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hamid ebadi
Dec 172 min read
narrow the path to nowhere
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...
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sgrut8
Dec 94 min read
the healing power of silence
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...
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hamid ebadi
Dec 21 min read
dream within a dream
jatiluwih, bali, november 2024 master dogen: expounding a dream within a dream ________________________________________ nightfall storms...
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jmcdekker1
Nov 102 min read
canto ostinato meanders into godot
The first dhamma talk Hamid gives invites us ‘to become intimate with our own mind’. This invitation shapes this retreat for me. The word...
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Elise Peace
Nov 75 min read
resistance
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...
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jzamoraz87
Nov 34 min read
stepping into the unknown
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...
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Yessica Rodríguez
Nov 34 min read
embracing impermanence: a journey from ancestral wounds to personal transformation
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...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 202 min read
through all colors of fall the dharma speaks
We are at Karuna Center, in Monchique, Portugal, starting our Autumn 8-day silent retreat. When we sit together in silence, what...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 123 min read
the journey of not knowing
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...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 21 min read
what passes is not time
silent retreat september 2024 / payangan, bali ______________________________________ in and out of silence words freely move where there...
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hamid ebadi
Sep 192 min read
no where to go and nothing to become : we just are
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...
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hamid ebadi
Sep 81 min read
the lotus sutra says
" so you should view this fleeting world..." the lotus sutra so between two tides our lives this presence mirage on a shore appears...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 312 min read
still the tree stirs
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...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 171 min read
the calling is you
" anché peye āni āni / what you seek is seeking you. " - jallaledin rūmi " the fire boy comes seeking fire." - zen koan...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 141 min read
leaving lombok
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...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 81 min read
myriad voices one dharma
pantai ann, lombok, august 2024 on reading okumura roshi in the shallows of speech water words ripple over murmuring algae where light...
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Ahmed M
Jul 313 min read
just sitting
After two days and many hours of sitting in zazen, the incessant thoughts of my every day life, the distractions and desires finally...
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hamid ebadi
Jul 202 min read
as the sheets of water roll in
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...
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hamid ebadi
Jul 132 min read
speak the unspeakable again
unusual for the season, it rained all night long. you know this because of the drizzle you heard falling in your sleep. you have lived...
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hamid ebadi
Jul 32 min read
as long as she tunes in to the wind singing in the pines
daybreak silent retreat payangan bali To sit with others in silence and stillness, what is it? An experience for each person to...
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