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Meditation: a fresh approach 9

Posted on April 13, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

What does “at rest” mean to you? What do you experience when you mind is at rest, when your emotions are at rest, when ego is at rest? How about when perception is at rest? Contemplate. Then meditate.

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Meditation: a fresh approach 8, pause

Posted on April 13, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Flowing from Listen! Understand! Meditate! Experience! from the Kunjed Gyalpo tantra we will use and be guided by a quote from Milarepa. As with several quotations that we have used, this one is chock full of instruction, meaning, and guidance. … Continue reading →

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Meditation: a fresh approach 7

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

What “stands” “under” your thinking and responses, even your sense of reality? We begin this session with musing on the word “understand”. Human cognition is predicated upon pattern recognition and associations made instantaneously based upon the particular patterns in a … Continue reading →

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Meditation: a fresh approach 6

Posted on April 6, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

When it comes down to it, meditation and/or Presence is pure listening.

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Garden: Happy Spring! -1

Posted on April 6, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Global climate disruption is here. Last summer it made its presence known in Jaroso, CO. Jaroso is in south-central Colorado, two or five miles from the New Mexico border depending on which direction to go to the border. This little … Continue reading →

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