Register now for
Springs Mountain Sangha Weekend Integrative Retreat
Friday evening, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2021
with Sarah Bender, Roshi
Our Ox and You retreat is just around the bend. Your early registration really helps with the planning, and makes for a strong retreat. It’s appreciated!
To spend a weekend with the images and poetry of a very old story gives us a chance to dream on our own voyages, to notice what it’s like right now to be walking an ancient Way together. We invite you to join in!
Registration deadline is Monday, April 26
An Integrative retreat with the Ten Ox Herding Pictures
The Ox Herding Pictures tell a very old story of the Way, coming out of the mists of time to us from even before Taoism but then on through Buddhism to our American experiment in awakening. They tell the story in picture and in verse, in order and in reverse, through words into wordlessness and through heart-minds into our bloodstreams and our feet, if we will. You can find them in many places and voices, and we will bring them into the silence of our singular and plural meditations for a weekend of retreat.
Awakening is both sudden and continuous, both a turning and a straight ahead, both particular and vast. I’m interested in how it shows up for us at this particular time, at the conclusion of a practice period—which is also a beginning without a signpost. It’s a good time to stop and visit with this old story, I think. I hope you will think so, too.
Our retreat will include a fair bit of silent meditation, interspersed with Dharma talk and conversation and some time for stepping away from your screen into the day while staying in your retreat space.
For registration information, please email Kelly McFarland at s.kelly.HLS@gmail.com. It helps tremendously with planning if you would let us know if you plan to attend as soon as you can. Registration deadline is Monday April 26th. Cost of the retreat is $100 and you can pay on the Springs Mountain Sangha website here:
Scholarships are available. Please contact Kelly McFarland for more information on scholarships. We don’t want finances to stand in the way of you attending the retreat
Registration form can be found by clicking here.
Retreat Schedule:
Friday 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday Optional Meditation 6:30 am – 8:30 am
9:00 am – 8:30 pm
Sunday Optional Meditation 6:30 am – 8:30 am
9:00 am – ~3:00 pm