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Typical Day

05:30 - Morning Bell

06:00 - Chanting* , Morning Prep

06:30 - Sweeping

07:00 - Breakfast

07:30 - Tea

08:00 - Chores or Open Schedule

11:30 - Lunch

12:00 - Tea

12:30 - Chores or Open Schedule

16:30 - Chanting*, Evening Prep

17:00 - Dinner

17:30 - Tea

20:30 - Sleep

             

*Not Mandatory

 

 

Chores may include: farmwork, weedwacking, carrying random boulders to arbitrary locations, foraging, spliting firewood, chainsawing dead trees* or bamboo stalks, cleaning herbs, drying herbs, mopping, sweeping, dusting, stamping religious items, laundry, dishes

 

Open Schedule Activities are on your own. You may choose to: hike**, read, write, meditate, calligraphy, Tai Chi Chuan, have more tea, sleep, contemplate life, find a random construction project. 

 

Informal lessons on the above activities will also be given.

 

*Chainsaw will be provided

**MUST  return before sundown

 

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