Author Archives: Donna Mitchell-Moniak

In an attempt to “strike the vital point” …

This meditation session has a long introduction in which two ideas are brought forward: the similes used last week (mirage, dream, dew drop, etc.) are related to software in our consciousness. The brain is hardware. The hardware of synaptic firings, … Continue reading →

On the day called Thanksgiving by the colonialists and The Day of Mourning by the Native Peoples, we did a meditation that acknowledged both. For Saturday’s meditation, we returned to the similes to contemplate using change as beneficial.  

In this cycle of meditations, we are freshly looking at two things: our reality and shamatha, tranquil attentive abiding. One discovery is the relationship between the two. The first part of the podcast explains. Then, meditation.