(Remote) Young Persons Sangha

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To join this remote meeting, note the following: 
Online access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85034453463
Passcode: 092149
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 850 3445 3463 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.

Meeting on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings, a ​young persons group studying mindfulness and meditation.

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.

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(Remote) Young Persons Sangha

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To join this remote meeting, note the following: 
Online access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85034453463
Passcode: 092149
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 850 3445 3463 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.

Meeting on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings, a ​young persons group studying mindfulness and meditation.

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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(Remote) Climate Sangha

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Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93547909716
Passcode: 306494
Join by phone: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 935 4790 9716 )
For tips and instructions on how to join, check this news blog.

Meeting the 3rd Wednesday of each month, the Sacramento Climate Sangha provides dharmic support and a refuge for exploration of our hopes and fears about climate change.

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Canceled – Climate Sangha

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Meeting the 3rd Wednesday of each month, the Sacramento Climate Sangha provides dharmic support and a refuge for exploration of our hopes and fears about climate change.

Dear Friends,

January 20, 2021 is a big day! In hopes that this date marks a tipping point toward significant action to address the climate crisis, we are going to take this month off for our Climate Sangha and invite you all to enjoy the inauguration and associated festivities. We will reconvene on Wednesday February 17, when Jim Lerner, PhD CRS (certified rocket scientist) will give us his perspectives on solutions to the global climate emergency.

If you want to get your climate fix before then, you are invited to view the conversation and five short films linked here. Apologies for duplication if you already received this directly, but we wanted to be sure you got this if you missed it live.

Take care, recharge, and be bold!

Rich Howard

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(Remote) Climate Sangha

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Join online meeting: 956 6840 2503
Passcode: 084656
Join by phone: 1-669-900-9128 ( Meeting ID: 956 6840 2503 )
For tips and instructions on how to join, check this news blog.

Meeting the 3rd Wednesday of each month, the Sacramento Climate Sangha provides dharmic support and a refuge for exploration of our hopes and fears about climate change.

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(Remote) Book Club – Young Persons Sangha

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The ​young persons group book club discussion – “Why Buddhism is True”

To join this remote meeting, note the following:
Online access: https://meet.google.com/ghp-jxbc-zvz
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Please RSVP to our Holiday Party

If you’re planning to attend our annual Holiday Party this year, please RSVP now. Because we’ll be setting up some smaller break-out groups during this event, your RSVP will help us be better hosts. We look forward to seeing you there!

(Remote) Holiday Virtual Gathering
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Daylong Retreat – Dennis Warren – Resting and Getting Ready for 2021

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An online, One Day Retreat with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

A Day of Rest and Getting Ready for 2021

After an exhausting year, this one-day retreat will help us experience some genuine rest and explore a number of tools for being ready for what 2021 has in store for us.
One part of the day will be working with restorative practices that ground and nourish us while simultaneously expanding our capacity for holding difficult experiences. Another part will examine ways to work with the unavoidable, unrelenting and brutal tension, anxiety and sorrow of 2021. The day will be designed to have us leave with a set of tools and strategies for use in the new year.
This will be a relaxed day of exploration, discussion and supporting each other. The day will be scaled so it is appropriate for any level of practice and experience.
(Pre-registration is required.)

DENNIS WARREN is SIM’s Founding Teacher and has been teaching mindfulness, meditation and contemplative practices since 1998. He recently completed his 11th year as a Volunteer Clinical Professor in Mindfulness in the Division of Pain Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center. He is certified as a Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P), by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He is a graduate of the professional trainings in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. He also is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Medication Center’s Dharma leaders training program. You can learn more about Dennis’ background and activities at https://www.denniswarren.net/.
Dennis has been participating in residential meditation retreats, and has maintained a daily meditation practice, in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. 2018 was his 20th year of teaching Insight Meditation and mindfulness practices in residential, retreat, educational, medical, corporate and community settings. In 2007 and 2014, Dennis led month long pilgrimages and moving retreats in Thailand, India and Nepal. A third is being planned for late 2021.

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 prefer to make a donation for this event online using a credit card or PayPal account, click here to DONATE ONLINE.

Summary of Important Dates

  • 12/07/2020 – Registration opens.
  • 12/26/2020 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat. (Registration via this website closes 30 minutes before the start of the retreat on Dec 26.)

Registration Details

Registration is $15.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $25 or $35 dollars. To pay the registration fee online, use the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this retreat 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.
For the registration fee, we also accept personal checks. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information.

Before registering to this event, click here to review the terms of use for this website.

Questions for the Registrar?

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

How to attend this online retreat

Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email “Ticket” that also includes the link to join the Zoom meeting. Use this link at the start of the retreat to join the online retreat. Additionally, the evening before or the morning of the retreat, the registrar will send you a welcome email that also includes the link to join the Zoom meeting.

Join online meeting: The hyperlink is included in your emailed "Ticket" and also in the email sent by the retreat registrar.
Join by phone: 1-669-900-9128 ( see email sent by retreat registrar for the Meeting ID )
For tips and instructions on how to use Zoom to attend the retreat, click here.
To give a donation after attending this retreat, click here.
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12/03/2020 “Forgiveness… What if you are not forgiven?” with Diane Wilde

Forgiveness… What if you are not forgiven?
A Discussion and a True Story

To download this talk, right-click and select ‘save audio as’ or select the 3-dot menu to the right of the speaker icon.

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness or not. It’s a state of mind that our culture and most faith traditions hold as a positive and worthwhile aspiration. Buddhism sees forgiveness a little differently. We will discuss those differences and the practicality of the Buddhist definition of forgiveness.

Edwin Paragas was recently released from twenty years of incarceration beginning when he was sixteen years old. He will tell the story of his own search for forgiveness from his victim’s family and his life now as a returning citizen.

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(Remote) Daylong Retreat – Rich Howard – Resting in Awareness – At Home

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An online, One Day Retreat with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

Resting in Awareness – At Home

Awareness is always accessible, and it does not require special effort. As contemporary Burmese teacher Sayadaw U Tejaniya says, “Everything you need for understanding to arise is surrounding you in this moment. It is all on your doorstep: family, friends, work colleagues, and any other relationships you may have can all be powerful catalysts in your work of revealing wisdom.” What is difficult is to remember to be aware. With the pandemic limiting our opportunities to practice at retreat centers, it is more important than ever to remember to bring awareness into all activities.
In this simple day of practice, we will practice sitting, walking, and standing meditation wherever we are. Throughout the day, Rich will offer several options for promoting awareness in any posture or activity. There will also be opportunities for questions and sharing experiences.
All are welcome. (Pre-registration is required.)

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.

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 prefer to make a donation for this event online using a credit card or PayPal account, click here to DONATE ONLINE.

Summary of Important Dates

  • 01/31/2021 – Registration opens.
  • 03/27/2021 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat. (Registration via this website closes 30 minutes before the start of the retreat on Mar 27)

Registration Details

Registration is $15.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $25 or $35 dollars. To pay the registration fee online, use the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this retreat 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.
For the registration fee, we also accept personal checks. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information.

Before registering to this event, click here to review the terms of use for this website.

Questions for the Registrar?

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

How to attend this online retreat

Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email “Ticket” that also includes the link to join the Zoom meeting. Use this link at the start of the retreat to join the online retreat. Additionally, the evening before or the morning of the retreat, the registrar will send you a welcome email that also includes the link to join the Zoom meeting.

Join online meeting: The hyperlink is included in your emailed "Ticket" and also in the email sent by the retreat registrar.
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( see email sent by retreat registrar for the Meeting ID )
For tips and instructions on how to use Zoom to attend the retreat, click here.
To give a donation after attending this retreat, click here.
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