Category Archives: About meditation

Meditation resumes on Tuesday, June 22

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

We will meditate online Tuesday and Thursday, and the Friday through Sunday is a 3-day online retreat. It will be delightful to meditate with you all again. See you Tuesday!

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Direct experience: theme for 3-day online retreat

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Six of us recently got together for seven days of meditation in person. Most significant for everyone was the direct experience of qualities of innate awareness. Such qualities are limitless and include every facet of compassion-empathy-embrace and of wisdom-emptiness-clarity-radiance. Vast … Continue reading →

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Date change, upcoming 3-day online retreat

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Friends, I need to adjust the dates of the June 3-day online meditation retreat from June 4-6 to June 25-27. I hope this is not a hardship for the regulars. Thank you for your understanding. Again, new dates for June … Continue reading →

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Meditation: awakened senses

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

As one moves along in meditation practice transformation happens. Truth be told, meditation is designed to accomplish this. The variety of transformations and transmutations, of letting go and letting be, of coming home to one’s self thereby coming into essential … Continue reading →

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Meditation: sight, the observer, and duality

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Dualism is assumed by society, education, cultural norms and, thus, by the vast majority of people. Dualism, or a dualistic view of reality, engenders me/my/mine together with you/yours. Dualism says that dog is dog and not bird, that bird is … Continue reading →

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