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 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 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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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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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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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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hamid ebadi
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
what ashes tell us about silence
our first silent retreat in bali after four years ended last sunday. it was a gathering of friends, old and new. one of the gifts of...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
my death verse
my death verse early to be written too late to be read winds sweep the mountain prairie unfurling waves through wild grass no one came...
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hamid ebadi
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
the guest of seasons
Our summer retreat in Monchique begins on Sunday and I'm on my way to Portugal to welcome our guests coming from many different lands....
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hamid ebadi
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
words of radiance the heart can see
In zen, it is said that a dharma talk is obscure to the mind but radiant to the heart. In Saint-Exupery's 'the Little Prince' we read:...
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hamid ebadi
- May 8, 2022
- 2 min
from your heart to my heart
puget-thénier, alpes de haute provence, april 2022 visiting ei-tai ji temple and meeting master ryotan tokuda after a long time. he does...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 21, 2021
- 2 min
the three jewels
In Buddhism we have the three jewels; the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are indissociable from one another and form an...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
in reverence of the unknown
" 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...
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hamid ebadi
- May 12, 2020
- 6 min
in praise of the last horse
When you stumble again, hit the wall again, stray again, disappoint yourself again, fail to learn your lessons again, hit rock bottom...
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hamid ebadi
- Nov 21, 2019
- 4 min
in and out of the stream of unknowing
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 9, 2019
- 2 min
living without why
asks not whether it is seen: that silent unfolding of the play
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 3, 2019
- 2 min
mountain sanctuary
karuna retreat center, serra de monchique, algarve, portugal
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 25, 2018
- 2 min
ei-tai ji, temple of eternal peace
second pilgrimage of the year after visiting rumi's shrine in konya, turkey, in september. returning to ei-tai ji temple, in the lower...
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
wind of impermanence howling
Harking the wind of impermanence howl. Howling for you, howling for me, howling for no one. Of that wind, we could say, it hardly ever...
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