Category Archives: Mahayana

Meditation: already present Awareness

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

To have Awareness in its seat is a choice. Awareness IS. You are this essence that gives birth to all manner of consciousness, knowing, questioning, loving, rejecting, creating, destroying, to gestation, transformation, letting go, letting be, simply BE, and to … Continue reading →

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Day 3 of Direct Experience

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak
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Day 1 of the Direct Experience retreat

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Pregnant silences adorn these videos. The imagery from the Hubble Deep Space telescope does too. The focus of today was the here and the cosmic newness of each moment. Truly each moment is brand new, never has existed before. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/760528904 … Continue reading →

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Direct experience: theme for 3-day online retreat

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Six of us recently got together for seven days of meditation in person. Most significant for everyone was the direct experience of qualities of innate awareness. Such qualities are limitless and include every facet of compassion-empathy-embrace and of wisdom-emptiness-clarity-radiance. Vast … Continue reading →

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Meditation: sight, the observer, and duality

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Dualism is assumed by society, education, cultural norms and, thus, by the vast majority of people. Dualism, or a dualistic view of reality, engenders me/my/mine together with you/yours. Dualism says that dog is dog and not bird, that bird is … Continue reading →

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