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NOTE: You may contribute any amount to any item. You do not need to pay for an entire item on the wish list. For example, if you would like to participate in putting heaters in hermitages but cannot give $600, you can give any portion and we will combine your donation with others to purchase a heater. To send a contribution by check, please send to: Living Compassion, P.O. Box 1756, Murphys, CA 95247 |
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Dave has the unique job of directing programs and maintenance at the Monastery. From his concern for people’s comfort and well-being while here on retreat, he thinks our greatest need is to install the new direct-vent heaters we have in some of the hermitages in all the hermitages. (This could even include the monks’ hermitages—talk about a gift!) The cost to purchase and install each heater is $600. We could use up to 11 more, not including the monks'.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center, Note: Heaters
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—Heaters |
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Melinda is our in-house car mechanic. Over the past 5 years we have sent 5 trucks (donated MANY years ago) to truck heaven. We are left with one remaining soldier—a 1981 Toyota with 180,000 miles. It is a trooper but not far behind its predecessors on the roadway to heaven. Melinda has done some initial research and thinks $9,000 will get us into a solid used truck. Impossible to overstate the difference this could make in our day-to-day life (picture taking the trash for a community of 25 to the dump in a station wagon).
And, if you have a good, solid older truck in need of a home, we have a home in need of your truck.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center, Note: Truck
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—Truck |
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Jen is pretty predictable. Living Compassion currently feeds and schools 250 children in Kantolomba. When Theresa recently emailed to say how thrilled she is about the expanded program, she included this line: “Feeding the kids is awesome! With food in most households not available, we have other children trying to come in but we cannot take them all. It’s a shame.”
Jen would like immediately to add 25 more children to the program. The cost to feed and educate one child for one year is about $225.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Living Compassion,
Note: Africa—food and school
Pay online:
Notes field: Africa—food and school program |
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Sadie, Rhea, Pace and Stanley find that their job of hanging around and reflecting people’s goodness and innocence is not paying enough to cover their food and periodic medical bills. They wish to pull their own weight and asked to be included in the holiday wish list. Food and medical for one four-legged monk per year is about $1200.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to:
Zen Center, Note: Animals
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—Animals |
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Laptops are a requirement for our “off the grid” power system since desktop computers draw too much energy for our photovoltaics. Ann tells us that two more of those dandy little machines will have us all up and running in a sustainable sort of way. Cost is $1800 (for two laptops).
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Living Compassion, Note: laptops
Pay online: Notes field: Living Compassion, laptops |
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We’ve had our sights set on an industrial strength can opener ever since we started doing retreats in Pittsburgh. The Spirituality Center has one on the end of their kitchen table, and we’ve had difficulties finding the right wrench to loosen it. Then we remembered we have a precept about not taking “that which is not given.” Alex, the Cook, thinks that instead of adding a wrench to the wish list, we’d instead ask for the real deal. The cost is $85.
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN PURCHASED
(ALEX IS THRILLED!) |
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Cameron, in the position of facilities manager, spends a lot time these days preparing accommodation for all of you arriving on retreat. She feels we are ready to join the world of modern retreat centers by outfitting each hermitage with its own set of matching sheets and curtains! Wow. Imagine. We guestimate this will cost $250 per hermitage and there are 12 hermitages.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center, Note:
Household--Sheets and curtains
Pay online: Notes field:
Zen Center-- Sheets and curtain project |
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Cheri is concerned about transportation to and from the airport. After our most recent retreat, we needed to take three vehicles (which requires three drivers from our very short staff list) to get all the retreatants back to the Bay Area. A twelve-passenger van would make all our transportation dreams come true. We figure it’s about a $15,000 dream machine.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center, Note: van
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—van |
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Everyone appreciates having the right tool for the right job. Our tools have been stalwarts, doing the right job for a very long time. But we’re finding that the picks from our pick axes are separating from their handles, and our rake heads have left with the leaves. Meredith has concluded that duct tape is no longer the answer, and that what we need for our big work days is three new bow rakes, two new picks, and two new leaf rakes. $500.00 should cover the whole bunch.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center
Note: Household—tools
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—tools |
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The other part of modern life that our solar power system struggles to keep up with is the laundry. Caverly has her heart set on a special energy-efficient washing machine that is good for us and good for the environment. Cost is about $1000.00.
To choose this gift:
Make check payable to: Zen Center, Note: washing machine
Pay online: Notes field: Zen Center—washing machine |
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