If you wish to bring a meal, please see: Dana – Offering meals at Santi

Needed at present

Below are items that would be useful to the monastery at the moment. This page is updated regularly.

Updated on 14.05.2013

Food items

We are this week well provided with all food items

Miscellaneous items:

• Eucalyptus oil
• Clear plastic letter files (click here for an example picture)
• Toner cartridge for Kyocera FS-1320D printer

Not needed at present – we have plenty of the following

Food items we currently have plenty of

• white rice
  
• breakfast cereals and Muesli
• instant noodles
  
• stock powder
  
• soy sauces and condiments
  
• salt
  
• bottled water (see below)

Non-food items we currently have plenty of

• white clothing of all kinds
• paracetamol
  
• hand cleaner and soap
  
• blank CDs, blank DVDs, CD & DVD covers (we do not distribute or use CDs or DVDs)
• printer paper
• towels
  
• chemical detergents (see below).

Santi and the environment

As a forest monastery bordering Morton National Park we strive to minimize our impact on our environment. We support Bundanoon in its “bottled water – free” town campaign – so PLEASE, do not offer bottled water to the monastery. We also refrain from using disposable items such as: plates, cups and cutlery, tea light candles and other materials that harm the environment.
At Santi we have an environmentally friendly greywater system, which cannot handle harsh chemical detergents, so please offer only ‘greywater safe’ laundry detergents.

We appreciate your support in our effort to keep a green monastery.

The Spirit of Dana

Please note that in order to keep alive the spirit of reliance on alms food, none of the money donated to the monastery is spent on food .

Acts of generosity lead to joy.
Joy leads to peace,
Peace leads to insight,
Insight leads to Liberation.

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!