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Rohatsu Sesshin Half-Day Sitting and Buddha’s Enlightenment Ceremony (In Person)

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

Half-day Sitting - in person - 8:30 am - 12 noon. Today concludes the seven days of intensive practice with a half-day sitting and the Buddha's Enlightenment Ceremony. We will gather after the ceremony to share a buffet lunch. Register for week-long program on Eventbrite Full 7-Day Rohatsu Schedule This traditional week of intensified practice […]

Knowing without Touching Things – Half-day Retreat Led by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (In Person)

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

Hongzhi lived in 12th century China and is famous for his Zen poems, which are recorded the Book of Serenity and elsewhere. Eihei Dogen admired his poem called Zazenshin and commented on it in his own text of the same name. During this retreat we'll look at Hongzhi's Zazenshin, particularly the line, "Knowing without touching […]

A Buddhist Women’s Retreat (In Person)

Green Gulch Farm 1601 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, CA, United States

EMBODYING OUR WILD SPIRIT ~ A Buddhist Women’s Retreat at Green Gulch Farm. Led by: Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah, Ino and WaDen EiDo Barbara Baccei, Sensei  Imagine connection, creativity, body practices, deep sharing, and other guided practices. Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah serves as Ino, or head of the meditation hall. She studied in the Soto […]

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

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 schedule will alternate six half-hour periods of sitting and walking meditation, with a short break mid-morning. We'll have an optional social lunch following the retreat. […]

The Mother of All Buddhas and Celebrating Buddha’s Birthday: One-day Retreat led by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (In Person)

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

Prajna Paramita, the mother of all Buddhas, invites us to participate in the continual birthing of living spiritual energy in each moment. Come, put aside all worldly affairs, sit zazen and walk together in community. We will touch the ground of Mother Earth, open our heart/minds to the spiritual energy ready to penetrate and awaken […]

$10.00 – $60.00

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

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 Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is the middle way realized by […]

$10.00 – $30.00

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

Valley Streams Zen Sangha 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 holding this belief. Kokyo Henkel was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi, receiving the Dharma name Kokyo Yakai (Luminous […]

$10.00 – $100.00

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

Valley Streams Zen Sangha 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 – that realization comes spontaneously and is not within the realm of consciousness (Genjo Koan) – it does not appear in the realm of perception […]

$10.00 – $30.00

Half-day Sitting (In Person)

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

Join the sangha for a half-day of shikantaza or just sitting with alternating periods of zazen (sitting meditation) and kinhin (walking meditation), In the “grass-roof hermitage we “just sit” followed by a social lunch at noon (please bring a bag lunch). Registration is requested, but not required. Dana is appreciated. Donation can be made below. […]

$5.00

The path of Zen: Half-day Sitting led by So’on Jim Hare (In Person)

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

The path of Zen: Can you get there from here? In many Zen texts and teachings, the path of Zen is described as what not to do, such as “don’t take the mind road” or “cease all the movement of the conscious mind.” What is the reason for this? How does it help us in […]

$10.00 – $30.00

Knowing who you are: One-day Retreat Led by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (In Person)

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

"Practicing zazen is a way of knowing beyond perceptions of a self, a soul, a living being or a person" - a Zen reading of the Diamond Sutra. One-day retreat (8:30 am - 4:30 pm) which includes sitting and walking meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion period. Outside the meditation hall we will maintain noble […]