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Come to think of it
All hearts are friendly
It's the heads that make
the trouble
I sense that at the heart
level nembutsu's are
constant and Kuan Shi Yin
Bakes bread
enough
to keep us all fed.
Path of sand
That shifts constantly
Four steps forward
Four back
Yet in the midst
Of this we may
Encounter the true
A friendly heart
Reaching out
A calloused hand
We meet Amida
In the other
Sun sinks
Moon takes up the tune
Light makes it round
Go…
Fools that lie my shadow sees
why do they always ridicule me?
Shadows that dance in salty light
pretending to be saved without a prayer that means much.
Om to them would be just a sound
Caught in heaven unless it angered them.
Crying in my sleep a…
My shadow waves at yours
Even though our acquaintance is slight
They seem to know each other
Only too well
I have no doubt
That when we meet again
Our shadows will merge together
Like old friends.
Walkingon a path of sand in the universeembedded by a cold wind in my face and a bright sun in my backlow, as the sunset is not far away.I follow a long thin shadow om the groundand scratch my headthe shadow waves. I turn back, it's time to gothe sh…
Thank you Sujatin, to bring our attention to this. With love, Namo Amida Bu
Ohhhh so stupid: i need to learn more english to understand while hearing. I get frustrated because this content here touches and inspires me so deep and...i cannot understand it enough. I may not swear (i know), but i want too. Reading goes better.…
Three weeks ago i printed out this blog, because the title calls me as interesting! Today i could read it and the content makes me feel happy, silent and grateful. Thank you Dharmavidya.
As people and conditions in life are so different, sangha's in…
Wonderfull Simon! By your words i can feel a bit what you experience and meet now, as if i can read your words through your feeling eyes. Nice Simon and...i bow for your experiences in India, as you never went far away. New, scarry, inspiring and ex…
Last weekend, we met with our belgian Amida group. 9 of the 15 members came together in a gasthouse of one couple of the group (Nico and Martine) from fryday until sundayafternoon.
It was good in all levels: relaxing, deepening, inspiring, confronta…
Thank you Sujatin. I'm with you, with all of the group, with all of our planet: all breathing at this moment and at this Metta Monday. warm wishes, Namo Amida Bu
To know we are loved is to meet selfless compassioin- the act of caring directed to us. and as children we also meet caring because of responsibility- the parenting identity. That caring feels measured and perhaps as children we find more love and i…
I find this such a fundamental issue that you point out Katrien, thankyou.
Where is the space for unselfish loving in this world of conflicting needs and demands, except in the assurance of Love already present, unearned, abundant?
I don't begin to…
I think that you understand that i wanted to write in the title 'disturbing effect' and not disturning...a little funny fault. Namo Amida Bu
By a lot of coincidences this sentence sounds in me, before work this morning: "stop with this ego-need to be loved". It had a wonderfull healing effect.At work i have some conflict and i'm a bit scared and a bit angry and much tensionned to go ther…
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- About Me:
- I was born in 1954 in a family with 8 children in a period of 9 years!. After 25 year being mother of 3 children -one sun with a handicap, who asks a lot of extra care, with a good result- as my first responsibility (with playing violin with chlildren and with anthroposofy as other responsibilities), my world could become open to work with other people, as an orthopaedagoog (handicapped people) and as a psychotherapist.It took a lot of years to find my way in life, but all steps were important to find the rest and the happiness, that I can feel now. So I'm ready to take more responsibility as a little buddhist of the Amida-shu on a silent way.
- Amida Membership
- Shu Member
- Faith Background & Affiliation
- Buddhist - Amida-Shu
- Occupation or Primary Activity
- Psyhotherapist and orthopaedagoog
- Involvement in Spirituality/Religion
- I've been educated in Katholicism, but I did not find the answer on the question of 'good and bad'. So I look further and I was 15 years in the movement of the Antroposofy (R. Steiner). But also there I did not find the way of living that was honest. Then I met the Amida-buddhism and it seems to be my way. I find a buttom and a containment to live honestly for myself, my environment and 'all' senteeing beeings. I grow slowly in this way.
- What is your interest in Amida Trust
- Not the intellectual theories, but the way of living: the concrete and consequent attitude of feeling faith and trust, accepting the Other Power, take refuge in 5 essential thinks, realising to be a foolish being. The connection to the Sangha, locally and across the whole world gives me power responsibility and love. I'll try to be on my way a member of Amida-shu in my daily life and hopely also by Internet!?
- How did you find this web site?
- Invited by Dharmvidya
- What country are you living in?
- Belgium
- What is the nearest town to where you live? If in UK, please give first half of your postcode. Thank you.
- Antwerp
- Are you a member of an Amida group/Congregation
- Belgium
- Have you visited
- Amida France
- What can you offer to other members of this network?
- A place to stay, Expertise
- What other interests do you have, eg Arts, Gardening and so on.
- Walking, nature, gardening, dancing, move on music.
Meeting people on a deep, intense and pleasant way..
I most like intensity in all I do, even in the silence I need.
Katrien Sercu's Blog
May i be honest: i miss the talking by the different groups...
Last weeks or months the blogs on ning become central and the groups disappears a bit. I don't write against blogs; i write to the advantage of the groups.
In a blog a person is central. In a group the content is central, by sharing about different issues with different Amida Friends. I feel that i miss it. I like to read a blog, but it invites less to share and discuss or do i see it wrong?
I hope that this is not unkind; i don't mean it unkind. I look for a way to refind intensity and… Continue
In a blog a person is central. In a group the content is central, by sharing about different issues with different Amida Friends. I feel that i miss it. I like to read a blog, but it invites less to share and discuss or do i see it wrong?
I hope that this is not unkind; i don't mean it unkind. I look for a way to refind intensity and… Continue
Posted on February 15, 2010 at 8:20pm — 5 Comments
The danger of a parent-child feeling to our leaders and the effect of hierarchy.
This content, after long writing this morning, is lost by sending it away. So i try again, with less energy and poetic mood than before.
I realise this morning that the deep sadness that i feel (and that i read also on ning), started with the divorce of Dharmavidya and Prasada and the process that it evokes. I respect and understand this choice of David and Caroline, but strange,... the child in me lost his faith in faithfull parents! It's embarrassing to read my own words, but they're true.… Continue
I realise this morning that the deep sadness that i feel (and that i read also on ning), started with the divorce of Dharmavidya and Prasada and the process that it evokes. I respect and understand this choice of David and Caroline, but strange,... the child in me lost his faith in faithfull parents! It's embarrassing to read my own words, but they're true.… Continue
Posted on February 6, 2010 at 9:19am — 3 Comments
Haïti...can we give all this suffering to Amida, by nembutsu?
Only deep impotence, to a country that already was broken and that now is destroyed totally or nearly totally by the last earthquake, with a disaster that is stronger than the Tsunami. By mondial and local misuse on political, environmental, social, economical ...levels the whole is grown into a negative spiral, with so much suffering and hopelessness for the whole population....
What can we do as engaged Buddhists....? How can we see this, without getting depressed, what strengths the dark side… Continue
What can we do as engaged Buddhists....? How can we see this, without getting depressed, what strengths the dark side… Continue
Posted on January 16, 2010 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments
Much love to all of you, at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 and what comes
2009 was a year, where Amida Buddhism became pretty central in my life. I'm very gratefull for that. All the people of the Buddhist House were and are important in that proces and also all sharing on ning, less or more intense or personal. The 72-hours nembutsu in TBH brought me trough deep, old patterns full of resistance against life, that seemed so important, but that are no more needed. Faith and Trust in Love are not more a deep inaccessible longing...it feels real and is real. Even when sa… Continue
Posted on December 31, 2009 at 1:13pm — 1 Comment
Experience from the 72-hours Nembutsu on the Bodhiretreat
A statue of Amida Buddha, in goldcolour, sitting in deep silence and rest, in the middle of us..chanting for hours and hours...Namo Amida Bu....quiet, loud, heavy, rithmic, dancing, silent, beautiful, open, in chaos or harmony, voices that find or struggle with eachother, peace, sadness, joy...a non-stop chanting with the drum and a bellmaster....20 minutes sitting and 20 minutes walking...Amida accepting it all, what came and went away...outside rain in sunshine...with a -for us- unvisible rain… Continue
Posted on December 8, 2009 at 6:59pm — 7 Comments
Comment Wall (28 comments)
- At 2:03pm on March 5, 2010,
Sujatin said…
- I love your report of the Benelux group meeting - I can't reply there as I'm not a member. I think that gently introducing a bit of Pureland practice is indeed the way to go. No-one feels pressurised, threatened or overwhelmed....and then they have a bit of the experience of how the chanting feels - a bit of visceral understanding on which gentle explanation can follow. Enjoy your next meeting :-) Namo Amida Bu
- At 8:38pm on January 20, 2010,
Adrian Philip Debney (Kalyanaka) said… - Hello Katrien - so glad to make your friendship. I look forward to reading your words and thoughts here. I hope that we meet one day. Until then - thank you. Warmest regards to you.
- At 10:04am on January 10, 2010,
Gerald Beeck said… - Namo Amida Bu Katrien, Namo Amida Bu
Last days were as stormy as well. Lots of things going through my head and questions, and doubts and what ifs?
I say Namo Amida Bu with all my heart and have faith and courage to go forth, to accept life as it is and happens to me.
have a good meeting.
NAB
Gerald
- At 8:56pm on January 8, 2010,
Dharmavidya said… - Dear Katrien - Thank you. Yes, no war. We have separated and we have done it in an honest and respectful manner and I think this is the best teaching. We shall go on respecting each other, I believe, and continue the work. This is remarkable by worldly standards and we might not always manage to be perfect because we are ordinary human beings, but change does come and with it new opportunities as well as new challenges. Thank you for your concern and support. In the nembutsu all is possible. Namo Amida Bu
- At 1:45pm on December 31, 2009,
dean haywood said… - thank you katrien,I very much hope we get to meet again in the new year,with love namo amida bu
- At 5:13pm on December 20, 2009,
Robb Hunter said… - Hi Katrien
Thank you for adding me and for your kind words. Namo Amida Bu
- At 3:02pm on December 10, 2009,
Simon Williams said… - Hello Katrien. Thank you for your kind words. I was so pleased to meet you having read your contributions on the network with great interest and joy. I have to say that when I knew you were coming I thought that you would be here for the week so felt sad that we had not had the opportunity to have a longer conversation be you left. It also a shame that you have not been able to be here to take part in the sharing that has taken place with regard to reflecting on the 72 hour nembutsu, which has been enormously rich and insight evoking. I think I am at the moment left with the impact of this shared experience as one that not only has been of life changing significance for me but also of 'historical' significance for the Order, of which you too are an important part. I hope this is the start of many meetings in the future. Namo Amida Bu
- At 12:25am on December 8, 2009,
Susthama said… - Namo Amida Bu - presumably you've arrived safely. It was wonderful to have you here with us and look forward to seeing you again soon.
Lots of love,
Susthama
- At 3:12pm on December 2, 2009,
Sujatin said…
- So looking forward to meeting you!
- At 8:06am on December 1, 2009,
Ratnacitta said… - Hi Katrien....How are you doing??
Love,
Ratnacitta
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