Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group

In-Person Only Daylong meditation retreat, with James Baraz - https://mailchi.mp/5e1526484ccb/james-event-reminder-9249882

7 Class series - Challenging Relationships and Buddhist Recovery Practices with Andy Bein - https://mailchi.mp/934126c9377c/andy-event-reminder-838518

Aug 10th Retreat with Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith - https://mailchi.mp/a1c126df4363/ramona-event-reminder-6246846

July 19th BIPOC Sangha Movie Fundraiser - https://mailchi.mp/e76f4e74e44f/bipoc-fundraiser-6245822

July 13th Daylong Retreat with Misha Merrill - https://mailchi.mp/cdcb412f04d3/misha-event-reminder-7245582

Our next daylong daylong is on Saturday, July 13th at 10 a.m., with Misha Merrill, guiding teacher of Zen Heart Sangha in Menlo Park and Woodside, CA.

SBMG offers its daylong on a sliding scale of $30 - $150 (this includes a donation for the teacher), but we don't turn away anyone for lack of funds.

Scan the QR code or go to sbmg.org for more information.

6/9 UPDATE!! Postponed my practice talk today due to vertigo and nausea- there will be a retreat program and/or practice circles instead.So very sorry to miss you. 💗helen

June 8th Retreat with Oren Jay Sofer - Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for a World in Crisis https://mailchi.mp/e126e7c8a6e4/oren-event-reminder-6241173

IN PERSON Retreat: “Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for a World in Crisis” with Oren Jay Sofer (Vipassana) | Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group Click here to register Oren will teach this retreat in person in Sacramento. How can contemplative practice be a vehicle not just for personal healing but for collective liberation? How can we reclaim our attention, use our energy more wisely, and contribute meaningfully to the call of our times? Jo...

April 13th Daylong Retreat with Valorie Beer - https://mailchi.mp/e69c8d044541/valorie-event-reminder-6234606

Feb 10th Daylong Retreat with Teja Bell - https://mailchi.mp/5723aa152d1b/event-reminder-21024

today, teaching a daylong retreat in .

Anam Thubten teaching a daylong retreat in Sacramento today

On January 10, our own Karson Kavokovich will be teaching the first of a six-part series on "Practicing the Precepts and Spiritual Friendship in Everyday Life."

He has created this video to explain what the course will be like.

Practicing the Precepts and Spiritual Friendship in Everyday Life This is "Practicing the Precepts and Spiritual Friendship in Everyday Life" by Karson Kovakovich on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…

In-Person/Hybrid: Ringing in the New Year with John Mifsud (Vipassana)

Let’s “ring the bells that still can ring” (Leonard Cohen)

On this day that marks the ending of one year and its myriad experiences, and  embarking on an unknown  new year, we will reflect on what we have learned, what we wish to let go of, and our intentions for the coming seasons. Our teacher, John Mifsud, will include the opportunity for bell-ringing as part of our morning, a time to listen to our hearts’ truths.  We might also gather around a firepit.

Please stay for a potluck at 12 p.m. and sangha social time.

John will also be offering private interviews after lunch

Hi all,
Mary Mocine is teaching tomorrow morning, including Beginning Meditation Instruction at 9 a.m. She wanted to remind everyone we are falling back one hour as we return to PST (that's Pacific Standard Time). You all may have devices that do this automatically, but you may want to change any devices that don't, like plug-in alarm clocks or your car's clock before going to bed. Hope to see everyone tomorrow!

Register for Home Is Here: Healing Harm with Compassionate Connection - *|https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-is-here-healing-harm-with-compassionate-connection-registration-728075803327?aff=Website|*

Still Time to Register for Write from the Heart with Susan Moon on September 23, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm - https://mailchi.mp/3f0ea5761738/writefromtheheartwithsuemoon

Ayya Santacitta speaking about in practice. We have an intimate relationship with our human body and a connection to the .

Still Time to Register for “Embodied Awareness Noticing Flow” with Edward Espe Brown on August 13 at 1 p.m. - https://mailchi.mp/f6841f42e576/embodiedawarenessnoticingflowwithedwardespebrown

Still Time to Register for The Healing Art of Ceremony with Valorie Beer & Barbara Baccei this Saturday, June 10 at 10 a.m. in person only- https://mailchi.mp/aa792194a905/healingartofceremonywithvaloriebeerandbarbarabaccei

Still Time to Register for Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism with Donald Rothberg this Saturday, April 15 at 10 a.m. in Sacramento - https://mailchi.mp/5fddf9099cfe/sbmg-daylong-retreat-don-rothberg-6041945

Tova Green, of San Francisco Zen Center, will be our guest teacher on April 2 at 10 a.m. Here is a recent talk that she gave at SFZC.

Turning Toward Death 10/22/2022, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. As leaves fall and nights are longer, we turn from autumn towards winter. This is a tender, transitional time for many of us. We may be more in touch with loss, grief, and death. In this talk, Tova shares her own journey toward facing death a...

Folks, here is a talk by Tenzin Chogkyi, who will be leading SBMG's talk for the 3/26/23 10 a.m. program.

Reclaiming Joy with Tenzin Chogkyi A talk by Tenzin Chogkyi "Reclaiming Joy" on day 1 of FDCW's Big Love Summit 2022.Tenzin Chogkyi took us on a powerful journey examining the notion that spir...

🙏ONLINE/Hybrid: Sunday meditation and dharma talk:
The Transformative Power of Equanimity,
with Tenzin Chogkyi (Tibetan)
March 26 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

The Transformative Power of Equanimity
Mindfulness meditation has become wildly popular in the last decade or two, and is taught in places as diverse as corporate board rooms, maximum security prisons, and everywhere in between. One of the standard definitions of mindfulness is “awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally,” according Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the popular program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

The focus in many popular mindfulness programs is on the attentional training, and not as much emphasis was given to the “non-judgmental” aspect of mindfulness. But equanimity itself has a transformative power – join us to explore some of the gifts of equanimity and how to bring this quality into our lives.

Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. She is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well. She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She is featured on a monthly radio show called “Reflections on Buddhism on KSQD 90.7 in the Santa Cruz area. She also finds time to create her Unlocking True Happiness podcast which you can check out at unlockingtruehappiness.org where you will also find her current teaching schedule. She is currently based on traditional Awaswas Ohlone land, in what is now known as Santa Cruz, CA.

March 26 Sunday Sit Online Schedule: note changes

10:00 Sangha host welcome -- Angela Scarlett
10:05 Tenzin introduces herself and the structure of the morning, start the first meditation
10:20 End of meditation and beginning of Dharma talk
10:20 - 10:45 or so Dharma talk
10:45 - 10:50 5 minute stretch break
10:50 - 11:20 Guided meditation practice
11:20-11:30 Breakout rooms for discussion with prompts
11:30 -- 11:45 Big group debrief of small group discussion
11:45 SBMG announcements, dana announcement and closing dedication
12:00 Closing bell

Come in person or Join Zoom Meeting- see sbmg.org for more info.

Tenzin Chogkyi | Unlocking True Happiness | United States Unlocking True Happiness with Tenzin Chogkyi bridges the worlds of Buddhist thought, current events and the latest research in the field of positive psychology -- including practices from Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Training, Cultivating Emotional Balance and other mindfulness meditation pract...

IN PERSON: Introduction to Meditation
– a free class, with Andy Bein (Zen, Vipassana)
March 26 @ 9:00 am - 9:30 am PDT

DANA / DONATIONS APPRECIATED
Welcome to SBMG’s monthly Introduction to Meditation class, for beginners and persons considering refreshing their meditation practice. On last Sundays of each month, you can learn meditation from a variety of Buddhist traditions: Vipassana, Jodo Shinshu, Zen, Tibetan, and more. This month, senior practitioner Andy Bein will be leading the class.

Please consider coming to several Intro classes on the last Sunday of each month, so that you can experience slightly different approaches to meditation. All classes offer a consistent focus of developing the capacity to be present in each moment, with kind awareness.

You are invited to stay for the SBMG program which follows, with a group sit, a dharma talk, and time for meeting others with refreshments.
SBMG Dana: Click Here

In-Person/Hybrid: “The Eightfold Path”, with Keiryu Liên Shutt (Zen)

Reverend Lien Shutt returns in person to Sacramento tomorrow morning to lead SBMG's Sunday morning program. She will be offering a talk on the 8-fold path.

We offer tea after the meditation and talk.

https://sbmg.org/event/in-person-sunday-meditation-and-dharma-talk-with-keiryu-lien-shutt-zen/

See our website if you intend to attend via Zoom

A couple’s practice talk by Lisa and Karson Kovakovich. They will share their practice story as a couple and talk about spiritual friendship in their marriage. The talk will be followed by practice circles.
Bio
Sangha community members, Lisa and Karson, have been regularly practicing vipassana meditation and the buddha-dharma together since 2011. Lisa is a yoga teacher, and physical therapy assistant, and has a master’s degree in Counseling. Karson is a meditation teacher, executive coach, and has a PhD in Philosophy. They are celebrating 19 years of marriage this month.
Practice Circles give us a safe container to speak and listen with our whole presence, to practice mindfulness while communicating and receiving. Following meditation and a brief period of mindful movement, we will divide up into groups to explore the topic of the evening. Everyone will have a chance to speak and listen from the heart. Choosing silence is honored also. All are welcome.

https://sbmg.org/event/practice-circles-5/

Folks, we have cancelled the Saturday digital daylon with Anam Thubten due to low attendance. We realized that folks' preferences are to see him in person, so we are working on rebooking him in person..

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Join us tomorrow January 29th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm for our Sunday morning meditation and dharma talk, with Norman Fischer. You can join online or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center located at 3111 Wissemann Dr, Sacramento, CA 95826. Dana / Donations Appreciated. Zoom link is on our website calendar. There will also be an Introduction to Meditation – a free class, with Karson Kovakovitch (Vipassana) from 9 am – 9:30 am (In-person only at the Dharma Center).

Our teacher’s dharma talk topic is from the Book of Serenity: Case 30, Dasui’s Aeonic Fire.
Norman writes about this topic: The Book of Serenity is a collection of 100 zen stories with commentary. Case 30 is about the ending of the cosmic era in a conflagration . What happens after the world is destroyed? That’s the question Dasui tackles in this story.

Norman Fischer is a poet, author, and senior American Zen Buddhist priest. A former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, he is the founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, a network of spiritual communities and projects dedicated to sharing zen and Buddhist teachings widely with the world. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Norman began publishing poetry in the late 1970’s, and has since published more than thirty books of prose and poetry. His latest book is: When You Greet Me I Bow:Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen.
Sunday Sit Online Schedule:
9:30 Dharma Center opens
9:55 Zoom opens
10:00 Welcome
10:05 Sitting Meditation
10:35 Announcements, special visit from Family Sangha, brief break
10:55 Dharma talk
12:00 Closing bell

Refreshments follow – please gather in the break room!

Jan 15: Arisika Razak ONLINE at SBMG, teaching on the Fierce Spiritual Activism of MLK, Jr: 10 am-12pm.