Welcome to Chintámani!
The Chintamani Retreat Centre is located within the Valley of Cuautla, in Yautepec (in the Mexican state of Morelos), where 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres) of land have been designed to create a quiet spot dedicated to inner development, friendship, work and leisure. It is located 20 km east from the City of Cuernavaca, and 90 km south from Mexico City.
Chintamani is a retreat centre founded and ran by members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. Our centre may accommodate about 48 people (in bedrooms with 2 or 4 beds). It is walled all around to create a safe and sheltered location for spiritual practice.
Contact us if you want to rent our space to organize your retreat.
Spirit of a retreat
Getting together in a quiet, beautiful and secluded spot, away from our daily urban conditions, creates an atmosphere of concentration, discipline, work and positivity in which creativity and harmony may arise spontaneously. These conditions may be conducive and beneficial for different groups of people, gathering with a diversity of aims, from collective work and training activities, to personal development, spiritual growth and/or recreation and relaxation. In Chintamani we offer you a little corner of simplicity and warmth for you to carry out the activities that better suit your needs and objectives.
“A retreat centre is an environment dedicated to concentrating one’s energies and directing them towards the attainment of higher states of awareness and more positive and refined emotion”.
“It may take a little time to adjust to the absence of distraction to which you are accustomed in everyday life, but as you get used to it, your state of mind becomes much more concentrated, even blissful, just through simplifying your sensory impressions and cutting down on the activities through which your energy is usually frittered away”.
– Sangharakshita (2003) Living with awareness.
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