Like a Moon on Water

02/08/2026

Calm Abiding (Shamatha) Meditation - Meditation and contemplative techniques followed by discussion of Buddhism’s teachings and practices.
Learn to use the breath or a focus object to bring awareness to your thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and to provide moments of clarity and calm in your day. Alternating sitting and walking periods. Chairs and cushions are available, or bring your own. For beginners and those already familiar with the practice.
Sunday 2 pm to 3:30 pm Offered weekly.
Starting March 1 2026
The Huntsville Loft 8 West Road N. Huntsville Ontario
info@huntsvilleloft.ca for information and instructions about registration.
$20 per class or $15 per class when you buy 4

01/30/2026

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01/30/2026

Happiness as a Spiritual Practice

How often has someone asked you if you were happy, really happy? Were you able to answer them right away or did you have to take some time to think about it, and then found yourself reflecting on their words as if they were some kind of puzzle to sort through or riddle to solve? Happiness is a feeling that we think we know and recognize and might even assume to be our natural state. Maybe we think that we should be happy simply by virtue of being alive. Lately however I have come to the realization that being happy is not so natural a situation. It is not something that I can assume simply because I am alive and find my eyes open and awake some morning. Being happy I know now is usually a choice, and a choice that must be opted for daily, hourly, and sometimes when things are particularly challenging, moment by every moment. Being happy means that we have made a choice to surrender to happiness as a spiritual practice. By doing so we are then fortunate to be in the position to help others and support their choice to be happy too.

01/25/2026

One of the wonderful things about living in the woods and having two small cabins on the property is that you have a wonderful opportunity to do solitary retreats. I just finished two weeks and two days in my old off the grid cabin to focus on dharma study and meditation practice. I took a few books suggested by my teacher and spent the quiet time by myself concentrating on our lineage teachings and then applying them to sitting, guru yoga, and mantra practice. Weather with temps reaching down to -37 degrees Celsius and a record amount of snow added to the sense that I was settling into a Canadian winter in a place that I truly love.

10/19/2025

09/11/2025

If you wear robes, let them be like a rainbow — appearing, beautiful, but without substance. If you do not wear robes, let your natural presence shine — naked, simple, and uncontrived.

09/10/2025

You are welcome to share in a Fall Equinox Gathering Sunday September 21, at my home, 1017 Yearley Road, @ 6:30 pm. Please bring a tea light, harvest food snack to share, and your drum. Includes music, guided meditation, blessing and gratitude prayers. Invite a friend. $5 love offering appreciated to cover costs. Car pool if you can. See you there. 705 789 2179

05/02/2025

You are not broken.
You are not lost.
You are the space in which all things come and go.
Rest, Beloved, you do not need to fix the sky.

04/10/2025

Living in the woods has given me the opportunity to rest in natural great peace surrounded by the sights and sounds of every precious moment that goes by.

04/09/2025

Longchenpa reminds us in The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding:

“In the all-pervasive expanse of awareness, nothing is rejected or affirmed. Yet from within this openness, the compassion of the Buddhas arises like a breeze stirring the ocean.”