5 keys to becoming a meditation teacher

Notes from 5 Keys to Becoming a Meditation Teacher.

1. A Teacher’s Guide to Self-Kindness

• What happened? What made you want to teach?
• Whatever the circumstances, trust you can awaken through them.
• Guide people to find that awareness.
• Your sense of aliveness and trust can be contagious.

2. Cultivating a Sanctuary for the Sacred

• The sufferings in the world come from the human heart.
• When you quiet your heart, you become a sanctuary for yourself and others.
• Be loving to yourself in the way you try to be loving to others.

3. Remember the Gold: Uncovering your inner Buddha

• We teach from the radiance of our own discovery.
• We cover ourselves, with our ego, to protect ourselves from injury.
  • But we identify with that, forget the gold.
• Help people to trust who they are.

4. Carry the Lamp of Awakening

• Even a little bit of mindfulness is a powerful medicine.
• Teaching is a practice in itself.
  • It will have its way with you.

5. Serving as a conscious leader

• These practices shift our consciousness.
• This path has the capacity to give us a refuge that will carry us through.

Added 2024-09-08.