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....

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...

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:...

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...

karuna center, monchique silent retreat, april 2022 ___________________________ seeker path goal merge into silence and disappear...