Category: Buddhism
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2025 Winter Retreat Photos
On the weekend of January 24 – January 26, 2025 12 friends of the Dharma Teacher Order gathered together for a Silent Retreat at The Center At Mariandale. The grounds at Mariandale were, as always, beautiful, but in winter there is a starkness that reveals a different side to it’s beauty.
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Connecticut Hosts a Day Of Mindfulness
On October 26, 2024, the Connecticut cohort of the DTO got together for the first time in 1701 days, but who’s counting…..Craig is!
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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…
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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.