Category Archives: Life’s Insights

Meditation: limitless goodness and possibilities

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

After meditation, I prepared a garden pumpkin for cooking. Inside it, two seeds had sprouted. Long probing tendrils were making their way through the body of the pumpkin to find the two spots on the shell softening with age. I … Continue reading →

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Meditation: luminous emptiness

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

This week completes with a reflection on reflecting itself. The act of contemplation (and all its various forms) is one that brings forward luminous emptiness, derives from these two inseparable qualities, while contemplation is also an example or expression of … Continue reading →

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Meditation: prajna and mimicry

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

A primary principle of Nature and the natural world is abundance. Millions of leaves on a tree, hundreds of pine cones, tens time ten seeds to one plant. There is no lack in Nature. Even in a desert environment, though … Continue reading →

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Meditation: looking at things boldly

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

We contemplate on sanity and insanity, authenticity and the chameleon-like self and we meditate.

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Meditation: prajna, intimate, you

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

In this session, some of this was said spontaneously. Let me repeat it here for those who do not use the podcast. We have learned to notice the usually not noticed incrementally. Now some of our emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and … Continue reading →

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