Meditation & Dharma Talk with Rich Howard (The Buddhas's Antidotes for Challenging ...) Hybrid event

Name: Meditation & Dharma Talk with Rich Howard (The Buddhas's Antidotes for Challenging ...) Hybrid event
Start: 2025-08-21T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-21T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Sacramento Insight Meditation

Schedule

Thu Aug 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Sacramento Insight Meditation | Sacramento, CA

Insight Meditation & Dharma Talk with SIM Teacher Rich Howard (Hybrid event)
Talk topic - The Buddhas's Antidotes for Challenging Times: Introduction & Karuṇā (Compassion)
* 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
The Buddhas's Antidotes for Challenging Times: Introduction & Karuṇā (Compassion)
This evening’s presentation is the first in a series of six offered by the SIM Faculty on “The Buddha’s Antidotes for Challenging Times.” Each presentation will explore a positive mind state that can be cultivated to bring happiness and contentment into our life while reducing the stress and dissatisfaction we cause ourselves and others. The faculty will conclude each session with questions for reflection, which will serve as prompts for the kalyāņamitta groups that SIM is forming (see the announcement elsewhere in this newsletter for details). From October 23 to 25, the faculty will offer an in-person mini-retreat to devote an extended practice period to each of these mind states, as well as further instruction on applying the practices in daily life.
In this first session, SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard will introduce the entire series, then focus on the quality of compassion (karunā in the ancient Pali language). With wisdom from Joanna Macy, Bhikkhu Anālayo, Andrea Gibson, the Dalai Lama, and others (offered as a handout for future reference), we will touch on what mindful compassion looks like, what it is not, and how to increase its appearance in our daily life.
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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-2025aug21/. To attend in-person, which we encourage, visit 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA.
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.