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disparadised
the ultimate path is not difficult just avoid picking and choosing seng t'san - hsin hsin ming circa 6th century...
hamid ebadi
Feb 28, 20231 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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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...
Micah Manquen
Jan 19, 20236 min read
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buddha alone sees buddha
Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...
hamid ebadi
Jan 15, 20232 min read
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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...
mdevilliers60
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Dec 26, 20221 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Nov 25, 20221 min read
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approaching silence
report from a silent retreat serra de monchique summer twenty twenty-two _____________________________ approaching silence stepping into...
hamid ebadi
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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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...
hamid ebadi
Sep 1, 20223 min read
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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...
domgoodchildtvm
Aug 17, 20226 min read
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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...
Emily Denny
Aug 16, 20223 min read
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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...
Phil
Jul 22, 20222 min read
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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....
hamid ebadi
Jul 7, 20222 min read
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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...
hoolsdelosrios
Jun 19, 20227 min read
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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:...
hamid ebadi
May 30, 20223 min read
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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...
Leila Worth.
May 24, 20222 min read
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stepping into not knowing
karuna center, monchique silent retreat, april 2022 ___________________________ seeker path goal merge into silence and disappear...
hamid ebadi
May 15, 20221 min read
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from your heart to my heart
puget-thénier, alpes de haute provence, april 2022 visiting ei-tai ji temple and meeting master ryotan tokuda after a long time. he does...
hamid ebadi
May 8, 20222 min read
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