Beginning Meditation Class (5 of 6)

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This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here. If you are a course participant and would like to make a donation online, click here.

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Beginning Meditation Class (4 of 6)

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This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here. If you are a course participant and would like to make a donation online, click here.

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Beginning Meditation Class (3 of 6)

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This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here. If you are a course participant and would like to make a donation online, click here.

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Beginning Meditation Class (2 of 6)

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This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here. If you are a course participant and would like to make a donation online, click here.

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2020 Fall Beginning Meditation Course

Tomorrow we open the registration to our six week Beginning Meditation Course that starts September 22, 2020. This course is offered online and will likely be lead by SIM Community Teacher, Rich Howard. Here is the course flyer in PDF format.

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COVID-19 UPDATE

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Sacramento Insight Mediation hopes that you are finding stability through your practice at home during this unsettling time. Don’t forget these lists of available resources (1 of 2) and (2 of 2) that we’ve collected to help you. And we continue to nurture our sangha with online meetings that we hope you can attend.

Following government COVID-19 guidelines, Sacramento Dharma Center (SDC) will remain closed until further notice. Because of the changing nature of this crisis, the SDC Board of Directors (in collaboration with the resident sanghas) will continue to reassess the closure status weekly. Whenever reopening is permitted and advisable, the SDC will advise on how it will be implemented.

* This information is a re-post from the update published on 4/18/20 and 5/03/20.

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(Remote) Beginning Meditation Class (6 Week Course)

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This class is currently taught by SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard and is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year.

Classes meet Tuesday evenings from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20 and 27 plus a daylong retreat on Saturday, October 24, 2020 and details for this event are posted on the Course Overview page. If you have registered to this course and would like to make a donation to support SIM and the course instructors, consider donating online via credit card or Paypal.

Registration Details

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 Tuesday, August 11, 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: Sunday, August 23 and Monday, September 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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New Roof and Solar Campaign

The Sacramento Dharma Center has almost reached their goal of matching the $15,000 challenge pledge! Generous supporters have donated $13,015 so far; only $1,985 to go!

Fundraising Details …
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07/30/2020 “Value of Faith, Value of Doubt” with Diane Wilde

The Value of Faith, The Value of Doubt

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

Buddhism is unique among spiritual traditions by putting emphasis on both Faith and Doubt. Both are necessary for a balanced practice that benefits ourselves and others. Too much faith encourages certainty without examination of experience. It can lead to mind states such as “if only I practice a lot more, everything will be fine.” Too much doubt can be paralyzing. “Why do I bother? My practice is going nowhere. Nothing has changed!” Knowing how to balance these two extremes brings us to an authentic practice. This helps us not just in our personal practice, but aids in our interaction in the world which seems to insist on extremes at this present time.

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