This year we had a new practice opportunity allowing people to join a monastic-like schedule for a period of 3 days up to a week. Several people joined enthusiastically into days of
- morning and evening meditation,
- formal meals,
- chanting services three times a day
- blocks of work practice.
Participants engaged in many varieties of work practice including: deep cleaning in the basement, sewing, cooking, organizing the shed, sharpening knives & tools, weeding the Temple bushes, weeding the vegetable garden and repainting cemetery memorial markers.