Money and Dharma

Register here for the Free Tele-Seminar
with Arjuna Ardagh, Marc Gafni,
Sally Kempton, and Diane Hamilton
on Thursday, Setember 2nd, 2010
at 6pm PST, 9pm EST

This week we're going to revive a topic that generated a lot of conversation a few months ago: Is it ok to charge money for supporting people in awakening?

There's a whole diversity of opinions about this. In many cultures, it was an established tradition that a teacher would never charge money for the truth. Equally, an ayurvedic doctor would never charge money for healing. However, in those same cultures, nobody goes to a teacher or a doctor empty-handed. As many of those traditions have taken seed in the West, people have experimented with all kinds of approaches to the relationship between money and spirituality: donations, collections, or just flat-out fees.

This week I'll be joined by representatives of three different traditions. Marc Gafni is an ordained rabbi, Sally Kempton was a Hindu swami, and Diane Musho Hamilton is an ordained Zen teacher and lineage holder. This is bound to be a fascinating conversation.

During this call you will:

- hear about the multiple approaches to money and spiritual teachings from many different traditions.

- have an opportunity to examine your own beliefs around money and dharma.

- be able to ask questions in real time.

Arjuna Ardagh is an Awakening Coach and also trains others to become Awakening Coaches. He is author of the 2005 National Best Seller “The Translucent Revolution,” as well as seven other books, and many audio and video products. He has appeared on television, radio and in print in more than 20 countries. Arjuna teaches the “Deeper Love” seminar with his wife Chameli. Together they live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, along with their two teenage sons.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni's path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004.

Sally Kempton, formerly known as Swami Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide and as a spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. A teacher in the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism Sally conducts conducts workshops and retreats on applied philosophy and meditation. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.