zazoom on tuesday 22 nd of july 2025 Carl: So, good morning again. Do you hear me clearly? Okay. Because that was a problem some weeks...

remember it was april standing side by side on the temple terrace the cherry-tree abloom easterly a breeze un- petalling the whiteness as we looked beyond the pond at misty southern ranges -what doesn't change as everything changes? - -change doesn't - simply seeing seamless mind and mind one mind no mind hearing a hand's sound echo in the valley this was the scenery. we had just finished a week-long sesshin. an exchange with our teacher, master ryotan tokuda, inspired me to

. ZAZOOM 1 st July 2025 Carl: Here we are as I called us last time, the thinkers. Ahmed: Is it a good thing or a bad thing to think?...

not arriving not starting on the move still who is a vagabond a cloud above an island adrift at times human a passingness whether still or on the move nowhere to go is we are reaching port carried away by the sea take the tides with you you wander on to wherever lands no not alone the road goes with you travel companion true

June 17th 2025 Carl's talk: One week ago, we met here and practiced Zazen together. Afterwards, Hamid presented us with a text on the...

June 10th, 2025 Hamid’s talk: Today I would like to talk about what came up in the presentation Carl gave about this notion of...

za-zoom gathering: the circle drawn, the circle erased may 30, 2025 Hamid's talk: Greetings to those who joined us after we had already...

Today I became a cat, not a sprawling one sat on a mat. One perched delicately in pose, until such time the chimes did clang and up...

In the poem SILENT ILLUMINATION, we have the following lines : Throughout the universe, all things Emit light and speak the Dharma. They...

za-zoom chat: May 23, 2025 summary of discussion: This za-zoom session, led by Hamid, delved into the relationship between Zen practice,...

We completed our April silent retreat last Sunday. Many in the group were returners. It is a warm feeling to sit again with faces by now...

(this poem was recited at the group council of the Karuna silent retreat 2025 in portugal) it is never easy poetry in a language that is...

zazen as a godless and objectively meditation practice.

scattered notes lifted from silence from the unspeakable in words what seemed like silence never stays ...

" Everyday is a journey and the journey itself is home." - Matsudo Basho To those of you who are joining or contemplating joining us on...

no matter in what state the old buddha’s mind i’ve always been here sitting in the palm of his hand heart flooding with grieving and love a poem i wrote many years ago and posted here on this blog before. i can’t find any other words to add to these at the moment. are you grieving this world of ours as well right now? is the grieving deepening the love that you feel, the love that you are, that we all are? how can we know how to love if we have not grieved? how can we grieve

wonderful! marvelous! the teachings of the insentient are inconceivable. ( chan master dongshan, 9th c.) " the ceremony of innocence is...

starting a silent retreat here in bali. ‘just this’, what is it? we practice to find out what is here, what has always been here even if it's looking for what is there that brings us here to practice. here, what is closest while we are far, lost in thought. lost in thought is also just this. whatever we may think this is, wherever we think it may be or not be, it is always ‘just this.’ ______________________________________ early morning lush greenery look outside bejewelled

because directly i could not, speaking obliquely of these times of ...that's how hölderlin called it over two hundred years ago: times of...

and there is a time for the wind to break the loosened pane- t.s.eliot / four quartets in case of loss to whom to turn to when to return is no more there is no return is what loss is what remains is what is no more it's ocean deep to swim here is to drown to drown learning to swim don't turn away from it let it tug at your heart let it break you open let it open you to just open you to open you to what that what is vastness it gives life and receives all traces home to everyt