Ongoing Events

Newcomer Orientation: 2nd Monday of the month, CC Shove Chapel, Dharma Hall upstairs at 5:45 pm to meet anyone who would like some orientation to meditation, to our tradition, or to our sangha and customs.

5:15 Dharma Study and Discussion before Monday’s meditation: Construction is complete, and the downstairs of Shove Chapel is lovely and inviting! Our 5:15 discussion time have resumed. Topics are variable. Come on down and check it out.

Zen Threads: The Zen threads Talk this month will be given by Karen Recktenwald on Saturday Feb. 6th at 8:00 am following three periods of meditation. Discussion will follow, and we’ll close with our vows at 8:25, as usual. Once our nomadic Dharma hall is packed away, all who are interested will go to Wooglins for breakfast and more conversation.

Way Faring Talk: The Way faring mind talk this Month will be given by Eric Peterson on Monday Feb. 29th

Dharma Talks:
Feb. 15 Sarah Bender, Sensei

Feb. 22 Andrew Palmer, Sensei

Work in the Room: Saturday Feb. 20th with Andrew Palmer, Sensei

Buddhism and the 12 Steps

When: Wednesday evenings 7:00-8:30
Where: 417 Prairie Rd. CSC 80909 Parking on the side off St. Vrain and in front of house. For more information contact: Jacque Minehart jqminehart@yahoo.com

Steering Committee Meeting: February 3 5:30 -8:30 pm at Liz Cramer’s house 533 Crystal Hills Blvd, Manitou Springs. This month we are having a pot luck meal at 5:00. p.m. Steering committee meetings are open to the entire sangha and this month we share food. You are welcome to join us. We will need to know how many are coming. Please contact Liz at elizabeth.cramer51@gmail.com.

JANUARY

ZEN PRACTICE FOR YOUR ACTUAL LIFE:
AN INTRODUCTION
Saturday Jan. 30th 9:00 A.M-3;00 P.M.
A workshop with Sarah Bender, Sensei, resident teacher for Springs Mountain Sangha. at the Woman’s Club, 20 Mesa Rd. Colorado Springs. (2 blocks from CC campus)Includes an introduction to Zen,
Instruction and practice in sitting and walking meditation,
Discussion of practice in this Buddhist tradition,
Time for exploration in community.

Suggested Donation: $20 You are truly welcome to come if you cannot afford this amount.

During this day we will weave together time to meditate in silence, time to learn about this ancient and current tradition, and time to raise questions and share experiences in meditation.

All are welcome. To register please contact Liz Cramer

elizibeth.cramer@gmail.com

FEBRUARY

The Refuge and Precepts study group continues:
Tues., Feb. 2 at 6:30 PM, and Saturdays, Feb. 13 and 20 at 11:00 AM. , 7528 Jenkin Place, C.S. 80919

Touching the Earth Retreat
With Andrew Palmer Sensei
Feb 26-27
Creek Bend Zendo 7528 Jenkin Place.

A meditation retreat is an important and essential component of Zen practice, allowing us an opportunity to set aside our usual daily doings and beings for a time, inviting us to sit still and silent, slow down, pay attention, and do hardly a thing. We relate to things with spaciousness, directness, simplicity and ease, connecting to a deeper rhythm of life continuously flowing beneath, throughout and beyond all that is. The more sitting meditation we do, the more it seems this connection and relationship with life flows into our daily doings and beings, wearing away the barriers between what we consider to be our life and what we consider to be our practice. And while all the practices we engage in serve to foster and encourage this relationship, sitting meditation is especially effective and useful in bringing it to life fully. So come be still and silent for a while, slow down, pay attention, do nothing, and see what you discover

Schedule

Friday Evening:

6:30 (or 7:00)-9:00, with dharma talk at 7:30

Saturday:

Morning Block 9-12, begin with tea, WITR starts a little after 9:30

Afternoon Block: 1:30-5, begin with sutra service, WITR starts a little after 2, close retreat at 5 (if not sooner, depending upon when WITR wraps up)

Coordinator and Registrar, Robert King, kingrh@comcast.ne t

LOOKING AHEAD

Simple Sit at The Woman’s Club
Saturday March 19
10:A.M.-2:30 P.M.

Integrative Retreat
April 15-17
(to close practice period)

This may incorporate a bare bones meditation retreat starting Weds eve, Apr. 13 for any who would like the longer stretch, e.g. those taking refuge.

MahaSangha Retreat

Our first ever Open Source MahaSangha
Retreat will be June 19–25, 2016.

The Open Source is the network of communities in the tradition of Joan Sutherland, Roshi and the Pacific Zen School.

Our setting is the lovely Catamount Center, near Colorado Springs. It’s a beautiful spot on the flanks of Pike’s Peak, with basic but pleasant lodging, tenting area, great vegetarian food, a Dharma Hall (and by then there will be a big yurt), a lake with a barrel sauna, a tipi, and lots and lots of space with trails. It’s a bit high, at 9,500 feet, but there will be little golf carts to help anyone who needs a boost getting around.

http://www.catamountcenter.org/geographic-setting/facilities http://www.catamountcenter.org/geographic-setting/facilities/

This week-long meditation retreat will be co-led by our four Open Source teachers: Sarah Bender, Tenney Nathanson, Andrew Palmer and Megan Rundel.

With a full week’s retreat, there will be plenty of time for silent meditation, community koan meditation, Dharma talks, individual and collective conversation, and hanging out on the sacred ground of this young, rocky mountain at the spine of our continent.

More information, including cost and registration, will follow. For now, we just hope you will be planning to attend and saving those dates in your calendar!

Opportunities for Engagement

EARTHHOLDERS—CALL TO GATHER

Satrday, Feb. 20 9:30, Quaker House–950 E. Cimmaron

https://www.smszen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Earth-Holders.pdf
Click this link

After the David Loy workshop in December, a group of people from the various Colorado Springs Sanghas are getting together to bring practice and action together, to effect change in our community. If you are interested in deep practice and making environmental and social change, please attend a meeting of “Earthholders” on Saturday, January 16 at 9:30 am, 950 E. Cimmaron at the Quaker House.Follow this link for more details.

P.S. Please bring your own cup…tea, coffee, and hot water provided..

Awakening the Heart Mind & Body Class

8 Thursdays, 5:30-7:30pm, January 21st – March 10^thwith Saturday Daylong 9am-2pm, February 27th.

Suggested Donation for the 8 Meetings and Daylong: $105

TO REGISTER or For A Scholarship: recktenwaldkaren@gmail.com
For more information, select this link

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