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jvandertoorn
Dec 18, 20212 min read
just sit and breath
By Jennifer van der Toorn - So, there I sat, Monday morning at 6AM on a meditation cushion in the temple of Karuna Centre in Portugal....
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hamid ebadi
Aug 28, 20211 min read
on the vanity of traveling
after long travels facing black letters on the wall white the wall behind the letters colorless the empty all around reading my way...
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hamid ebadi
Aug 28, 20211 min read
the fly in the bottle
keep telling leo not to get confused zazen and relaxation being two things pourtant les instructions sont simples simple and sparse sit...
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hamid ebadi
Jun 13, 20211 min read
approaching silence
then comes this drop into silence. with the suspension of time, everything is fluid, everything, mountains too, their imperceptable...
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hamid ebadi
May 1, 20212 min read
a radiance hidden in the heart of darkness
sesshin ends. last sit together. sitting with those here. sitting with those who left. with those who never came. with those who couldn’t...
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davidwim
Apr 28, 20216 min read
letting go of your treasure
Zazen makes you look at the stuff you don't want to see, the things you've been hiding from yourself, sometimes in plain sight. This is...
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hamid ebadi
Apr 26, 20211 min read
ephemeral
end of our silent retreat, monchique 23 april 2021 a poem inspired by the dharma talks during the week __________________________________...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 25, 20212 min read
we are being called
We are preparing ourselves for an intensive period of practice where for a week, we will be spending long hours every day sitting in...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 21, 20212 min read
the three jewels
In Buddhism we have the three jewels; the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are indissociable from one another and form an...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 6, 20211 min read
a response to life on a rainy friday morning
how i would appear before the world that lifelong concern with mirrors mirrors now broken mostly shimmers on the surface of waters...
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hamid ebadi
Mar 1, 20211 min read
notes from a mountain retreat
the man is keeping silent in his hut oblivious of time being a river ripples moving on the pond reflections of ripples in the air what we...
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hamid ebadi
Feb 14, 20213 min read
in reverence of the unknown
" 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...
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ninamorena806
Nov 13, 20202 min read
hug your hulk
I swing them violently by the hair from side to side across my head. It's the recurrent dream again. I wake up. Hulk says good morning. I...
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hamid ebadi
Sep 13, 20202 min read
the pathless land of truth
This is what Jiddu Krishnamurti tried to explain from his earliest teachings in 1929 right until the end: " truth is a pathless land. "...
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hamid ebadi
May 12, 20206 min read
in praise of the last horse
When you stumble again, hit the wall again, stray again, disappoint yourself again, fail to learn your lessons again, hit rock bottom...
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hamid ebadi
Apr 12, 20204 min read
the net of indra
An edited version of the first talk in our online zazen sessions: the Net of Indra. Many thanks to Jen for the transcription....
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hamid ebadi
Mar 12, 20203 min read
he who knows does not speak so speak you who do not know
For over ten years now I have found myself being in a teacher's position while realizing being a student is what I feel far more...
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hamid ebadi
Nov 21, 20194 min read
in and out of the stream of unknowing
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...
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hamid ebadi
Oct 9, 20192 min read
living without why
asks not whether it is seen: that silent unfolding of the play
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hamid ebadi
Aug 5, 20191 min read
disappearing
karuna center, serra de monchique, portugal
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