Generosity

Where do your donations go?

jaya

Gifts to Jaya

I am grateful and honored to receive your gifts.
With this support, I can cover the expenses of living, from socks and carrots to car repair, birthdays and my kids' dentist, as well as taxes and long trips to visit family. I receive no salary or stipend for either teachings or the countless hours of organizational work between events. I live, and support my family, on gifts.

How wonderful and simple. I highly recommend experimenting with this way of living.

Thanks to generosity from friends and supporters around the world, I can devote myself wholly to serving the Dharma.

Mutually supporting each other through giving freely and wholeheartedly, we can let the giving also radiate warmth and companionship in our lives.

If you break the cherry tree

where are the flowers?

But in the spring time, see how they bloom!

The vast flood

Rolls onward

But yield yourself.

And it floats you upon it.

~Ikkyu,

transl. Robert Blythe

Open Dharma

Open Dharma is a project of the US 501(c)3 nonprofit Earthville in the US, and donations to Open Dharma are tax-deductible for US taxpayers. Please let me know (and send me your address) if you need a receipt for tax purposes.

Open Dharma provides the infrastructure to help me work.
The Open Dharma PayPal and bank accounts accept retreat deposits and other donations towards ongoing and often invisible costs—tax deductible for US taxpayers.

Some of the costs include:
Website maintenance and hosting the recordings; internet and phone for online teachings and planning; yearly accounting fees; insurance; office supplies; modest gifts and training for volunteers; library; resources for participants; and scholarships.

Gifts to Open Dharma

Poem

Willing to die,
You give up
your will. Keep still
until, moved
by what moves
all else,
you move.

~Wendell Berry

(US, 1934-), New Collected Poems