my dharma talk went well

AMH

We had our annual Buddhist service at the Unitarian Universalist church today. i am only attending the buddhist group and not sundays but I still decided to go and give my talk with the group. I love this service, I have been doing short talks for 5 years now. this time there was a lot in the service and I only had 5 minutes.

the theme was 'beloved community' so I talked about the wisdom of 'going nowhere'. I guess I am seen as the most exciting of our group, or the one who gets the most excited. In any case my talks seem to go over well. My favorite compliment was the guy who I consider a pretty serious buddhist but we don't see much of him in our group. He has been around the 10+ years the group has been going. So after the service he came over, held my hand and said 'brilliant'. Yeah wow, I guess you had to be there.

So I feel enouraged to study towards being a meditation leader or whatever comes up again.

PS i will post the talk later but my daughter has the only copy right now

lamaramadingdong

Cool. Good onya.

Dakini

Cool! Wow! :ok:

Cinorjer

Please post the transcript of the talk when you can. I'd love to read it.

AMH

I sure will, I just got an email from the bookstore manager of the church asking about the book I quoted. I should get the dharma talk typed in this week

TheFound

ur all wrong somehow..

DairyLama

So I feel enouraged to study towards being a meditation leader or whatever comes up again.

Excellent! And talking to people about the Dharma is also a very good way of developing our own understanding.

Zero

Awesome... look foward to reading it...

pegembara

Could you share with us online folks too?

The Buddha states 5 bases of liberation:
1. listening to the Dhamma
2. teaching
3. reciting
4. reflecting and lastly
5. meditation

Vimutt’āyatana Sutta
http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/21.5-Vimuttayatana-S-a5.26-piya.pdf