not arriving not starting on the move still   who is a vagabond a cloud above an island adrift at times human a passingness whether still...

Today I became a cat, not a sprawling one sat on a mat. One perched delicately in pose, until such time the chimes did clang and up...

(this poem was recited at the group council of the Karuna silent retreat 2025 in portugal) it is never easy poetry in a language that is...

no matter in what state the old buddha’s mind i’ve always been here sitting in the palm of his hand heart flooding with grieving and love...

starting a silent retreat here in bali. ‘just this’, what is it? we practice to find out what is here, what has always been here even if...

and there is a time for the wind to break the loosened pane- t.s.eliot / four quartets in case of loss to whom to turn to when to return...

jatiluwih, bali, november 2024 master dogen: expounding a dream within a dream ________________________________________ nightfall storms...

silent retreat september 2024 / payangan, bali ______________________________________ in and out of silence words freely move where there...

" so you should view this fleeting world..." the lotus sutra so between two tides our lives this presence mirage on a shore appears...

" anché peye āni āni / what you seek is seeking you. " - jallaledin rūmi " the fire boy comes seeking fire." - zen koan...

fades away the muzzin's call as we leave port lember behind old boat rust eaten traval companion true vessel of emptiness you plough a...

pantai ann, lombok, august 2024 on reading okumura roshi in the shallows of speech water words ripple over murmuring algae where light...

unusual for the season, it rained all night long. you know this because of the drizzle you heard falling in your sleep. you have lived...

karuna center, monchique, portugal, april 2024 silent retreat ____________________________________ everywhere hills undulating on the...

_______________________________ " If time merely flies away, you would be separated from time. The reason you do not clearly understand...

december retreat 2023 bali it rained heavily the morning of our last day of retreat in december. i was in a contemplative mood, not...

candi dasa, bali, november twenty-three " as one side is illumined, the other is darkened. - master dogen" sunday you are vast and...

silent retreat october twenty twenty-three monchique * no entry no exit point to silence enter or leave it you cannot * in the midst of...

curtains drawn from the paddies sunlight pouring in cicadas screeching pouring in inside no one outside no one the dweller left his:...

orange moon sailed-off before i came to the river to watch the boats light begins to turn time to prepare for fall love of summer your...