Upcoming in May
Way Faring Mind Talk
Monday, May 30, at Shove Chapel
A wayfaring mind talk by our member,
Robert King
Robert will be giving a talk in the Netherlands, in June, about Dreams as Life Review.
He will share some of his thoughts with us, about how dreams affected his practice over a period of many years.
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.
Zen Threads: Zen Threads talks will take a summer vacation. They’ll start up again in September. Meanwhile,once our nomadic Dharma hall is packed away on Saturday mornings, some of us often go to Wooglins for breakfast and conversation.
Dharma Talks:
June 20 We will be In retreat at the Catamount Center
June 27 Andrew Palmer, Sensei
Work in the Room: Saturday morning, June 18th, 6:30 to 8:30 AM with Andrew Palmer, Sensei
Individual meetings with a teacher, which we call “Work in the room,” are opportunities to sit face to face and take up what is most alive for you.
For a Saturday morning conversation, you’ll have up to 20 minutes. You’ll go downstairs and the teacher will be waiting there for a private conversation.
This is a chance to ask questions about your meditation practice, to ask for instruction, to explore an experience you’ve had, to investigate how your practice looks as it gets up off the cushion and travels through your day and night…..to wake up to this very life of your own.
You don’t have to have formed an individual student-teacher commitment to do this. Everyone is welcome.
This said, it is also possible to form an individual student-teacher relationship, and these can be very powerful in nourishing our practice. Ask a teacher if you’d like to know more about this.
To schedule an appointment for June 18th, please contact Andrew (alpsensei@gmail.com)
You can also make an appointment to meet with
Andrew (alpsensei@gmail.com) or
Sarah (sembender@gmail.com) at another time.
Buddhism and the 12 Steps
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
JUNE
Buddha Day
June 5th
Dear Friends and members of our vibrant and diverse Colorado Springs Buddhist community!
The Phap Vu Buddhist Temple (Rev. Pho Khai, Abbot), which is based in Vietnamese Pure Land and Zen traditions, is issuing a warm invitation to the Springs Buddhist community to join in the celebration of Vesak at the temple on June 5.
Vesak, or Buddha Day, commemorates Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, or Parinirvana (final enlightenment). It is observed differently in different places, and on differing dates, but generally on or near the full moon of May. Celebrations usually include offerings of flowers and incense (perfect reminders of impermanence), chanting, singing and Dharma talks, and feasting together. It’s also traditional for each person to make some offerings of food or other necessities to those who are without; and to renew his or her own vows of generosity, making a fresh start.
There’s a pretty good Wikipedia article about the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesak .
Rev. Pho Khai has graciously invited us to join in this celebration, at 10:00 AM on June 5.
The Temple address is 4920 Airport Road, 80916
Chanting and talks will be both in Vietnamese and English.
You can contact Rev. Pho Khai to hear more about the day and to ask how you or your group might contribute.
In particular, if there’s someone who could help with set-up of the sound system for the day, that would be very welcome!
email is pho_khai@yahoo.com
Temple’s # is 719-380-5020
June 19-25, 2016
SIXTEEN BODHISATTVAS MEDITATION RETREAT:
Our First Ever Multi-Sangha Open Source Retreat with our four Open Source Senseis: Sarah Bender, Tenney Nathanson, Andrew Palmer and Megan Rundel.
At beautiful Catamount Center, near Colorado Springs
June 19-25, 2016
Registration is now closed, but evening talks will be open to everyone.
The Open Source is the network of communities in the tradition of Joan Sutherland, Roshi, in the Pacific Zen School.
This week long meditation retreat will be co-led by our four Open Source teachers: Sarah Bender, Tenney Nathanson, Andrew Palmer and Megan Rundel.
And we thought you might enjoy checking out the talks and writings of the Open Source teachers who will be leading the retreat. http://www.crimsongatemeditation.org/blog Megan Rundel, Sensei http://www.desertrainzen.org/talks.html Tenney Nathanson, Sensei http://www.bowandroar.com/talks.htmlhttp://www.bowandroar.com/words Andrew Palmer, Sensei https://www.smszen.org/dharma-audio/ Sarah Bender, Sensei
For more information, please contact Steve Milligan steve_milligan08@comcast.net
Opportunities for Engagement
In the wider community (not sponsored by SMS)