Welcome to The Centre for Compassion and Wisdom website.

Welcome to our open-hearted community in Burlington, Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo and Toronto...a place to discover your inherent potential for compassion, wisdom, inner peace and social awareness. Enjoy diverse community, health and wellness programs for adults and youth that are now being showcased internationally, as well as programs on Essential Education, Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, meditation and Buddhist practices.

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"Samsara and Nirvana"- Discovering Buddhism in Hamilton May 1st

Meet in a group to study, practice, and discuss the Buddha's teachings, from the Graduated Path to full Buddha-hood, with the FPMT program called "Discovering Buddhism".

Starting May 1: new topic "Samsara and Nirvana"

Investigate what is "samsara" and how we are caught in it. Learn what is meant by the freedom of nirvana and how to achieve it. Empower yourself with practical tools to deal with and eliminate suffering forever.

Tuesdays 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

at the Blue Heron Dharma Centre:
74 Alpine Avenue
Hamilton, ON
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All are welcome, by donation.

For questions please contact Dave at (416) 388-6549, or Lama Yeshe Ling at (905)-296-3728.

Our prayer circle

Motivated by a wish to help others, a small group of volunteers have formed a prayer circle. Spread out geographically, we do not meet as a group, but rather say prayers individually, based on our own particular spiritual background.

Meditations to Restore Peace: with Shelley Urlando. 4-week series – Thursdays, May 10 to 31 – 7 to 8:30pm

Following Venerable Amy Miller’s annual visit last week and her workshop on Peace from Chaos, it feels most appropriate to focus our next 4-week series on meditations that will bring you peace. Peace to your heart, your mind and your world. We all lead such full and active lives and need to find simple ways to recharge our batteries. It has been said twenty minutes of meditation is equivalent to four hours of rest. It has also been said, “the better care we take of ourselves, the better we can take care of others”. It begins with you dedicating a short time each day until meditation naturally becomes integrated into your life. This series will benefit both the beginner and the experienced meditator.