SMS Ancestors Retreat
with Sarah Bender, Roshi and community
Saturday, November 2
Early AM optional (includes a brief ceremony welcoming ancestors)
then 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
At Creek Bend and in the zoom zendo
Registration now open
It’s a time to take a chunk of time, enjoy stillness together,
join in meditation and connect with ancestors,
offer thanks, understanding and blessings.
You might just see who shows up in your meditation, or you may have lost some dear ones during the past year and wish to thank them and wish them well. Collectively, we can offer thanks and blessings, open our hearts to those who have died or suffered deeply. And we can contemplate the mystery of our relationships, and how they change and continue through life and death.
If it happens that you are having a sense of some unfinished, somehow sticky relationship with someone who has died, or some part of your life or yourself that seems haunting, you might want to spend a little time in meditation with this sense over the days before the retreat.
For your interest: You can find talks on transforming ghosts into ancestors, here, both in audible and pdf form. Reading this is not required preparation for the retreat.
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Registration is now open. Requested dana $40, please email Kelly McFarland at s.kelly.hls@gmail.com to register, or with questions.
Please do not let lack of funds keep you from attending the retreat.
You can pay via PayPal here:
http://www.smszen.org/
Be sure to note that the donation is for this Nov 2nd retreat. Thank you!