- Please practice mindfulness in all activities.
- Maintain an atmosphere of silence and Dharma cultivation in the monastery.
- Support others in their practice by not engaging in political conversations or chatting all the time.
- Switch off your cell phone during your entire stay in the monastery and leave it in your luggage.
- Don’t hug each other and don’t exchange caresses as a couple.
- Keep the monastery clean and tidy and return all tools and other items to their original place after use. Vacuum and wipe your rooms before you leave, close the windows and turn off the heating.
- Smoking, alcohol and drugs are not permitted.
- Do not enter the kitchen if you have not been assigned a task there.
- Do not help yourself in the kitchen and do not take any food from the cupboards.
- Eat only during shared mealtimes. Do not save food from meals, but eat everything you have taken.
- Do not keep food in the rooms.
- Do not bring any opened food packages or leftovers into the monastery.
- Do not light candles or incense sticks etc. in the room.
- Please dress modestly even in summer: tops that cover the shoulders and stomach and do not have a low neckline, long wide pants (skirts are not so suitable), socks indoors.
- Take part in all activities on the daily schedule. Sign out from the Sangha if you are ill. Items marked as optional are voluntary.
- Do not go swimming in the lake during your stay.
- Follow the decisions and instructions of the Sangha and turn to the nuns present if you have any difficulties or questions.
The Sangha wishes you a fruitful stay!