Inspired by the Theravada forest traditions, Aranya Bodhi Hermitage is a rustic, off-grid Buddhist women's monastic hermitage on 100+ acres of mountain forest and meadows on the Northern California Sonoma Coast. Aranya Bodhi is the monastic hermitage project of Dhammadharini support foundation, a religious non-profit organization in the State of California. Contact the hermitage at awakeningforest@gmail.com. Learn more at: dhammadharini.net > About > Aranya Bodhi.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Big Painting Work Day
Thank you all who participated in the Aranya Bodhi work weekend on June 18 and 19. Fourteen friends and residents took part, and in a single weekend we completed the most difficult half of our kuti painting for this year.
We had fun, and enough time for lunch, Dhamma discussions and tea. Our youngest helper, Venus was especially delightful. At 3 years old, she has clearly mastered the concept of painting.
There is a second mini-work weekend planned for this weekend, June 25-26. The schedule each day:
8:30 ~ Morning devotions
9:00 to 11:00 ~ Visitors arrive, setting up, preparing dana
11:00 to 12:30 ~ Dhamma reflection and lunch
12:30 to 5:00 ~ Painting
5:30 ~ Tea
6:30 ~ Evening devotions