Author Archives: 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.

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 →

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 →

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