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sesshin notes II / april 2018
your sojourn in silence and stillness the path is a mirror reflects things as they are thathata thusness you as you are now...
hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read
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silence teaches what is beyond words
one of the more impactful and profound experiences given to us to live is to recollect heart and mind in an intensive period of silent...
hamid ebadi
May 25, 20181 min read
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body mirroring thoughts
One way of looking at meditation would be to see it as the practice of taking the backward step to look within. It is said in Zen that in...
hamid ebadi
Mar 26, 20183 min read
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hujan besar hari ini
jalan raya pengosekan, ubud, bali my happy hour. hujan besar hari ini. intense showers. rainy season soon coming to an end. for now that...
hamid ebadi
Mar 16, 20182 min read
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sensei ryotan tokuda
Today I would like to present you Master Tokuda Igarishi. The first time I met him was in a small Parisian apartment where he and a few...
hamid ebadi
Mar 8, 20185 min read
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the art of meditation : when we sit in sesshin
Sitting through a sesshin is something you need to come and experience for yourself as this is as personal an experience as it gets and...
hamid ebadi
Feb 19, 20181 min read
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only humility is endless
My time in Bali is soon coming to an end and in a little more than a month I will be leaving this island after having lived here with my...
hamid ebadi
Feb 19, 20184 min read
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sunflowers
on the road, by an open filed, cévennes, france, 2007 #sunflowers #cevennes #zen #blackandwhitephotogrpahy
hamid ebadi
Dec 15, 20171 min read
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is there someone called the teacher?
in conversation with : Therese Lind Bjellder @thereselindbillie So basically a teacher's work is to reveal our hidden potential to us and...
hamid ebadi
Dec 15, 20173 min read
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nour
wondrous too our grieving samsara where with a smile adjourning time you tie the seas that sunder us where slowly i waken as you...
hamid ebadi
Dec 5, 20171 min read
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psalm
here not to grasp here to bear earth upholds us universe motherly we can cry our fill cries heeded and heard stones hear us stars hear...
hamid ebadi
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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things falling apart
when things start falling apart, hold on to your seat. albert camus puts it this way: there is no love of life without despair of life. ...
hamid ebadi
Dec 4, 20172 min read
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not knowing
ease into this the need to know i have blown it out in your heart paths and journeys now silenced are you awake or is this still sleep...
hamid ebadi
Dec 2, 20171 min read
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passing through the gate
we passed this gate to reach our place of practice, a towering ganesha greeting us. we sat through an intensive period of meditation...
hamid ebadi
Dec 2, 20171 min read
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the dark side
Maya Grella I have been thinking / Feeling a lot lately and I had to realize that I am not really Content / happy with who I am. ​I...
hamid ebadi
Nov 21, 20174 min read
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my first foray into zen
Hi everyone, my name is Jennifer. I attended one of Hamid's retreats a few years ago and I thought it could be nice to share my blog post...
jennifer stretton
Oct 17, 20176 min read
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exploring maitri...
So my name is MJ and I write a blog on my website badyogi.com.au. In a previous post I mentioned the word Maitri. Chatting to Hamid...
hamid ebadi
Oct 15, 20174 min read
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and the rest is silence
and the rest is silence the sheer beauty of osho's words arrested me this morning: “ our existence is nothing but a sound in the...
hamid ebadi
Oct 7, 20173 min read
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to the broke and the broken
Our sesshin (silent meditation retreat) in Monchique, South Portugal, is less than a month away. Some of you have written to express your...
hamid ebadi
Oct 7, 20174 min read
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to friends old and new on the path
over the past ten years, i have had the honor to share teachings with many students in india, bali and some other parts of the world. the...
hamid ebadi
Oct 7, 20172 min read
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