DAILY SCHEDULE

ROCKSPRINGS DAILY SCHEDULE  (Optional for monastics)
Schedule varies with seasons

4.00 am       Wake up – private meditation and practice in cabins.

6:00 am       Meditation, chanting, yoga in hall.

7:30 am       Light breakfast in hall, group nature walk (summer), & work period.

10:45 am     Lunch set up: everyone helps carry food from kitchen to hall.

11:00          Alms offering at kitchen when monks or nuns are in residence, followed by lunch.

12:00 pm     Kitchen clean up.

1:00            Group nature walk (winter).

2:00            Rest, private practice.

  5:00            Tea time - Dhamma discussion/video in hall.

  7:30            Chanting, meditation, retire to individual cabins.

  Typical work period chores   

          - Cooking help

          - Candle trimming/dusting hall

          - Vacuuming hall

          - Sweeping deck

- Bathroom maintenance

- Clean gazebo furniture/sweep out screened cabin near garden

          - Maintenance and construction

                   - Trail clearing, wood gathering and stacking

                   - Walking path maintenance (weeding and stones)

Practice can be deepened by maintaining the Noble Silence. Please refrain from chatting except for tea time dhamma discussions and necessary work communications.

       “Speak only when silence is not better.” - Buddha