How long have you been coming to MOI events? I met Johnathan in 2014 and have been involved with MOI in one way or another ever since. How did you get interested in meditation practice? I saw a flyer for a class called Basic Mindfulness and was drawn in by a line on it that […]
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Guidance on Giving & Dana
Recently, I volunteered to serve as the registrar for an online retreat. This role primarily involved keeping track of participant registrations. It also included responding to their emails if they had issues or questions. Every email I received was about offering donations (called dāna in Buddhism). So, for this month’s blog article, I thought I […]
Sangha Spotlight — Kimberly Vacanti
How long have you been coming to MOI events? 6 months How did you get interested in meditation practice? I have been living with pain and sorrow since I was a child, I knew I needed to do something to turn that pain and sorrow into peace and happiness and loving myself by learning to […]
Do You Have A Meditation Ritual?
How would you answer if someone asked you to reflect on your practice? What would come to mind? Would you think about the time you spend in seated meditation? Would you jump to judgement on how your practice isn’t what you want it to be, or how you could make improvements? For newer practitioners, the […]
Sangha Spotlight — Craig Inzana
How long have you been coming to MOI events? Since early 2020, shortly after I moved here to Omaha. How did you get interested in meditation practice? I was always interested in different spiritual paths, but I started to take it seriously when a therapist introduced me to insight meditation sometime around 2014. I was […]
Tending The Garden
The Pali word that is most often translated to “cultivate” (also develop, produce, call into existence) is bhavana also often translated as “meditation”. We often overlook what bhavana can mean in the broader sense. In gardening, to cultivate can refer to the whole process of gardening, from preparing the soil, removing weeds, planting seeds, watering, […]