--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who paid for it? For the posters and the ads and the cost
of the meeting rooms and the time spent teaching the classes?
We did, of course, we being the students of that partic-
ular spiritual path. We considered it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
Who paid for it? For the posters and the ads and the cost
of the meeting rooms and the time spent teaching the classes?
We did, of course, we
On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
The problem with this teaching-as-a-gift
model is that it's not sustainable.
Well it has been, at least for a couple of millenia.
One of the shining examples of such an approach, is the Vipassana
awakening schools of Goenka.
Wanna
On Sep 13, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Vaj wrote:
It also has been applied and worked in some of the most deplorable
conditions imaginable, like the most notorious prisons in India (as
detailed in the documentary Doing Time, Doing Vipassana).
http://www.box.net/shared/lk8mpmg1pm
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam wrote:
The problem with this teaching-as-a-gift
model is that it's not sustainable.
I beg to differ. It's how a couple of tradi-
tional Tibetan sanghas I've interacted with
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
The problem with this teaching-as-a-gift
model is that it's not sustainable.
Well it has been, at least for a couple of millenia.
One of the shining examples of
On Sep 13, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
Is there analogy to be drawn with either
or both of these schools and the open source
software community? I think of open source
when you say there's a large community of
people doing something gratis.
I think there is.
It reminds me of
