Sacramento Spirit

I'm curious about Spiritual/integral/AQAL doings and beings  in California's Capital or environs.

For starters, anybody know anything about the Lion's Roar Dharma Center?

savoring samsara,
arthur

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Buddhist Church of Sacramento

Introduction

Founded on December 17, 1899, the Buddhist Church of Sacramento is a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temple, located in Sacramento, the Capitol City of the State of California. This temple with over 2,000 members is located at 2401 Riverside Boulevard, adjacent to the W-X Freeway (Business 80) near the westbound 10th Street and the eastbound 15th Street offramps. We are the second largest temple of the 60 temple members of the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA), which is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento, often called the Sacramento Betsuin was established in 1899 at 1221 Third Street in Sacramento.  This original hall quickly became to small and necessitated the relocation to 410 “O” Street the following year.  In 1925, a new temple was built on the same location with the addition of a hall/gymnasium in 1937.  Due to the city's Redevelopment Project in 1958, the temple was relocated to the present sight with a new temple building dedicated in 1959.

The Sacramento Betsuin is affiliated with the Buddhist Churches of America, headquartered in San Francisco, and is one of fifty-five churches located in the continental United States.  As a member of the Jodo Shinshu Sect (lit. Pure Land True Sect) of Buddhism, its mother temple, called Honpa Hongwanji or Nishi Hongwanji, is located in Kyoto, Japan.  Jodo Shinshu Buddhism was founded in Japan by Shinran Shonin about 800 years ago and is the largest sect of Buddhism in Japan.

Our temple's diverse membership has grown to over 1000 families.  A variety of programs (religious, educational, cultural, social and recreational) are offered to all ages from preschool to senior citizens. 

The Resident Ministers are Rinban Bob Oshita and Rev. Kazuaki Nakata.

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Anna Wise and Adyashanti are both based in the fairly closeby San Francisco Bay Area.

arthur

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Arthur.

You're talking to yourself dear.

But check out Adya by all means.  I've done two retreats with him; the real deal, IMO.

I left the Bay Area just as he was beginning to teach, not that I would have ever been interested at that time.

Namaste, Julie

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There are just a LOT of lurkers in Sacto…you know all about lurking, right?

Liz

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Lurking, loitering, lolling, lazing…
Got the “L”s mastered.

Except the levitating one. I'll keep you posted. 

Smartass.

Oops, I probably just lost a 'nice' point. 

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There are no points here, just the tally I keep in my head…so just you watch it, missy.

Levitating rocket scientist. Um, isn't that part of your job?

Liz

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I'm talking to my future self, and anybody else who may ever give a shit.  :)  I notice a couple  of babes have dropped by my thread though - I knew it was just a matter of time.  :)

r.thor@sacramento-bound-and-I-do-mean-bound.yip

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Aikido is intriguing; I've heard good things about it.  Aikido or some other martial art could be worth looking into.

Welcome to Aikido of Sacramento!

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My brother and sister-in-law live in Sac-a-tomatoes, or Excremento, as I lovingly call it. Just kidding; it is getting much better. I get down there a couple times of year, usually; sometimes with Melissa, sometimes not.

That dojo has some interesting-looking implements hanging on the wall; Liz might be able to come up with some creative uses of such things while you're r.thor@sacramento-bound-and-I-do-mean-bound.yip">r.thor@sacramento-bound-and-I-do-mean-bound.yip

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Colin: That dojo has some interesting-looking implements hanging on the wall; Liz might be able to come up with some creative uses of such things while you're r.thor@sacramento-bound-and-I-do-mean-bound.yip">r.thor@sacramento-bound-and-I-do-mean-bound.yip

Hey Colin

I have great faith in Liz's creativity in this and other matters.  :)

Great to hear that you come down here periodically!  Liz and I (a)vastly enjoyed meeting you for dinner yesterday on our way down the coast, and would love to hang out with you again when you come to this part of the whirled. 

spiralifically yours,
r.thor

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Hey, it turns out there's a labyrinth in Sacramento.  Who knew?

arthur

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I didn't know about that one!  There's also one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley.

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Heh.  Those things are spreading like mushrooms!   I found out about the Sacramento one in a pod I just discovered called Sacramento Zaadz Community, in a thread I'm perusing there called What Do You Like About Living in Sacramento?

spiral out,
arthur

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What's happened with the Sacramento whales? Did anyone see them?

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I just read that they have injuries, probably caused by a boat propeller. That's really sad. Liz, what are you doing to help them?

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David: I just read that they have injuries, probably caused by a boat propeller. That's really sad. Liz, what are you doing to help them?

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Er…Liz may not have time in her busy schedule to add whale-rescuing!  :p  (Although I have no doubt she could rescue whales, if she didn't have a zillion other things to do…)

Apparently rescue attempts have so far been unsuccessful, alas.

spiral out,
arthur

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The mother seems to be better off than the calf. I'm um, doing nothing about it. I only heard about it when I was reading national news a couple of days ago. I'm hopelessly uninformed and blase about the outside world at the moment. Arnold Swartzenegger was talking at my daughter's school yesterday and I didn't even stay to see him. I thought, “Nah, I have to get this car back to my neighbor.”

That's the sign of a true Californian. Blase about movie stars and politicians.

Liz

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I'm the same way. When I was living in Seattle the WTO riots were going on just a few blocks a way, but I didn't even go out to watch. Better things to do. I do get hooked up into these animal rescues once and awhile, though. So compelling. It's also the result having CNN online as your primary news source (sort of, not that bad, really). I'm up on the whale rescue, Paris Hilton–by the way, my hunch is that Arnold got her sentenced reduced and into a nicer jail, what do you think? Not that I follow celebrity dramas, I don't. Something about the heiress being thrown in jail was interesting to me, though. Hope we aren't too off topic …

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There are ongoing Dances of Universal Peace events happening in Sacramento.  For more general info on this movement, see this post.

arthur