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  • 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 […]

  • SDC Grounds Maintenance (In Person)

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

    The Sacramento Dharma Center Grounds Committee meets on the third Sunday of the month from 8-10 a.m. to rake, prune the yard and garden.  Excessive heat or rain cancels. To […]

  • Retreat Night (Hybrid)

    Sacramento Dharma Center 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, […]

  • Dharma Talk by Hoka Chris Fortin (Speaker on Zoom)

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

    This evening we welcome guest teacher, Chris Fortin, a Soto Zen teacher who began practicing Buddhism in 1976 while living at the San Francisco Zen Center. After many years of practice she […]

  • 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

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

    Sacramento Dharma Center 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 […]

  • Practice Talk by Shokan Clem Spring (Speaker in Person)

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

    Shokan Clem Spring is in his second rotation at Head Doan for Valley Streams Zen. He received Jukai (lay precepts) with Rev. Myō Lahey in 2010 and Shukke Tokudo (priest […]

  • Full Moon Ceremony (Hybrid)

    Sacramento Dharma Center 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 […]

  • CLOSED for Memorial Day

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

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

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha Sacramento 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

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

    Sacramento Dharma Center 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 […]