Virtual Event Virtual Event

February 5 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm PST

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/.

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“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
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Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 826 6839 3111 ) (Passcode: 129777 )

Tom Hopkins

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Virtual Event Virtual Event

January 29 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm PST

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/.

Buddhist Recovery Group Dana

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Donation Total: $1 One Time

“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
Please use this form to donate by credit card or your PayPal account.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 826 6839 3111 ) (Passcode: 129777 )

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom

Virtual Event Virtual Event

January 22 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm PST

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/.

Buddhist Recovery Group Dana

$
Personal Info

Terms

Donation Total: $1 One Time

“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
Please use this form to donate by credit card or your PayPal account.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 826 6839 3111 ) (Passcode: 129777 )

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom

Virtual Event Virtual Event

January 15 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm PST

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/.

Buddhist Recovery Group Dana

$
Personal Info

Terms

Donation Total: $1 One Time

“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
Please use this form to donate by credit card or your PayPal account.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 826 6839 3111 ) (Passcode: 129777 )

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom

Virtual Event Virtual Event

January 8 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm PST

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/.

Buddhist Recovery Group Dana

$
Personal Info

Terms

Donation Total: $1 One Time

“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha
Please use this form to donate by credit card or your PayPal account.

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 826 6839 3111 ) (Passcode: 129777 )

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom

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We will contemplate how we can embody the Four Noble Truths and live wisely and even joyfully with the reality of our lives.

“The householder who is a faithful seeker and in whom dwells truth, Dharma, steadiness, and generosity, does not sorrow when he or she passes away”.

~Samyutta Nikaya I.215


Dear Friends,

Thank you to those who already have donated to the year-end appeal. We deeply appreciate your generosity! May you rejoice in sustaining the Dhamma in Sacramento. If you have not yet donated, there still is time. Please consider SIM when making your year-end charitable donations – your gift matters. Wishing you peace and tranquility during this holiday season.


With deep gratitude, SIM Board of Directors & Faculty

Family Sangha Program

The Sacramento Dharma Center stepped up to support the Mortgage Pay-down Campaign and with a 1-to-1 matching fund that’s still active, there’s time to help reach the initial Mortgage Pay-down goal. For details, visit Mortgage Pay-down Campaign Update.

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All of us have experiences which change the direction of our lives.
Sometimes we know this at the moment it is happening. Other times, we only realize it later. One of those experiences can be encountering a book that causes us to question how we are living or helps us have a new vision of practice or life.
This evening will explore ten books that mattered in this way for SIM’s Founding Teacher, Dennis Warren. Each book will be discussed from the viewpoint of how it was encountered, its impact, and the change or shift in direction that followed.  Dennis will discuss why each book was helpful for him…and maybe for you.
The subject matter of this evening will be appropriate for all stages of practice.

Virtual Event Hybrid Event

January 25 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm PST

Meditation & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

For biographical details about the teacher Rich Howard click here.

* The teacher will present in-person at the Dharma Center.
Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center

Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral, Numb: Exploring the Second Foundation of Mindfulness
We rightly place strong emphasis on mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of mind states in our practice of meditation and everyday awareness. These are the first and third ways of establishing mindfulness as described in the Satipatthana Sutta, one of the core teachings of our Insight tradition. Sometimes overlooked is the Second Foundation of Mindfulness: mindfulness of feeling tone (vedana in Pali). A feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral accompanies every experience, physical or mental. Unnoticed, these feeling tones can escalate to desire, aversion, or delusion and cause us to suffer. When noticed, they can lead us to expand our range of situations where we can feel okay, regardless of outside circumstances. On this evening, we will explore vedana in our guided meditation and in the dharma talk and following discussion. Rich encourages you to practice noticing vedana in the week leading up to this evening, so you can report directly from your experience in the discussion session. If you are unfamiliar with the practice and need instruction, email Rich at rich@sactoinsight.org.

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Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 820 8055 1704 and Passcode: 254668 )
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