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

569: The Proper Mindfulness by Miranda Oct 4 25
Proper Mindfulness  Proper mindfulness, the seventh step of the Noble Eightfold Path, belongs to the category of mental discipline, along with proper effort and proper concentration. In everyday language, mindfulness, as defined by Webster’s dictionary, means “the quality of being mindful, ...
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568 Ignorance Part 2 Sept 28th 25
Ignorance Part 2 What does that mean? Ignorance with desire/attachment/clinging (I want), dislike/hatred (I don’t want) is one of the so-called 3 poisons causing suffering.  There is a difference between ignorance in the common sense of the word and its Zen Buddhist meaning In the Zen meaning...
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567 Ignorance Part 1 What does it mean ?
Ignorance with desire/attachment/clinging (I want), dislike/hatred (I don’t want) is one of the so-called 3 poisons causing our negativities called suffering.   There is a difference between ignorance in the common sense, and its Zen Buddhist meaning. In the Zen Buddhist sense of the wor...
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566 Attachment re-visited Sept 14th 25
An attachment is an emotional bond +/- physical that is created between the Self and its image with something /somebody. All living beings have attachments, and we cannot deny, escape nor eliminate them because we need them, and because they are part of our genuine and social entity. Buddhist teachi...
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