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Classes and Gatherings, Community Events, Sarah Bender

Community Night this Monday, Feb. 12

by SMS Editor • February 10, 2018

  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…

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Classes and Gatherings, Living in Community

SMS Action! Field Trip: The Practice of Love and Rage as Tools for Liberation

by SMS Editor • February 9, 2018

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…

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Retreat News

Song in Praise of Tending an Ox:  A Weekend with the Oxherding Pictures

by SMS Editor • January 14, 2018

  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. …

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Retreat News

Desert SunRise Retreat with Tenny Nathanson, Sensei

by SMS Editor • January 12, 2018

  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…

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Classes and Gatherings

An Invitation to Diamond Sutra Study in Community, with Sarah Bender, Roshi

by SMS Editor • January 8, 2018

  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…

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Classes and Gatherings

The Improbable Feast: an Introduction to the Zen Practice of this very life

by SMS Editor • January 8, 2018

  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…

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