silent retreat april 2024 welcome words before stepping into silence : ' invitation au voyage ' here we are gathered at the onset of a...

' You have to say something!' This is the title of a book of talks given by Dainin Katagiri, one of the pioneering figures of Zen in the...

mount bromo, java timur, january twenty-four _________________________________________ carnet javanais awakening to emergence of light /...

What you see on this image is a view over the valley and the rolling hills on the last day of our silent at Karuna Center in Monchique a...

In Mysteries, Yes, a poem by Mary Oliver from her book Evidence we read: ' Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they...

It's something to look forward to whenever I get the chance to sit with others an intensive silent meditation retreat as this allows me...

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...

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...

a report from a week of silent sitting ____________________________________ the deeper silence reaches within, the lesser your...

There is a Zen expression: shoshaku jushaku that is rendered in English as; to succeed wrong with wrong or, one continuous mistake. In...

" 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...

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...

Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...

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...

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...

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....

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:...

puget-thénier, alpes de haute provence, april 2022 visiting ei-tai ji temple and meeting master ryotan tokuda after a long time. he does...

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

" 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...