OBS Newsletter – February 2017
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...
OBS Newsletter – September 2016
Good evening friends and members of the OBS, A key Buddhist teaching is that change occurs constantly, and that any sense of permanence is an illusion: Impermanent are all component things, They arise and cease, that is their nature: They come into being and pass...
OBS Newsletter June 3, 2016
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....
OBS Newsletter – May 8, 2016
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,...
OBS Newsletter – April 29, 2015
The Earth’s plates that moved under Nepal last Saturday have shaken us all. In Kathmandu, a city of over three million, the losses of so many are innumerable. Of Nepal’s 27 million people, 17% live in urban areas, with considerable numbers inhabiting remote Himalayan settlements. Thirty out of the country’s 75 districts have been affected by the earthquake. CNN reported ” the information received from the field is that 80% of the houses in these rural areas have been destroyed.” If you have not already done so please consider donating to an international relief organization.