Dana reflects the value you place on the teaching,
the joy of giving and what is realistic for you.
Each participant arrives at the amount voluntarily.

Dana is a Pali word meaning: “liberality, generosity, offering” and is the first of the “Six Paramis” , ”the virtues that helps us go further”. Dana is the antidote to holding on and egoism or self-referencing. The Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche stressed this first virtue as most important if one wants to make genuine changes in one’s life. To turn one’s mind to the welfare of others through offering, giving, brings about a loosening of self-referencing, of “I, Me and Mine”. It is the opposite of the attitude of poverty, where one sees the world in terms of lacks rather than offerings.
So, I invite you to join in this practice of spontaneous offering and opening, of trusting that as we freely give, so in turn we are nurtured.