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(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteApril 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets online 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/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 814 1151 8858 ) (Passcode: 265566 )
Tom Hopkins
1-916-307-8066
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteApril 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets online 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/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 814 1151 8858 ) (Passcode: 265566 )
Tom Hopkins
1-916-307-8066
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteApril 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets online 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/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 814 1151 8858 ) (Passcode: 265566 )
Tom Hopkins
1-916-307-8066
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteApril 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets online 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/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 814 1151 8858 ) (Passcode: 265566 )
Tom Hopkins
1-916-307-8066
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Hybrid) Young Persons Sangha
Young Person SanghaMarch 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDT
The Young Persons Sangha is a meditation group for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. The group meets every other Wednesday in a hybrid format. Attend in person at the Sacramento Dharma Center or online via Zoom.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/join ( Meeting ID: 819 8631 1241) Passcode: 408281
Join by phone: Dial 1-669-900-6833. For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.
Young Person Sangha Dana
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Remote Meeting Zoom
Young Persons Sangha
Young Person SanghaMarch 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDT
The Young Persons Sangha is a meditation group for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. The group meets every other Wednesday in a hybrid format. Attend in person at the Sacramento Dharma Center or online via Zoom.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/join ( Meeting ID: 819 8631 1241) Passcode: 408281
Join by phone: Dial 1-669-900-6833. For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.
Young Person Sangha Dana
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.
Remote Meeting Zoom
2/15/2024 “I Could Be Wrong, But I Don’t Think So (Fixed View)” with Dennis Warren
Audio DharmaThe Historical Buddha was clear about his message concerning the importance of thought: What we think about, so we incline the mind. We make the world with our thoughts.
Thoughts are so powerful because they shape our beliefs, assumptions, and expectations. They act as lenses thru which we perceive and understand the world. When these become fixed – and they usually do – we have the same experience over-and-over even though the circumstances and persons keep changing.
This phenomenon – fixed thoughts and views shaping our lives and resulting in suffering – is at the center of Buddhist psychology and practice. This Thursday evening will explore this field of experiences through common situations in meditation and everyday living. The subject matter of this evening will be appropriate for all stages of practice.
SDC February Newsletter
NewsHave you seen the latest Newsletter from the Sacramento Dharma Center? If not, click here to access the newsletter and optionally sign up to receive future issues. The February newsletter includes the topics:
2/08/24 “Cultivating Sympathetic Joy (& Gratitude) Despite Ourselves” with Walt Opie
Audio DharmaThe main person who gets in the way of allowing us to feel sympathetic joy (mudita in Pali) and gratitude is you know who. Often we compare ourselves to others and find we don’t measure up in some way. Envy and jealousy are the opposites of sympathetic joy. The Buddha encouraged us to challenge our assumptions and to cultivate this capacity to find joy in the good fortune of others. Ajahn Pasanno says, “Cutting through self-view is the Buddha’s unique contribution to spiritual practice. Mudita is antithetical to the self-view that we carry around with us and leads us to a place of boundless and immeasurable joy.”
2/01/24 “Balancing Faith and Wisdom” with JD Doyle
Audio Dharma