June Friday-Sunday, June 3-5, Zoom: Inside the Dream Reunion: The Tale of the Lindworm; A weekend online retreat with a koan and an old storyMonday, June 6, 6 PM: Meditation and Sutra ServiceTuesday, June 7, 6:15-8:15 PM, Zoom: Steering Committee MeetingWednesday,…
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May 2022 Newsletter
This dewdrop world–Is a dewdrop world,And yet, and yet …-Kobayashi Issa Dear Friends, May Day! It has multiple resonances for many of us. Today, on the calendar, falls halfway between the Winter solstice and the Spring Equinox. Even the midst…
April 2022 Newsletter
All things return to the One. What does the One return to? Dear Friends, As Spring, with a little help from some rain and snow here in the Front Range, begins its magical unfurling under our feet, brightens over our…
March 2022 Newsletter
Dear Friends, During March, time will change, Winter will change its tune with signs already arriving: Magpies building their nests, owls conversing, geese in formation overhead, buds slowly fattening. Spring will arrive! It’s cheering to have daffodils indoors so eagerly…
Meditation Retreat March 24-27, 2022
Springs Mountain Sangha Branches of Light Online Meditation Retreatwith Sarah Bender, Roshi March 24-27, 2022 Taking part in the Gathering We and everything we perceiveare interwoven and not interwoven,and this interweaving continues on and onwhile each thing stands in its…
February 2022 Newsletter
Photograph and Watercolor by Susan Rogers’ sister-in-law, Leslie H. Carson Dear Friends, The word that comes first this month is breathe. It arises as I look at the two images above, each beautiful in its own way. The photo, on the left,…
SMS Week of January 16, 2022
Springs Mountain SanghaWeek of January 17, 2022 Dear Friends, This week we’ll have several different kinds of encounter with the Dharma. On Monday evening we’ll commemorate the life, leadership and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s important that…
January 2022 Newsletter
Dear Friends, This morning I watched the coy moon climbing through the pine boughs, as sunlight crept up from behind the farther treeline, light meeting light across the darkness of dawn, and was grateful for this daily ritual, in the midst…
VOICES OF THE FEMININE, SATURDAY 10 AM, ZOOM
VOICES OF THE FEMININE, WITHIN AND AROUND US Winter Study Series with Sarah BenderSaturdays beginning January 8, 10-noonon the SMS Zoom January 8, 15, 22, 29 and Feb. 5, 12 A series of gatherings exploring expressions of female perspectives both within and…
Morning Star Lights the World Retreat, December 5
Morning Star Lights the World Retreat Springs Mountain Sangha Bodhi Day Sunday December 5th, 2021 In recent times, it seems that something internally has come to a stop, and we as individuals and a culture are witnessing the…