Gold Mind Meditation Project - -GMMP Enhance neuroplasticity.

08/28/2025

🌞Gold Mind Meditation Project🌞 (started in 2008)
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For People with
Acquired Brain Injury, their friends and Families
🌱 Join Us Live on Zoom
Weekly, every Monday at 10am
Free • guided meditation, followed by questions •goldmindmeditation.com (zoom link)
Achievable awakening begins with a single breath.

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•Why This Matters•
A traumatic brain injury can change everything. Memory, emotions, pain and personal identity may feel uncertain. What feels broken can become the path to wholeness.

Mindfulness meditation offers a simple, practical way to find wholeness, healing, and peace.

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•My Story•

In 1977, I survived a car accident and was 11 days in a coma. Brain injury ensued:
memory loss, job and learning instability, and emotional outbursts. This I know
from the inside.

Ten years later, I discovered Insight Meditation. It taught me a way of being - clarity, steadiness, and a sense of inner wellness. Mindfulness didn’t make me someone new—it helped me befriend who I am and to become more. Practice unfolds naturally.

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•What We Offer•
• Introduction to mindfulness meditation
• Gentle guidance to support regular practice
• Community resource connections—dharma teaching online and local
• A taste of lasting peace possible after trauma

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•An Invitation•
If you live with brain injury
—or love someone who does—HEALING and peace is possible.
🧘 Visit goldmindmeditation.com for the Zoom link to begin 10am Mondays - Join our community and participate. Meditate.

HI! I'm Had Walmer. At 22 years of age, I experienced a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of a car accident. Many millions worldwide share this condition. I've found peace and equanimity (and much else) through my mindfulness and meditation practice. In 2010, I realized that I've g.....

02/03/2025

https://www.goldmindmeditation.com
Zoom link, Seeya at ten am pst.

HI! I'm Had Walmer. At 22 years of age, I experienced a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of a car accident. Many millions worldwide share this condition. I've found peace and equanimity (and much else) through my mindfulness and meditation practice. In 2010, I realized that I've g.....

12/17/2024

Gold Mind Mini meditation retreat c/o Resilient Seed Healing Farm
Fri. 12/21/24 10:30 am - 12;30

12/10/2024

Gold Mind Meditation - Chapel Theatre
Mini Retreat, Beginning Meditators: WINTER SOLSTICE MEDITATION. Read the photo below. Dec. 20, Free
Treats served.

12/01/2024

Inspiration! Who is a HERO?

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a 2024 documentary film about the life of American actor Christopher Reeve after a horse riding accident left him paralyzed, and his subsequent work as an activist for disability rights.[5][6][7][8] The documentary was directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ette...

11/18/2023

"If you understand that happiness comes from within — from developing your own inner resources, things as simple as the breath — that puts in you in a very different position with regard to the people around you. Your happiness doesn’t have to conflict with theirs. In fact, your happiness can actually help theirs. If you know how to find true happiness inside — how cultivate your breath, how to cultivate your thoughts in the proper way — then you can be a good example to them. And you can actually share your knowledge with them at the appropriate times.

You’ve probably noticed: People who have that kind of glow from an inner happiness — you pick up some of that glow just being around them. So you create a better environment for the people in your family, the people at work as you’re cultivating good things inside."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Understanding Happiness"

08/25/2023

The Zoom link
(Every Monday, 10am pst )
for our weekly guided meditation session is right in this website
https://www.goldmindmeditation.com
open and scroll down

HI! I'm Had Walmer. At 22 years of age, I experienced a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of a car accident. Many millions worldwide share this condition. I've found peace and equanimity (and much else) through my mindfulness and meditation practice. In 2010, I realized that I've g.....

03/02/2023

Joni Mitchell brought “Both Sides Now” of the political aisle together, as lawmakers and musical artists celebrated her life and career at the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.…

12/13/2022

"When people engage in wrong speech, some of the forms of which don’t come under the precept against lying, but they certainly fall outside of the path — harsh speech, divisive speech, idle chatter — they create a lot of trouble all around.

The Buddha was very particular about speech. If you look through the Jātaka tales, you’ll see that the Buddha-to-be, as he’s portrayed in those tales, will sometimes break the precepts, except for one: He never breaks the precept against lying. This is one of the reasons why he was able to find the truth, because he was very devoted to telling the truth.

If you start lying to yourself, lying to other people, the truth gets harder and harder to find. In fact, of all the precepts, this is the one that he underscored the most. He said, “A person who feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie: There’s no evil that person will not do. That person is empty of the qualities of a contemplative.”

He raised the issue of not lying the very first thing when he taught his son, Rahula. The practice begins there. Only when that’s firmly established are you really ready for the higher levels. If it’s not established, it can spoil the higher levels. You can get the mind into concentration but then it gets spoiled. You can try to develop discernment but it gets spoiled. This is one of the reasons that the Forest Tradition is so strict about the precepts, because they are the foundation. And, as with building a house, if the foundation is cracked, the house is not going to stand.

So we start with respect for the precepts. We place them above our desires to do or say or act on intentions as we like. It’s because we have that willingness to submit to the Dhamma that we’re going to learn it."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Respect for the Triple Training"

07/18/2022

Stop by today for some amazing baked treats, including our #1 best selling cupcake: Chocolate-Salted Caramel. Rich chocolate cake with salted caramel frosting, and topped with more of our house-made salted caramel sauce and sea salt flakes. All organic. All delicious! Great food for a great cause in our non-profit bakery program.

06/07/2022

If you are desirous and committed to a cause, then there cannot be any obstacle that will stand in your way of achievement. Even if you find an obstacle, it will cause a temporary hindrance only, and ultimately it will melt away and evaporate with the passage of time.

Living this life fully stories and teachings of Munindra by Mirka Knaster

06/01/2022

"Even the Buddha couldn’t save other people; there were many people he couldn’t even teach. He taught only those who could be taught — in other words, those who were willing to take responsibility for their own sufferings. The pain of aging, illness, and death is one of the first topics the Buddha brings up in his first sermon, which we chanted just now. And he says that our suffering doesn’t come from a lack of help from other people; it comes from our own lack of skill inside. Our knowledge isn’t skillful; our desires aren’t skillful. And this is something that only we can take care of ourselves, because no one can teach another person to be skillful." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "You Can't Eat the Buddha" (Meditations5)