One week has passed since the end of our sesshin  (a week of intensive meditation practice) with Zen master Ryotan Tokuda, a Japanese monk who has been a missionary in Brazil and France for more than half a century. I don’t understand what brought us there, and where it’ll lead us to. But it is always through the unexpected that the path weaves itself, and one just walks, step by step, into the unknown, as countless others have walked and paved... just for you to walk.   Abruptly withdrawn by...

As pointed out in the retreat there is an immense source of distractions as never before in the history of humankind. I’m sitting in an...