> > isn't it much more profitable to initiate 1000 people > > for a $250 fee than 10 people for a $2500 fee? > > Yes, as I have suggested many times. > My only point is to question the smale scale and short-term > thinking when people here are going around saying it should > be completely free, at all times.
Since you clearly had me in mind when you wrote this, I might suggest that you go back and read the few posts I've made to this forum today to find the one in which I say that meditation should be taught free, at all times. I, for one, have never made such a suggestion. To do so would be to ignore the promptings of that ugly trend we call Reality, and I pride myself on being at least a little bit in touch with the R word. :-) I just brought the Alternative Reality of teaching for free up here because it wasn't being discussed, or even considered, as an option. It's an option. I'm just suggesting, to those whose lives might have led them to a state of economically-based or will-based self sufficiency, that they might give some thought to putting a little of that beneficence back into the system. As far as I can tell from my short time on this forum, *most* of us here have been taught how to teach basic meditation. That's a cool thing, a WAY cool thing. How many people on this blue-green ball in black space can say that? It's a gift. The question seems to be what to do with that gift. We could just sit on our butts and bitch about the org that taught us to teach going senile within one generation, or we could get off our butts and DO SOMETHING. HOW one does something is up to the individual. I'm just suggesting an alternate way of DOING SOMETHING, one in which one pays for favors received by paying forward, not back. Unc 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/
