Individual and Community Dear Friends,
Our Sangha is at its core an open meeting space to practice insight and compassion. Together we form that Sangha. A Sangha evening cannot be taken for granted. We work together, like the cells in a body, to make it a living practice site. A Sangha evening, like many other practices, can become a habit. Apparently self-explanatory. You only become aware of this when something happens, when someone says something about it or when someone asks a question. A wake-up call. We became aware of the value of our Sangha practice at the beginning of the Corona crisis. We have found an online form and have organized an extra evening. Now we were awakened by the question from the stichting Leven in Aandacht. How do we deal with possible complaints that participants may have in our evenings? How do we relate to the world around us? A complaints procedure, in one form or another, may be necessary. If we look deeper we can discover a question. If someone has a problem, he or she can just bring it into the room to share our evening? Perhaps there is a reason why someone does not speak up immediately. It is good to look deeply into this. The habit of not speaking, swallowing. Ik ga ervan uit dat we allemaal wel eens een situatie hebben meegemaakt waarin er iets was waardoor we niet ter sprake brachten wat eigenlijk wel nodig was. We hebben er wellicht van geleerd, omdat je ontdekte dat het voor-je-uitschuiven het lijden niet kleiner, maar groter maakte. Nu moet je niet alleen dat wat je moeilijk vindt uitspreken maar ook nog eens uitleggen waarom je het niet direct of open hebt gedaan. Mijn voorstel is om hiervoor aandacht te hebben en bij stil te staan. Deze ‘gewoonte-energie’ te onderzoeken. Daardoor oefenen we compassie en begrip die het samen-Sangha zijn als open oefenplek. Het voedt ook ons vermogen om een beginning a-new sangha avond te kunnen doen (zie link, nog zoeken). Het stimuleert ons om deze vorm van diep luisteren en liefdevol spreken in ons dagelijks leven te oefenen. I assume that we have all been in situations when there was something that prevented us from bringing up what was actually needed. We may have learned from it, because you found that postponing didn't lessen suffering less, but made it larger, deeper maybe. Now you not only have say what you find difficult, but also explain why you did not expressed it directly or openly. My proposal is to inquire this mindfully to and reflect on this. To explore this 'habit energy'. Thus, we practice compassion and understanding that is the fundament in our Sangha together as an open place of practice. It also nourishes our ability to do a beginning a-new sangha evening. It stimulates us to practice this form of deep listening and loving speaking in our daily life. We have different forms. Some of us will join the live-Sangha in de Schatkamer, some of us will join via Zoom, some of us will practice and meditate on their own. Some of us will read this invitation and carry it in their heart during the week. All these are expression of our Sangha community. I hope you can feel that you are all invited to join us in a way that nourishes you.
Monday night we will have an online meditation via ZOOM and an possibility to be together in the "Schatkamer"
I wish you a wonderful, relaxed Sunday. Joost |
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