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 not like being called roshi and wants to be just called sensei, teacher. yet if anyone deserves the title, meaning master in japanese, it would well be him, for him it just feels pompous and unpalatable to be called anything other than the teacher. time was needed to process how much it means to reconnect with your teacher in person after a

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...

When you stumble again, hit the wall again, stray again, disappoint yourself again, fail to learn your lessons again, hit rock bottom...

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...

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

karuna retreat center, serra de monchique, algarve, portugal

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

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...

tombes of jallaludin-e-rumi, his father, son and disicples shrine of jallaludin rumi, konya, september 2018 six months adrift after leaving bali, erring has brought me here, to konya, the shrine of rumi. from different places, all year round, thousands of people come here on a pilgrimage to what is considered the most sacred place in sufism. the appeal of rumi as a poet is universal for he speaks of love in the language of love. what emanates from the heart touches the hea

' 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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...