Work In The Room with Sarah Bender, Roshi Saturday, November 17 Sarah will be offering Work In The Room this Saturday morning during meditation- a time for individual meetings with a teacher. You don’t have to know what you’ll talk about.…
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Thoughts and reflections from Sarah Bender, Roshi
Words from Sarah Bender, Roshi, in Nova Scotia
Dear Ones, I woke early this morning to the stillness of a foggy dawn in Nova Scotia, just barely able to see the other shore of the Cove. I climbed the steep stairs to my meditation space and…
Community Night this Monday, Feb. 12
The Practice of Refuge; Community Nights beginning this Monday, Feb. 12 6:00 PM, Shove Chapel Dear Sangha, Starting this Monday, we’ll be refreshing our practice of precepts recitation in community. As part of this winter’s practice period, we’ve been…
To Welcome a New Year
Image by John Harder Dear Bodhisattvas, Tonight an icy cold wind is knocking around the branches outside; and the bright, pale moonface high above looks a bit anxious, peering down at us earthlings. What are we up to? It’s…
Thank You
Dear Springs Mountain Sangha, On the eve of Thanksgiving, I find my heart full of gratitude for you. That you come together, week in and week out, and have done so for twenty years! That you give so generously…
Sarah Bender’s Roshi Celebration
Roshi Celebration Sarah Bender Roshi of the Pacific Zen School “Noble servant in the Temple of Heron Dreaming” You are invited to a celebration by Springs Mountain Sangha honoring Sarah Bender Roshi’s receipt of transmission in the Zen…
Happy News!
June 14, 2017 It is with deep happiness we announce that during the full moon weekend Sarah Bender of Springs Mountain Sangha received transmission from Joan Sutherland, in a simple ceremony on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She…
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Work in the Room this Saturday, March 18
Jingqing said about a conversation with one of his students, “One drop is just black ink. Two drops and a dragon is born.” Work In The Room with Sarah Bender, Sensei Saturday, March 18 I’ll be offering Work In The…
Practice Period 2017
Dear Bodhisattvas, Here begins Springs Mountain Sangha’s 2017 practice period, March 4 to April 23! You might see it as a time of rededication to awakening, the way and our companions. Or it may be something else for you.…