Portugal – 25 avril 2011 – Zen and the Art of Freedom
Retreat
Off to Portugal this morning for retreat. We will celebrate a ceremony Monday around noon Portugal time (GMT) for several people receiving the precepts (jukai). All welcome to sit with us, wherever you are at that time (or another time).
Stones just as they are
Feels like summer here these days, me between trips and the temperatures high and the sky blue blue blue. Only the calender doesn't fit in the picture. And what picture might that be? The picture that I make of what I think is the picture. Yesterday I visited fields of great boulders that have been [...]
Méditation à Paris/weekly meditation in Paris
Les lundis soirs, 20h-22h méditation et entretiens (interviews) avec Amy Sensei 4 Passage Courtois 75011 Paris (porte gauche, interphone 'maison', dernière étage) Tél. 06 10 87 82 19 (Joa) Les vendredis soirs, 19h45-21h15 méditation et enseignement (talk) avec Amy Sensei Red Earth Centre 235 rue Lafayette 75010 Paris code A153B au fond de la cour, [...]
No sitting
A note for those in Paris: Il n'y aura pas de méditation à Paris le lundi 25 avril. Tout recommencera le vendredi 29 avril et le lundi 2 mai.
Temporary indeed
A direct experience of these most temporal words: The whole thing disappeared for two days! Or did it? As with the nature of all things, we could not "see" "it," but "it" was/is there all along. Temporarily. And wider than the sky. If you came and didn't find the words, welcome back. If you had [...]
Observations, temporarily
Here I am at my desk again, fingers poised over the keyboard, no idea what will come next. A thought of something I read the other day about the necessity of great empty space in a Greek temple, because the void is where the gods are. The rest of us are lumped all together here [...]
Here We Are
At last, the long-promised video from my reading in January at Berkeley Books in Paris. For the moment, I'm posting only the final piece that I read, "Here We Are." Perhaps others will be coming soon. Thanks to all those who helped this video make it to you: Emmanuel, Sophie, Joa, Célin.