Calendar
Monday Night Meeting
Dharma Talk by Rev. Myo Lahey (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesRev. Myo Lahey, our guiding teacher, will join us online via Zoom from Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco, where he is Abbot. He previously served as Practice Leader at Tassajara […]
Dharma Talk by So’on Jim Hare (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesSo-On Jim Hare, our Tanto, or head of practice, will be in person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, and […]
Dharma Talk by Ryuko Laura Burges (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesGuest teacher Ryuko Laura Burges, a lay-entrusted dharma teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, will join us in person or online. She teaches classes, lectures, and leads retreats in Northern […]
Retreat Night (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesOn Retreat Night we offer an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with two or three 25-minute periods of zazen, interspersed with walking meditation (called kinhin). Turning the light inward […]
Dharma Talk by Rev. Renshin Bunce (Hybrid : teacher in person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesRev. Renshin Bunce will offer the dharma talk in the zendo this evening. She was lay ordained by Myogen Steve Stucky in 1996, and priest ordained by Zenkei Blanche Hartman at […]
Full Moon Ceremony (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesThis ceremony reminds us that enlightenment is enacted with Bodhisattva precepts, which are recited in a call and response format during the ceremony. We enter the ceremony following two 30-minute periods […]
Dharma Talk by So’on Jim Hare (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesSo'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 in […]
Practice Talk by Oscar Balaguer (Hybrid, speaker in person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesSenior student and longtime member of Valley Streams Sangha, Oscar was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson. *Zoom link for this program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008151977
Social Identities as a Cause of Suffering (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesA program presented (in-person) by Paravrtti Doralee Grindler-Katonah and Sarah O’Gara in preparation for our September 12th program with Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD. Our evening will include: Introduction to […]
Reflections on Engaged Mindfulness with Rhonda V. Magee (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesRhonda Magee, MA, JD joins us on zoom with reflections on the inner work of confronting social injustice in a time of distress. She is an internationally recognized educator, author, […]
Exploring the Many Faces of Compassion with Paravrtti Doralee Grindler-Katonah (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesParavrtti Doralee Grindler Katonah serves as Ino, or head of the meditation hall, and president of the Valley Streams Board of Directors. She studied in the Soto Zen lineage with Sojun […]