Donation Based | DANA
“All BEZA teachings are DANA based; not because they are cheap, but because they are considered priceless!”
If you are in need of healing support BEZA will never turn you away due to financial harship.
Generating Generosity | DANA
At BEZA we practice the Buddhist precept of Dana (generosity). BEZA exists, grows, and is entirely supported by the spirit of generosity – the DANA from teacher, clients, apprentices and students.
DANA is not payment for goods or services but rather a gift given from the heart. Your generosity supports not just the teacher, the growing of community, but also your own practice.
All BEZA teachings are DANA based *(or on a sliding scale) ensuring the teachings are available and accessible to all.
*Private one-one sessions are offered on a sliding scale in accord with your needs and means.
Offering DANA
Seeding generosity
BEZA mentors have taken vows to offer the teachings without charge. Your DANA Donation grows BEZA’s ability to continue to offer these teachings.
While registering for any offering at BEZA you will have the opportunity to offer DANA.
*When we gather on retreat, participants pay for the cost of accommodation, food, and materials.
*When just the teachings are offered please consider exchanging DANA according to your capacity for generosity.
Sliding Scale
Cultivating generosity
For one-one private mentoring sessions BEZA has created a sliding scale for you to practice harmonious reciprocity:
*INTERNATIONALS:
US$100 (R2000)
*SOUTH AFRICANS:
Benefactor (Senior Income): $40 (R800)
Happy (Mid-Level Income): $30 (R600)
Content (Entry-Level Income): $20 (R400)
Grateful (Part-Time Income): $10 (R200)
Aspiring (No Income): $5 (R100)
Honoured (Funded Student): $20 (R400)
Gifted (Bursary Student): $10 (R200)
Youth Empowerment Scholarship (YES) Fund
Harvesting generosity
Your DANA allows for the less fortunate amoungst us to have an opportunity to grow through the Academy. Our Youth Empowerment Scholarship (YES) Fund helps subsidise anyone who has an authentic need to cover accommodation, transportation, or material costs incurred to attend retreats or workshops.
Applicants can receive up to a 75% scholarship.
*We evaluate scholarship applications based on a matrix of economic, demographic, interest, experience, number of applications, and the applicants historical relationship with BEZA.
Plant a Tree
Regenerating generosity
The first schools formed under the shade and generosity of trees. Your *first entry through any of the branches or BEZA gateways is a commitment to regenerating your personal, internal wholeness. Accordingly, we mirror your commitment by regenerating our collective, external environment by planting an indigenous tree on your behalf.
*When you register for any of our offerings please indicate whether it is your first entry into the Academy’s training matrix.
*Additionally, you will also be asked if you would like to double your regenerative efforts by planting a second tree on behalf of another for $10 (R200)
Healing, Reciprocity & Law of Attraction
“Any true wisdom is best not tainted or commodified. True wisdom is best revered and held in one’s heart as priceless – they cannot be bought or sold.”
Because BEZA’s teachings are offered for ‘free’ please do not assume they must be cheap or of low value. Conversely, because other institutions may be priced ‘expensively’ does not necessarily mean what is offered is of superior value. This kind of conditioned thinking commodifies how we value wisdom and ultimately our healing.
The 5 Wisdoms
1) Healing is synonymous with balance. The balance between intentional generosity and receptivity determines the nature and quality of healing.
2) The greater the generosity met with equal receptivity, the greater will be healing – the result is abundance.
3) The student/client is solely responsible for their karmic life condition. How they value their healing/spiritual illumination is between them and the Great Spirit.
4) Healers/Wisdom-keepers and students attract each other. They are karmically connected – each has something to give and something to receive. Both are healed (made whole) through the reciprocity of exchange.
5) Giving and receiving is the gateway to all healing. It may occur that the facilitator and client may experience varied levels of healing according to where the pendulum of exchange comes to rest.
Karma – Law of Attraction
Today, social media is awash with promoting how to attract and create whatever you desire. It’s all true, you can and do create your reality every moment of everyday. But do the advocates and their practitioners consider the consequences? In their pursuit of ‘abundance’ are they unconsciously bringing scarcity upon themselves and the planet?
When we gather on retreat participants pay for accommodation, food, and material costs. When only teachings are offered the program is listed as ‘By Donation’. Please consider exchanging DANA according to your capacity for generosity.
“Do you know the karma of what you are doing?”
At 21 I was asked a life-changing question.
It happened while I was deeply absorbed in manifesting my reality through the so called “Law of Attraction”. I now know it was an illusionary reality filled with the karmic consequences of what I was creating.
I was practicing magic to satisfy my insatiable desire for connections, cars, and cash. I was really good at it. Efficient and precise, I knew I could acquire anything I wanted. Eager and ambitious I visualised a bright, abundant future.
“Do you know the karma of what you are doing Glenn?” – asked a wise voice from within. The question caused my being to shudder. Caught off-guard I answered honestly, “I do not.”
And so I began to live into that life-changing question, and for most of my life I have consciously steered myself away from possessions. I became aware of the word possession. Was I possessing or being possessed, or both? In particular, I began to study the magical, possessive power of money. I have seen first-hand the power it has to hook and compromise integrity. I was afraid I would become a casualty of the possessive demon money can buy.
I have worked with other people’s money (OPM) for almost all my adult life – from being a dealer on the floor of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, to building custom-homes for clients, to raising funds to plant thousands of trees. As an ‘agent’ I made decisions about OPM, and generated wealth and value on their behalf.
In my early twenties I began a personal sustainability campaign to survive with as little money as possible – both here in South Africa and the United States of America. It freed me psychically and emotionally to make decisions and value my surroundings and friendships for what they inherently were.
Having separated myself (just enough) from money’s magic, I had a vantage point from which to study money and all its derivatives. Who created money and why? What is money actually? How does it function in the world, and what influence does it have in one’s brain?
Money was created by magicians. It carries and perpetuates magic. Why do I use the word magic? In the truest sense of the word, anytime we create something seemingly out of nothing we create magic. Magicians of old used ritual, symbols, and interceding spirits to manifest their intended outcomes. Magicians in the world of entertainment use slight-of-hand, setting the stage for the illusion of surprise – pulling the famous white rabbit out of the black hat. The Money Magicians are no different. They create something out of no-thing.
Not only does money create reality, it manipulates and distorts reality too – the relationships and inherent value of that which forms around it. Money generates Karma.
Studying and experiencing this gave me the clarity to see the true worth of dedicating 35 years to the study and practice of Zen Buddhism and Shamanism. The wisdom revealed to me is a priceless exchange to which I am indebted. Through my teaching at BEZA I reciprocate willingly, consciously and generously.
Plant a Tree for $10 (R200)
Regenerating generosity
The first schools formed under the shade and generosity of trees. Your *first entry through any of the branches or BEZA gateways is a commitment to regenerating your personal, internal wholeness. Accordingly, we mirror your commitment by regenerating our collective, external environment by planting an indigenous tree on your behalf.
*When you register for any of our offerings please indicate whether it is your first entry into the Academy’s training matrix.
*Additionally, you will also be asked if you would like to double your regenerative efforts by planting a second tree on behalf of another for $10 (R200)