Schedules for Beginners

 

Morning
04:00 - 04:30	Wake-up/Shower
04.30 - 07:00	Walking/Sitting Meditation
07.00 - 07:30	Breakfast
07:30 - 08:00	Meditation Interview/Progress Report
08.00 - 11:00	Walking/Sitting Meditation
11.00 - 12:00	Lunch
12.00 - 13:00	Rest
Afternoon
13:00 - 15:00	Walking/Sitting Meditation
15:00 - 15:30	Rest
15:30 - 17:30	Walking/Sitting Meditation
17:30 - 19:00	Refreshments/Taking Shower/Rest
Evening
19:00 - 21:00	Walking/Sitting Meditation
21:00 - 22:00	Minor Daily routine and relaxation
22:00 - 04:00	Sleep/Rest

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Note: Foreigners can join the morning chanting (4 am) on Buddhist Day and evening chanting everyday at 6 pm.

Interview and progress reports timetable will be established by the vipassana meditation teacher as appropriate. There are no interviews on Buddhist days and Sundays, Dhamma Talks will be given on Buddhists days instead of the interview

1. You are prohibited to leave the meditation compound for the duration of the retreat as you have specified your intent at the time of registration
2. You must keep the 8 training precepts which are no killing, no stealing, celibacy, no speaking anything that is false (no lying), no consuming any alcohol or addictive substances, no sleeping on high beds, no eating food after 12:00 hours (liquid refreshments would be provided in the afternoon), no putting on any cologne, after-shave, no beautifying the body with any cosmetics and the likes
3. You are suppose to keep to yourself and are prohibited to talk or speak to other fellow meditators except with the vipassana meditation and/or interpreter
4. The lessons would be conducted in Thai and English language. A Thai to English interpreter would be available at all times. The vipassana meditation master also speaks English and has been in the United States for two years. All instruction and discourses for foreign meditators will be through the medium of English
5. All meditators will have to do his or her own laundry. It is part of the practice