in whatever state
in whatever state the old buddha’s mind i’ve always been here sitting in the palm of his hand heart a silent flooding of grieving and love
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 28, 2023
- 1 min
disparadised
the ultimate path is not difficult just avoid picking and choosing seng t'san - hsin hsin ming circa 6th century...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 17, 2023
- 1 min
when destinies meet
poem written about twenty years ago. it evokes meeting my teacher zen master ryotan tokuda a few years before. over a period of time i...
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hamid ebadi
- Feb 4, 2023
- 1 min
traceless practice
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...
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Micah Manquen
- Jan 19, 2023
- 6 min
let me be
Hello dear reader! Please allow me to pass along some thoughts based on my attendance at the 8 day silent retreat in Monchique. As a 37...
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hamid ebadi
- Jan 15, 2023
- 2 min
buddha alone sees buddha
Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...
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mdevilliers60
- Jan 4, 2023
- 3 min
non-thinking, going nowhere: a reckoning with mount agung
I arrive at The Yogi’s Garden in Payangan, Bali, with a small red suitcase. But I’m also carrying another burden, one that’s harder to...
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
jour de noël
not time enough to practice the teachings many maybe just enough to unwrap a gift or two what are they the teachings windblown words in...
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
what ashes tell us about silence
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...
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hamid ebadi
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
along with the mist
silent retreat october twenty-twenty two monchique * silence to you closer than you morning raindrops on the round black stone in front...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
approaching silence
report from a silent retreat serra de monchique summer twenty twenty-two _____________________________ approaching silence stepping into...
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hamid ebadi
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
my death verse
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...
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domgoodchildtvm
- Aug 17, 2022
- 6 min
reinvention through a return to my essence
Following a lot of great personal disappointments in my life and a general sense that my neurotic, ever-anxious, depressed mind was going...
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Emily Denny
- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
alone together in silence
Dreading heading straight into autumn and darkness again after what we in Norway call a “skipped summer”, I desperately searched the net...
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Phil
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
extraordinary, profound, magical.
The following words can not do justice to what is mostly an experience of the heart for me. I feel like for a week I've vanished from...
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hamid ebadi
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
the guest of seasons
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....
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hoolsdelosrios
- Jun 19, 2022
- 7 min
so you're thinking about joining this silent retreat.........
This review is really aimed at people who are ‘Umming and Ahing’ as to whether a silent retreat is the right thing for them. I first...
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hamid ebadi
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
words of radiance the heart can see
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:...
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Leila Worth.
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
is binn béal ina thost (irish saying) - silence is golden
A note from my diary on the retreat: A homecoming. Silence is a homecoming. The first day on the first sit Tears fell down my face I felt...
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hamid ebadi
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
stepping into not knowing
karuna center, monchique silent retreat, april 2022 ___________________________ seeker path goal merge into silence and disappear...
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