January 21, 2015 Yunmen Says Something in Response…. And Yunmen Says it Backwards Koans for Sunday, January 25, 3 to 5 PM Blue Cliff Record Cases 14 and 15; Joan Sutherland & John Tarrant transl. and notes A student…
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Welcome to the new Springs Mountain Sangha website!!
January 20, 2015 Welcome to the new Springs Mountain Sangha website!! https://www.smszen.org Before we discuss anything, we’d like to thank Mary Jo Meade, who put together the website that we’ve been using since 2009. Thank you Mary Jo! This…
Acequias & Gates – Monday at 5:15
January 18, 2015 5:15 Discussion for Monday, January 19 Tomorrow evening we will continue our exploration and enjoyment of Joan Sutherland, Roshi’s book, Acequias & Gates. We will still be working from the “Koans as Art” acequia, taking up a couple more…
Faxiang’s Recognition
January 16, 2015 Koan for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 3-5 PM, 7528 Jenkin Place The nun Faxiang often shared her clothing and food, giving the best to the nun Huisu. The other nuns admonished Faxiang, saying, “The nun Huisu is…
WITR Sign up Reminder for Saturday January 17th
January 13, 2015 Springs Mountain Sangha This Saturday January 17th Work In The Room Sarah Bender, Sensei During Meditation at Shove Chapel at Colorado College 6:30 – 8:30 AM Times for signing up are 6:40, 7:00, 7:20, 7:40,…
Community Night: Dedication of Sangha and Hall
January 10, 2015 Community Night: Dedication of the Sangha and the Hall This Monday, January 12, is our first Community Night of 2015. It’s a good time to re-dedicate ourselves as a sangha, and our practice in our nomadic Dharma…
Zhaouzhou and an Infant’s Sixth Sense
January 9, 2015 For this Sunday’s Koan Gathering ( 3 to 5 PM, Creek Bend Zendo) we’ll return to the koan and poem we took up together last Sunday. They seem to keep flowing…. and you can jump in where you…
Haiku Workshop with Robin Izer
January 7, 2015 Haiku Workshop with Robin Izer Haiku Writing Practice Celebrating What Is Haiku writing practice is a form of meditation / insight practice. Haiku writing employs the skillful shaping of alive, compressed language inspired by delight, wisdom, and…
Upcoming Retreats – Save the Dates!
January 6, 2015 Save the dates! Integrative Retreat with Sarah Bender, Sensei February 20-21, 2014 at the Woman’s Club in Colorado Springs Fri Feb 20: 7 – 9 pm Sat Feb 21: 9 am – 5 pm Cost: $95 Spring Retreat…
Monday Eve. Discussions in the New Year
January 5, 2015 Dear Bodhisattvas, Greeting a new year of Mondays on this day of soft light, gusty wind and the dripping of melting snow off the roof, there’s a sense of the breath of possibility; and I write…