by Colleen Glass | Jun 3, 2018 | DoM Updates, Friday Evening Meetings, Newsletters, Soup Kitchen
Dear friends, Ninety one year old Bhante Gunaratana recently spoke celebrating Vesak (way-sak) at the United Nations in New York. One web site describes this celebration of the Buddha’s birth, death, and enlightenment as a chance to jump-start your practice....
by Colleen Glass | Oct 1, 2017 | Community, DoM Updates, Friday Evening Meetings, Newsletters, Soup Kitchen
Good evening OBS members and friends, A week ago in our Milky Way galaxy, the Cassini spacecraft, at the end of its 20 year mission, transmitted this final image of Saturn’s outer rings (below). Observing and then documenting this unparalleled image NASA...
by Colleen Glass | Apr 5, 2017 | Dana Offering, DoM Updates, Friday Evening Meetings, Newsletters, Soup Kitchen
Good evening friends and members of the OBS, In the midst of busy lives, it can be difficult to maintain a consistent relationship with Buddhist meditation and dhamma. At last month’s retreat, Randy Baker and Jim Bedard stressed the importance of cultivating a...
by Colleen Glass | Feb 4, 2017 | Buddhist Sites, DoM Updates, Friday Evening Meetings, Newsletters, Retreats, Soup Kitchen, Suttas
Good afternoon Friends and Members of the OBS, February 2nd was Groundhog Day, La Jour de la Marmotte, and expectations for an early arrival of spring were high. From all accounts, in the east we’re in for (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/groundhog-day-1.3963089) an...
by Colleen Glass | Jun 5, 2016 | Newsletters, Retreats, Soup Kitchen, Study Group
OBS Newsletter – June 3, 2016 Good afternoon friends and members of the OBS, June is a month of solstice, the time when the Earth is farthest from the equator. In the Northern Hemisphere, this results in the longest day of the year – falling on June 20th this year....
by Colleen Glass | May 8, 2016 | Biographies, Buddhist Sites, Community, DoM Updates, Friday Evening Meetings, Newsletters, Retreats, Social Events, Soup Kitchen
OBS Newsletter – May 8, 2016 Good evening friends and members of the OBS, As the tulips begin to bloom (and the Ottawa Tulip Festival tourists begin to congregate!), we are grateful for the changing seasons and this time of warmth, growth, and creativity. This month,...
