Oakville Zen Meditation

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Zen Master & Dharma teacher G.Arnaud Painvin MD and Late Catherine Painvin MD are pleased to welcome you. We are providing mindfulness meditation classes 3 times per week which includes silent sitting meditation followed by teaching called Dharma talk and finally Q&A and discussion.

You have access to all Dharma Talks since November 2014. We are open to everyone and our classes are free. For more detailed information about our meditation classes you can find out more About Us.  If you are interested in joining our mailing list please Subscribe to our newsletter below.

Short quote from late little dog called Shih Tzu who was one of my best Zen Master:

“ I am not special, not dogmatic, do not walk on water, don’t take myself too seriously, make mistakes all the times and enjoy wonderful questions and challenges from students so I can learn from them. My job and joy is to try to help others with their struggles the best I can through the practice of meditation and the teaching of Zen Buddhism philosophy”.

As you may know Zen Buddhism is not based on faith per-se, doctrines, dogmas or scriptures but rather on strong spiritual practice based on daily mindfulness meditation, understanding down to earth existential philosophy and practice, both of them designed specifically to alleviate our suffering and its 3 main sources ( desire/I want, hatred / I don't want and delusion/illusion), and, finally, based on pure common sense. We do not preach a so-called divine truth but just factual realities of life and their subsequent wisdoms. Finally, we are against any proselytism, that is to say, to convert people's beliefs such as religious, political or others.

Everyone is welcome ...

Dharma Lecture

573 Feeling being a victim. A Zen perspective Nov. 16th 25
    Feeling being a victim : a Zen perspective One of the purposes of Zen practice is to offer an open heart to self and around us. But It is not easy to open up our own hearts, to open to the “I, me, myself, and mine”. The breakdown of any situation where you feel being [&he...
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572: What is your problem? How to deal with our negativities Nov 8 25
 What is your problem?   or dealing with our negativities “Problem” means that you are dwelling on an event, a situation or a person that is perceived negatively meaning generating a negative emotional response  such as pain, anger, regret, etc.. Problems are small, gigantic, last...
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572 What is consciousness? a Zen perspective Oct 25th 25
What is consciousness? A Zen perspective Historically and still up to now, many of our greatest minds in philosophy, sciences, theology, A.I, have tried to explain the origin and mechanism of human consciousness (see ref.). They end-up with hundreds  of different theories and explanations provi...
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571 The art of doing nothing Part II Oct 20th 25
The art of doing nothing  Part 2: what to do when getting bored? When boredom strikes: We feel some void and the negative feeling of being uncomfortable, unproductive, useless, impatient, restless or even lazy in the current moment. When there’s nothing stimulating, flashy,, distracting or ev...
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