--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > I don't get this either. Teaching is a job- an exalted one, > > but none the less still a job. Teachers should get paid, > > and paid as well as any other profession. > > I disagree, and covered why in an earlier post.
But without responding to the question of why his view should not apply to all teachers, not just spiritual teachers. > > Perhaps Barry is being influenced by his experience with > > Fred Lenz, who very much exploited his followers in > > every way possible, and definitely leeched off of them > > for money. > > While this is somewhat true, he is also one of > teachers who never allowed his own students to > teach for money, and insisted they do it for free, > out of a sense of selfless service. Or perhaps so that they wouldn't get the idea they could make money off teaching and set themselves up in competition with him. I am the first > to agree that his life might have turned out differ- > ently if he had walked his own talk. In many ways. > > > That would leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth, though > > its quite a leap to then say teaching for money is > > somehow less clean. Transactions for money are as clean > > or as dirty as we make them. > > We must agree to disagree. In virtually any other context, Barry would insist that we make our own cleanliness and dirt, that there is no such absolute external standard.
