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- Receiving alms from a lay supporter
- Bhikkhu Rakkhito
- A lay supporter
- Greeting lay guests in the sala
- Lay guests in the sala
- Chanting in the sala
- Listening to Dhamma
- Winter wonderland-like conditions mid-January.
- The monastery’s cloister area during a heavy snowfall mid-January.
- Retreat crew member Nick dispatches snow from the walkway around the cloister area.
- Sunny, Spring-like conditions offer a pleasant abiding for Ajahn Ñaniko as he does walking meditation mid-March.
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- Dhammavavro pulls his jiworn from the final dye solution, where it soaked for two hours. The number and duration of baths determine color density and uniformity in a robe - often cloth must be saturated in dye many times for a rich and even color.
- In a process developed at the time of the Buddha, a robe will be flipped in three steps so the natural dye settles evenly on the cloth. This rotation also prevents "racing stripes" as dye drips down the sides.
- In the third stage of flipping, the dye is massaged into the cloth with the hands so that it remains in the center of the robe.