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Hi, My name is Ken Hood. I have been studying, practicing and teaching meditation/mindtraining for 30 years in the community of Guelph Ontario. I have also been a bookseller for 36 years at The Bookshelf. Anyway, it’s time for me…

  Sunday Meditation & Inquiry Sessions @ 10:30 am (Will begin again Sept. 15/19.) Everyone is welcome! We begin with a half-hour meditation. Instruction is available, if are new to practice. We then have an open-ended inquiry about our experience….

Pith Instructions from Tilopa I bow to Vajra Dakini. 1. Mahamudra cannot be taught, Naropa, But your devotion to your teacher and the hardships you’ve met Have made you patient in suffering and also wise: Take this to heart, my…

Here are a couple of practices that we have been using to work with difficult conditions. The first is predisposing our minds to see a difficult condition as something beneficial. Not easy but very powerful when it works. We recite…

Hi everyone, the Open Sunday Sit is at 10:30 a.m. at Living Yoga and Health, 105 Wyndham St. N. downtown Guelph. It is drop-in and by donation. There will be a sessions every week which will run for about an…

Hi everybody, Next week is the long weekend July 1. So this week June 24th is the last session until early September. If I don’t see you tomorrow, have a great summer!

So that you can enjoy long weekend. See you next week! Ken photo credit Annie Spratt from Unsplash  

We are have a return of light/solstice gathering tonight. All are welcome and it’s free!   In the Grip of the Solstice – Marge Piercy Feels like a train roaring into night, the journey into fierce cold just beginning. The…

Our practice for this week is: “Mostly my thinking is compulsive and distracting, therefore I take it very lightly.” Repeat 7, 21 or 108 times per day.

“I will fail.   I will fail again.   I will fail better.   I will succeed.” ~ derived from a quote by Samuel Beckett