some thoughts on meditation
It's something to look forward to whenever I get the chance to sit with others an intensive silent meditation retreat as this allows me...
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hamid ebadi
Jan 11, 20193 min read
returning to monchique
It is with pleasure that I can announce the resumption of our silent meditation and yin yoga retreats at Karuna Center in Algarve,...
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georgia morley
Dec 19, 20184 min read
this practice has a lifeline of highs and lows
It is hard to put into words my experience of the past 6 days silent meditation and yoga retreat. This surprises me as this was my 3rd...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 19, 20183 min read
today, i hold myself
I write this as it is approaching three months since I spent six days on a silent meditation retreat in the hills of Monchique, Portugal....
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hamid ebadi
Oct 10, 20182 min read
mujo, when the wind of impermanance howls
photo: lorelei loveridge For some reason, I came home from work, cooked dinner, fell asleep, and woke at 1 AM. Meditated after a bit and...
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hamid ebadi
Sep 26, 20181 min read
the pathless one in you
on the anatolian plateau, september 2018 from my travels to where and nowhere . autrement dit the point of the journey is in the travel ....
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hamid ebadi
Sep 2, 20183 min read
at home in heaven and hell
' In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers. " Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1827) This is heaven, call it home. This is...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 3, 20181 min read
starting sesshin
orientation talk on the first day of our july 2018 sesshin in sierra de monchique, algarve, portugal. a presentation of the practice of...
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hamid ebadi
Jun 27, 20182 min read
those greater forces around us
Less than a month to our silent meditation retreat in the Serra de Monchique, Portugal. Some of you are making the journey from other...
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hamid ebadi
May 28, 20181 min read
sesshin notes V / april 2018
cold wind roaring through monchique hills down into the valley though silent we stand on your way are part of your voice with...
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hamid ebadi
May 25, 20181 min read
silence teaches what is beyond words
one of the more impactful and profound experiences given to us to live is to recollect heart and mind in an intensive period of silent...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 11, 20183 min read
shikantaza, just sitting
Zazen is at once a bare-bone form of meditation and at the same time it is not one. Historically it’s a twice millennial practice passed...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 8, 20185 min read
sensei ryotan tokuda
Today I would like to present you Master Tokuda Igarishi. The first time I met him was in a small Parisian apartment where he and a few...
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hamid ebadi
Feb 19, 20181 min read
the art of meditation : when we sit in sesshin
Sitting through a sesshin is something you need to come and experience for yourself as this is as personal an experience as it gets and...
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hamid ebadi
Dec 15, 20173 min read
is there someone called the teacher?
in conversation with : Therese Lind Bjellder @thereselindbillie So basically a teacher's work is to reveal our hidden potential to us and...
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hamid ebadi
Dec 4, 20171 min read
psalm
here not to grasp here to bear earth upholds us universe motherly we can cry our fill cries heeded and heard stones hear us stars hear...
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hamid ebadi
Dec 4, 20172 min read
things falling apart
when things start falling apart, hold on to your seat. albert camus puts it this way: there is no love of life without despair of life. ...
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hamid ebadi
Dec 2, 20171 min read
passing through the gate
we passed this gate to reach our place of practice, a towering ganesha greeting us. we sat through an intensive period of meditation...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 7, 20173 min read
and the rest is silence
and the rest is silence the sheer beauty of osho's words arrested me this morning: “ our existence is nothing but a sound in the immense...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 7, 20174 min read
to the broke and the broken
Our sesshin (silent meditation retreat) in Monchique, South Portugal, is less than a month away. Some of you have written to express your...
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