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SUMMARY:Datun — a month-long rainy season meditation retreat
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this retreat is closed.\nThis month-long intensive meditation retreat inspired by the form designed by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche  will offer the opportunity to gain a deep familiarity with the sitting practice of mindfulness awareness meditation. The four-week datun retreat provides a space of simplicity and clarity rarely accessible in our ordinary lives, and is also a systematic way of applying the teachings of the Buddha into our everyday lives. In Trungpa Rinpoche’s words:\n«Meditation is immediate and personal, and  involves an intimate relationship with who we are. It is getting to know ourselves by examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it»\nDuring the Buddha’s time practitioners would gather and practice together during the monsoon season. These meditation instructions were taught by the Buddha in India 2600 years ago, crossed the Himalayas to Tibet a millennium ago, have been taught in Europe and North America since the 1960s, and are now coming back to the land of their birth. We are delighted to continue this tradition at Deer Park from July 12 to Aug 8 2024.\n\n#foogallery-gallery-8190 .fg-image { width: 640px; }\n			\n	\n		\n					\n		\n			Prev\n			1of5\n			Next\n		\n	\n\n \nThe datun environment is a full practice container. The daily schedule typically goes from 7 AM to 8 PM, and consists of sitting and walking meditation, chants, silent meals, physical exercise, dharma talks, work and free time, and regular individual meetings with meditation instructors. Here is a sample of the tentative schedule ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-fLxWNtNrVSh_9RYaDagPwGzA0q-0eVTR7CDU2_c1tw/edit?usp=sharing ).\nIf your schedule does not allow you to attend all four weeks, registration is permitted for weeks 1, 2 and three. The final week is closed and priority will be given to those registering for the entire datun. We ask that you commit to participating in the full daily schedule in order to help create a safe and inspiring retreat environment. \nWeek I – July 12 – July 18\nWeek II – July 19 – July 25\nWeek III – July 26 – Aug 1\nWeek IV – Aug 2 – August 8\nWe warmly encourage you to consider joining us in July to practice and deepen our understanding of the dharma. To quote Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche:\n«Of all the forms of training and discipline in Buddhism, mind training is considered the most essential. In order to train the mind, there is training such as shamatha, to help you remain undistracted or at least discover how distracted you have been and through that make your mind flexible and malleable»\nRegistration for this retreat is closed.\nThe retreat itself is being offered on donation basis, however to secure your spot you need to arrange your accommodation at Deer Park Institute and put a deposit of 30% the cost of your stay.\nMeet your instructors:\n\nDavid Nudell\nMet Trungpa Rinpoche in 1971. Shortly after he moved to the Tail of the Tiger Buddhist community later renamed Karme Choling where he lived for the next six years. During that time he attended the first Vajradhatu Seminary in 1973, sat the first datun, attended Trungpa Rinpoche and became one of the resident teachers. In 1985 he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia with his family where he was a practicing psychotherapist. In 2007 he became a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.\n\n\n\n\nTashi Colman\nA student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche who sat his first datun 40 years ago, Tashi was Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s secretary from 2013-2023. He still sees datun as one of the best and most powerful foundations of all Buddhist practice. For more than 20 years, he also worked on holistic progress measures in Nova Scotia and Bhutan and is author of What Really Counts: The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy (Columbia University Press, 2021).\n\n\n\n\n\nKen Einhorn\nA student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since the late 1970’s.  He sat his first datun in 1980 and attended the three-month Vajradhatu Seminary with Trungpa Rinpoche in 1982. His journey on the Buddhist path continues as a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.\n\n\n \n\nElla Milligan\nWas born just outside of Chicago to students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In 1988 her family immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada to be closer to his growing sangha. Her first encounter with practice was at the age of eleven when her father tricked her into participating in a meditation retreat. Since 1998 Ella has studied under Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. She loves datun practice, was a meditation instructor for the first three annual datuns in Bir, and is very happy to be returning this year.\n\nShow More Instructors\nAjeer Vidya\nFounding member of Deer Park. Student of Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation.\n\n \n \nUma Pitta\n\nUma works in accounts management and project coordination for Khyentse Foundation India activities. She is a science graduate and accounts apprentice with work experience in marketing, corporate skills training and operations training.\n\n\n\n\nPallavi Deshmukh\nA student of buddha-dharma for more than five years having encountered the path through her teacher Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in Bir.  Pallavi conducts workshops and programs both rooted in these therapies and integrating Buddhist practices and creative/expressive arts for mental health and well-being for the lay audience. She continues to engage in studying and practicing the dharma, including mindfulness-awareness meditation as a key component.\n\n\n\n\n\nLucky Vakharia\nGraduate of Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art and a post-graduate in the field of Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design. She is an Animation Filmmaker, a theater actor, an avid reader, a traveler,  forever a student of Buddhist psychology, and a relentless seeker of the truth!\n\n\n \nBahulia Jivan\nBahulia Jivan is a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche since 2018, even though she starts to follow him since his first visit to Moscow, Russia, in 2010. She creates Healing Technology studio in Moscow and works there as an energy-body therapist and Tea Ceremony Master, combining those two ways of contemplative techniques into inspiring fusion for everyday life.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \nFeel free to ask any questions about this retreat: siddharthadatunretreat@gmail.com ( mailto:siddharthadatunretreat@gmail.com )\nAny questions about accommodation and advance deposit payment: info@deerpark.in ( mailto:info@deerpark.in )\n
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