation.

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk- Dennis Warren – Consciousness

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Consciousness – A Concrete & Defining Spiritual Experience

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center

If you plan to attend in-person, the address is listed below in the Venue section.
If you plan at attend remotely, join the online meeting with this link: https://zoom.us/j/97712354931 and Passcode: 383291
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 977 1235 4931 )
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Thursday Night Talk 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 give and 75% of your donation will be shared with Dennis Warren.

Topic details:
Here is how we grow spiritually: We develop a Conceptual Model of the teachings of the Historical Buddha, their underlying psychology and supporting practice methods; we test that model through trial and error in living so it becomes an Experiential Model; then, we internalize it so it becomes an Intuitive Response.
A pivotal aspect of this growth process is fully integrating the understanding and experience of “Consciousness.” In Buddhist practice, Consciousness is not an idea, abstract theory or philosophical term. It is a concrete and defining experience.
Opening to this experience through specific practice methods is what allows us to access qualities of mind and heart like expansiveness, spaciousness, a deep experience of rest rather than struggle, and a pervasive sense of inter-connectedness.
During this evening, we’ll explore specific elements of the meditation process that lead to these experiences as well as ways to explore the experience of Consciousness in daily life.

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Diane Wilde – The Woman Who Raised the Buddha

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Mahaprajapati: The Woman Who Raised the Buddha

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rev. Diane Wilde
* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center

Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87236539276
Passcode: 940410
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 872 3653 9276 )
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Thursday Night Talk Dana

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Topic details:
Mahaprajapati was the Buddha’s mother (actually his aunt who nurtured and raised him). Oddly, little was written about her or her influence over her son, and the establishment of the female sangha — both lay and monastic. Ancient stories about her made their way to China, Sri Lanka and Thailand but were excluded from the Pali Canon except for one volume, the Therigatha – “versus of the elder nuns.” Her life experience, her approach to teaching and her relationship with the women of her sangha was generally ignored by the monks of her time, and even now. New research and access to ancient “herstory” are now slowly becoming available. What this new information offers is a picture of a compassionate woman, a gifted leader — who was beloved by her entire community. Mahaprajapati and her community of women had to approach the Dharma with a different sensibility due to the misogyny of that time. Their approach, which we will discuss, may be what is needed in today’s world as Buddhism continues to evolve.

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk

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THE TEACHER FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM DIANE WILDE TO TONY BERNHARD

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rev. Diane Wilde

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93294149106
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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Tony Bernhard

 

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(Remote) Living On The Other Side of Suffering (11-week course)

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Living On The Other Side of Suffering:
An Experiment In Balancing Practice And Becoming More Fully Human

An Eleven Week Course and One Day Retreat with SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

For more information about this course, visit the course overview page.

Registration – RSVP

Before registering, click here to review the terms of use for this website.
This course is full – tickets are SOLD OUT however we invite you to submit a Waiting List RSVP, click here.

Summary of Important Dates

  • 08/01/2021 (2:00 pm) – Registration opens.
  • 09/15/2021 – First class meeting, online via Zoom.

Questions for the Registrar?

If you need to contact the course registrar with any other questions, click here.

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Annual Retreat 2021

Like last year, this years retreat will be online, four days starting Friday evening 9/3/21 through 9/6/21. The teachers will be Kamala Masters and Steve Armstrong and the registration fee will be $100 with an opportunity to later provide dana/donation to the teachers. Similar to last year, retreat participants will have opportunities for questions and answers and retreat scholarships are available if needed. Unlike last year, there won’t be auditing options since there won’t be small group check-ins.

Registration will open Thursday, June 17 – click here.

Notify – 2021 retreat registration

Registration opens 6/17/21.

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