What Is a Day in the Life of a Buddhist Monastery?

During the retreat periods, we woke up at 4.30 every day. And do you say you have three hours of meditation a day? It wasn't so different than what you'd find in a Benedictine monastery. What kind of work did you do? I would do a lot of cleaning. They do this Japanese ritual for a symbol called zokining where instead of a mop, you take just a rag, dip it in a bucket, and then you do a sort of downward dog,. You run across the floor to clean off the floor, holding the rag on the floor.