If you could never repay your teachers then why dont
you volunteer to pay for me to attend all in the name
of your teacher?? sorry, that was out there alittle
:)
--- Riley Lee <riley@rileylee.net> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Just for the record, the first class/business class
> tickets are for our
> teacher's generation. The cost of these tickets
> would be mere tokens of
> my gratitude for what they have given me, and I am
> sure that I speak
> for Ronnie. I couldn't pay back my teachers for what
> they have given me
> even if I were wealthier than Bill Gates. Really and
> truly, I could
> never repay my teachers.
>
> The teachers who will be at the Hawaii Festival next
> week will earn
> less than $5/hr. This doesn't cover the
> time/effort/money they spent
> learning what they will teach to others. If one
> factors all of that in,
> then one can say that they are, in fact, giving away
> their treasures.
>
> The fee that I will be paid this year for the
> Rockies Camp might just
> cover my airfare (economy class). It will take me
> about 16 hours of
> actual, in-the-air flying time to get there, so I
> suppose I'm getting a
> good deal on the airfare. It has been suggested (not
> on this list) that
> I really shouldn't be doing this sort of travelling
> because of the
> contribution my travels make to global warming. This
> bothers me. I've
> yet to sort this out in my mind.
>
> Even if I were to travel first/business class and
> paid a fee on top of
> that, that travel allowance and fee would be paying
> me to teach
> concrete skills and concrete knowledge. Yes, one
> doesn't need those
> skills and that knowledge to enjoy blowing into
> bamboo flutes and to
> meditate while doing so.
>
> Suffice it to say that I have experienced blowing
> into bamboo flutes
> without those skills and blowing into them with
> those skills. I'd
> choose having the skills any day. People who haven't
> had both
> experiences can't comment on this one way or the
> other.
>
> The people who attend the Rockies Camp pay for the
> skills, as they
> might for classes on plumbing, or dancing. The
> enlightenment that they
> might achieve while mastering those skills is given
> freely and
> graciously.
>
> Best regards,
> Riley Lee
>
>
> Sound of Bamboo
> PO Box 939, Manly NSW 1655, Australia
> tel. +612 9976 6904 fax +612 9976 6905
> mobile +612 414 626 453
> www.rileylee.net
>
>
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