hua hin, july 2023 carnet de voyage _____________________ seasons of rain sheets of water freely traveling anywhere the illusion of...

" learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inwards. " it's with these words that master dogen speaks about the...

This was to be my second meditation retreat with Hamid, and my first time ever in Bali. The excitement that comes with discovering a new...

For a period of time, the March 2023 silent retreat in Bali was not going to happen for me. Due to passport issues, my partner and I got...

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

the ultimate path is not difficult just avoid picking and choosing seng t'san - hsin hsin ming circa 6th century...

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...

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...

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...

Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...

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...

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...

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...

silent retreat october twenty-twenty two monchique * silence to you closer than you morning raindrops on the round black stone in front...

report from a silent retreat serra de monchique summer twenty twenty-two _____________________________ approaching silence stepping into...

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...

Following a lot of great personal disappointments in my life and a general sense that my neurotic, ever-anxious, depressed mind was going...

Dreading heading straight into autumn and darkness again after what we in Norway call a “skipped summer”, I desperately searched the net...

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...

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....