March 27, 2015

Deadline for 2015 Spring Retreat is April 3rd!

 

See link to the registration form below.
The reg form and deposit must be received by April 3rd.

Retreat will be held April 13-19, 2015
at the Abbey, Canon City

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes,
and the grass grows, by itself.” 
– Matsuo Basho

This year’s seven-day Spring Retreat will feature teachers Sarah Bender and Andrew Palmer, Senseis.
Part-time attendance is welcome and financial assistance is available.

To download a copy of the registration form, please select this link. Please forward a signed copy and deposit to our registrar, Steve Milligan (mailing address is on the form) before April 3, 2015.

Please note that even part-time attendees must fill out a registration form. If you have any questions, please contact Steve at:
steve_milligan08@comcast.net or 719 633 5925.
Even if you think you might attend part-time, please let Steve know. Thank you.

This retreat will include our fellow Sangha members formally receiving The Precepts and Taking Refuge.  These retreats can be a powerful way for our communities to come together in deep silence, as well as in celebration. Here is a note from Sarah Bender and Andrew Palmer:

Dear Friends,

Each April, our Colorado Open Source community (including Springs Mountain Sangha and Wet Mountain Sangha) comes together for a week-long meditation retreat. As new life quickens in the ground and pushes toward sunlight and air, we take time to join this deep meditation of the world.  Our retreat will include a Ceremony of Taking Refuge in the Bodhisattva Way. Some members will formally take refuge, speaking their personal vows and receiving the precepts as they take up the Bodhisattva Way.

The retreat itself is a vow both individual and collective, as we put down the habitual patterns and activities of our days and join into a rhythm of waking and eating, sitting, walking and being cared for, in silence—and it is refuge, a place where we come together and can be utterly and simply this.

A refuge ceremony strengthens this vow quality. Its power strengthens and nourishes all as it permeates the retreat and flows on through life itself.

We very much hope you will join us,

Sarah and Andrew