Something Spiritual…
So I mentioned the other day that I was going to a meditation conference on Tuesday night. I went, it was pretty good. I have been trying to add daily meditation in my life, so I was interested in what the Lama had to say.
The talk was held at Ytsasil(sp?) school on 26th and 25th, I went with some friends and we showed up at about 6:45pm and the conference was not scheduled to start until 7:30 so we decided to walk down to a coffee shop on La Quinta for a cup before the event started. We returned at 7:15 and there was a line to get in out the door, we finally got our seats at around 7:45 but the conference did not start until about 8:30. The room filled up, by the time it all started it was standing room only with people stacked up in the doorway and out in the hall listening to the speaker. I had no idea so many people in Playa Del Carmen would be interested in this sort of thing.
The speaker was Lama Ole Nydahl, one of the few Buddhist Lamas from the western world. He had a lot of good things to say, often joking and wandering off into interesting stories. The translation into spanish was phenomenal, the girl who translated didn’t miss a beat and really got the message correct. I actually had a hard time hearing the Lama’s microphone so I payed more attention to the translator.
The Lama talked for about an hour and then opened the room for questions. Many people had very well thought out questions, the questions section went on for at least another hour.
Before the questions ended we had to leave because we were late for another engagement, but we got information on group meditation sessions in Playa Del Carmen on a regular basis.
