"It's not a cheap place where [you] can go and hole up.
The public areas, for example dining and sitting rooms had a charm about them.
We went from here to Hobbiton so could not enjoy the wonderful garden. The staff speaks multiple languages, including English and Chinese.
By the time I packed my bags and drove home to Chicago, I felt relaxed and refreshed. Unfazed by the gloomy drizzle, I wander the nature trails just outside my door, gazing at placid Lake Mendota in the distance. "You simply cannot understand visiting a Trappist community if you don't understand that you're coming to a place that's all about God," he says.
10 am - 12 pm, walking, sitting, Dhamma talk . Guests either stay at one of the two hermitages (US$85 per night for a single, US$100 for a double) for one to six nights, or in basic dormitory-style rooms with private bathrooms (US$61 for a single, US$78 for a double; rates vary according to how long a guest stays), and are welcome to eat together (breakfast is included, lunch is US$12 and dinner is US$15). New York, 1996, ISBN 0-8245-203-5 Wisdom Distilled From The Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today Harper San Francisco, 1991, ISBN 0-061399-8.
The place had a very homely feel a lovely place to stay.
Neither she nor Jack are religious — Marcia is Jewish and her husband is, in his words, a "retired" Catholic — and so the experience was especially eye opening. The place had a very homely feel a lovely place to stay.
9.00am – 11.15am, 2.15pm – 6.00pm. Here you can learn the balanced combination of eraly Buddhism and later Buddhism - …
For travellers, monastery stays offer peace and quiet, regardless of faith .
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Shane also makes his own hard cider from five different kinds of apple trees in their orchard and was kind to offer it as an aperitif before we ventured out to dinner each evening. This is by request and subject to a monk being available. We stayed for 4 nights and would have happily stayed longer, thanks again for having us! I would think all rooms are of an excellent standard. Husband-and-wife team Jack and Marcia Kelly have visited nearly 300 monasteries of all spiritual paths in the United States, sharing travel information in their book, Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of the United States.