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OBS Retreat 2021 | Day 01 Session 01| Luang or Viradhammo

In this first session Luang Por explains the 8 prcepts in the context of modern life. How precepts need to be viewed as guidelines rather than commandments. As a means to create the ground, where the seeds of awakening can begin to sprout.

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Body awareness and Non desire | Luang Por Viradhammo | 25 Sep 21

The session begins with a brief Puja, guided meditation on the body, this is followed by a Dhamma talk, and concludes with a Q&A session.

Luang Por explores the role that body awareness plays in arriving at Non desire. Once again staying with the theme of trust in awareness.
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Site Clearing Ceremony for Tisarana Dhamma Hall – August 15

In addition to the normal routines and business of the monastery, over the past seven years considerable energy has been directed towards envisioning, designing, contracting and planning to build a Dhamma Hall at Tisarana. With each passing month, now, these plans are coming closer to completion. And so, to honour this quickening pace, on August 15th the Tisarana community gathered to prepare the physical site – with chanting, with words of acknowledgement and appreciation. 

The event enabled Luang Por Viradhammo and the assembled community to share blessings, as well as design plans, with a large group of supporters from the Ottawa region and beyond. It’s an understatement to say it was much needed, given that this was the first generous gathering of people we’ve had in over a year-and-a-half. So wonderful to see people taking in the atmosphere of the monastery, and friends being reunited again, in person! 

The ceremony took place in Tisarana’s new event tent, set more or less in the middle of the eventual Hall. Things began with Tan Sirimedho outlining the history of this property and the surrounding region, then giving some specific idea about the design of the prospective Dhamma Hall. The Hall’s outlines had been neatly spray-painted on the grass. … Read the rest