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Our 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

This first of two evening discussions about what we all find difficult – strong experiences in daily life that threaten, or do, throw us spinning out of balance. We look at what the historical Buddha had to say about the roots of such strong experiences. We explore a number of important and practical questions including:

  • How do we lay a sound foundation for working with such challenging experiences?
  • How do we directly apply the Buddha’s teachings to our experience in a skillful way?
  • What is reasonable to expect regarding our ability to make real strides in dealing with strong experiences that have proven problematic for us in the past?

Dennis’ two discussions use three teachings of the Buddha as the initial basis for discussion: The Discourse Concerning Malunkyaputta; The Kumma Sutta: The Tortoise; and the Sutta on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness.

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Dennis also suggested to read the two Suttas he spoke of in his talk. Here are the two links: Malunkyaputta Sutta and Kumma Sutta

To listen to Part 2 in the series, click here.

Looking at the Discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (MN 10, the Satipatthana Sutta), we arrive at perhaps the single most important description of how and why we practice meditation. The many practices described in this discourse form the basis for SIM’s Introduction to Meditation course and most Vipassana (insight) meditation retreats. SIM spent almost two years from March 2009 through December 2010 examining this subject in depth, and many excellent book-length studies are available (including Joseph Goldstein’s Mindfulness, Bhikkhu Analayo’s Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization, and U Silananda’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness). So what could be gained from looking at this text for a single night? In our continuing exploration of the Suttas That Speak to Us, SIM Community Mentor Rich Howard approaches the Satipatthana Sutta as if in conversation with a good friend, looking literally at how it speaks to us as practitioners of insight meditation.

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