May 2011 - Subud Voice
May 2011 - Subud Voice
May 2011 - Subud Voice
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Five days after<br />
A report written by Japan’s Chair, Dr. Masayuki Nagamine, five days after the mega-earthquake and ensuing<br />
Tsunami on Friday March 11. Even in the Chiba suburb, next to Tokyo, where he lives, the infrastructure is still<br />
disrupted....<br />
March 11th: I was working at a hospital when the earthquake occurred. It was the biggest quake I ever experienced.<br />
That evening, as the transport network was not working, I was stuck there overnight.<br />
In Urayasu-city, where I live, there are problems related to too much water in the soil, as a result of Friday’s<br />
massive quake. We have seen unusual sights like partly swollen land or the settling of houses etc.<br />
My 10th-floor flat has turned into something like a jungle, littered with books and so on, my bookshelves having<br />
fallen. I can hardly walk in it. As the water supply has been cut off in our building, I have to spend time carrying<br />
water from another place, and can’t even take a bath. I am also without a flushing toilet, of course.<br />
Further, as a result of the explosion of gas tanks in Chiba, the petrol shortage has become serious. On Tuesday, I got<br />
only ten litres of fuel after waiting in line for two hours. Due to shortage of power, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power<br />
Company) has instituted blackouts. Following this, Tokyo and its surrounding suburbs, divided into five groups, are<br />
subject to rolling power cuts for periods of up to three hours.<br />
I’m wondering how we can or could (I experienced it yesterday) manage to drive without accident, in heavy traffic<br />
jams, even though there are no traffic signals (due to power cuts) and no police officers to direct traffic at<br />
intersections. As train services have been also reduced as part of the power-saving efforts, it took me two and a half<br />
hours to reach my hospital instead of forty minutes in normal times.<br />
That is what I can tell you about my daily life, affected as it is by the earthquake and tsunami even in a city far away<br />
from the epicenter. I think that the situation in the directly stricken areas, as well as the ongoing nuclear<br />
crisis, is beyond anyone’s imagination. The difficulty I’m facing now is nothing comparing to what people in<br />
devastated areas have experienced. In this time of ordeal, I can’t say what we can do to overcome this national<br />
crisis. But I believe that the most essential thing is that we, all Japanese, without complaining of our daily<br />
inconvenience, provide relief to the victims as much as possible and do our best to restore the regions severely damaged.<br />
For more information about Christchurch and Japan, first hand reports and how you can help, see articles<br />
in <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Extra on the home page www.subudvoice.org<br />
It all comes back to the latihan<br />
The WSA Executive Team sends a message for all those working<br />
for <strong>Subud</strong> at all committee levels…<br />
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Whilst speaking about her own role and explaining how it had come<br />
about... and then about how the international helpers at the time after<br />
Bapak’s passing had decided that Ibu would be called our Spiritual<br />
Advisor... the following came up in Ibu’s talk in Semarang in March<br />
2010.<br />
“In fact at one time Bapak said.....the one who will replace me will<br />
be congress, so whatever the International <strong>Subud</strong> Congress decides,<br />
when all the members come together, that is what will replace Bapak<br />
”<br />
This does not mean WSC or the WSA Executive, but rather the<br />
whole WSA, all member countries as represented at World Congress,<br />
with the WSC and the executive simply carrying out the tasks in<br />
between....<br />
‘What a daunting responsibility’, it means that whenever we are all <br />
<strong>May</strong>a Korzybska, WSA Executive Vice-chair<br />
SUBUD VOICE PAGE 6 MAY <strong>2011</strong>