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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
Sep 1, 20232 min read
silence is your home
a report from a week of silent sitting ____________________________________ the deeper silence reaches within, the lesser 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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Matthew Skinta
Aug 16, 20232 min read
returning to this moment
The 8-day silent retreat in July 2023 was my second through Maitri Retreats – I also attended in July 2022 with Hamid. This time, I had...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 15, 20234 min read
the art of making mistake after mistake
There is a Zen expression: shoshaku jushaku that is rendered in English as; to succeed wrong with wrong or, one continuous mistake. In...
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ccoutrot
Aug 13, 20232 min read
a unique and profound experience
I have attended Hamid's retreats twice : last year for an 8d retreat in Portugal and this year for a 4d retreat in Bali. Trying to...
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Yessica Rodríguez
Jul 24, 20232 min read
what arises from silence
What arises from silence is GRATITUDE. I feel blessed and privileged to have experienced such an expansive feeling throughout the...
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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
Jun 15, 20232 min read
turning the light inward
" 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...
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sharongesthalter
May 10, 20234 min read
keep on Walking
This was to be my second meditation retreat with Hamid, and my first time ever in Bali. The excitement that comes with discovering a new...
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amferruzzi
Apr 13, 20232 min read
exactly what it needed to be
For a period of time, the March 2023 silent retreat in Bali was not going to happen for me. Due to passport issues, my partner and I got...
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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
Feb 4, 20231 min read
traceless practice
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...
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Micah Manquen
Jan 19, 20236 min read
let me be
Hello dear reader! Please allow me to pass along some thoughts based on my attendance at the 8 day silent retreat in Monchique. As a 37...
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hamid ebadi
Jan 15, 20232 min read
buddha alone sees buddha
Immersion in silence and stillness in the company of others during a meditation retreat can be a profound and potentially...
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mdevilliers60
Jan 4, 20233 min read
non-thinking, going nowhere: a reckoning with mount agung
I arrive at The Yogi’s Garden in Payangan, Bali, with a small red suitcase. But I’m also carrying another burden, one that’s harder to...
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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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hamid ebadi
Dec 21, 20222 min read
what ashes tell us about silence
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...
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