returning to monchique
It is with pleasure that I can announce the resumption of our silent meditation and yin yoga retreats at Karuna Center in Algarve,...
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 19, 2018
- 3 min
today, i hold myself
I write this as it is approaching three months since I spent six days on a silent meditation retreat in the hills of Monchique, Portugal....
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 2, 2018
- 3 min
at home in heaven and hell
' 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...
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 21, 2018
- 10 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 3, 2018
- 1 min
starting sesshin
orientation talk on the first day of our july 2018 sesshin in sierra de monchique, algarve, portugal. a presentation of the practice of...
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hamid ebadi
- Jul 18, 2018
- 1 min
sesshin ends
windows shut curtains drawn from the paddies sunlight pouring in screeching of cicadas pouring in no one inside no one outside ...
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hamid ebadi
- Jun 27, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- May 28, 2018
- 1 min
on meeting zen master ryotan tokuda
it's destiny you said encounter of destinies should one time we meet it is an overnight stay in a rundown hermitage stars spread...
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hamid ebadi
- May 28, 2018
- 1 min
sesshin notes V / april 2018
cold wind roaring through monchique hills down into the valley though silent we stand on your way are part of your voice with...
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hamid ebadi
- May 28, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- May 28, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
shikantaza, just sitting
Zazen is at once a bare-bone form of meditation and at the same time it is not one. Historically it’s a twice millennial practice passed...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 19, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 19, 2018
- 4 min
only humility is endless
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
things falling apart
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. ...
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 2, 2017
- 1 min
not knowing
ease into this the need to know i have blown it out in your heart paths and journeys now silenced are you awake or is this still sleep...
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 2, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 7, 2017
- 4 min
to the broke and the broken
Our sesshin (silent meditation retreat) in Monchique, South Portugal, is less than a month away. Some of you have written to express your...
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hamid ebadi
- Oct 7, 2017
- 2 min
to friends old and new on the path
over the past ten years, i have had the honor to share teachings with many students in india, bali and some other parts of the world. the...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 14, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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