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April 2024 Retreat Info

Following is the information we currently have about our upcoming in-person Spring retreat.

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Going Online

It has long been an aspiration for the DTO to offer our Dharma Studies Course online. For a variety of reasons it did not come to pass until the pandemic forced us to move to virtual practices.

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Meditation Manual

Our Dharma brother, Noble Silence, has written a meditation manual. Fernando describes it in the preface this way:

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April 2023 Retreat Info

Following is the information we currently have about our upcoming in-person Spring retreat.

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Our Condolences to Plum Village

On January 21st, 2022 we were saddened to hear that our wonderful teacher, Thich Nhat, Hanh, had passed away.

The following day the DTO sent a letter of condolences to Plum Village. A copy of it, along with Plum Village’s immediate response, follows. It can also be seen on Plum Village’s web site.


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A Partial Schedule of Virtual Practices for 2021-2022

Following is the known schedule of Saturday activities for some of the DTO sanghas. Because of the pandemic, all of these practices are virtual.

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The DTO’s 1st Silent Retreat

Within our DTO community there has been the unexpressed need for an opportunity to practice together in a setting with fewer distractions, with enough time to let our mind run itself out and become quiet. It is at such moments that our original mind is no longer shrouded by the words, thoughts, feelings, and concepts that seem to form the ā€˜Iā€™ that we think we are.

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Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha

There is an interesting article on the birthplace of the Buddha in the September/October 2020 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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Comments on the CT Day of Mindfulness

Nourishment

Our Connecticut Day of Mindfulness was this past Saturday. The intention was to provide an opportunity to ‘provide more spiritual nourishment to our sanghas.’ In this regard, and many others, it was successful.

Tom Duva and Mike Geres organized and led our time together. We shared a variety of practices that were grounding, thought-provoking, and inspiring. It was a time to reflect, revise, and renew our aspirations. It was fitting that this was the first full day of summer and the weather was all that one could wish for in a summer day.

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June Day of Mindfulness in CT

This will be a day of mindfulness primarily for the Connecticut and New York DTO sanghas to practice together, but is open to all. If you would like to join us, but are not familiar with with the Dharma Teacher Order, please read the overview information page on our website at https://dharmateacherorder.org/about/.

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