Calendar

Full Moon Ceremony (in-person and online)

This ceremony is an affirmation of the vow to live for the benefit of all beings. In the Zen tradition we associate the full moon with the ideal of awakening. […]

Dharma Talk by Diane Wilde (in-person and online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

DIANE WILDE has studied meditation in various traditions since 1990. In 2001 she was a founding member of Sacramento Insight Meditation. She founded Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (aka Boundless Freedom […]

Buddha’s Birthday Celebration & Family Picnic (in person)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

Join the sangha and their families at the Dharma Center for a celebration of Shakyamuni Buddha's birth and to honor his mother, Queen Maya, who died shortly after his birth. […]

Dharma Talk by Rev. Myo Lahey (in-person and online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

Rev. Myo Lahey is Abbot at Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco and our guiding teacher. He has previously served as Practice Leader at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He is a Dharma heir of […]

Practice Secretly, Working Within: Half-day Sitting (In Person)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

To practice secretly is to practice within; it is getting close to and friendly with everything we experience. In stillness and silence, we will spend the morning together, practicing zazen […]

Dharma Talk by Danan John Wark (in person & online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

Danan John Wark, abbot of Cloud Zendo in Pilot Hill, practices koan introspection and has received inka from Zen Master BoMun (George Bowman) in the Single Flower Sangha tradition.  Master […]

Dharma Talk by Paravrtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (in person & online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

Paravrtti Doralee Grindler Katonah serves as Ino, or head of the meditation hall. She studied in the Soto Zen lineage with Sojun Diane Martin in Illinois and with Rev. Val Szymanski in California. […]

Dharma Talk by So On Jim Hare (in person & online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

So On Jim Hare  serves as Tanto, or head of practice. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, and was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson […]

Dharma Talk by Rev. Mary Mocine (in person & online)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

Joining us this evening is Reverend Mary Mocine, abbess of Clear Water Zendo in Vallejo. She was trained at San Francisco and Berkeley Zen Centers, and Tassajara Zen Monastery. She was […]

Dharma Talk by Rev. Eijun Linda Cutts (Hybrid)

Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States

The Dharma Talk will be offered via Zoom by Rev. Eijun Linda Cutts, Senior Dharma Teacher at San Francisco Zen Center.  Priest ordained in 1975, she has lived at Tassajara, SFZC […]