The Gate to Freedom is Open
A One Day Meditation Retreat
With Andrew Palmer, Sensei
Hosted by the Wet Mountain Sangha
Someone asked,
“How can I be free?”
Shitou replied,
“Who has put you in bondage?”
An essential teaching of Zen is that we are awake and free, just as we are. So why does it feel and seem otherwise? Why do we experience and know this at times and then forget, finding this freedom to be distant and elusive? How could it be that the workings of our lives, by which we sometimes feel entangled and trapped, are the very workings of freedom itself? A meditation retreat is an opportunity to get still and quiet and inhabit our lives more fully; an opportunity to notice the bondage we create and the freedom we deny; and an opportunity to notice that, regardless, our freedom is perpetually shining right through it all.
In addition to meditation, there will be a Dharma talk and sutra service, as well as opportunities for individual conversations with Andrew Palmer, Sensei. Lunch will be a silent potluck.
Cost for this retreat is $40 (scholarships available).
Please register by March 7, 2018.
To register, or for more information, please contact
Diane at puebloplantscaping@comcast.net or
719-248-4285
Saturday, March 10, 2018
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Center for Inner Peace
740 W. 15th St., Pueblo CO
The retreat flyer can be downloaded from this link