Sacramento Insight Meditation

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Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and meditative awareness are powerful resources for living, problem-solving, and transformation. The continued individual and community exploration and development of these resources leads to a life of clarity, balance, and peace expressed in the forms of generosity, wisdom, compassion, and ethical conduct. These experiential results provide a basis for enormous hope for the physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being of each of us, our families, our institutions, and our communities.

Sacramento Insight Meditation provides:

  • a welcoming, safe, and diverse environment for the exploration and cultivation of meditative skills and awareness, and spiritual friendship and community;
  • clear, reliable, and accessible meditation instruction, guidance, and support based on the principles and psychology of Theravadan Buddhism, and congruent teachings and practices from other Buddhist traditions;
    trainings, workshops, and retreat opportunities to systematically stabilize, refine, and deepen meditation skills and awareness;
  • wise and compassionate support and service, including special programs and events, for members of our community, their families, and the community at large;
  • a vehicle for the expression of community support, values, and ritual during periods of significant life transitions, such as births, marriages, major medical situations, lifethreatening illnesses and death; and
    sound and responsible development and management of fiscal resources in the service of SIM’s Mission and Vision.

Mission

Our mission is to serve as a learning, training, and community center for the development, integration, and skillful use of meditation practices and awareness in all aspects of individual, family, educational, institutional, work, and community life.

Equity Statement

SIM is committed to being a welcoming, safe, and accessible sangha.

SIM offers a spiritual refuge for awakening and welcomes all who seek to end suffering. We are committed to creating a safe and respectful sangha grounded in non-discrimination, non-harming, and non-self where all members feel seen and heard. We recognize that different experiences, perspectives, identities, and cultures benefit us all. We are aware that profound suffering has been caused by discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, social and economic class, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and physical ability. We are committed to understanding the basis of these inequities and how we as individuals and as a group can dissolve the hindrances that cause separation.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Sacramento Insight Meditation

Year Established

2002

Tax id (EIN)

20-1494616

Mission Category

Education

Operating Budget

$100,001-$250,000

Organization Need

Funding: Other, Volunteers

Demographics Served

General population

Local Counties Served

Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado

Address

PO BOX 191951
SACRAMENTO, CA 95819

Other

3111 Wissemann Drive
Sacramento, CA 95826

Service areas

Sacramento County, CA, US

Placer County, CA, US

Yolo County, CA, US

El Dorado County, CA, US

Phone

916-386-9844

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