Fwd: Seeking lay Steward for Aranya Bodhi

[Lennart Lopin]

FYI,

metta, Lennart

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Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [friends of the hermitage] Seeking lay Steward for Aranya Bodhi


Aranya Bodhi - the Awakening Forest Hermitage is seeking a lay
Steward.  Aranya Bodhi, a natural forest wilderness on the Sonoma
Coast, offers a rare situation for a lay woman during this present
auspicious re-energizing of the bhikkhuni sangha. Our new steward may
be a monastic life aspirant or a sincere Dhamma practitioner willing
to live by the eight monastic precepts. We offer the opportunity to
live within a Theravadin forest bhikkhuni community, in your own empty
hut, surrounded by roots, cliffs, leafy canopies and creeks.

This February 19th, our present steward, Anagarika Marajina will
receive her going forth into monastic life. Following the forest style
monastic code, our monastic women do not personally use money and do
not drive. The lay steward will be primarily responsible for hermitage
errands involving the use of money and driving. Additional
responsibilities will depend on her talents and interests. While we
would love for our new steward to stay for a long time, we can
appreciate shorter term stays of at least one month.

Aranya Bodhi is a new bhikkhuni hermitage supporting two to three
monastic women during the winter months and up to ten lay and monastic
women during the three months of Vassa, from July to October. We are
entirely off grid, with communication being provided by Internet.
There is no phone on the hermitage. Accomodations are rustic and the
climate year round is cool within the forest.

To learn more, please visit our blog at http://awakening-forest-hermitage.blogspot.com/;
and email awakeni...@gmail.com