what for a silent retreat
Our one week silent Zen retreat at Karuna Center in Monchique, Portugal, is four weeks away. Is a silent retreat an event? The word event...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 19
- 3 min
closing words on a september silent retreat
Awareness has more to do with the quality of attention we bring to something rather than what we give our attention to. It’s not so much...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 13
- 1 min
jisei (death poem)
orange moon came to the river to watch the boats light begins to turn time to prepare for fall love of summer your glitters down you go...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 1
- 2 min
silence is your home
a report from a week of silent sitting ____________________________________ the deeper silence reaches within, the lesser your...
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 19
- 2 min
carnet de voyage
I rainy season sheets of water freely traveling illusion of you are going anywhere accompanying you wherever you go adds embellishment to...
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Matthew Skinta
- Aug 16
- 2 min
returning to this moment
The 8-day silent retreat in July 2023 was my second through Maitri Retreats – I also attended in July 2022 with Hamid. This time, I had...
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 15
- 4 min
the art of making mistake after mistake
There is a Zen expression: shoshaku jushaku that is rendered in English as; to succeed wrong with wrong or, one continuous mistake. In...
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ccoutrot
- Aug 13
- 2 min
a unique and profound experience
I have attended Hamid's retreats twice : last year for an 8d retreat in Portugal and this year for a 4d retreat in Bali. Trying to...
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Yessica RodrÃguez
- Jul 24
- 2 min
what arises from silence
What arises from silence is GRATITUDE. I feel blessed and privileged to have experienced such an expansive feeling throughout the...
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hamid ebadi
- Jul 6
- 1 min
vastness anywhere
hua hin, july 2023 carnet de voyage _____________________ seasons of rain sheets of water freely traveling anywhere the illusion of...
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hamid ebadi
- Jun 15
- 2 min
turning the light inward
" learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inwards. " it's with these words that master dogen speaks about the...
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sharongesthalter
- May 10
- 4 min
keep on Walking
This was to be my second meditation retreat with Hamid, and my first time ever in Bali. The excitement that comes with discovering a new...
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amferruzzi
- Apr 13
- 2 min
exactly what it needed to be
For a period of time, the March 2023 silent retreat in Bali was not going to happen for me. Due to passport issues, my partner and I got...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 6
- 1 min
in whatever state
in whatever state the old buddha’s mind i’ve always been here sitting in the palm of his hand heart a silent flooding of grieving and love
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 28
- 1 min
disparadised
the ultimate path is not difficult just avoid picking and choosing seng t'san - hsin hsin ming circa 6th century...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 17
- 1 min
when destinies meet
poem written about twenty years ago. it evokes meeting my teacher zen master ryotan tokuda a few years before. over a period of time i...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 4
- 1 min
traceless practice
in the end it is in silence that we have our questions answered for it is in silence that all our questions come to dissolve. the one who...
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Micah Manquen
- Jan 19
- 6 min
let me be
Hello dear reader! Please allow me to pass along some thoughts based on my attendance at the 8 day silent retreat in Monchique. As a 37...
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hamid ebadi
- Jan 15
- 2 min
buddha alone sees buddha
Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...
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mdevilliers60
- Jan 4
- 3 min
non-thinking, going nowhere: a reckoning with mount agung
I arrive at The Yogi’s Garden in Payangan, Bali, with a small red suitcase. But I’m also carrying another burden, one that’s harder to...
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