then comes this drop into silence. with the suspension of time, everything is fluid, everything, mountains too, their imperceptable...

sesshin ends. last sit together. sitting with those here. sitting with those who left. with those who never came. with those who couldn’t...

Zazen makes you look at the stuff you don't want to see, the things you've been hiding from yourself, sometimes in plain sight. This is...

end of our silent retreat, monchique 23 april 2021 a poem inspired by the dharma talks during the week __________________________________...

We are preparing ourselves for an intensive period of practice where for a week, we will be spending long hours every day sitting in...

In Buddhism we have the three jewels; the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are indissociable from one another and form an...

how i would appear before the world that lifelong concern with mirrors mirrors now broken mostly shimmers on the surface of waters...

the man is keeping silent in his hut oblivious of time being a river ripples moving on the pond reflections of ripples in the air what we...

" Comment vivre sans inconnu en face de soi? How can we live without the unknown in front of us? René Char - Le poème pulverisé. " In...

I swing them violently by the hair from side to side across my head. It's the recurrent dream again. I wake up. Hulk says good morning. I...

This is what Jiddu Krishnamurti tried to explain from his earliest teachings in 1929 right until the end: " truth is a pathless land. "...

When you stumble again, hit the wall again, stray again, disappoint yourself again, fail to learn your lessons again, hit rock bottom...

An edited version of the first talk in our online zazen sessions: the Net of Indra. Many thanks to Jen for the transcription....

For over ten years now I have found myself being in a teacher's position while realizing being a student is what I feel far more...

ultimately the journey makes us understand that there is no going from here to there and no becoming for us. the journey begins and ends...

Reading Meister Eckhart’s sermons we learn that God is not to be found here and is not to be found there, he is not to be found anywhere...