Buddhist dilemma

[flemmings]

I see, belatedly, that Thich Nhat Hanh is giving a lecture in Toronto. Tickets are sold out everywhere. (So much for updating your webpage, guys-- "tickets are not yet on sale", indeed.) The scalpers are advertising a handful in the gods for US$148 to start. ($18 through the box office.) I wonder who, if anyone, will have recourse to the scalpers, and why?

Comments

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I suppose that those who use the scalpers are missing some fundamental theorem of Buddhism.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The second noble truth I'd guess, about suffering being caused by attachment to one's desires.

[incandescens]

It feels almost wrong to be selling tickets to a lecture about Buddhism in the first place, let alone buying tickets and scalping tickets. :)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

One must pay for the venue, though, not to mention airfare and such. Buddhism quite sees the need for laypeople. Enlightened laypeople practising right livelihood, one hopes, but still in a position to contribute to a monk's begging bowl.

[incandescens]

I suppose even Sanzou had to pay for the scriptures in the Journey to the West...

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Bleh.