Winter Solstice Celebration (Hybrid)
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 […]
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Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United States
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Relinquishment Ceremony led by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (Speaker in Person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesWe are entering a New Year – an auspicious time to ‘commune with the “source”‘ and deepen our Practice life. Our practice of relinquishment is our practice of liberation. A […]
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Dharma Talk by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (Speaker in Person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesRev. 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 […]
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Commemorating Dr. King calls for Inquiry (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesOn April 14, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march to a government building in Birmingham, Alabama to protest the city’s ongoing refusal to eliminate segregation, including the […]
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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 three 25-minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation), interspersed with kinhin (walking meditation). Turning the light inward, we explore […]
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Dharma Talk by Rev. Taiga Ito (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesOur 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 […]
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Full Moon Ceremony (Hybrid)
Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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Dharma Talk by Rev. Mary Mocine (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United StatesReverend 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 […]
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Dharma Talk by Shōku Kathy Early (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United StatesGuest teacher Shōku Kathy Early came to zen practice in 1994 through classes with Tenshin Reb Anderson at the Yoga Room in Berkeley while working as a semiconductor engineer in Silicon […]
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Dharma Talk by Bruce Fortin (Hybrid, Speaker on Zoom)
Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United StatesBruce Fortin was ordained a Zen priest in 1977 at the San Francisco Zen Center. He is the founder and has been the guiding teacher at the Occidental Laguna Sangha […]
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Dharma Talk by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United StatesTopic: Keep your eyes closely on the boat and see that the boat moves - a call to deepen our practice lives in this time of crisis. Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler […]
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Way Seeking Mind Talk by Shawn Hampton (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)
Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States*Zoom link to program Shawn Hampton is originally from Texas. He moved to California in 2020 and began attending VSZS in 2023. He has been involved with Contemplative Christianity for […]