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...
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carlzimmerling
- May 6, 2022
- 4 min
seven-day silent retreat in karuna
I shave my head and pack my suitcase. Tomorrow the retreat in Karuna begins. I hear a pigeon calling: "You see it". There is a saying in...
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jmcdekker
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
concentration
A silent retreat is not an isolated event. There is a string of events, internal and external developments which prompt the call for...
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georgia morley
- May 2, 2022
- 4 min
a reflection from the april 2022 sesshin, monchique
I just finished my 5th retreat and what a profound experience it was. It was so healing. My thoughts were, as I had anticipated, quite...
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hamid ebadi
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
monchique
sleepless from a mountain hut looking out the window the morning star shimmers alone from the pond ceaseless croaking it is the morning...
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hamid ebadi
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
mujo
it was april remember standing side by side on the temple terrace the cherry-tree abloom an easterly breeze unpetalling white flowers as...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
first words then silence
first words then silence let silence ripen said the master said master who ripening of silence as the mind fasts fasts on words in other...
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david217581
- Jan 8, 2022
- 19 min
a week of zen & holy silence
Linda & David from Art of Euphoria share an intimate glimpse into their first silent retreat experience, with daily personal input.
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hamid ebadi
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
notes from a silent retreat
notes from a silent retreat I early hours waking up in the early hours sitting here with you you unbeknown to me closest though late for...
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jvandertoorn
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
just sit and breath
By Jennifer van der Toorn - So, there I sat, Monday morning at 6AM on a meditation cushion in the temple of Karuna Centre in Portugal....
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 28, 2021
- 1 min
on the vanity of traveling
after long travels facing black letters on the wall white the wall behind the letters colorless the empty all around reading my way...
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hamid ebadi
- Aug 28, 2021
- 1 min
the fly in the bottle
keep telling leo not to get confused zazen and relaxation being two things pourtant les instructions sont simples simple and sparse sit...
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hamid ebadi
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
approaching silence
then comes this drop into silence. with the suspension of time, everything is fluid, everything, mountains too, their imperceptable...
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hamid ebadi
- May 1, 2021
- 2 min
a radiance hidden in the heart of darkness
sesshin ends. last sit together. sitting with those here. sitting with those who left. with those who never came. with those who couldn’t...
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davidwim
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
letting go of your treasure
Zazen makes you look at the stuff you don't want to see, the things you've been hiding from yourself, sometimes in plain sight. This is...
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hamid ebadi
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
ephemeral
end of our silent retreat, monchique 23 april 2021 a poem inspired by the dharma talks during the week __________________________________...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
we are being called
We are preparing ourselves for an intensive period of practice where for a week, we will be spending long hours every day sitting in...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 21, 2021
- 2 min
the three jewels
In Buddhism we have the three jewels; the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are indissociable from one another and form an...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 6, 2021
- 1 min
a response to life on a rainy friday morning
how i would appear before the world that lifelong concern with mirrors mirrors now broken mostly shimmers on the surface of waters...
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hamid ebadi
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
notes from a mountain retreat
the man is keeping silent in his hut oblivious of time being a river ripples moving on the pond reflections of ripples in the air what we...
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