It’s been two weeks since I made the announcement of a plan to start living in Colorado full time by summer 2026. I’ll be leaving for California soon where I will hopefully spend five months offline in seclusion, so I wanted to provide an update before going dark next week.
As of this post, we are at around $400 monthly pledged out of a goal of $1500 a month , close to 1/3 of the way there.
Some people have expressed concern about going through companies and would like to support directly. This is understandable and there are many ways to provide Dana as found on the website, but if its specifically for rental I’d need to know for accounting purposes.
I’ve been researching possible apartment complexes and seeing which ones may be best in terms of being close to library branches and public transport. I’m glad we are starting all of this so early because some possible roadblocks have already came up.
One possible roadblock is that many places require proof of income of 2x the rent, which would mean we would want to raise the goal from 1500 to $2000 pledged a month to start Maggasekha Vihara. We are also looking into ways of circumventing this and I will be calling a few complexes before leaving for California.
No doubt other road blocks and obstacles will arise to challenge us, but with your support and some determination I believe we can overcome all obstacles and get Maggasekha Vihara up and running next year.
If you would like to help us, please share the link around as more awareness will mean more possible people willing to provide Dana towards bringing the vision of Maggasekha to life.
https://maggasekha.org/support-for-maggasekha-vihara-in-colorado/
This is exciting. Best wishes for your California stay. I ashamedly admit that I will miss you . Looking forward to reconnecting. With Metta, Vesaka