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(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteFebruary 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/.
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
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteJanuary 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/.
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
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteJanuary 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/.
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
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteJanuary 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/.
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
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
(Zoom) Buddhist Recovery Group – weekly
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online RemoteJanuary 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/.
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
thopkins415@gmail.com
Remote Meeting Zoom
12/21/23 “The Ennobling Truths” with Andrea Castillo
Audio DharmaWe will contemplate how we can embody the Four Noble Truths and live wisely and even joyfully with the reality of our lives.
With Deep Gratitude – Your Gift Matters!
NewsDear 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
Dharma Center Mortgage Update
NewsThe 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.
12/14/23 “Ten Books That Mattered” with Dennis Warren
Audio DharmaAll 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.
(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral, Numb: Exploring the Second Foundation of Mindfulness
Online Remote, Weekly MeditationJanuary 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.
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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How to Attend Remotely
Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 820 8055 1704 and Passcode: 254668 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, click here to check this news blog.
Remote Meeting Zoom