--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fee or donation for being given a mantra and guidance were > introduced in the US. So far as I've noticed there is always a > presumption that it is okay to charge amongst those on FFL. > But there is another view that sees it as iniquitous to levy a fee for > something that is essentially spiritual. For all the talk about > going 'independent', there is seemingly still a great attachment to > making money out of the teaching. > It seems that this has been the dilemma right from the start of > the 'movement'. Now the movement is imploding perhaps it is a good time > to not repeat the same strokes.
Yes. I have had similar thoughts. In another post today I suggested $100-200 fee to cover expenses -- a nice center, a pt clerical staffer, etc. But the proposal implied no salaries. To me it just doesn't feel right to take money for teaching. Some groups, like Art of Living I beleive, the teachers don't take any funds. Its a nice model that all teachers should be sucessful enough to earn a decent living and be established in society. That would have eliminated a lot of the crazies hanging around centers in the 70's. And not living off teaching, eliminates a lot of the center politics -- and crude "positioning" used by teachers to get more initiations. Teaching should be all about joy, not making an extra commission off some seeker. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
