Category: Monthly Newsletter

Monthly Newletters

March 2020 Newsletter

For our ongoing schedule please see our website at smszen.org  Practice Period, which begins February 28 with our “Lotus in the Fire” weekend integrative retreat and stretches through our May 6-10 meditation retreat. This is a time of deep inquiry in our…

February 2020 Newsletter

January Saturday, January 25: Lunar New Year Ceremony February Saturday, February 1: Zen Threads Talk by Will Holtz                 at 8:00 AM, during the morning meditation at Shove Chapel Monday, February 3:  Sutra NightMonday,…

January 2020 Newsletter

Wishing everyone joy and peace. We look forward to being together this coming year. There will be Wednesday morning meditation, January 1st: 06:30 – 07:30 AM Starfish, by Mary Oliver “…-what I wanted was to be willing to be afraid.…

December 2019 Newsletter

December Saturday, December 7 Bodhi Day Retreat  9 AM to 9 PM at Creek Bend, 7528 Jenkin Place Registration deadline is Saturday, November 30th   This retreat celebrates awakening: that of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha,  our own, and the awakening…

November 2019 Newsletter

For our ongoing schedule please see our website at smszen.org  Upcoming event this Sunday!Faces of Death NOVEMBER Saturday November 2:Ceremony for the Beloved Dead The Great Wheel of the Seasons  This is one of the ceremonies our founding teacher, Joan Sutherland,…

October 2019 Newsletter

Ongoing 5:15 Dharma Downstairs: before Monday night meditation, at Shove Chapel. Every Monday evening, in the Sacred Grounds downstairs room from  5:15 to 6:00,  some of us meet for informal Dharma conversation, led this month by sangha members as Sarah is away.  She returns home…

Springs Mountain Sangha September 2019 Newsletter

Ongoing 5:15 Dharma Downstairs: before Monday night meditation, at Shove Chapel. Every Monday evening, in the Sacred Grounds downstairs room from  5:15 to 6:00,  some of us meet for informal Dharma conversation, led this month by sangha members as Sarah is away, except for September…

August 2019 Newsletter

Ongoing 5:15 Dharma Downstairs: before Monday night meditation, at Shove Chapel. Every Monday evening, in the Sacred Grounds downstairs room from  5:15 to 6:00,  some of us meet for informal Dharma conversation, led this month by sangha members as Sarah is away. Anyone is welcome…

July 2019 Newsletter

Feed us !  We have arrived Robin chicks at Liz’s Hello, Everyone, and Happy Solstice!  Today at 9:54, the tilt of Earth will bring us closest to the sun (although it’s also true that in about 2 more weeks, the…

June 2019 Newsletter

Ongoing 5:15 Dharma Downstairs: before Monday night meditation, at Shove Chapel. Every Monday evening, in the Sacred Grounds downstairs room from  5:15 to 6:00,  some of us meet for informal Dharma conversation, led by Sarah Bender and sangha members.  Anyone is welcome to join in on…