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by mrdomino_ 3219 days ago
Our teacher is ordained under Shodo Harada Roshi: http://www.monasticacademy.com/teacher/

I suppose it might have helped you for that info to be on the "Meet Us" page. Is that true? Where else did you expect to find it?

We are not a monastery, in that none of us except Forall are ordained. But we wake up each day at 4:30 AM, chant and sit for multiple hours a day, and set aside time regularly to devote all our attention to formal practice. "Monastic Academy" is our current best attempt at conveying something like that in two words that people can remember. I welcome any feedback for how to do it better.

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The information is on the right place I guess but the site's first impression conveys to me that it is an academy for training monastics. Just one data point, but I would change the domain to something like spiritual academy. Kudos for following the schedule, I have been to a couple of retreats and know how hard it is.