Category Archives: About meditation

Meditation: changing perceptions

Posted on August 17, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Changing one’s perceptions transfigures one’s reality. How is this accomplished? Incrementally, like filling a jug with water; but at some point the jug is full and overflows. Same with us. Little by little, beginning with noticing the usually not noticed, … Continue reading →

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Meditation: alchemy 1

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

We had a two and a half day retreat focused on bodhichitta. It highlighted the ongoing transformative processes that result as bodhi infuses chitta. For example, softening and opening (bodhi) softens the rigidity of the personal mind and opens it … Continue reading →

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Meditation: relaxing

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

The video introduction offers a pause and reflection on what we are exploring. This possibility has been years in the making by each practitioner on and mostly off the cushion. Integration of the on-cushion practice into one’s daily moments and … Continue reading →

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Meditation: four things

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

four essential reminders

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Meditation: change 5, present mind – liberation

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

As said in the video introduction, all discoveries simple display that which already is and was to someone. Lewis and Clark did not discover the lands west of the Mississippi; the Native Peoples who lived there knew their lands very … Continue reading →

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