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journey of coming home
MAITRI RETREATS AND HAMID EBADI – AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF ‘COMING HOME’ “Meditation is a bodily practice.” I will never ever forget...
hamid ebadi
Aug 21, 201810 min read


those greater forces around us
Less than a month to our silent meditation retreat in the Serra de Monchique, Portugal. Some of you are making the journey from other...
hamid ebadi
Jun 27, 20182 min read


sesshin notes IV / april 2018
sitting that mirror where we see ourselves and the many worlds as reflections passing . ripples endlessly fading into...
hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read


sesshin notes III / april 2018
early morning sitting on the edge of a cliff a sea of clouds to watch blooming mountains endlessly drift away #monchique #retreat...
hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read


sesshin notes I / april 2018
preparing sesshin inside trees there was i born there each time i die that moment when the owl's last call with songs of waking...
hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read


sesshin notes II / april 2018
your sojourn in silence and stillness the path is a mirror reflects things as they are thathata thusness you as you are now...
hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read


silence teaches what is beyond words
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...
hamid ebadi
May 25, 20181 min read


the art of meditation : when we sit in sesshin
Sitting through a sesshin is something you need to come and experience for yourself as this is as personal an experience as it gets and...
hamid ebadi
Feb 19, 20181 min read


passing through the gate
we passed this gate to reach our place of practice, a towering ganesha greeting us. we sat through an intensive period of meditation...
hamid ebadi
Dec 2, 20171 min read


expectations for Portugal
Thank you Jennifer Stretton for posting your blog entry about our Bali retreat here below. Five years have passed and we have all become...
hamid ebadi
Sep 14, 20172 min read
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