Jetavana
Temple Forest Monastery
What’s Happening:
Normal routine
With this year’s brilliantly autumnal Kathina day now behind us, winter temperatures approach and the monastery continues as usual with our normal routine. Please feel welcome to visit and join us.
Every day:
5 a.m. – Meditation/chanting*
11 a.m. – Meal offering and chance to speak with a monk
7 p.m. – Meditation/chanting**
Also on Saturdays:
5 p.m. – Tea and informal chat with a monk
7 p.m. – Dhamma Talk offered after the meditation
Also on Sundays:
1–3 p.m. – Meditation Workshop
* Monks are present Wed.–Sun.
** Monks are present Wed.–Sat.
Winter Retreat Support Opportunity
The monastic community’s annual three-month Winter Retreat will take place from the beginning of January through the end of March. This will be a period of silent retreat for the monks, with no short term overnight guests as well as no Sunday meditation workshops between January 1 and April 1. These three months of the year have come to serve an important function in our Western branch monasteries, providing a time where the Sangha is able to put many activities down and have an extended period reserved for formal meditation practice.
To facilitate this, it is helpful to have a small number of laypeople stay at the monastery in order to support the monastic community’s retreat. Ideally these people will have stayed at the monastery before, and be able to stay for the full three months. While serving to take care of the basic kitchen and maintenance tasks (cooking, wood stacking, shoveling, cleaning, etc.), those serving to support the Winter Retreat would join in with group practice periods. There will also be much unstructured solitary time to use to further one’s practice. Therefore one should be experienced in staying in a silent retreat atmosphere, and comfortable with solitude. If you are interested in supporting the Sangha in this way by helping with meal preparation, shoveling, cleaning, etc. from January 1–April 1, please email the Guest Monk to inquire about this opportunity at guestmonk@jetagrove.us.
Visiting
Visitors are welcome, for day visits or (from April–December) for overnight stays.
Day visits >
Food offering >
Overnight stays >
How To Help / What’s Needed
You can find out more about what’s needed or useful – including a list of currently needed items – on the Contribute page.
Contribute >
Dana List >
Financial Questions
The monastery’s expenses and finances are handled by the non-profit organization Jeta Grove:
Jeta Grove >
Current Projects
In response to many of you who have been asking what the monastery currently needs or plans to help with its development, we have created a webpage listing the most immediate projects >
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