Sacramento Insight Meditation
Regular Weekly Meetings:
Thursdays from 7:00 PM till 9:00 PM
Our Mission
Our mission is to serve as a learning, training, and community center for the development, integration, and skillful use of meditation practices and awareness in all aspects of individual, family, educational, institutional, work, and community life. Our mission is based on this Vision: Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and meditative awareness are powerful resources for living, problem-solving, and transformation. The continued individual and community exploration and development of these resources leads to a life of clarity, balance, and peace expressed in the forms of generosity, wisdom, compassion, and ethical conduct. These experiential results provide a basis for enormous hope for the physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being of each of us, our families, our institutions, and our communities.
About Sacramento Insight Meditation
Sacramento Insight Meditation (SIM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports insight meditation training and practice in the greater Sacramento area. Our organization is based on the teachings of the historic Buddha as passed down in the Theravada Buddhist lineage represented in the United States by the teachers and students of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, as well as a number of monastics in the Thai Forest and Burmese Mahasi traditions. With the guidance of senior dharma teachers John Travis, Kamala Masters, and Steven Armstrong, our founding teacher Dennis Warren formed Sacramento Insight Meditation in 2002.
SIM meets every Thursday evening for meditation, dharma talks and community. We host a daylong meditation retreat on the last Saturday of each month as well as an annual residential retreat. SIM additionally offers a range of Buddhist-based services including instruction in insight meditation (also known as vipassana meditation), daily life and mindfulness practices, courses and workshops, of Buddhist texts, kalyana mitta (spiritual friendship) groups, and volunteer service.
SIM provides a community of support for meditation practitioners regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, race, ethnicity, or economic status. We are an all-volunteer group that is cooperatively guided by a board of directors and core faculty of community level teachers and mentors.
No membership dues or fees are collected, and most programs are funded by voluntary donations (dana in Pali) from community members to support operational expenses.
Information including a calendar of current events, resources such as downloadable dharma talks and instructional handouts, and information on contacting SIM are available at www.sactoinsight.org.
Contact Information:
E: info@sactoinsight.org