1/11/24 “Seclusion and Engagement: Models of the Dharma Path” with Tony Bernhard

To download this talk, right-click and select ‘save audio as’ or select the 3-dot menu to the right of the speaker icon.

The monastic path of meditation and seclusion has been the primary image of awakened life as the west has encountered the Dharma. We will talk about how emerging Buddhist forms may take on more elements of engagement and the brahma viharas than of the monastic style of seclusion and renunciation.

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Become a SIM Monthly Donor

Dear Friends,

Deep gratitude to all those who donated to our yearend fundraising effort. We raised $24,020! This is a fantastic start to covering our budget shortfall. But we still anticipate having a budget/revenue shortfall in 2024 due in large part to our new – and absolutely essential –  Operations Manager position which adds $22,000 to our annual expenses.

As we start this new year, we are beginning a campaign for the month of January to get 10 new monthly donors and 10 current donors to increase their monthly contributions. Can you be one? Can you encourage someone you know to be one?

Recurring donations provide reliability and consistency to the organization. This allows us to plan responsibly and make future commitments.   

Our current monthly contributions range from $10 to $200 per month. However, this is not enough to cover our anticipated 2024 expenditures.  

What does your donation support?

  • SIM’s core assets: Thursday night sit and dharma talks, Saturday Daylong Retreats, Courses, and the annual retreat;
  • Our Legacy Teachers and ultimately continues supporting the Dharma in Sacramento;
  • The new Operations Manager position, which expands our communications & online capacities, facilitates our administrative and registration processes, and provides important operations assistance to the Board and Faculty.
  • AV/hybrid events- this allows people who cannot come in person to attend to hear the Dhamma and maintain their connection to the sangha.

If you are not currently donating monthly, please consider signing up. If you are currently donating monthly, please consider increasing your donation.

It’s easy to sign up online by going to the Donation page. Put in the amount and choose “Make this donation every month”.

If you want to increase your online donation, email website@sactoinsight.org with the changes you want to make and Sabitre will update your contribution.

And just to have some fun and give a little incentive for folks to sign up, if you become a monthly donor, or change your donation rate, during the month of January, we will be holding a drawing for two lucky winners to go out for a meal with Senior Teacher Rich Howard and another with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren.

With gratitude,

Amy Kovak, on behalf of the SIM Board of Directors and Faculty 

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Face Masks Recommended

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With the recent rise in the community level of COVID infection, the SIM Board of Directors highly recommends that persons attending in person events at the Sacramento Dharama Center wear effective masks, such as N95, KN95, and KF94, especially those who are at higher risk of serious complications after contracting COVID.

A limited number of masks will be available at the entrance to the Dharma Hall for this purpose.

Additionally, for your wellbeing and that of others, all attendees are encouraged to be fully vaccinated with the most recent recommended vaccines.

Thank you,

Jon Siiteri, on behalf of the Board of Directors

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(Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Vance Pryor – Recognizing and Understanding the 3 Characteristics

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Hybrid Event

April 27, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm PDT

Daylong Retreat with SIM Legacy Project Teacher Vance Pryor

For biographical details of the teacher Vance Pryor, click here.

About This Hybrid Retreat

  • The teacher will present remotely via Zoom. Participants may attend this Hybrid event via Zoom or in-person at the Dharma Center.
  • Pre-registration is required and we recommend you pay the registration fee in advance using the registration ATTEND buttons shown below. Since your registration choice indicates if you’ll be attending via Zoom or in-person, registering early helps us determine how many people the meditation room should accommodate.
  • After you’ve registered you may later offer a donation in gratitude of the teacher. To offer teacher dana, visit https://sactoinsight.org/retreat-dana-online/.

Recognizing and Understanding the 3 Characteristics
The emphasis of this daylong will be on exploring through our meditation, reflections, and question and response periods the 3 characteristics of experience. The 3 characteristics of impermanence, unreliability, and the not self nature of all phenomena are at the core of what we practice with in our insight meditation. The implications for deepening our experiential understanding of these 3 interconnected dimensions of our lives will be emphasized as well. 

Summary of Important Dates

  • 03/07/2024 – Registration opens.
  • 04/27/2024 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat.
  • 04/28/2024 – For registration after the retreat, send a message to the registrar to arrange payment.

Registration

$25 – $50 Registration fee

Select one of the following registration “ATTEND” buttons to indicate if you’ll be attending via Zoom or in-person. The fee is $25.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $35 or $50 dollars. Note that fee amounts above the regular rate support Sacramento Insight Meditation and is distinct from teacher dana. For the registration fee, we also accept personal checks. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information.
Before registering to this event, click here to review the terms of use for this website.

April Daylong registration – Onsite at SDC

$25.00 – $50.00

Attend In-Person

April Daylong registration – Zoom

$25.00 – $50.00

Attend on Zoom

Questions for the Registrar?

If you need to contact the retreat registrar with any questions, click here.

Teacher Dana

Sacramento Insight Meditation events 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. With our practice of dana, we support our Sangha. To make a donation for this event using a credit card or PayPal account, click here to DONATE ONLINE.

How to Attend Remotely via Zoom

Join Retreat Online
  • After registration opens, the link to attend the retreat via Zoom appears in three places: The Zoom link is on this page – select the button “Join Retreat Online” to connect to the meeting.
  • The Zoom link is included in the automated email sent with your “Attend on Zoom” registration.
  • The Zoom link is https://joinconferencing.zoom.us/join, with Meeting ID: 872 1797 6457 and Passcode: 159712

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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01/04/24 “Calling In Spiritual Support, and Letting Go of What No Longer Serves” with Heather Sundberg

To download this talk, right-click and select ‘save audio as’ or select the 3-dot menu to the right of the speaker icon.

In addition to a teaching on the topic, which will include simple practices you can do in daily life, the teaching will end with an optional short simple ritual to bring in the new year together.  If you are joining us via zoom, please have the following handy: a Kleenex or sock; 2 pieces of paper (any size, but small is fine), a pencil or pen.

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(Onsite) A Year to Live (5 of 13)

April 21, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2023. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit A Year to Live.

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The WAIT LIST for this course is currently closed.

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Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Onsite) A Year to Live (4 of 13)

March 17, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2023. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit A Year to Live.

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The WAIT LIST for this course is currently closed.

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Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Onsite) A Year to Live (3 of 13)

February 18, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2023. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit A Year to Live.

Notify List

The WAIT LIST for this course is currently closed.

Name(Required)

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Onsite) A Year to Live (2 of 13)

January 21, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST

This is part of an twelve month course lead by SIM’s community teacher Diane Wilde. The first introductory meeting was in December, 2023. For course details or to make a teacher donation while participating in the course, visit A Year to Live.

Notify List

The WAIT LIST for this course is currently closed.

Name(Required)

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Rich Howard – The Paramis**Equanimity: Balanced, Spacious, and Engaged

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Hybrid Event

April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PDT

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Meditation & Dharma Talk with SIM Teacher Rich Howard

For biographical details of 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.

Part 7 of a 10-part series on The Paramis : The Qualities That Reshape Daily Life & Lead to Buddhahood
The Paramis are: Ethics/Virtue, Generosity, Patience, Energy, Restraint/Renunciation, Resolve, Equanimity, Loving Kindness, Truthfulness and Wisdom.

SIM’s teachers are presenting a 10-week series (March 14 through May 16) of coordinated talks exploring the Paramis and their application in practice and daily life. We invite you to this special opportunity to deepen your practice in community with others on Thursday evenings.

April 25                  Equanimity             Rich Howard

Equanimity: Balanced, Spacious, and Engaged
It can be hard to maintain an open-hearted balance in a world where we have access to immense suffering in every corner of the globe. We may be closed down into paralysis or panic. And yet our practice calls us to engage the suffering, the world’s and our own,  with compassion. How can we withstand and even thrive as the “worldly winds” blow around us?  The quality of Equanimity can be the refuge we seek. We will explore Equanimity (upekkha in Pali) as one of the Paramis, as well as its place in the Brahmaviharas and the Seven Factors of Awakening. 

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How to Attend Remotely
Join Zoom Meeting

Join online meeting: https://zoom.us/join or join by phone at 1-669-900-6833
( Meeting ID: 870 2524 1285 and Passcode: 328267 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, click here to check this news blog.

Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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