| Hamid |
Faced at an early stage in life to come to terms and make sense of experiences such as displacement, exile, otherness and separation, Hamid found it a matter of course to explore with a sense of urgency questions that most of us end up asking ourselves with differing degrees of acuity at one point or another of our life: who am I, what is the meaning of being here, where do I come from, where am I going? Perennial and universal interrogations that accompany any traveller in the realm of self-inquiry, quest of meaning and truth. Twenty years ago, after studying philosophy in Paris, dissatisfied with the limitations inherent to the dualistic mode of conceptual Western thinking , Hamid found the discovery of Eastern spiritual traditions and Zen Buddhism in particular both promising and refreshing. After practicing meditation with a few Western teachers he encountered in 1998 the renowned Japanese Zen master Ryotan Tokuda who accepted him as his disciple. In 2000 he was given ordination and the initiary name of Tetsu-un (erring-cloud) by him. He later received authorization by Master Tokuda to instruct and was encouraged by him to pass on to others the ancient teachings he had been transmitted in his years of apprenticeship. Hamid considers this apprenticeship to be ongoing for he continues to see himself as a disciple and as a beginner. The beginner’s mind is something to be cherished for the mind of a beginner is open, eager to learn and is not burdened by accumulation of knowledge. Zen Master Suzuki puts it this way: When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. In 2005 Hamid finished a three year training program in counselling in France. Blending psychological and spiritual work, his personal approach to counselling is one of meditation-inspired or presence-centred psychotherapy. Here the practice of insight and mindfulness proper to the Buddhist middle way are integrated into the Western therapeutic tradition. This can be a helpful approach, one that can allow scaling both the heights and plumbing the depths, working the vertical and the horizontal dimensions of reality, the spiritual and the embodied aspects of our lives, understanding and healing where necessary our past emotional patterns as well as fostering our deepest inner aspirations. Hamid offers distance-psychotherapy services. You can contact for further information as to how this works at: hamidebadi@yahoo.com
Faced at an early stage in life to come to terms and make sense of experiences such as displacement, exile, otherness and separation, Hamid found it a matter of course to explore with a sense of urgency questions that most of us end up asking ourselves with differing degrees of acuity at one point or another of our life: who am I, what is the meaning of being here, where do I come from, where am I going? Perennial and universal interrogations that accompany any traveller in the realm of self-inquiry, quest of meaning and truth. Twenty years ago, after studying philosophy in Paris, dissatisfied with the limitations inherent to the dualistic mode of conceptual Western thinking , Hamid found the discovery of Eastern spiritual traditions and Zen Buddhism in particular both promising and refreshing. After practicing meditation with a few Western teachers he encountered in 1998 the renowned Japanese Zen master Ryotan Tokuda who accepted him as his disciple. In 2000 he was given ordination and the initiary name of Tetsu-un (erring-cloud) by him. He later received authorization by Master Tokuda to instruct and was encouraged by him to pass on to others the ancient teachings he had been transmitted in his years of apprenticeship. Hamid considers this apprenticeship to be ongoing for he continues to see himself as a disciple and as a beginner. The beginner’s mind is something to be cherished for the mind of a beginner is open, eager to learn and is not burdened by accumulation of knowledge. Zen Master Suzuki puts it this way: When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. In 2005 Hamid finished a three year training program in counselling in France. Blending psychological and spiritual work, his personal approach to counselling is one of meditation-inspired or presence-centred psychotherapy. Here the practice of insight and mindfulness proper to the Buddhist middle way are integrated into the Western therapeutic tradition. This can be a helpful approach, one that can allow scaling both the heights and plumbing the depths, working the vertical and the horizontal dimensions of reality, the spiritual and the embodied aspects of our lives, understanding and healing where necessary our past emotional patterns as well as fostering our deepest inner aspirations. Hamid offers distance-psychotherapy services. You can contact for further information as to how this works at: hamidebadi@yahoo.com
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