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 or in anything. We l...

asks not whether it is seen: that silent unfolding of the play

karuna retreat center, serra de monchique, algarve, portugal

The four horses: reflections on a Buddhist parable. In his seminal book, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shenruyu Suzuki, shares this passage from one of the olde...

my death poem too early to be written late to be read winds sweep the mountain prairie unfurling waves through wild grass no one came here no one ever l...

second pilgrimage of the year after visiting rumi's shrine in konya, turkey, in september. returning to ei-tai ji temple, in the lower french alps, after 12 ...

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 leaves us. The howli...

tombes of jallaludin-e-rumi, his father, son and disicples six months adrift after leaving bali, erring has brought me here, to konya, the shrine of rumi. f...

' In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers. " Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1827) This is heaven, call it home. This is hell, call it home. Wha...

photo credit Sai Ram Or, the passing of flames itself is the Buddha passing, is Buddha activity, the dharma wheel turning. Friends who practiced with me or...

orientation talk on the first day of our july 2018 sesshin in sierra de monchique, algarve, portugal. a presentation of the practice of shikantaza, just sitt...

What ultimately gratifies, or rather satisfies, and while satisfying confers meaning to this fleeting, often chaotic, and mostly insubstantial existence of o...

Less than a month to our silent meditation retreat in the Serra de Monchique, Portugal. Some of you are making the journey from other parts of the planet jus...

Nah ist und schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.” “Near and hard to grasp Is the God. But where danger is deliverance a...

We naturally tend to seek the comfort of intimacy and relating with another. But how comfortable are we with being in the space of our own innermost felt exp...

one of the more impactful and profound experiences given to us to live is to recollect heart and mind in an intensive period of silent and still sitting. thi...

My time in Bali is soon coming to an end and in a little more than a month I will be leaving this island after having lived here with my family for nearly si...

when things start falling apart, hold on to your seat. albert camus puts it this way: there is no love of life without despair of life. but pain, sadness...

we passed this gate to reach our place of practice, a towering ganesha greeting us. we sat through an intensive period of meditation knowing little of the tu...

Our one week sesshin, silent zen meditation retreat, in Monchique, Portugal, just ended and in the gallery on this site are some photos of the event to share...