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

780Jan. 10 26 Hindrances against sernity
As far as Zen is concerned, serenity has nothing to do with some sort of blissful state where everything is peaceful, rosy, cheerful, and happiness runs 24/7. It will never happen.  Serenity is a state of mind; it appears when equanimity is achieved, and stress level under control.  It mea...
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579 Jan 03 2026 Reality vs VR How our mind is tricking us.
According to neuroscience, including imaging, our mind is processing around 110,000thoughts/feelings 24/7.Their contents, representing around 50 to 70 Gigabytes of data,* are a blend of factual, concrete realities(R), and virtual ones (VR).How much reality vs. fiction is produced? ……VR seems to ...
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578 MEDITATION PRACTICE: How to sept up a daily routine Dec 13th 25
MEDITATION: Part II How to create a daily routine  Up to 80-90% % of people who start meditation will quit within a year. Why is that?  It is multifactorial but can be summarized in 1 word:  they quit because being not a priority, a daily routine is impossible. Read previous Dharma ta...
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577 RIHT CONCENTRATION by MIRANDA Dec. 7th 25
Proper Concentration Proper concentration, or Samadhi, is the eighth and final step of the Noble Eightfold Path. It belongs to the part of the path that focuses on mental discipline. When we talk about Samadhi, we're talking about a mind that is steady, calm, focused, and collected - not scattered, ...
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