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- Chanting in the sala
- Listening to Dhamma
- Greeting lay guests in the sala
- Lay guests in the sala
- A lay supporter
- Bhikkhu Rakkhito
- Receiving alms from a lay supporter
- Winter wonderland-like conditions mid-January.
- Retreat crew member Nick dispatches snow from the walkway around the cloister area.
- The monastery’s cloister area during a heavy snowfall mid-January.
- Sunny, Spring-like conditions offer a pleasant abiding for Ajahn Ñaniko as he does walking meditation mid-March.
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- 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.
- The robe is refolded over the clothesline in the second stage of flipping to avoid drip marks and ensure even color saturation.
- 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.