poetry

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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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 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 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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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

Apr 271 min read

traceless

karuna center, monchique, portugal, april 2024 silent retreat ____________________________________ everywhere hills undulating on the...

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hamid ebadi

Apr 201 min read

? passage of time

_______________________________ " If time merely flies away, you would be separated from time. The reason you do not clearly understand...

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hamid ebadi

Dec 27, 20232 min read

rain talk is dharma talk

december retreat 2023 bali it rained heavily the morning of our last day of retreat in december. i was in a contemplative mood, not...

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hamid ebadi

Nov 27, 20231 min read

eternity this interplay

candi dasa, bali, november twenty-three " as one side is illumined, the other is darkened. - master dogen" sunday you are vast and...

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hamid ebadi

Oct 31, 20232 min read

misty heights

silent retreat october twenty twenty-three monchique * no entry no exit point to silence enter or leave it you cannot * in the midst of...

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hamid ebadi

Oct 15, 20231 min read

sesshin ends

curtains drawn from the paddies sunlight pouring in cicadas screeching pouring in inside no one outside no one the dweller left his:...

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hamid ebadi

Sep 13, 20231 min read

jisei (death poem)

orange moon sailed-off before i came to the river to watch the boats light begins to turn time to prepare for fall love of summer your...

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hamid ebadi

Aug 20, 20232 min read

carnet de voyage

I rainy season sheets of water freely traveling illusion of you are going anywhere accompanying you wherever you go adds embellishment to...

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hamid ebadi

Jul 6, 20231 min read

vastness anywhere

hua hin, july 2023 carnet de voyage _____________________ seasons of rain sheets of water freely traveling anywhere the illusion of...

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hamid ebadi

Mar 6, 20231 min read

in whatever state

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

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hamid ebadi

Feb 28, 20231 min read

disparadised

the ultimate path is not difficult just avoid picking and choosing seng t'san - hsin hsin ming circa 6th century...

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hamid ebadi

Feb 17, 20231 min read

when destinies meet

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...

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hamid ebadi

Dec 26, 20221 min read

jour de noël

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...

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