Best Buddhist Temple Hamilton Near Me

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Kindness and compassion are the way of the Bodhisattva. Our objective is to provide sanitary products, toiletries, socks, gloves, winter head covering, and undergarments for those living on the streets.

We are asking individuals to fill a backpack with the following items, to be distributed through Helping Hamilton's Homeless.


Once your package is complete, please drop it off at a future designated spot in Hamilton the week of the Hermitage around the first week of December.


This is a course and each week has a different lesson, which builds on previous classes)


Whether you are a long-time meditator or just beginning, it is always good to strengthen and deepen concentration, awareness, and mindfulness. Please consider refreshing and revitalizing your own practice, or recommending these options to family and friends.


Everyone can benefit from this practice. It helps free us from illusion so that we can look at ourselves with greater clarity and make appropriate changes in our lives. We become aware of the depth of selfishness and the actual intent that can motivate actions that are thought to be altruistic.


Taught by Thich nu Tinh Quang, the original techniques are for increasing your awareness and freeing yourself of painful mental habits.


You can learn the basics of meditation from books, websites and videos. However, if you're serious about pursuing a regular meditation practice, it is important to have a teacher and to sit meditation with others at least once a week; most people find it deepens the practice.


Like many aspects of Buddhism, most of us must practice meditation for a while to appreciate it. At first you might think of it primarily as mind training, and of course, it is. If you stay with the practice, however, your understanding of why you sit will change. This will be your own personal and intimate journey, and it may not resemble anyone else's experience.


REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY SEPTEMBER 7 TO (sistertinhquang(@)yahoo.ca THE ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT UPON REGISTRATION.


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Sometimes called "Dharma Day", Asalha Puja commemorates the first sermon of the Buddha. This is the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, meaning the sutra which set the wheel of dharma in motion. In this teaching, the Buddha explained his doctrine of the Four Noble Truths.

Vassa, the Rains Retreat, begins the next day. During Vassa monks and nuns remain in monasteries/temples/hermitages and intensify their meditation practice. We can leave for important duties. Therefore, I will be mostly unavailable during this time.


Most Mahayana Buddhists do not observe Vassa, though Vietnamese Thien and Korean Seon monastics observe an equivalent retreat of three months of intensive practice in one location.

Laypeople can visit and participate by taking food, candles and other necessities to monks/nuns. They also sometimes give up eating meat, smoking, or luxuries during Vassa, and take extra effort to practice the Five Precepts.


Recitation of the 3 Refuges, 5 Precepts will take place on the Tuesday closest to the Full Moon, before Members Sitting. If you have taken Refuge and the 5 Precepts, in any tradition, please join us on the following dates, in 2023. It is important that we can all recite these together.


The following are the dates for Taking Refuge and Recitation of the Precepts.


* When the evening is cancelled for the group, recitation of the 3 refuges and 5 precepts are performed on your own at the same time.

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