Lots of interesting numbers in here if you are a Buddhist and business geek. It’s nearly impossible to make a living as a Buddhist meditation teacher. But @VincentHorn & @EmilyHorn (of @BuddhistGeeks) are finally doing OK.https://meta.buddhistgeeks.org/
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As a member of the clergy, I agree with you. But the need for paid professional clergy is taken less for granted all the time: lots of talk for decades of the rise in bivocational ministers, etc.
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Yes... somewhere I’ve quoted a conservative Christian thinker (
@DouthatNYT maybe?) who pointed out that on average ministers’ remuneration has grown much less than that of other professionals over the past half century; and that, by and large, you get what you pay for. - 1 more reply
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I agree - but also the Buddha stated that monks and nuns should only take what is offered to them - which many take to mean "monks should be beggars." I think this has promulgated elsewhere beyond America, sadly. :-(
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Yes. And of course most monks in traditional Buddhist societies lived quite well.
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