Spiritual traditions are noted for providing and sharing as much spiritual knowledge as they can, at no cost.
I read today of another retreat centre that offers a 10 day Vipassana Meditation programme, free of any cost, even food and accomodation. What they hope for, is reasonable donations to enable them to continue this noble work.
It struck me today, working in the global knowledge economy, in the area of knowledge management, that the model increasingly used on the Web is free open source knowledge.
If we take Wikipedia, for example, they also rely totally on volunteer work and donations to continue.
Is there much more of a connection between these same financial models of spiritual knowledge and organizational knowledge than I realise?
Mmmmmm
Ron Young
