(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Neesha Patel

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Talk Topic: to be announced

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Neesha Patel

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We are fortunate to have NEESHA PATEL, PhD returning to SIM this evening.

NEESHA PATEL, PhD is deeply grateful for the liberative teachings of the Buddha. She has been fortunate to have practiced in both Asia and the US. Her practice has been influenced by the guidance of many wonderful teachers including Sayadaw U Tejaniya and Thai Forest Tradition teachers. She teaches mindfulness meditation at UC Davis and is a participant in the 2017-2021 Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program.

Thursday Night Talk Dana
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Topic details:

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – Turning Toward or Away

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Meditation Practice: Turning Toward or Turning Away?

Sit & Dharma Talk with Community Teacher Rich Howard

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Thursday Night Talk Dana
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Topic details:
In a 2017 article, Naropa University Professors Carla Sherrell and Judith Simmer-Brown warned about using meditation practice to avoid pain: “We take up meditation as a way to avoid or dull the pain, and only feel it “works” if we feel better. This approach is an expression of a prevailing culture that quickly takes a pharmaceutical to alleviate pain or pours a drink to numb anxiety. This kind of response to pain favors meditation practices that feature detachment, peace, bliss, and absolutist thinking as defense mechanisms against anxiety, fear, and anguish.” Yet, our world right now is full of anxiety, fear, and anguish. How do we avoid the temptation to turn away from the painful aspects of our personal and societal lives? How do we turn toward our experience and the harsh realities playing out in our community, nation, and world? How do we find insight and engagement in the midst of chaos and injustice? We will explore these difficult but essential questions on this evening of practice and inquiry. Bring an open mind and a willingness to look at the motivation for practice.

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Seth Castleman- Big Mind, Small Mind

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Talk Topic: Big Mind and Small Mind

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Rabbi Seth Castleman

How we can move out of our small-mindedness into a more expansive “Big Mind.”

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Thursday Night Talk Dana
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RABBI SETH CASTLEMAN is a teacher, writer, and storyteller with over twenty years experience teaching mindfulness and spiritual practice. Castleman is trained in both the Jewish and Buddhist traditions. After 20 years of meditation practice and two years of silent retreat as a lay-person in the US, India, and Nepal and as a monk in Burma, Seth was trained as a teacher by Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. He was authorized as a meditation/dharma teacher in 2008. Following eight years of rabbinical studies in the US and Israel/Palestine, Castleman was ordained in 2011 as a rabbi by one Orthodox, one Conservative, and one Reform rabbi. Castleman has published in two dozen newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies on the intersection of contemplative practice and social justice and the transformational power of brokenness. As a storyteller, Seth has performed in theaters, on radio and television, and at countless kitchen tables. Seth uses myth, storytelling, and humor as central tools in his teaching and counseling work. Seth Castleman is married to Reverend Elizabeth Griswold, making them, quite possibly, the only rabbi—Christian minister married couple in the US. Seth and Elizabeth live in Davis, CA with their three children.

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – Awareness and Friends

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Talk Topic: Awareness and Friends: An Introduction

Sit & Dharma Talk with Community Teacher Rich Howard

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Thursday Night Talk Dana
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Topic details:
Mindful awareness is at the core of our meditation practice. When cultivated properly, awareness is joined and supported by other mental factors that arise naturally: clear seeing, clear comprehension, tranquility, acceptance, joy, and eventually non-attachment, compassion, equanimity, and wisdom. We will explore the role of awareness in our practice and look more deeply at this circle of “friends” that accompany awareness.
This evening will stand alone and will also serve as an introduction to the daylong on Saturday August 29. This day of practice will be in the style of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, a contemporary Burmese monk, with an open schedule conducive to home practice. It should work well on Zoom.

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(Remote) Sit & Dharma Talk – Dennis Warren – A Meditation to Rest, Recharge and…

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A Meditation To Rest, Recharge and Prepared To Engage Your Life

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

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Passcode: 846496
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 920 6209 5534 )
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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
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(Remote) *Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Neesha Patel

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Talk Topic: to be announced

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Neesha Patel

Join online meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86342293049
Passcode: 029207
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 863 4229 3049 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

We are fortunate to have NEESHA PATEL, PhD returning to SIM this evening.

NEESHA PATEL, PhD is deeply grateful for the liberative teachings of the Buddha. She has been fortunate to have practiced in both Asia and the US. Her practice has been influenced by the guidance of many wonderful teachers including Sayadaw U Tejaniya and Thai Forest Tradition teachers. She teaches mindfulness meditation at UC Davis and is a participant in the 2017-2021 Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program.

Thursday Night Talk Dana
[give_form id=”16147″ 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 Neesha Patel.

Topic details:

to be announced.

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07/09/2020 “Ordinary” with Rich Howard

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Insight is central to our practice of mindful awareness at SIM, as it is central to our name. We may frame it as a dramatic experience, “a flash of lightning in a summer cloud” as it says in the Diamond Sutra. We may hold an expectation that it is only available in settings far from our daily lives, on pilgrimage to a holy land or in extended retreat at a meditation center. What if it is available in the most ordinary of circumstances? What if we are setting the conditions for insight in the most mundane activities and familiar places of our lives? What if we let our expectations drop away and came into just this moment? In this evening’s talk and discussion, we will explore the terrain of the ordinary.

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(Remote) Young Persons Sangha

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

Young Person Sangha Dana
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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/82872938027
Passcode:  457261
Phone access: 1-669-900-9128  ( Meeting ID: 828 7293 8027 ) For instructions on how to join, click here.

Meeting on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in the SDC Library, 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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