Registration Open for our Annual Retreat

Registration is now open for SIM’s Annual Retreat, to be held online (via Zoom) over the Labor Day weekend (September 3 – 6, 2021).   This year’s retreat theme is “A Long Enduring Mind”. We are fortunate to have Senior Teachers Kamala Masters and Steve Armstrong join us to share their deep understanding of the Dhamma and provide practical instruction to help us deepen and integrate practice into our daily lives. For details, visit the registration page listed below:

(Remote) 2021 SIM Annual Retreat
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07/01/2021 “Cultivating the Paramis” with Tony Bernhard

To download this talk, right-click and select ‘save audio as’ or select the 3-dot menu to the right of the speaker icon.
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(Remote) SIM Board of Directors Meeting

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The SIM Board of Directors meets every month and all are welcome. If you can’t attend this meeting, please join us for one of our other up-coming meetings. For details on contacting any of the board members, click here.

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(Remote) SIM Board of Directors Meeting

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The SIM Board of Directors meets every month and all are welcome. If you can’t attend this meeting, please join us for one of our other up-coming meetings. For details on contacting any of the board members, click here.

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(Remote) SIM Board of Directors Meeting

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The SIM Board of Directors meets every month and all are welcome. If you can’t attend this meeting, please join us for one of our other up-coming meetings. For details on contacting any of the board members, click here.

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(Remote) SIM Board of Directors Meeting

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The SIM Board of Directors meets every month and all are welcome. If you can’t attend this meeting, please join us for one of our other up-coming meetings. For details on contacting any of the board members, click here.

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SBMG invites SIM to In-Person Events

A message from Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)

You are invited to attend in-person.

  • We will not be turning anyone away due to capacity limits, and we will strive to maintain seating about three feet apart.
  • We will not be requiring masks for vaccinated persons, however, this will be based on the honor system and we will not be verifying
  • For more details, click here.

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Tony Bernhard

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Talk topic: to be announced

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Tony Bernhard

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93294149106
Passcode: 166547
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 932 9414 9106 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.

Thursday Night Talk Dana

[give_form id=”15406″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “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 this form 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 Tony Bernhard.

TONY BERNHARD is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher. He maintains an active practice with inmates in Folsom Prison and hosts sitting groups in Davis. He sits on the board of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and teaches regularly around the bay area and central valley. His practice is non-traditional, guided by his chaplaincy work in prison, his teaching and by his study of the early Pali scriptures.

Topic details:
to be announced

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Volunteers Needed at St. John’s

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After a year of isolation, Sacramento Insight Meditation (SIM) volunteers have again been preparing and serving dinner to the women and children who are living at St. John’s Program for Real Change in Sacramento.  The cooks and servers practice COVID safety by wearing masks.  Most of the volunteers have been fully vaccinated.

We will soon be scheduling shifts for July 21, August 18, and September 15, 2021.  Volunteer opportunities include cooks, who prepare the meal from 2:30-4:15 pm, and servers, who work from 4:15-6:00pm. You are not expected to work all three dates, just whatever works for you.  We are welcoming new volunteers as we bolster our volunteer pool.  Come join us as we practice generosity and compassion in the greater community.

If you are not already on the email list and wish to volunteer or have questions, please contact Mary Howard at mary@sactoinsight.org.

If you would like to volunteer for other programs or tasks at SIM, visit https://sactoinsight.org/activities/sangha-service/volunteer-interest/.

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06/10/2021 “Grief, Loss and Change” with Jeff Hardin

Grief: Meditation practice with loss and change

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Change is a constant in life but for many of us the last year has brought more intense and radical change, much of it unwelcomed and challenging. There is so much suffering these days due to loss and grief. Rates of depression, anxiety, addiction and suicide are at an all time high. Tonight we will explore using our meditation practice tools to find relief, understanding and acceptance of our losses and to use grief as a doorway into deeper insights. Jeff shares some personal stories of loss and sorrow and liberation from the healthcare frontlines of the pandemic. He discusses many useful practices to work with our individual and collective grief and suffering.

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