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The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself

The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself - Paperback

by Bieke Vandekerckhove
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bieke Vandekerckhove, Rudolf Van Puymbroeck (Translator)Publish date:2015-08-11Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liturgical PressISBN-13:9780814647738ISBN-10:814647731UPC:9780814647738Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Spirituality, Prayer, MonasticismSize:8.29 x 5.34 x 0.14 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC8DVHYFQR
At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left?

By force of circumstance she was led to Saint Lioba Convent in Egmond-Binnen. There she learned Benedictine spirituality and to pray the psalms, which influenced her life for good. Three years later she learned that her illness had gone into remission but that it could flare up again at any time. She has been living with ALS for twenty years now. She is married and has two assistants to help her as necessary.

Ten years ago she found the silence of Zen. This encounter also proved decisive. The Taste of Silence reflects what she experienced, saw, and tasted in the stillness of life: "Benedictine spirituality and Zen Buddhism became the two lungs through which I breathe."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liturgical PressISBN-13:9780814647738ISBN-10:814647731UPC:9780814647738Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Spirituality, Prayer, MonasticismSize:8.29 x 5.34 x 0.14 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC8DVHYFQR
Vandekerckhove, Bieke: - Bieke Vandekerckhove (born 1969) lived in Kuurne, Belgium. In 1988, when she was a psychology major at the University of Leuven, she was diagnosed with ALS and became paralyzed from the pelvis up. With round-the-clock help from husband Bart Verhulst and various assistants, she led an active life of teaching, counseling, and writing for, among others, Volzin and Tertio. Until recently she regularly conducted Zen meetings and retreats at the Benedictine Sint-Andries Abbey in Zevenkerken, Belgium. In 2014 Bieke Vandekerckhove received formal transmission as Zen Master (Ch'an Ssu) in the Chinese Ch'an tradition from internationally known Zen Master Prof. Ton Lathouwers, himself the Dharma-Successor of Ch'an Master Teh Cheng, longtime head of the Guang Hua Ch'an School in China. On the occasion, she received the name Xia Fan Zhi Guang, meaning "Light of Kenosis." Bieke passed away in her home, early in the evening on September 7, 2015.
Publisher: Liturgical Press

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Bieke Vandekerckhove, Rudolf Van Puymbroeck (Translator)

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Bieke Vandekerckhove

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