Telephone - No long distance telephone calls from center office phones. Pay phones are available for long distance calling.

Other expenses to consider include:

- Bus fare from New York Penn Station to Binghamton or Greene.

- Fees do not cover all costs. You may wish to consider making an additional and optional offering to the masters giving teachings, empowerments and interviews and/or to the monks working on the retreat. This need not be made at each empowerment as there will be so many; it can be offered at the last empowerment you attend. You may also wish to make an additional offering when you request an interview with any of the masters.

- You may wish to buy ritual materials (such as a mala) and offerings for the food offering ceremony.

- There will be a commissary this year, which will be open for two hours daily. However, you may wish to arrange to have fellow retreatants with cars transport you to Greene for more exotic toiletries.

- There is a commercial laundry in town for washing clothes.

- There may be texts you do not have which are used in your program that you may want to buy. These will be offered at cost.

- There is an ATM in Greene, New York.