February 2014 Calendar
“It is better to travel well than to arrive..”
….Buddha
Dharma Study and Discussion
Join us for study and discussion each Monday before meditation, with Sarah Bender, Sensei or Andrew Palmer, Sensei (roughly alternating).
We’ll be taking up the broad topic, “Living Practice,” and will divide it as follows:
- The Realm of the Sacred
- Community Practice
- The intimate world of family and friends
- The wider world of work, society and culture
- Generosity and Service
- This Very Body
- Creative Expression
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Time: 5:15 – 6 pm (please arrive on time if you can, but join us late if you can’t)
Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (downstairs)
Koan Study in Community with Sarah Bender, Sensei
All are welcome. No previous experience with koans is necessary.
Suggested Donation: $10 per session
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Dates: Sunday, Feb 2
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Creek Bend Zendo, 7528 Jenkin Place, Colorado Springs
Weekend Retreat with Sarah Bender, Sensei
Which is the True Qian? An Integrative Retreat
A very old Chinese story starts like this: “There lived in Han-yang a man called Chang-Kien, whose daughter, Qian (pron: Chen) was of peerless beauty….” As our story progresses, we find two Qians, impossibly, living separate lives. Then something happens. And in the end, our Zen ancestor poses a critical question for us:
“The woman Qian and her spirit separated.
Which is the true Qian?”
You are invited to come and spend a leisurely stretch of time in meditation and contemplation together — time enough to truly enter the story and let the story enter you — time enough to discover how this question might touch your own deep question.
In an integrative retreat, we weave together silence and conversation. We sit, walk and share a meal in meditative silence; and as we speak and listen to each other, we receive the story, its question and each other as honored guests.
Non-residential Retreat. No previous experience with koans is necessary.
Click here for registration. Deadline is February 3rd.
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Dates/Times: Friday Evening, February 7, 7:00 pm – 9 pm; and Saturday, February 8, 9 am – 4:30 pm, lunch provided
Location: 20 Mesa Road, Colorado Springs, CO
Talk by David Loy, “Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other”
All are invited to this talk on February 9th at the Denver Zen Center. Click here for more details.
Newcomer Orientation
Monday, February 10th at the Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level). This is for anyone who would like a brief orientation to meditation, our tradition, or our Sangha and customs. Following the orientation, you’re invited to join us for meditation at 6:10 pm.
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Time: 5:40 pm
Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level)