Religion

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Right Rev. Logan McMenamie I live very close to Swan Lake and I am able to walk along the Galloping Goose Trail with my dog. Since moving there in July, I have noticed what an amazingly beautiful place Swan Lake is in the middle of our city.

SOSHIN McMURCHY Recently my teacher’s teacher, Genjo Osho Marinello. was invited up to our Zenwest temple to lead a short weekend “intensive.” This type of weekend is definitely intense. We begin meditating at 6 a.m., and go through the day till 9 p.

It’s Advent. That might seem like a statement of the obvious, or it might feel like news.

Wayne Codling Buddhism is a religion that loves lists and claims that meditation is one of the three necessities of a satisfying spiritual life. A human life without meditation is vulnerable to becoming unstable.

Kathy Chiu I was browsing through my news feed on Facebook the other day and came across a couple of sayings that I shared with my friends.

CHRISTOPHER PAGE The first time I remember feeling the compelling urge to die, I was 15. It was night. I was standing alone by the side of a busy highway on the outskirts of Kelowna.

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honour, courage and virtue mean everything ; that power and money … money and power mean nothing.

Kevin Aschenbrenner I’m going with a bit of a different approach to Lent this year. More and more, I see Lent as a time to focus on giving things up that might be weighing me down.