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Insight Meditation & Dharma Talk with SIM Teacher Rich Howard (Hybrid event)Part 7 of a 10-part series on The Paramis : The Qualities That Reshape Daily Life & Lead to Buddhahood
Talk topic: The Paramis - Equanimity: Balanced, Spacious, and Engaged
* The teacher will present in-person at the Dharma Center. Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person.
Approximate Schedule:
- 7:00 pm Announcements & Greetings
- 7:10 pm Sitting Meditation
- 7:40 pm Break
- 7:50 pm Dharma talk / discussion
- 9:00 pm End talk / discussion
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This hybrid event is free however donations are gratefully accepted as SIM is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations may be tax deductible consistent with current state and federal guidelines.
To offer a donation or to join this event via Zoom visit https://sactoinsight.org/event/weekly-meeting-2024apr25/. To attend in-person, which we encourage, visit 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA.
Talk topic: Equanimity: Balanced, Spacious, and Engaged
It can be hard to maintain an open-hearted balance in a world where we have access to immense suffering in every corner of the globe. We may be closed down into paralysis or panic. And yet our practice calls us to engage the suffering, the world’s and our own, with compassion. How can we withstand and even thrive as the “worldly winds” blow around us? The quality of Equanimity can be the refuge we seek. We will explore Equanimity (upekkha in Pali) as one of the Paramis, as well as its place in the Brahmaviharas and the Seven Factors of Awakening.
RICH HOWARD has been an active practitioner and volunteer at SIM since 2004. His area of interest is bringing meditative awareness into everyday life. He participated in SIM’s 2007 India Pilgrimage and is a graduate of SIM’s second Practice Development and Leadership (PDL) program. He served on the Board from 2010 until 2015, the last two years as president. He was one of the SIM representatives to the Inter-Sangha Coordinating Committee, predecessor to the Sacramento Dharma Center Board, which now runs our shared space for Buddhist sanghas in Sacramento. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Africa in the 1970s and is fluent in Spanish. His teachers are Dennis Warren, Tony Bernhard, and Steve Armstrong. Rich completed online courses with Steve on the Abhidhamma (the Buddhist psychology) and the Manual of Insight. He took Gil Fronsdal’s online course on the Majjhima Nikaya (Middle-length Discourses of the Buddha). His interest in the environment led him to the One Small Planet training with Kerry Nelson and the Ecosattva training with One Earth Sangha. In 2018, he completed a 10-month Dhamma Awareness Training with Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters called Touching the Earth. In 2019, he completed Meg Gawler’s 8-month course Preparing the Ground for Samadhi.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sacramento Insight Meditation, 3111 Wissemann Dr, Sacramento, CA 95826-3660, United States,Sacramento, California
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