• Everyone welcome!  By donation.
  




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Nembutsu Healing is held one Monday of each month.   Open to all, this 1.5 hour healing session is for everyone who wishes to be healed and would like to experience the effective healing that Nembutsu Chanting brings.  Each month will have a different theme.

January 23:  Healthy Life
February 13: Wishing for the Best in All Our Relationships
March 19: Overcoming Loneliness
April 23: Good Fortune
May 14: Pleasure and Gratitude
June 18: Humour
July 16: Happy Life
August : no Nembutsu Healing this month
September 17: Healing Trauma
October 15:  Overcoming Fear and Anger
November 12: Richness of Life
December 10: Bright Future

Healing yourself is inseparable from healing others.

Buddhist Nembutsu Chanting in Celebration of Earth Day

by donation

for more information please call us at 416-925-7575

The copying of a sutra, "Shakyo" in Japanese, is a brush meditation.  Shakyo gives one a feeling of peace, balancing the mind and body in unification with Amida Buddha.  The whole event inspires respect for the Dharma and as one writes the characters, one feels a a deeper gratitude for the precious teachings.

In this version of the Heart Sutra, we will be copying 266 characters over the period of 4 weeks.  No experience, is necessary, only a genuine desire for the spiritual development of self and others.

To read the Heart Sutra in Japanese and English, click here.

What is E-tegami?

Etegami is a painted letter that communicates with people in your life how you feel at a particular moment. In Etegami, you combine a painting on any theme with a few words that naturally emerge from your heart. The rules are simple: facing a piece of Japanese paper, you concentrate your mind into the tip of an inked brush, draw contours and add colour and words that are easy to read and understand. Then write an address and mail it out. Similar to a focused moment of performing on stage, there is no second chance in Etegami because you don’t make a draft. Ink may ooze out and lines may get blurred... anything goes! It’s OK to be unskilled, and in fact, poor skill with a sincere effort is valued in Etegami. It creates something profound, so profound that no one else can mimic it. This way, everyone, inclding small children, can come up with his or her own style. Etegami is a letter that is naturally transformed into a piece of art with the feelings you put into it. Can you see the smiling faces of the people who receive it? Etegami is live, it is love, and life itself.

Instructor: Sachiko Hata Pereklita

E-tegami Schedule: Hourly workshops limited to a maximum 10 participants per session.
11 am to 12 noon (booked!)
12 to 1 pm (1 space still available)
1 to 2 pm
2 to 3 pm
3 to 4 pm
4 to 5 pm

What is Japanese Tea Ceremony?

Instructor: Yukari Steponaitis (who studied under Soumei Nakanomori)

"Like any living being, human beings require nourishment - both physical and spiritual - and Chanoyu, or Tea Ceremony, can help provide this nourishment." Soshitsu Sen XV, Tea Master.

Wouldn't you like to communicate better and more clearly with your family, friends and co-workers?

We would like to invite you to this exciting participatory communication course. This course will help you feel understood & supported by others, as well as direct you towards becoming a better listener; feel accepted and accept others, without judgement !

 The Heart Of Communication 1

   Learn & Practice the Art of Listening with Your Heart
                    Based on Buddhist principles

     This is an exciting opportunity

•  to express yourself
•  to feel understood and accepted
•  to learn how to support others both verbally and non-verbally
•  to grow spiritually

                               $60.00 for all four sessions

LEARN ... the art of listening with your Heart in this participatory class based on Buddhist principles.  
CONNECT ... to others by listening with and open heart, without judgment or projection, with acceptance and empathy. 
PRACTICE ... together in pairs and small groups.

  Comments:

• "This is an extraordinary course which provides hands-on experience in learning the art of communication.  A must for anyone who wishes to really speak and listen from the heart!"     L. Z. M.
• "Very, very eye-opening!"        M.C.
• "This course made me more aware of my communication habits, and how to approach them <in the future> to better understand and communicate with people".      K.K.
• "Very applicable in what i do for a living working as a healer".  anonymous
• "I feel like this course has changed the way i communicate and listen in my life.  I know that i have become a better listener after taking this course".        S. R.
• "Thanks to this 4 week course i finally got what my girlfriend meant when she was always saying "please just listen".  Now it's very clear and in a way, more relaxed not having to give advice and she appreciates me more! Never really understood that till now!" A.J.
• "It's really amazing!  Everyone needs to experience this and see how one can affect their relationships in the most positive way through empathic listening."
  B.P.
• "Inspirational and Enlightening!"
  J.Y.
• "I found these classes to be informative and transformational".
  J.K.