Joyful News: Sarah Bender, Roshi
Dear SMS Steering Committee & Community : It is with deep happiness I tell you that last weekend Sarah Bender received transmission from me, in a simple ceremony on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She is now a Roshi of the Pacific Zen School, with the lineage name Noble Servant in the Temple of Heron Dreaming, a name whose meanings she can tell you about. It is a small moment in a thousand-year old tradition, but its radiance extends…