and there is a time for the wind to break the loosened pane- t.s.eliot / four quartets in case of loss to whom to turn to when to return...

in the world of zazen, when we sit, we are sitting with all beings even though we may think we are just sitting on our own. the just...

Back home now reflecting on our 5-day silent retreat a few days ago at Great Ocean Road in Victoria. During the talks, we delved into...

What a truly magical experience. This retreat was a holiday for my brain and my soul. I had no idea that there was so much healing in...

jatiluwih, bali, november 2024 master dogen: expounding a dream within a dream ________________________________________ nightfall storms...

The first dhamma talk Hamid gives invites us ‘to become intimate with our own mind’. This invitation shapes this retreat for me. The word...

Coming out of the world of doing, it felt quite intense to go into being. It's strange to see how something I really want - going to the...

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...

All reflections have a beginning, yet I am unsure where to start. How far back in time should I go for you to understand my current...

We are at Karuna Center, in Monchique, Portugal, starting our Autumn 8-day silent retreat. When we sit together in silence, what...

ei-tai ji temple, la rochette, 13 august 2000 here is a poem i presented to my teacher, ryotan tokuda roshi, on my monk ordination day...

silent retreat september 2024 / payangan, bali ______________________________________ in and out of silence words freely move where there...

ultimately the journey makes us understand that there is no going from here to there and no becoming for us. the journey begins and ends...

" so you should view this fleeting world..." the lotus sutra so between two tides our lives this presence mirage on a shore appears...

dôgo and zengen went to a house to express condolences. zengen rapped on the coffin and asked, "alive or dead?" dôgo said, "I won't say...

" anché peye āni āni / what you seek is seeking you. " - jallaledin rūmi " the fire boy comes seeking fire." - zen koan...

fades away the muzzin's call as we leave port lember behind old boat rust eaten traval companion true vessel of emptiness you plough a...

pantai ann, lombok, august 2024 on reading okumura roshi in the shallows of speech water words ripple over murmuring algae where light...

After two days and many hours of sitting in zazen, the incessant thoughts of my every day life, the distractions and desires finally...

m’illumino  d’immenso - giuseppe ungaretti at the end of your long journey, you may well take note that the journey never had a beginning...