Dear Friends, Right at the start of February comes a Cross-Quarter Day, February 2, which has been noted and celebrated by people from ancient times in various cultures, as it falls exactly halfway between the winter solstice and the spring…
A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, Sangha members and friends have emerged from our first five-day online meditation retreat with a pervasive joy in the discovery that a meditation retreat held in the very little and very…
Movie Night: “Cherry Blossoms” Friday, September 18, 7pm to 9 pm MST Cherry Blossoms (2008), directed by Doris Dorrie, winner of the 2008 German Film Award for Feature Film, Leading Actor and Costume Design. Trudy (Hannelore Elsner) and Rudi (Elmar Wepper) have…
Black Lives Matter Ecodharma and racial injustice: “If we don’t tend to the particulars, we don’t tend the whole.” ~ Roshi Sarah Our big blue Earth. It holds each of us, and all of us together, as one seamless body. What…
Dear Sangha members and friends, Here it is March, and the third New Year of the new year (Losar) has been celebrated, so I figure the New Year is well and truly launched and it’s time to send word to…
Hello again, It turns out that Joan’s article wasn’t all that easy to find, so for those of you who haven’t found it yet, here’s the location:https://joansutherlanddharmaworks.org/Detailed/186.html and here’s the link to the talk I gave on Monday night: https://www.smszen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SarahBender-Dharma-Of-Clouds-And-Stones-Aug-19-2019.mp3…
Ongoing 5:15 Dharma Downstairs: before Monday night meditation, at Shove Chapel. Every Monday evening, in the Sacred Grounds downstairs room from 5:15 to 6:00, some of us meet for informal Dharma conversation, led by Sarah Bender and sangha members. Anyone is welcome to join…
Dear Ones, Our memorial service for Jacque Minehart, a sangha member whom we loved dearly, will be held in Shove Chapel tomorrow, Friday, April 5, at 4:00, with a reception to follow. You are all welcome to attend. There will be…
Work In The Room with Sarah Bender, Roshi Saturday, January 19 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.…
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, May 20 I’ll be offering Work In…