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Hey Folkses,
I want to teach meditation and DJ at Burning Man this year. Let me know if you can hook a brotha up (i.e. if you have a camp or a space with a schedule for formal meditationor know someone who does).
What I have done in the past at BM has been guided meditations followed by discussion / Q&A. Teaching and leading meditation on the playa has been a great experience - folks are so open and ready to go deeper.
I've been meditating for twenty years, lived as a monk for three years of that, and have been teaching meditation (mostly an eight-week class, but also in the County jail, interviews on radio and TV, at community events wherever asked) for five years.
Adam
I want to teach meditation and DJ at Burning Man this year. Let me know if you can hook a brotha up (i.e. if you have a camp or a space with a schedule for formal meditationor know someone who does).
What I have done in the past at BM has been guided meditations followed by discussion / Q&A. Teaching and leading meditation on the playa has been a great experience - folks are so open and ready to go deeper.
I've been meditating for twenty years, lived as a monk for three years of that, and have been teaching meditation (mostly an eight-week class, but also in the County jail, interviews on radio and TV, at community events wherever asked) for five years.
Adam
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 12:02 PMCare to share any info about tradition/lineage, teacher, permission to teach, etc.?
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 2:34 PMAbout me : www.intromeditation.com/aboutt...er.html
The Buddhist teachers I've worked most closely with personally :
Soto Zen - Ryushin Paul Haller, Tenshin Reb Anderson, Leslie James
Spirit Rock Vipassana / Soto Zen - Gil Fronsdal
Syncretic Vipassana / Rinzai Zen / Tendai / etc - Shinzen Young
I do not have any formal authorization to teach from a Buddhist lineage. I started teaching five years ago when enough friends bugged me to do so for long enough. I take continuing "authorization" from the feedback I get from people about them impact that my teaching has on their life - people founding a regular meditation practice, someone dropping a daily pot habit they had wrestled with for years, someone who had never meditated before taking my class moving to Nepal to do two months of retreats, that sorta thing. www.intromeditation.com/testim...ls.html
As much as I find them imperfect, I have in the past year been taking steps toward more integration with the institutions. This includes completing lay ordination (many years ago I started sewing a Zen rakkasu, and then stopped) and even taking steps towards eventually perhaps maybe making it into the Spirit Rock teacher training.
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 2:48 PMI sit occasionally with Reb and have sat a few times with Gil -- really inspiring! And a friend sits regularly with Shinzen.
You should ask them about teaching. I know Reb has definite ideas about how that should happen. One of my dharma friends is one of his senior students who after 25 years of practice at SFZC received the go-ahead from Reb to begun teaching more on his own.
I have a handful of friends going through the Spirit Rock teacher training program right now -- I'm working with envy. *grin* Word is, this may be the last one, at least under Jack Kornfield. I'd love to go through it too, but it's by invitation only and anyway I'm really not there yet (if I ever get there). But I'm aiming for Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders program -- much more accessible to experienced yogis. You should check it out.
be well!
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 3:38 PMYeah, Adam, you should really ask Reb about it some time. That's a great idea.
I love that so many people are ready to jump in and help regulate who's ready to teach. That's one of my favorite things about Buddhism - the credentials. -
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 4:47 PMYeah, unlike all those other ancient spiritual paths where you get to make it all up as you go along. When will you be hanging out your little shingle? Can't wait.... -
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 6:04 PMIt's true, actually. I've not seen a Christian volunteer to lead a prayer group and be immediately asked if he has a priest's permission. Does that mean that they're "making it up as they go along"? Whether they are or not, you clearly have no idea if Adam has talked his teachers about teaching or not, and it's not entirely clear to me that it's your responsibility to safeguard the teachings either way.
Ten years of dharma has been plenty to convince me that Buddhism is particularly attentive to permissions, authorizations, empowerments, and small squares of cloth legitimizing your speech.
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Re: Seeking Opportunties To Lead Meditations At Burning Man
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 6:09 PMNow back to our regular programming.
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