For 2021, we’ve changed the 6-week Beginning Meditation course meetings from Tuesday to Wednesday. The class start time has shifted 30 minutes earlier with a 90 minute duration. The Spring 2021 course begins Wednesday, May 12th and general registration opens on Thursday, Feb 4. Rich Howard and Sandra Sigrist will be instructing. For more information, visit the course summary page at https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/meditation-courses/.


This class is currently taught by SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard and SIM Community Mentor Sandra Sigrist, and is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. For details, visit the Course Overview page. After registering , if you’d like to make a donation to support SIM and the course instructors, consider donating online via credit card or Paypal.


Registration – Get Tickets After Feb 3

Pre-registration is necessary since the course registrar provides follow-up information required prior to this first class meeting.

Before making the $35 registration payment, click here to review the terms of use for this website. On Thursday, February 4, online registration opens. Pay the registration fee online using the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this course and click the button “Get Tickets”. You’ll be automatically directed to a secure web-page where your registration payment can be made by credit card as a guest (no PayPal account required) or payment can be made by PayPal after you sign-in to your PayPal account if you have one. After you’ve paid the fee, you’ll receive an email with the subject “You have tickets!” (but no need to print the ticket on paper).

Note that all registrants will receive an email communication from the course registrar on the following dates:  March 29,  April 19, and  May 7.

If you can’t attend this class now or the course is full (sold out), we invite you to add your name to the wait list (click here) and we’ll contact you when the next course offering is scheduled or if a space has opened up. If you need to contact the course registrar with any other questions, click here.

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* I think this was in Lion’s Roar Thubten Chodron: American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, …My concern with Buddhism in the West is that there’s some block to really looking deeply at what dukkha means. People want light and love and bliss. Many people come to Buddhism to achieve a better psychological state and feel better about themselves, and that’s fine—we can help them on that level. But that’s not the depth to which the Buddha’s teachings go. If we don’t spend time considering what dukkha is, then we won’t seek liberation and awakening. Instead, we’ll use the dharma only to make our samsaric life a little bit better. That’s one of my fears for Buddhism in the West, that we lose the liberating aspect of the dharma.
* www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.4.15.irel.html
* www.heartmindteaching.com

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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/.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97343989624
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
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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/.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97343989624
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
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/.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97343989624
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
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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Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening. For additional information, visit the 12 Step Sangha page at <a href=”https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/”>https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/</a>.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97343989624
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
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/.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97343989624
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
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/.