Daily Schedule

5:15 am
Wake-up bell
5:30-6:20 Group Meditation
7-7:30 Light Breakfast (informal meal)
7:30-8:20 Breakfast cleanup + Light duties
8:00 Personal chats with the Abbot
8:30-9:30       
Meditation (optional*)
11:00 Main meal (formal, in silence)
11:45 Meal cleanup
2:30-3:30 Meditation (optional*)
4:30
Tea time (Dhamma discussion, Qs & As, readings)
7:00-7:50 Group Meditation and chanting

 

*During the two optional sitting periods from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 – 3:30 p.m., a quiet atmosphere is maintained in the monastery even if no one is sitting in the meditation hall.