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Dana is a Buddhist word that means generosity or heart. Nearly all Sacramento Insight Meditation activities are offered on a dana (donations) basis. This means our programs 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. Practice dana, please support our Sangha. DONATE NOW
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery GroupOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery GroupOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery GroupOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Weekly MeditationOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Weekly MeditationOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery GroupOur Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm at the Friend’s Meeting House located at 890 57th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. “Newcomers” and “old timers” alike are welcome to attend. The solution to craving and addictive behaviors will be explored using the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Registration is not required nor are there any dues or fees. However, to cover rent and literature we will pass the “hat.” We have a Sit and Read from an Author who has not only a personal 12 Step background, but more importantly, a Buddhist background, on how to use our Buddhist Practice in conjunction with the 12 Steps to Recover from extreme Suffering.
For additional informational please call, text, or email Brian McKinsey at (916) 225-7251, brian@sactoinsight.org.
Board Meeting Minutes Posted
NewsJust released, the SIM Board Meeting Minutes from last month is now available.
08/25/2016 “Analog or Digital?” with Rich Howard
Audio DharmaNature is a seamless whole, flowing and changing continuously. The world we inhabit is increasingly digital, measured, quantified, and reduced to numbers and words. How do you think of your practice? Minutes on the cushion? Days in retreat? Years of practice? Or does the practice flow through every waking moment? We spend this evening examining our view of practice as analog or digital. We ask ourselves if it makes a difference. We think about our own practice and discuss how it might be digital, analog, neither, or both. And how that serves our life and the world.
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Climate Sangha
Community Service, NewsThe Climate Sangha is meeting Tuesday, August 23, at 7 pm., at 2232 10th Ave (near City College). The Climate Sangha meets to provide a place for members concerned about the future that climate change will bring us to discuss those issues openly, to use Buddhist practice to face the changes, and to provide mutual support.
08/18/2016 “The Power of Negative Thinking” with Laura Rosenthal
Audio DharmaIn Buddhist teaching, ethical conduct constitutes an essential training: sila, one of the three trainings that form the ennobling eightfold path. While contemporary teachers frequently discuss the ethical precepts in positive terms, emphasizing the wholesome qualities we are cultivating, traditional Buddhist teaching frames them in the negative, as core unwholesome behaviors with respect to which we practice renunciation. In this dharma talk and group discussion, we will explore why the precepts may have been framed in this way as well as the freedom and richness found in exploring this path of “not doing.”
This talk references a handout: click here
Laura Rosenthal, a long-time participant in the SIM community, is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP 4) and is currently participating in Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioners Program (APP).
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