SMS Practice Period, 2016 Dear Springs Mountain Sangha, Here’s to Winter! Over the Fall months, a number of you have expressed a desire to deepen, to strengthen your Zen practice. As we take our first steps into Winter, we are…
Practice Period, 2016
Author: SMS Editor
2015 Year-end Letter from Sarah Bender, Sensei
Dear Zen Family, As we enter the last week of our dip towards the bottom of our annual see-saw of light and darkness, I remember the wonderful sensation of pushing with my strong young-girl legs, hanging on to the…
Refuge Practice Series
Dear Springs Mountain Sangha, It’s been a rough season for many of us, and I’m noticing a level of tension in the air that has me reminding myself frequently: “We are all in this together, and if I can hold…
Remembering our Sangha friend, Lucinda Lawrence
Remembering our Sangha friend, Lucinda Lawrence Our long-time Sangha member and dear friend, Lucinda Lawrence passed away this last week. She often attended our retreats and gatherings, driving down from Denver, until she was unable to make the trip due to…
December 2015 Newsletter
Ongoing Events Newcomer Orientation: 2nd Monday of the month, CC Shove Chapel, Dharma Hall upstairs at 5:45 pm to meet anyone who would like some orientation to meditation, to our tradition, or to our sangha and customs. 5:15 Dharma Study and Discussion before…
David Loy Retreat and Lecture
Author and Teacher David Loy On December 4th and 5th, Springs Mountain Sangha together with the Bodhi Mind center will be hosting David Loy. He is a renowned teacher in the field of Buddhist activism. He is the author of…
Sanctuary
Dear Friends, Today is a tough day in Colorado Springs. We are grieving for neighbors and police officers who are dead, injured, or traumatized by a shooting at Planned Parenthood; and for the man who shot. In the midst of a time of thanksgiving, of gratitude…
Way Faring Mind Talk by Clay Taylor – Monday Evening November 30, 2015
WAYFARING MIND TALK A gentle reminder that this Monday, Nov. 30 we’ll have a talk by Clay Taylor. Clay is a sangha member, and also a Dharma teacher in the Soto Zen lineage. Clay will be talking on Loss,…
Koans and Work in the Room this Weekend
Dear Friends, FIRST NOTE: Now that the downstairs of Shove is available again, we can hold Saturday work in the room (individually, meeting with a teacher for Dharma) This Saturday, Sarah Bender will be offering work in the room during…
November 2015 Update
A few November Notes KOANS Koan practice will not happen today, Nov. 15, because we’ll be at the Woman’s Club for our annual all-sangha dinner meeting,4:30 to 7:30. Come on over and join in discussion as we look forward into…