The DTO held its spring retreat on April 11th to the 13th at Mariandale Retreat & Conference Center in Ossining, NY. It was a great success, although there was a clerical error on Mariandale’s part that limited the number of attendees. Our apologies to those friends that were unable to go because of this.
Here are a few photos shared by some of the attendees.
We shared & recorded three events from the retreat. Those recordings are now available to the public on our YouTube channel.
- Friday night, Evening practice, Beginning Anew ceremony, DTO program updates:
- Saturday night, Evening practice & ‘Ask Thay’ session
- Toward the end of the session we had a few ‘technical issues’, where we lost our connection. Despite that, the wisdom shared by the mahasangha was wonderful.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi27J6B_1Yo (1:30)
- Sunday morning, Ceremony
- Candle procession and Morning Practice
- https://youtu.be/mk0fWvBnDf4 (37:03)
- Memorial for Richard Baksa
- https://youtu.be/6lvtf2N0fv8 (9:21)
- Ordinations
- https://youtu.be/aBsR7WT41a8 (32:01)
- The following people took the Bodhisattva Precepts
- Mike, Annesia, Konrad, & Ellyn
- Giac Vien was ordained as a Dharma Teacher
- Candle procession and Morning Practice
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