Category Archives: Life’s Insights

Meditation: mind making it so 1

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Which do you like more: Indian food or Italian? What toothpaste do you use; and is it with or without fluoride? Such personal choices are examples of “everything exists in the mind. The mind makes it so.” I don’t own … Continue reading →

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Meditation: mind makes it so 1

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Any object, internal or external, personal, natural, cultural, historical, and so forth, can be an object of contemplation. Limitlessly.

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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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