Beginning Meditation Class (4 of 6)

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)

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)

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 (6 Week Course)

This class is currently taught by SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren and is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. Classes meet Tuesday evenings, September 17, 24, October 1, 8 15, 22, with a daylong retreat Saturday, October 19, 2019 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 instructor Dennis Warren, consider donating online via credit card or Paypal.

Registration Details

Walk-in registrations are not available 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.  To pay the registration fee online, use the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. It’s not necessary to Log in before purchasing and you won’t need to print the ticket on paper. On the left side, specify the number of people you are registering to this course. On the right side, click the button “Buy now” and you’ll be automatically directed to a secure webpage 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.

Note that all registrants will receive an email communication from the course registrar on the following dates: Thursday, July 31 and Tuesday, September 3.

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

NOTICE – If there are no tickets available, the course is full however you may add your name to a WAIT LIST – click here.

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Wait List Sign-up for Residential Retreat

The SIM residential retreat has filled fast and is currently full but we encourage you to sign up for the wait list as there’s a good chance you may still be able to attend since people’s plans change and there will likely be some cancellations. Proceed with the registration process to add your name to the wait list. As soon as a spot is open, we’ll notify you and if you don’t get into the retreat, we’ll refund your deposit.

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04/25/2019 “Developing Right Effort in Our Practice” with Walt Opie

If you would like to download this talk, please right click and select “save as” here.

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Registration by mail – Annual Retreat

September 3, 2021 All day

Thank you for your interest in SIM’s annual multi-day retreat. If you need to contact the retreat registrar with any questions, click here.

Registration Payment by Mail

At the bottom of this page, in the RSVP section, for “Reg payment via postal service“, enter the number one and select the button “Confirm RSVP“. Each RSVP should have a unique name so if you’re paying fees for a partner/friend/spouse, RSVP separately for each name (the email address can be the same).
After you RSVP you’ll receive a “Ticket” via email however there’s no need to print it. As soon as possible, please pay the registration fee ($100 per registrant or less if you are using a partial scholarship). If the mailed envelope is not postmarked within one week after you RSVP, you may lose your place in the registration queue. Send a check or money order payable to “SIM”. Write “Reg-Retreat 2021” on the check memo line. Mail the payment to Sacramento Insight Meditation, C/O Sacramento Dharma Center Building, 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, California, 95826.

The retreat registrar will contact you as soon as we receive your payment (we’ll know your email address from the RSVP you confirm with us).

Details

  • Date: September 3, 2021
  • Cost: Free
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Registration Opens – Residential Retreat

Our annual residential retreat is now open for registration. Our teachers this year are Kamala Masters and Vance Pryor. The retreat will be held at the Mercy Center in Auburn where we have reserved 35 single occupancy rooms. We hope that you’ll be able to join us!

 

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04/18/2019 “Two Types of Thinking” with Diane Wilde

If you would like to download this talk, please right click and select “save as” here.

Thoughts… what a random mess! They come uninvited, stick around for a bit and then they are off. Thoughts that we enjoy as well as thoughts that we would prefer to ignore. Thoughts that are inspirational and others which bring out our worst nature. The Buddha explains in the “Dvedhavitakka Sutta” that he too wrestled with uninvited thoughts. Using mindfulness practice, he categorized arising thoughts into skillful and unskillful, i.e. which of his thoughts alleviated suffering and which made things worse. In our contemporary lives, we are unfortunately, mostly unaware of the harm we needlessly cause ourselves because we rarely monitor our own thought processes. This is true for the dramatic “big issues”, but it is also relevant for thoughts that arise from seemingly innocent and often mundane daily activities. Tonight we will discuss strategies for elevating our “thought experience” both on and off the cushion.

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New Course on Climate Change

On behalf of SIM Community Teacher Rev. Diane Wilde, we’d like to announce there’s a new course offering through the Sacramento Dharma Center (not a SIM sponsored event).

The Buddhist Precepts and Climate Change.  How we can all make a difference.

Join us for six Friday afternoons in May and June at the Sacramento Dharma Center. 

The course is posted to the SDC website and some course details are listed below for your convenience.

  • MEETING TIMES: Classes are held at the Sacramento Dharma Center from 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm, Friday afternoons from May 17 — June 21, 2019
  • REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To register, email: dianegwilde@gmail.com. Registration fee is a sliding scale, $15 — $35. Checks made out to the Sacramento Dharma Center will be collected at the first meeting. NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS.
  • FACILITATORS: Rev. Diane Wilde and Rev. Dr. Susan Taylor

For more information, see this Course Flyer (.pdf)

 

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