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BrianD
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Hello from Montreal Canada

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Hi everyone, I find myself here after moving from Martial Arts to Zen and finding myself wanting to delve deeper into my practice. Is there anyone here from the Montreal area ? :namaste:
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Montreal is a beautiful place but I don't live there currently.

http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/search.ph ... =theravada" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This might help in finding a Theravada group in your town. Welcome to the forum! Do you practice Zen still or are you moving towards Theravada?
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.

Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.

His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
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Welcome Brian!

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Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

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Welcome BrianD! :smile:
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Greetings Brian and welcome!
We have a few Canadians on this board, some of them, I think, hail from Montreal.
kind regards,

Ben
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Welcome Brian!

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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!

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BrianD
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LonesomeYogurt wrote:This might help in finding a Theravada group in your town. Welcome to the forum! Do you practice Zen still or are you moving towards Theravada?
I find my practice moving towards Theravada, I attended a few Zendo's in Montreal but they never really clicked. Presently my practice is mostly solitary at home and getting out to a sangha is proving challenging as I have children and one with a disability that requires a lot of attention. All that being said I did a find a group that sits on Sunday afternoons, and even though they are kind of far from me (I live way out from the city) I plan on trying to make that connection and sit with a group of like-minded people.
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Hello Brian,
I'm in Montreal as well and I am interested in the group you spoke of which meets on Sunday afternoons. There is so many readings and information available online but I am wanting to find some like minded people to meet with. Could you give me some contact details for the group?
Thanks,
Geoff
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Welcome to DW!
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Hello Brian!

I live in Montreal and I'm looking for a group also. I was able to find some addresses and I'll go visit all of them (or almost). Like you, I don't live in the city (island), but a bit outside. Every practice that starts very early in the morning would be a challenge ;)

But I've been practicing alone for quite a long time now and I notice my motivation is getting a bit... :thinking: difficult
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Hello,
I also leave in Montreal, on the north shore. I know 2 theravada places and i have been at the first one :
http://centre-meditation-satipattha.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; : in St-Hubert (south Shore)
The other on in St-Laurent (on the island), I’ve never been there but i will contact them in the next few weeks:
http://www.montrealbuddhistmonastery.org/#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;!
Hope this help!
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Welcome BrianD :)
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