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SACRAMENTO INSIGHT MEDITATION MISSION, VISION, AND MEANS
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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.
VISION: Our Mission is based on this Vision: 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.
MEANS: Our Mission and Vision are continuously being fulfilled and informed through Sacramento Insight Meditation providing:
(1) a welcoming, safe, and diverse environment for the exploration and cultivation of meditative skills and awareness, and spiritual friendship and community;
(2) 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;
(3) trainings, workshops, and retreat opportunities to systematically stabilize, refine, and deepen meditation skills and awareness;
(4) wise and compassionate support and service, including special programs and events, for members of our community, their families, and the community at large;
(5) 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
(6) sound and responsible development and management of fiscal resources in the service of SIM’s Mission and Vision.
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