(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Virtual Event

May 30, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets 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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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81284794280
Passcode: 638196
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 812 8479 4280 ) For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Virtual Event

May 23, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets 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
[give_form id=”14562″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “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://us06web.zoom.us/j/81284794280
Passcode: 638196
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 812 8479 4280 ) For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

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04/28/2022 “Revisiting Fundamentals: The Meaning of ‘The Middle Way’” with Dennis Warren

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The Historical Buddha explicitly described the three trainings of the Eight-Fold Path as “the Middle Way.” At first glance, this description seems to provide a clear and tangible guide to evaluating elements of practice: What practice represents the middle point between extremes?

Is this what is meant by this teaching? Is it that simple? What standard would we use to make this seemly straight-forward evaluation? Or is there something more? How does the notion of “the Middle Way” fit into the Buddha’s finely woven net of teachings, psychology, methods and values.

During this evening we’ll examine the historical factors that led to this teaching. The context in which it was first introduced. And practical and powerful applications which provide a more expansive basis for understanding the role of the Middle Way in practice and life. The subject matter of this evening is appropriate for all stages of practice.

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Daylong Retreat – Noliwe Alexander via SBMG

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May 8, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm PDT

This retreat is sponsored by SBMG. Noliwe Alexander has taught for SIM several times and has not been able to recently. We’re highlighting this retreat as we expect there are many in the SIM community who would like to attend this daylong.

Retreat Theme: The Vicissitudes of Life (8 Worldly Winds)

IN PERSON/ Hybrid: Daylong meditation retreat, The Vicissitudes of Life (the 8 Wordly Winds) with Noliwe Alexander (Vipassana)

SBMG (Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group)

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Hybrid (in-person and online)

3111 Wissemann Drive (or *ZOOM)
Sacramento, CA 95826 United States
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04/23/2022 “Recognizing Natural Awareness” with Greg Scharf

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Meditation can be seen as the process of learning to recognize and trust a natural quality of awareness that is available to all of us in any moment no matter what is happening in our experience. This awareness allows us to open to and connect with the truth of each moment.

As we gain confidence in the mind’s ability to recognize this natural awareness, we begin to release the burden of trying to control, manipulate, or fix experience so that it meets our ideas of the way it should be, and relax into the truth of the way it actually is.

We start to see directly for ourselves what leads to well-being and freedom and what leads to suffering, both in our own life and in the world around us. Through this process we begin to live our lives from a place of greater balance, integrity, confidence, and connection.

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04/21/2022 “Walking The Path” with Greg Scharf

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Senior Teacher Weekend

April 21, 2022 @ 6:59 pm – April 23, 2022 @ 4:31 pm PDT

Each year a Senior Teacher visits Sacramento Insight Meditation for a weekend of teaching. For further details, click any of the events listed below:

  1. Thursday April 21, 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
    (Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Greg Scharf – Walking The Path
  2. Friday April 22, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
    (Onsite) Tea with Senior Teacher Greg Scharf
  3. Saturday April 23, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
    (Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Greg Scharf – Recognizing Natural Awareness
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(Onsite) Tea with Senior Teacher Greg Scharf

April 22, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm PDT

Come join us for an informal gathering at the Sacramento Dharma Center (in-person, mostly outside) – Bring snacks that are easily shared and your own tea/coffee mug if you like (tea will be available), and your Dharma or personal practice questions for Greg.

GREG SCHARF, an Insight Meditation Society guiding teacher, has practiced with Western and Asian teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1992. He has been teaching residential retreats since 2007, including the annual Three-Month Retreat at IMS. Greg’s love of nature and the outdoors deeply informs both his practice and teaching.

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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Virtual Event

May 16, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets 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
[give_form id=”14562″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “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://us06web.zoom.us/j/81284794280
Passcode: 638196
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 812 8479 4280 ) For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

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Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Virtual Event

May 9, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets 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
[give_form id=”14562″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “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://us06web.zoom.us/j/81284794280
Passcode: 638196
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 812 8479 4280 ) For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

Join Zoom Meeting

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom

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