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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4957754" data-attributes="member: 120286"> Vipassana courses. This is how do they make money. <a href="http://www.dhamma.org/en/qanda.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.dhamma.org/en/qanda.shtml</a> How much does the course cost?     Each student who attends a Vipassana course is given this gift by   a previous student. There is no charge for either the teaching, or   for room and board. All Vipassana courses worldwide are run on a   strictly voluntary donation basis. At the end of your course, if   you have benefited from the experience, you are welcome to donate   for the coming course, according to your volition and your means. How much are teachers paid to conduct courses?   Teachers receive no payment, donations or other material benefit. They are required to have their own private means of support. This   rule means that some of them may have less time for teaching, but   it protects students from exploitation and it guards against   commercialism. In this tradition, teachers give Vipassana purely   as a service to others. All they get is the satisfaction of   seeing people's happiness at the end of ten days. Course Finances According to the tradition of pure Vipassana, courses are run   solely on a donation basis. Donations are accepted only from    those who have completed at least one ten-day course with S.N. Goenka or one of his assisting teachers. Someone taking   the course for the first time may give a donation on the last day of   the course or any time thereafter.     In this way course are supported by those who have realized for   themselves the benefits of the practice.  Wishing to share these   benefits with others, one gives a donation according to one's means   and volition. Such donations are the only source of funding for course in this tradition around the world. There is no wealthy foundation or   individual sponsoring them. Neither the teachers nor the   organizers receive any kind of payment for their service. Thus,   the spread of Vipassana is carried out with purity of purpose, free   from any commercialism.     Whether a donation is large or small, it should be given with the   wish to help others: 'The course I have taken has been paid for   through the generosity of past students; now let me give something   towards the cost of a future course, so that others may also   benefit by this technique.' ______________________________________________________ I have been following this technique for 18 years. So I know how it works. Hope one day you visit a center on a tenth day of a course and talk to the meditators to get a real picture to replace the imaginations you have now. True they receive money for what ever they plan to do. But only from Vipassana meditators. Check this link. <a href="http://www.globalpagoda.org/" target="_blank">http://www.globalpagoda.org/</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Pagoda_Meditators.jpg/350px-Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Meditators seated inside the Global Pagoda dome. The massive inner dome seats over 8000 people enabling them to practice the non-sectarian Vipassana meditation The Global Pagoda <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Pagoda_Mumbai.jpg/250px-Pagoda_Mumbai.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   </blockquote>

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