Zoe Girl
5-5-13, 9:58am
Hi All, I sent in an application to work with a Buddhist nun here in Colorado in facilitator training. I know the deadline isn't until the 10th but I am still a little nervous and resisting the urge to rewrite the application and send in a replacement one. The training group would have interactive phone calls and a couple in person weekends and then study and your own practice of course. I am confident in my practice, I am even confident that before I have worked with a teacher in another tradition and did well. I am more nervous because I have ties that are important to a Christian church/interspiritual community and because my life is not serene and calm for this. These can very much be seen as strengths but not everyone will see it that way. I think there is something very important about being able to have these crazy, stressed, over-done lives and still come back to practice over and over rather than how I see many people stuck in waiting for the kids to grow up or the crisis to pass in order to practice. I have done that too of course but I would like to help people see the opportunity in really crappy life moments for practice.
Not much to say, just waiting really. I know if I don't get accepted then that just means we are not compatible rather than I am not a decent Buddhist or capable of moving slowly into teaching.
Not much to say, just waiting really. I know if I don't get accepted then that just means we are not compatible rather than I am not a decent Buddhist or capable of moving slowly into teaching.