Name: Meditative, Daylong Retreat with Diane Wilde (Death As Our Teacher) Hybrid event
Start: 2025-09-27T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-27T15:30:00-07:00
Location: Sacramento Dharma Center

Meditative, Daylong Retreat with Diane Wilde (Death As Our Teacher) Hybrid event

Meditative, Daylong Retreat with SIM Teacher Reverend Diane Wilde
Retreat Theme: Death As Our Teacher
About This Hybrid Retreat:
• The teacher will present in-person at the Dharma Center.
Participants may attend this Hybrid event via Zoom or in-person at the Dharma Center.
• Pre-registration is required and we recommend you pay the registration fee in advance using the registration button shown below. Since your registration choice indicates if you’ll be attending via Zoom or in-person, registering early helps us determine how many people the meditation room should accommodate.
• After you’ve registered you may later offer a donation in gratitude of the teacher. To offer teacher dana, visit https://sactoinsight.org/retreat-dana-online/.
Death As Our Teacher
Just as life is happening all around us, so is death. Human beings appear to be the only species that are conscious of our mortality. Yet most people purposefully ignore this fact of our existence, preferring to put efforts, thoughts and practice on “more pleasant things”. We yearn to “wake up”, to let go of our endless attachments and experience contentment and ease in our lives. Paradoxically, facing the death of our loved ones and ourselves, is one of the classic Buddhist teachings for accepting the truth of existence and waking up to impermanence. It is also a teaching that can greatly reduce and perhaps even eliminate the biggest delusion of all… that everyone else will die, except me. By avoiding the reality of our own deaths, we deny ourselves the life-affirming lessons that acceptance of death provides… that life CAN BE lived joyfully and with gratitude.
Please plan on staying all day and bring a lunch.
*This daylong may not be suitable for those with anxiety, trauma or those who have recently experienced the death of a loved one.
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All are welcome. (Pre-registration is required.)
Registration is $25.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $35 or $50 dollars however no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For the registration fee, you may pay online at https://sactoinsight.org/event/retreat-sep-27/ ; please contact the registrar or visit the registration page for more information.
DIANE WILDE has studied meditation in various traditions since 1990. In 2001 she was a founding member of Sacramento Insight Meditation. She founded Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (aka Boundless Freedom Project) in 2010 and has been a prison chaplain for 21 years. Along with teaching in prisons, she also teaches at retreats for “returning citizens.” She is a graduate of Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy program, Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leadership Training Program and in 2015 was lay-ordained as a Buddhist minister by her teacher, Gil Fronsdal. Gil gave her the Pali name “Vimuttipala”, which means “Defender of Freedom.” She is a board member of Sati Center for Buddhist Studies located in Redwood City.