Community Meditation is non-profit network of meditation groups. We bring mindfulness and wellness into people’s lives through courses, meditation sittings and group discussions, both in-person and online. By sharing the benefits of meditation and mindfulness, we support the evolution of a wise, caring, and healthy world.
Our network has existed for over a decade and although our roots are Buddhist, we draw on many wisdom traditions as well as contemporary wellness, psychology, and neuroscience. Community Meditation is completely volunteer-based and guided by a council of experienced teachers.
Community Meditation is a Canada Revenue Agency Registered Charity No. 73107 5719 RR0001.
Your donations, either one-time or with a monthly subscription, help us to pay rent, insurance and other basic expenses. We are a volunteer organization and all of our costs are covered by donations and course fees. Online Canadian donors will receive an annual tax receipt for the full amount of their donations in each calendar year.
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All online sessions, except our short morning sessions, include a 20-minute silent meditation. New to meditation? Instruction is available.
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Click here to join on Zoom @ 8:45 AM ET
Looking for a mindful start to your day? We're launching silent group meditations from 8:45 to 9 AM ET, Monday to Friday. There is no meditation instruction available in these sessions–if you'd like instruction, email hello@communitymeditation.net.
Click here to join on Zoom @ 5 PM ET
Join Kaye-Lee to explore our innate creative awareness through discussion, readings, and shares. We'll be reading and exploring Chogyam Trungpa's book True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art, which considers dharma art as a way of approaching creativity from a place of deeper awareness. Everyone is welcome!
To be creative means to be in love with life.
― Osho
Click here to join on Zoom @ 7 PM ET
Please join Brenda, Gordon, and Jim for 20 minutes of silent meditation followed by a reading from Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach. This week, we'll be finishing chapter 4 and practicing guided meditations on "unconditional friendliness." Everyone is welcome, and there's no need to have or be familiar with the book.
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. With even a glimmer of that possibility, joy rushes in. [...] When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
– Tara Brach
Click here to join on Zoom @ 7 PM ET
Please join Gloria, Kaye-Lee, and Marian as we continue to read from Tracy Chapman's book Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself. We'll begin with 20 minutes of silent meditation, followed by a reading and discussion related to the "The Burning World" chapter. There's no need to be familiar with the book.
Sometimes life delivers a shock....
We remember that we live surrounded by mystery.
– Tracy Cochran
Click here to join on Zoom @ 7 PM ET
ONLINE
Please join Lauren, Adam, and Sandi to read and discuss Pema Chödrön's "Welcoming the Unwelcome." In a section on polarization, we can see our tendency to divide people and ideas: us vs. them, and right vs. wrong. Does what's happening globally have its roots in the subtle workings of our minds? If so, what can we do? Bring your curiosity, and we'll explore this together. Our session will begin with 20 minutes of silent meditation.
Throughout the day, we can ask ourselves,: Am I perpetuating my sense of being in opposition? Or am I going against the tendency and lessening the gap between myself and the world?
– Pema Chodron
OWEN SOUND, IN PERSON
In "Meditations for Mortals", Oliver Burkeman explores how we might approach having a finite human life. Join Ken to read and discuss Burkeman's ideas in a chapter titled "Let the future be the future." Our session will begin with sitting and walking meditation. Everyone is welcome.
...we're hopelessly trapped in the present, confined to this temporal locality, unable even to stand on tiptoes and peer over the fence, to check that everything's all right there.
– Oliver Burkeman
Click here to join on Zoom @ 7 PM ET
ONLINE
Please join Debbie, Stephanie, and Daniel to watch and discuss a Pema Chodron video. How can we meet fear with more awareness and skillfulness? Our session will begin with 20 minutes of silent meditation.
How do we move through fear without being consumed by it? Pema Chödrön explores the power of embracing fear rather than rejecting it. She reveals that true fearlessness isn’t about eliminating fear but developing intimacy with it—learning to sit with discomfort and uncertainty with openness and compassion.
– YouTube description
Click here to join on Zoom @ 7 PM ET
ECODHARMA
Join Debbie as we read an introduction to Britt Wray's book Generation Dread, which looks at relating to our emotions about the climate crisis. Wray explores how to meet our emotions about climate and meet them with understanding, wisdom, and compassion. Our session will begin with 20 minutes of silent meditation.
Friday EcoDharma sessions are designed for those experiencing anxiety or grief relating to environmental issues. The aim is to bring mindfulness and Buddhist practices to our distress, and to build community.
The first step toward becoming a steward of the planet is connecting with our climate emotions—seeing them as a sign of our humanity and empathy and learning how to live with them.
– Britt Wray
Click here to join on Zoom @ 10:15 AM ET
ONLINE
Please join Debbie and Lauren as we continue to read Ethan Nichtern's book Confidence. In the "Praise and Blame" chapter, we'll explore why we react so strongly to criticism. Our session will begin with 20 minutes of silent meditation, and there's no need to be familiar with the book.
Instead of tuning out criticism, it's more useful to think of letting it move through you, feeling it while it's there, and making use of whatever information resonates.
– Ethan Nichtern
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The richness of present-moment experience is the richness of life itself. Too often we let our thinking and our beliefs about what we ‘know’ prevent us from seeing things as they really are.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
Image by Jan Alexander from Pixabay
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Ken, Sandi, and the Community Meditation Team
We started this meditation network to help you bring more clarity, balance, caring and joy to your life and your community.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.
― Thomas Merton
