Awareness has more to do with the quality of attention we bring to something rather than what we give our attention to. It’s not so much...

a report from a week of silent sitting ____________________________________ the deeper silence reaches within, the lesser your...

There is a Zen expression: shoshaku jushaku that is rendered in English as; to succeed wrong with wrong or, one continuous mistake. In...

" learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inwards. " it's with these words that master dogen speaks about the...

in the end it is in silence that we have our questions answered for it is in silence that all our questions come to dissolve. the one who...

Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...

our first silent retreat in bali after four years ended last sunday. it was a gathering of friends, old and new. one of the gifts of...

my death verse early to be written too late to be read winds sweep the mountain prairie unfurling waves through wild grass no one came...

Our summer retreat in Monchique begins on Sunday and I'm on my way to Portugal to welcome our guests coming from many different lands....

In zen, it is said that a dharma talk is obscure to the mind but radiant to the heart. In Saint-Exupery's 'the Little Prince' we read:...

puget-thénier, alpes de haute provence, april 2022 visiting ei-tai ji temple and meeting master ryotan tokuda after a long time. he does...

In Buddhism we have the three jewels; the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are indissociable from one another and form an...

" Comment vivre sans inconnu en face de soi? How can we live without the unknown in front of us? René Char - Le poème pulverisé. " In...

When you stumble again, hit the wall again, stray again, disappoint yourself again, fail to learn your lessons again, hit rock bottom...

Reading Meister Eckhart’s sermons we learn that God is not to be found here and is not to be found there, he is not to be found anywhere...

asks not whether it is seen: that silent unfolding of the play

karuna retreat center, serra de monchique, algarve, portugal

second pilgrimage of the year after visiting rumi's shrine in konya, turkey, in september. returning to ei-tai ji temple, in the lower...

Harking the wind of impermanence howl. Howling for you, howling for me, howling for no one. Of that wind, we could say, it hardly ever...

tombes of jallaludin-e-rumi, his father, son and disicples shrine of jallaludin rumi, konya, september 2018 six months adrift after...