Springs Mountain Sangha
JUNE 2015 Newsletter
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.
Dharma Study and Discussion:
Each Monday 5:15 pm, CC Shove Chapel, Dharma Hall downstairs.
Zen Threads:
June 6 Clay Taylor will give the Zen Threads talk this month 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.
Dharma Talks:
June 15 Sarah Bender, Sensei
June 22 Andrew Palmer, Sensei
Work in the Room: June 20th
Andrew Palmer Sensei
This Month…
June 19-20 Introduction to Zen
with Frank Actis
the Woman’s Club, 20 Mesa Road
Friday, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Saturday, 9 AM to noon (followed by optional brown bag lunch)
Everyone is welcome; new and experienced. Share some quiet time sitting,
walking and in discussion.
contact: Frank Actis frank.actis@gmail.com
June 29 Wayfaring Mind Talk:
With
Jessica Wong
Beginning June 27: Book study and conversation
lead by a different Sangha member each month after saturday morning meditation. June 27, July 11,18,25. Aug 1,8 Volunteers needed Details TBA
Looking Ahead
Monday, July 6th Deep Listening with
Jane Rigler and Mary Jane Sullivan
Deep Listening© is a method developed by Pauline Oliveros and several of her colleagues (starting around the 1970s to the present day) that gently gathers together a global community to attend to the world around us by developing our sense of hearing. One of the objectives of Deep Listening is to notice the difference between hearing and listening, but there are, in fact, many intentions behind this philosophical method.
Jane Rigler (musician) and Mary Jane Sullivan (poet, philosopher, film-maker) are both undergoing a three-year Deep Listening Certification Program with Pauline and other mentors.
We have invited Jane and Mary Jane to present Deep Listening to us during our meditation. We have experienced Jane once before when she brought her flutes and took us to lovely creative places.
Wet Mountain Sangha
July Retreat
A July Retreat: Wet Mountain Sangha is offering a five-day summer Buddhist meditation retreat this July in Pueblo. Sensei Andrew Palmer is the presiding teacher. We promise a wonderful opportunity for silence, discovery and peace. The retreat opens the evening of Tuesday July 7 and will continue until the afternoon of Saturday July 11. The cost will be quite affordable and we can assist in finding lodging for out of town participants. More complete information will be coming out in the next weeks. In the meantime questions can be emailed wetmountainsangha or to Doug Mesner –mesner3da@hotmail.com
For a complete calendar of 2015 retreats, please go to our website at smszen.org
Late Summer Dharma study
with Andrew Palmer Sensei
beginning mid august and continuing into early Autumn likely focusing on the Tao Te Ching
details TBA
Author and Teacher David Loy
On December 4th and 5th, Springs Mountain Sangha together with the Bodhi Mind center will be hosting David Loy. He is a renowned teacher in the field of Buddhist activism. He is the author of many books. Most recent are A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Revolution and Ethics in the Modern World, and Money, Sex, War and Karma. In addition to being a professor of ethics and religion at various universities, including the Naropa Institute, he is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Koun Yamada. There will be a public talk on Friday December 4th, and an all day workshop on Saturday December 5th.
About Dana
We depend on the generosity of our members to support the work of our sangha. Donations are gratefully received in the Dana bowl in the alcove of the meditation hall in Shove Chapel. Also, everyone is invited to contribute flowers for the altar and cookies for Community Nights.
We now accept PayPal donations. You can get to the SMS PayPal link on the SMS web site at: https://www.smszen.org/donate.html or by selecting the donate icon: