DZL Annual Eight Precept Retreat is an excellent opportunity for laity to experience the life of a monastic. From dawn prayer, to noon meal etiquette and evening prayers, retreat participants go through the daily temple routine. To enrich the mind, participants attend Dharma lessons in between prayer sessions. All these activities serve to make laity realize how frivolous laity lives are and it is also because of these distractions that makes Dharma and happiness seems distant.