Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Is is difficult to make a living from as a meditation teacher in Switzerland? Several Swiss meditation teachers compared to the meditation teacher Ajahn Amaro who teaches in the U. K.

Last Updated on April 26, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

We have here several meditation teachers who teach in Switzerland:

  1. We have Loten Dahortsang who has recorded a CD with Tina Turner:

2. We have Martin Kalff, Ph.D. Religous Scientist, Sandplay Therapist who offers Zen with animals courses on the Rigi mountain in Switzerland:

3. We have Swiss Zen priest Vanja Palmers (who is a million heir of the Swiss textile company Calida) who is committed to animal welfare and traveled with his elephant mobile trough Switzerland:

  • next to teach meditation at the Felsentor Rigi.

4. Pharmacologist Diego Hangartner, appears in the FORBES magazine as the «Art of Meditation:

  • next to teaching in the Center for Mindfulness Zurich.

Can we explain many things we describe here as caused by marketing agencies who are controlling these people and want to maximize profit out of those?

5. Completely different is the situation with Ajahn Amaro. He has no money since 1984, but he still found someone who pays for his flights to Stanford, California to give talks there at the Universtiy:

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