meditation retreats

Nov 102 min read

canto ostinato meanders into godot

The first dhamma talk Hamid gives invites us ‘to become intimate with our own mind’. This invitation shapes this retreat for me. The word...

Nov 75 min read

resistance

Coming out of the world of doing, it felt quite intense to go into being. It's strange to see how something I really want - going to the...

Nov 34 min read

stepping into the unknown

As pointed out in the retreat there is an immense source of distractions as never before in the history of humankind. I’m sitting in an...

Oct 202 min read

through all colors of fall the dharma speaks

We are at Karuna Center, in Monchique, Portugal, starting our Autumn 8-day silent retreat. When we sit together in silence, what...

Sep 192 min read

no where to go and nothing to become : we just are

ultimately the journey makes us understand that there is no going from here to there and no becoming for us. the journey begins and ends...

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...