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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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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

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.

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
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Tom Hopkins

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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
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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.

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

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Virtual Event

May 2, 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
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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.

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

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Virtual Event

April 25, 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
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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81284794280
Passcode: 638196
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Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

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Virtual Event

April 18, 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
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Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

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Virtual Event

April 11, 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.

Tom Hopkins

1-916-307-8066

Remote Meeting Zoom