Insight Meditation and Dharma Talk with SIM Visiting Teacher Grace Talice Lee

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

Nibbāna: The Highest Happiness
What is Nibbāna? What does it look like when someone is fully enlightened? What might it look and feel like when you are fully enlightened, and how might you practice for this highest of all happiness?

GRACE TALICE LEE is a queer, nonbinary, autistic, direct descendant of immigrants and refugees. Grace has loved the Dhamma for several lifetimes, but in this current birth they began meditation training in 2016, started teaching in 2025, and co-led their first residential retreat in 2026. She offers several books about Dhamma practice, including a travelogue about a 2-week pilgrimage to the Thai Forest Masters which is freely available for download at www.karunabv.org/books.

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Insight Meditation and Dharma Talk with SIM Teacher Diane Wilde

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Anger… it’s complicated!
Anger creeps into our lives uninvited, disguised in a variety of forms. it is a multi-faceted emotion that is on the continuum of “ill-will,”  (dosa in Pali) the second of the “Three Poisons” or kilesas that keep us in a state of samsara. The first kilesa is greed (lobha) and the third is delusion.(moha).

There are a wide range of behaviors that signal anger, yet we don’t usually consider ourselves as being “angry.” Traditionally anger is defined as an explosion of violent behavior, either verbally or physically.  Explosive anger is the extreme form of ill-will on the continuum of emotional manifestations of dosa.

One of the many difficulties of dealing with anger is that it is inculcated throughout our society.  Movies, podcasts, social media, TV shows and politics all have expressions of anger. 

Another aspect of anger is when it is self-directed, and may be experienced as disappointment, guilt, jealously as well as a variety of other emotions.  Continually experiencing anger in its variety of forms creates sadness, withdrawal and confusion.

Tonight we will discuss anger, its traditional antidotes and some advice from contemporary teachers.

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Insight Meditation and Dharma Talk with SIM Teacher Rich Howard

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Reflections on Perceptions
Perception is one of the proximate causes for mindfulness to arise. Perception is also the source of concepts, confusion, and papanca, the proliferation of thoughts that causes us to suffer. This evening, we will explore the many facets of perception and the distortions of perception, with the intention of allowing this powerful capacity of the mind to free us from clinging.

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Insight Meditation and Dharma Talk with SIM Visiting Teacher Seth Castleman

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Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center.

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