Alright guys i might have talked about this earlier but there is this awesome meditation practice that goes on every tuesday nights from 7-8:30 pm at the Samadi Yoga studio. I swear you can feel the energy reverberating around the building as well as hear the snores reverberating from me. ;) you can't blame me being 17 and trying to meditate can get difficult especially when your social life wipes you out. I know I know it's a choice.
Anyway the irony of the hermitage is back on Whidbey Island dad finally started picking up on meditation and you could call it fate that when we moved here to quaint little White Salmon that has nothing... so did a sector of the buddhist monastery located in california, until VOILA our own hermitage.
Currently the monks are in a winter retreat, and just to add a side note i don't know how much fun that would be considering that they live at the top of Snowden, which does get quite snowed-in (see what i did there..no pun intended though.)
The three monks make a daily 12 mile hike round trip i believe to gather alms or food from local businesses and such...if by chance they do not get food then usually they will fast the day away. (i could NOT do that.) One of the monks that moved here at the start of the hermitage has just returned to california and is now replaced by another monk...their names are so long i am just going to have to leave you with that. Below is the URL leading to their webpage, and or blog so check it out and make sure to give them some alms on their rounds...
http://hermitage.abhayagiri.org/Support/alms-route
Also the monks have no possession of money and so gladly accept offerings of material items. So if you are interested in donating to a good cause call the number below and make a difference (cheesy i know)
please call Joan Benge: 503-636-9836
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