Can somebody answer me why, Spiritual Tecahers and Their Chargings. ?

[Ingit]

Not only her but many other Spiritual teachers say the same thing,,, Then why would they Charge Money for their teachings???? Aren’t they doing the same....  wanting something in return for their knowledge of experience... just wondering

Edited October 23, 2018 by Ingit

[Jack River]

It’s a conditioned action. Which means it is done with the motive of self. The ego always works within the field of reward and avoidance of punishment dude. 

Desire/psychological motive closes the window to kindness brah. 

Edited October 22, 2018 by Jack River

[Hellspeed]

Because genuine teachings, healing or awakening initiation is harder than working in a mine as a slave for the guru. 

Why? The downside is insanely difficult. Will take weeks or months to recover from genuinly healing someone per example. So at the end of the day is not worth it to do it for free, only if you have a deathwish. 

Edited October 22, 2018 by Hellspeed

[aurum]

@Ingit

The map is not the territory.

You would have no idea who Teal Swan is if she didn't charge for her services. Those workshops and YouTube videos don't pay for themselves.

Read a book called Give And Take by Adam Grant.

[kieranperez]

12 minutes ago, aurum said:

@Ingit

The map is not the territory.

You would have no idea who Teal Swan is if she didn't charge for her services. Those workshops and YouTube videos don't pay for themselves.

Read a book called Give And Take by Adam Grant.

Yeah I was going to say the same thing. It’s funny too because I’ve heard her defend herself multiple times for charging for spiritual guidance and all the stuff she does. 

Granted, I like her. Her story to me really made me cry when I heard it. Just find this quote from her (assuming this is real) a little hypocritical. 

[Shin]

9 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

Yeah I was going to say the same thing. It’s funny too because I’ve heard her defend herself multiple times for charging for spiritual guidance and all the stuff she does. 

Granted, I like her. Her story to me really made me cry when I heard it. Just find this quote from her (assuming this is real) a little hypocritical. 

It's not hypocritical.

She's not speaking on the level of life purpose, but on day to day life.

If you live your life purpose, you have to get paid for it, otherwise you can't make it your priority and feed yourself out of it.

[aurum]

42 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

Yeah I was going to say the same thing. It’s funny too because I’ve heard her defend herself multiple times for charging for spiritual guidance and all the stuff she does. 

Granted, I like her. Her story to me really made me cry when I heard it. Just find this quote from her (assuming this is real) a little hypocritical. 

It’s only hypocritical if you look at it from a surface level and out of context.

If you have a life purpose like she does that requires money to operate, than you’re being selfish by not making money. 

Now you could argue that she should be able to do it without money. But we live in a captialistic society where money is an incredibely useful tool. Why limit yourself?

One more thing on this: people who complain that spiritual teachers charge for their services are in a scarcity mindset.

Let’s break this down. You have a teacher that is providing massive value to you, often for free. And you don’t think you should give anything in return? You should WANT to pay them.

It’s like when I see people bitch about Leo charging $35 for his booklist. How entitled can you get? This guy spent hours and hours putting that thing together to help you.

Even if you never use the booklist, you should want to buy it simply as a way of saying “thank you”.

I contriubute to people Patreons all the time if I like their work and I feel like it has helped me. I’m happy to do it.

You also see this with rich people when they go out to dinner. When the bill comes, 10/10 times they will FIGHT to be the one to pay it.

From a poverty / scarcity mindset, this makes no sense. Because the whole point of a poverty mindset is to converse resources. And yet, they are the one’s who are rich. And the guy who thinks he is winning by not paying is always broke.

It’s a fear that you won’t have enough. It’s a fear that you don’t have the ability to get it back. And it’s a lie. 

[Consept]

4 hours ago, Ingit said:

Not only her but many other Spiritual teachers say the same thing,,, Then why would they Charge Money for their teachings???? Aren’t they doing the same....  wanting something in return for their knowledge of experience... just wondering

I get what you mean in that it can seem hypocritical or unkind to charge for spiritual teachings especially with regard to the above quote. But I think this comes down to us having an emotional attachment to money, meaning that for us giving money or spending especially on something like this brings up feelings of 'i worked for this why I'm going to give to this person'. The fact is what she's doing has value, which is to say people are willing to pay for it. If she put down all her costs for equipment, time etc people would be willing to cover them for her if they get value from her work. 

So how would it be possible for her to give this value for people and survive without being reimbursed for it? If she wasn't able to be reimbursed for it, she wouldn't be able to consistently give content, of which most is free actually. As @aurum said it's a scarcity mindset thinking that someone shouldn't get paid for what they do, this mindset thinks that they're trying to hustle them because they themselves can't imagine doing work without hustling people or focusing on the money. So it becomes a projection of how their mindset and they assume that others operate on that level as well 

[kieranperez]

1 hour ago, aurum said:

It’s only hypocritical if you look at it from a surface level and out of context.

If you have a life purpose like she does that requires money to operate, than you’re being selfish by not making money. 

Now you could argue that she should be able to do it without money. But we live in a captialistic society where money is an incredibely useful tool. Why limit yourself?

One more thing on this: people who complain that spiritual teachers charge for their services are in a scarcity mindset.

Let’s break this down. You have a teacher that is providing massive value to you, often for free. And you don’t think you should give anything in return? You should WANT to pay them.

It’s like when I see people bitch about Leo charging $35 for his booklist. How entitled can you get? This guy spent hours and hours putting that thing together to help you.

Even if you never use the booklist, you should want to buy it simply as a way of saying “thank you”.

I contriubute to people Patreons all the time if I like their work and I feel like it has helped me. I’m happy to do it.

You also see this with rich people when they go out to dinner. When the bill comes, 10/10 times they will FIGHT to be the one to pay it.

From a poverty / scarcity mindset, this makes no sense. Because the whole point of a poverty mindset is to converse resources. And yet, they are the one’s who are rich. And the guy who thinks he is winning by not paying is always broke.

It’s a fear that you won’t have enough. It’s a fear that you don’t have the ability to get it back. And it’s a lie. 

You realize I’m agreeing with you right? Lol

[universe]

Yes totally. Leo selling his LPC & booklist. The women in your pic selling her seminars. Its a transaction. What did you think it was? 

I mean if there is money on the table, how can you make it more obvious that its a transaction?

You didnt need the women in the picture to tell you that thats an transaction.

 

The phrase is all about you and what you do in social interactions (with family, friends, strangers). It may help you to identify potential ways on how to improve your life. And has absolutely nothing to do with obvious money transactions from the person who said it.

[Ingit]

???? lol IM looking at all the Replies... Everytime I wondered why and esp.about Eckhart, I used to go to his website and question this everytime.... Why would he charge ... blah blah ???

[Leo Gura]

Business and kindness do not have to be at odds with one another.

Blend the two for the ideal situation.

[d0ornokey]

4 hours ago, aurum said:

people Patreons

do you mind sharing which ones? just to further my research