(Remote) SIM Board of Directors Meeting

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The SIM Board of Directors meets every month and all are welcome. If you can’t attend this meeting, please join us for one of our other up-coming meetings. For details on contacting any of the board members, click here.

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10/21/2021 “I Want Burning…” with Seth Castleman

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I WANT BURNING: Finding passion and meaning in life and dharma practice

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(Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Dennis Warren – Living With, and Without, A Separate Self

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Virtual Event

December 18, 2021 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm PST

Year-End One Day Retreat with SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren

About This Hybrid Retreat

  • Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center.
  • Pre-registration is required and we recommend you pay the registration fee in advance. This helps us determine how many people will attend and how many people the meditation room should accommodate.
  • To pay now, you’ll find at the bottom of this page registration ticket choices to attend via Zoom or attend onsite. If you attend onsite, you do have the option to pay the registration fee in-person on the day of the retreat or pay online after the retreat starts.
  • If you buy a ticket for onsite attendance you may still attend the retreat via Zoom.
  • The link to attend the retreat via Zoom appears in three places:
    • The Zoom link is at the bottom of 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 ticket purchase (email subject is “You have tickets!“).
    • The Zoom link is https://joinconferencing.zoom.us/join, with Meeting ID: 837 5090 8344 and Passcode: 135371
  • To give a donation after attending this retreat, click here.

Retreat Theme: The Possibilities & Deep Satisfaction of Living With, and Without, A Separate Self

From a Buddhist perspective, “Self” can be misunderstood as dualistic and problematic: “Self” equals bad & suffering. “No self” equals good and becomes a cure for all our ills. This over-simplified model is guaranteed to result in confusion, struggle and misery. “Self” and “ego” become sources of suffering rather than playing useful, helpful, valuable roles in life. Buddhist practice provides a larger, inclusive, unified view of identity and self that that fills life with endless possibilities, satisfaction and reassurance. This one day will be a relaxed, practical, relevant look at our lives and practices from this perspective. We’ll examine the teachings, psychology and practices that support essential elements of practice that may seem confusing, contradictory and distant – self, no-self, identity, traumatic identity, impermanence, emptiness, “non-dual” awareness, transcendence, karma, awakening. We’ll explore how these foundational elements relate to, and fit together into one seamless whole. You’ll have the option of attending the day in person (absent a negative development with COVID) or online by Zoom. Dennis is encouraging as many people as possible to attend in person, if you feel safe. Look forward to helpful day of practice together.
DENNIS WARREN is SIM’s Founding Teacher and has been teaching mindfulness, meditation and contemplative practices since 1998. He recently completed his 11th year as a Volunteer Clinical Professor in Mindfulness in the Division of Pain Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center. He is certified as a Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P), by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He is a graduate of the professional trainings in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. He also is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Medication Center’s Dharma leaders training program. You can learn more about Dennis’ background and activities at https://www.denniswarren.net/ . Dennis has been participating in residential meditation retreats, and has maintained a daily meditation practice, in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. 2018 was his 20th year of teaching Insight Meditation and mindfulness practices in residential, retreat, educational, medical, corporate and community settings. In 2007 and 2014, Dennis led month long pilgrimages and moving retreats in Thailand, India and Nepal. A third is being planned for late 2021.
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. If you prefer to make a donation for this event online using a credit card or PayPal account, click here to DONATE ONLINE.

Summary of Important Dates

  • 11/29/2021  – Registration opens.
  • 12/18/2021 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat.
  • 12/20/2021 – Registration closes the Monday after the retreat at 11:00 am PST.

Registration Details

Registration is $15.00 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 $25 or $35 dollars. To pay the registration fee online, specify if you plan to attend in-person or attend remotely via Zoom. In the “Tickets” section, specify the number of people you are registering to this retreat and click the button “Get Tickets”. You’ll be automatically directed to a secure web-page where your registration payment can be made by credit card as a guest (no PayPal account required) or payment can be made by PayPal after you sign-in to your PayPal account if you have one. 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.

Questions for the Registrar?

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

How to attend this retreat

to be announced.

Details

Hybrid (in-person and online)

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

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35 people are attending (Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Dennis Warren – Living With, and Without, A Separate Self

Alison Castanos Renee Sullaway kelly fitzgerald Kristy Vyyverberg Richard Golub Jerry Simkins Judith Bietz Fernando Valdez S Steinberg Evan Bandman cedric orange sr michael semansky Margaret L Buss Jennifer Enright Sara Denzler Seth Brunner Christopher Enright Tamara Mihm Pam Jenne rosemary ogrady janice NAKASHIMA Larry Bercutt Jill Turner Robin Primavera Jon Siiteri Michael Paddy Joshua Harbin Charles Sims Alice Carney t Diaz
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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Gullu Singh – 5 Subjects for Daily Recollection

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Hybrid Event

December 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST

Five Subjects for Daily Recollection

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Senior Teacher Gullu Singh

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center

Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83577477772
Passcode: 552481
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 835 7747 7772 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.

Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a corporate real estate attorney who also a Dharma teacher at InsightLA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He has taught mindfulness at the University of Southern California, been a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School and has taught mindfulness in law firms, at bar associations and in law firm and corporate settings. Although he was exposed to meditation as a child, he found his own practice when he started his legal career, working at firms where the job was extremely stressful.
Gullu completed InsightLA’s one-year Mindfulness Facilitator Training, Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program, the training to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and the 4-year Spirit Rock Meditation Center Teacher Training Program which focuses on teaching in the silent retreat setting. Gullu is a core teacher in the Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training as well as the InsightLA Mindfulness Facilitator Training.
Gullu graduated from Duke University in 1990 and got his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1993, where he was on Law Review. He then worked at two preeminent BigLaw Firms before founding Landmark Law Group, Inc. in 1998. He was recognized as a California Super Lawyer in 2009.
Gullu is deeply inspired to share meditation as a path to freedom and also as an antidote to stress, a way to cope more effectively with the challenges of work and life and to inject more sanity, compassion and wisdom into this world.

Thursday Night Talk Dana
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Details

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 – Beginnings and Endings

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Beginnings and Endings

Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

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

Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89485691687
Passcode: 114183
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID:  894 8569 1687 )
For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.

Thursday Night Talk Dana
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For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and 75% of your donation will be shared with Rich Howard.

Topic details:

While the end of a calendar year is somewhat arbitrary, it offers us a chance to look back on the previous year and to look forward to the year to come. In terms of practice, we can think of these activities as Wise Reflection and Wise Intention. For this evening, we will be using a beginning – the first section of the Dhammapada, which Jack Kornfield calls “the most beloved of all Buddhist texts, both poetic and profound.” Titled “Dichotomies” in Gil Fronsdal’s translation (Shambhala, 2008), this text contains reminders of the power of our thoughts and actions, and discernment in choosing a path of happiness and away from quarrels.

The placement of a text at the beginning of a collection was not arbitrary when the Pali Canon was assembled – important texts like this one were intentionally placed first. We will take a slow tour through this poem and see what it offers for our year-end reflection and intention. Feel free to have your own copy of the Dhammapada at hand; it is often fruitful to see how different translators approach a text.

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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Tony Bernhard – Karma is not what you think

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Virtual Event

December 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST

Karma is not what you think

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Tony Bernhard 
* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or onsite at the Sacramento Dharma Center.
Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88062820765 Passcode: 724515 Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 880 6282 0765 ) For tips and instructions to join the meeting, check this news blog.
Thursday Night Talk Dana [give_form id=”15406″ show_title=”false” show_content=”none” display_style=”reveal”] “Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha We recognize that donating by cash or check at the time you attend this event may not always be convenient for you. If that’s the case, please use this form to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and 75% of your donation will be shared with Tony Bernhard.
TONY BERNHARD is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher. He maintains an active practice with inmates in Folsom Prison and hosts sitting groups in Davis. He sits on the board of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and teaches regularly around the bay area and central valley. His practice is non-traditional, guided by his chaplaincy work in prison, his teaching and by his study of the early Pali scriptures.  

Details

Hybrid (in-person and online)

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

Tickets

Who's coming?

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35 people are attending (Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Dennis Warren – Living With, and Without, A Separate Self

Alison Castanos Renee Sullaway kelly fitzgerald Kristy Vyyverberg Richard Golub Jerry Simkins Judith Bietz Fernando Valdez S Steinberg Evan Bandman cedric orange sr michael semansky Margaret L Buss Jennifer Enright Sara Denzler Seth Brunner Christopher Enright Tamara Mihm Pam Jenne rosemary ogrady janice NAKASHIMA Larry Bercutt Jill Turner Robin Primavera Jon Siiteri Michael Paddy Joshua Harbin Charles Sims Alice Carney t Diaz
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(Hybrid) Sit & Dharma Talk – Walt Opie – Feeding on Joy

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Virtual Event

December 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm PST

Feeding on Joy

Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Senior Teacher Walt Opie

* Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center

Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87048503535
Passcode: 717418
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 870 4850 3535 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.
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“Generosity is the virtue that leads to peace.” – The Historical Buddha For remote meetings, please use the form above to donate by credit card or your PayPal account. Enter the amount you’d like to give and 100% of your donation will be shared with Walt Opie.
Topic details:  There is a discourse that describes the Buddha going on his alms round one day and not receiving any food to eat. Instead of getting down at the lack of food though, he declared that he took delight in being self-sufficient, and he said he would “keep feeding on joy.” The type of joy he meant relates to deep states of meditation. However, we can also feed on the “subtle joy of being in the present moment” when we are practicing diligent mindfulness. And further, we can take delight in wholesome forms of joy and happiness like cultivating more gratitude and generosity, especially during the holiday season. WALT OPIE was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 at Spirit Rock and began attending regular residential retreats in 2005. He is a graduate of both the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders’ (CDL4) training program and the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy program. He has led sitting groups for people in recovery since 2011. Walt also serves as a volunteer chaplain with Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (BP3) at Solano state prison in Vacaville, CA. In addition, he is currently a trainee in the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Teacher Training program based in Barre, MA. Visit https://www.waltopie.com/ for more information.
Walt is also offering an online mini retreat through IMS (Insight Meditation Society) focusing on “Freedom from Craving”. The retreat is scheduled for Sunday, December 5, 2021 and details are posted to https://www.dharma.org/freedom-from-craving/. Details include IMS interviewing Walt with questions such as,
  • How does craving lead to suffering?
  • How can we develop the internal empowerment needed to change our relationship to old habits?

Details

Hybrid (in-person and online)

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

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35 people are attending (Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Dennis Warren – Living With, and Without, A Separate Self

Alison Castanos Renee Sullaway kelly fitzgerald Kristy Vyyverberg Richard Golub Jerry Simkins Judith Bietz Fernando Valdez S Steinberg Evan Bandman cedric orange sr michael semansky Margaret L Buss Jennifer Enright Sara Denzler Seth Brunner Christopher Enright Tamara Mihm Pam Jenne rosemary ogrady janice NAKASHIMA Larry Bercutt Jill Turner Robin Primavera Jon Siiteri Michael Paddy Joshua Harbin Charles Sims Alice Carney t Diaz
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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83436463247
Passcode: 112161
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 834 3646 3247 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

To make a donation for this event, click here.

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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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83436463247
Passcode: 112161
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 834 3646 3247 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

To make a donation for this event, click here.

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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(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group

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Join online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83436463247
Passcode: 112161
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 834 3646 3247 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, check this news blog.

To make a donation for this event, click here.

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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