The Gate to Freedom is Open A One Day Meditation Retreat With Andrew Palmer, Sensei Hosted by the Wet Mountain Sangha Someone asked, “How can I be free?” Shitou replied, “Who has put you in bondage?” An essential teaching of…
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SMS March Newsletter
Even before March….. A note from SMSAction! : Cooking for Urban Peak Next Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2:00 to 5:00 PM Urban Peak has us on the calendar to cook dinner for their clients on the last Wednesday of every…
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…
SMS Action! Field Trip: The Practice of Love and Rage as Tools for Liberation
THE PRACTICE OF LOVE AND RAGE AS TOOLS FOR LIBERATION A Talk by Lama Rod Owens March 1, 2018 Naropa Univeristy, Boulder, CO You’re invited to join SMS Action! members as we carpool to Naropa University in Boulder, the…
SMS February Newsletter
Ongoing Events Newcomer Orientation: 2nd Monday of the month, CC Shove Chapel, Dharma Hall upstairs at 5:45 pm for anyone who would like some orientation to meditation, to our tradition, or to our sangha and customs. 5:15 Dharma Study and Discussion before…
Song in Praise of Tending an Ox: A Weekend with the Oxherding Pictures
Song in Praise of Tending an Ox: A Weekend with the Oxherding Pictures with Sarah Bender, Roshi In a flash we may see our true nature, which is empty nature, and be left changed forever; our world, changed forever. …
Desert SunRise Retreat with Tenny Nathanson, Sensei
DESERT SUNRISE RETREAT WITH TENNEY NATHANSON SENSEI MARCH 6-11, 2018 REDEMPTORIST RENEWAL CENTER AT PICTURE ROCKS | TUCSON, ARIZONA A splendid branch issues from the old plum tree in time, obstructing thorns flourish everywhere – Keizan (The Record of…
An Invitation to Diamond Sutra Study in Community, with Sarah Bender, Roshi
January 14, 21, 28 7528 Jenkin Place (Creek Bend Zendo) February 4, 11, 25 Text: The Diamond Sutra Sundays, 3 to 5 PM Contact: Sarah Bender sembender@gmail.com Suggested dana: $60 for the series (bring to the first session) In…
The Improbable Feast: an Introduction to the Zen Practice of this very life
Zen, a meditation-centered Buddhist tradition, starts with considering that this very life of yours, this very body, heart and mind of yours, might make up the stuff of your liberation…and the liberation of all of us. You explore this…
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…