Category Archives: Mahayana

Earth: a training ground for bodhichitta

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Helping is what we are here for. It is the reason that human beings exist.  Our planet is designed as a training ground for bodhisattvas. This, about planet Earth, is expressed as the development of bodhichitta through the lives of … Continue reading →

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Dragon Kwan Yin

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

To understand Kwan Yin fully, one must understand the Dragon she feeds. Dragon is Insight: penetrating, piercing, fearless, uncompromising. Dragon can take flight and, in doing so, lift the aspirant as well as his or her consciousness into the highest … Continue reading →

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A radical new identity

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

What if our idea of being human is off the mark? What if we are not primarily homo sapiens but are bodhisattvas? This is my thesis: that the true expression of being human is an ever-greater illumined consciousness, an ever-wider … Continue reading →

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Engaging the Bodhisattva Heart of Humanity

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

What if the very purpose of humanity is to bring forward the ingenuity and clarity of compassion in every regard? This webcast introduces that idea as well as three upcoming online course in this regard. 1.The heart and its power … Continue reading →

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Our curious re-creating of the wheel

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

An article was posted on a Facebook group in which the researcher is reporting that “supposedly nonconscious preparatory brain activity is really just part of a fairly random ebb and flow of background neural activity, and that movements occur when … Continue reading →

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