Calendar

  • Gratitude Dinner for the Sangha (In Person)

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

    As an expression of our deeply felt gratitude for the Sangha and the myriad ways its members support us and each other, the Valley Streams Board will offer dinner to […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (Speaker in Person)

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

    Rev. 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 in […]

  • Short Retreat Night (Hybrid)

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

    On Retreat Night we offer an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with two 25-minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation), interspersed with kinhin (walking meditation). Turning the light inward, we […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (Speaker in Person)

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

    Topic: "PRACTICING WITH THE PRECEPTS - We Vow, We Receive, Giving Arises" Experiential exercise will be offered during discussion. Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah serves as Ino, or head of […]

  • Winter Solstice Celebration (Hybrid)

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

    Celebrate the winter solstice with sangha friends. After a 35-minute meditation and service, we will gather to entertain each other on this long winter night with instruments, song, favorite poetry […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (Speaker in Person)

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

    Rev. 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 in […]

  • Retreat Night (Hybrid)

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

    On Retreat Night we offer an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with three 25-minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation), interspersed with kinhin (walking meditation). Turning the light inward, we explore […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. Taiga Ito (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

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

    Our guest, Rev. Taiga Ito, trained at Daihonzan Sojiji, one of the head monasteries of Soto Shu (Soto Zen in Japan). In 2016, Taiga Ito became Kokusaifukyoshi (international teacher of Soto Shu). He […]

  • Full Moon Ceremony (Hybrid)

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

    The Full Moon Ceremony acknowledges the karma created by our intentional actions, and reminds us to renew our commitment to the ethical conduct expressed as the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts. These […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. Mary Mocine (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

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

    Reverend Mary Mocine, former abbess of Clear Water Zendo, trained at San Francisco Zen Center, Berkeley Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery. She was priest ordained by Sojun Mel […]