Thoughts and reflections from Sarah Bender, Roshi
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…
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…
Springs Mountain Sangha presents: “The Radiance of the Dark”: A short film on Joan Sutherland’s Zen vision of awakening, from Cloud Dragon: The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works Sutherland Roshi presents awakening as a process that embraces endarkenment, as well…
Call and Response: The P’ang Family Shows Us How An investigation of lay practice led by Sarah Bender, Sensei Wednesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25 and Mar. 4, 11 Creek Bend Zendo
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,…
November 27, 2014: On this Thanksgiving Day, 2014 under a soft, November sky, I’m thinking of our little band of laywomen and laymen who walk together a pathless path of freedom. This morning, it seems that the very path…
October 8, 2014 Springs Mountain Sangha Fall 2014 Practice Period October 15 to Dec. 8 What’s a practice period? It’s a period of time during which you hike Zen practice up a few notches on your priority list and do…
Friends, This letter came from a young woman who has just recently returned from serving in the U.S. Air Force in Iraq. Her main task, and one she took on so thoroughly that she voluntarily extended her tour of duty…
This one’s for fun.
Esperanza Spalding’s performance at the Nobel Peace Prize proceedings (Dec. 16, 2009). Lovely and meandering, not a new message but…is it new messages we need? “The road to peace is endless, the journey with open eyes is how we’ll mend…