Category Archives: About meditation

advancing meditation: the a, b, c of perceptions

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Perceptions are necessary as long as we think that we are living in this world with such and such gender, food preferences, hopes, fears, and self-identity. We share this conditioning with trillions of other beings on Earth. Meditation – on … Continue reading →

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advancing meditation: the root of phenomena …

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

“is the mind.” So say, Buddha Shakyamuni, Patanjali, and a host of realized teachers of meditation and Awareness (male and female) through the centuries. How is the mind the root of phenomena, and why is this significant to a vipahsyana … Continue reading →

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advancing meditation: contemplation – the seed of vipashyana

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

We begin training in the other leg of meditation: vipashyana. As is said in the Introduction to today’s “meditation,” vipassana is Pali and vipashyana is Sanskrit. They both refer to the same term and mean penetrating insight. The first significance … Continue reading →

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advancing meditation: The why’s of shamatha training (video)

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

This short video encapsulates why the steps in shamatha practice are what they are – no matter who’s teaching it. Shamatha is the only ground for meditation. In fact, shamatha is the closest experience that one can have of buddha … Continue reading →

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Mindfulness?

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

To practice mindfulness is to place oneself on its hook. It is a call to truth presenting in the moment, as the moment, and through one’s relation to Truth of Being. Buddha Shakyamuni exemplified this and taught others how to … Continue reading →

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