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Observance Days
On these days the community devotes itself to quiet reflection and meditation. Visitors are welcome to join in the evening meditation vigils, and on the Full and New moon, there is an opportunity to determine the Eight Precepts for the night.

Moon Phase	half	full	half	new
JANUARY	8 - Sun	*15 - Sun	23 - Mon	30 - Mon
FEBRUARY	7 - Tues	#14 - Tues	22 - Wed	28 - Tues
MARCH	8 - Wed	15 - Wed	23 - Thurs	30 - Thurs
APRIL	7 - Fri	14 - Fri	22 - Sat	28- Frid>

* 16th, Ajahn Chah's memorial day # Magha Puja

Jati Paccaya Jaramarana . . . . . .
Fat crows crowd the ash trees
Red leaves wound the mud path
Hansel’s bread is gone now
Tears of rain.
Vedana Paccaya Tanha . . . . . .
Time
    if only this could last
The time
    always and forever
What’s the time
    is that the time already?

Ajahn Jayasaro

Ajahn Jayasaro is the present abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat (International Forest Monastery) in the North-east of Thailand. The foregoing poems arose as a result of contemplating paticca samuppada (dependent origination) during a solitary retreat.