Calendar

  • Half-day Silent Retreat Led by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (In Person)

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

    This will be a silent meditation retreat (no Dharma talk). It is offered to simply to rest in samadhi (aka zazen), allowing silence and stillness to offer their blessings. The […]

  • Sangha Picnic and Hike (In Person)

    Cache Creek Nature Preserve County Road 20, Woodland, CA, United States

    Join the sangha for a private guided tour and a picnic lunch at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. Cache Creek Nature Preserve is a 130-acre complex of wetlands, oak woodlands, […]

  • Jukai Ceremony (In Person)

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

    The ceremony of Jukai consists in receiving the precepts of the Bodhisattva and, by doing so, takes refuge in the three treasures: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.  It is the ceremony […]

  • In Praise of the Middle Way: Half-day Sitting led by So’on Jim Hare (In Person)

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

    "And what is the middle way realized by the Tathagata that - producing vision, producing knowledge - leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding?  Precisely this Noble […]

    $10 – $30
  • The Illusion of Separate Self – One-day Retreat led by Kokyo Henkel (In Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha Sacrament Dharma Center 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    In morning and afternoon discussions, we will explore the Buddha's teaching of the discontent that arises from the unconscious belief in separate self, and the freedom that comes from not […]

    $10 – $100
  • SDC Intersangha Library Cataloguing Party (In Person)

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

    If you are a Dharma bibliophile (and even if you are not) join us to create an internet accessible catalogue of SDC’s Buddhist book collection. Bring your own computing device […]

  • Half-day Sitting led by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (In Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha Sacrament Dharma Center 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    When two arrow points meet, this has nothing to do with the power of skill! (Jewel Mirror Samadhi) In our practice together we will consider this Truth of practice realization […]

    $10 – $30