Monthly Newletters
Dear Friends, Right at the start of February comes a Cross-Quarter Day, February 2, which has been noted and celebrated by people from ancient times in various cultures, as it falls exactly halfway between the winter solstice and the spring…
Solstice Letter Winter 2020 from Sarah Bender Dear Friends, Woke at 3:45 this morning, 43 minutes after do-si-dothe moment where tilt away turns to tilting to,a moment that is just a pointand so is imaginary, like everything else heldin the deep…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, The first dedication we offer in our sutra service is an expression of our gratitude for the meditation, the companionship, the teaching of all sorts of ancestors and all…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, Sangha members and friends have emerged from our first five-day online meditation retreat with a pervasive joy in the discovery that a meditation retreat held in the very little and very…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, It’s almost October, which sounds like itself, with two O’s sounding awe and Oh, and rhymes with over, last night’s freeze having finished off the tomato plants I forgot…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, The air here in Colorado Springs is carrying intimations of Autumn; sleeping with windows wide open is a luxury to be savored. The huge sunflowers, audacious and generous beings that they…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, I’m feeling great gratitude for the many offerings of sangha members that are sustaining the vitality of our sangha in this particular time and place. Conversations on Mondays at…
The storehouse of treasuresopens of itself.You may take them and use themany way you wish. Eihei Dogen A note from Sarah Bender Dear Friends, Here we are in the deep green of summer, the flourishing, earth full of sun’s summer…
Dear Friends of Springs Mountain Sangha, Our Winter into Spring practice period certainly became one unlike any before! A number of you have expressed a new appreciation of the way your practice has met this time with you, in you, for…
Lingyun was wandering in the mountains and became lost in his walking. He rounded a bend and saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley. This sight awakened him and he wrote this poem: …