Ghatika Monthly
TESTING CHANGES AGAIN Based on our operating costs, your contribution of $24 facilitates approximately one ghatika of meditation for the entire Miyo Samten Ling hermitage in Crestone, CO. Choose to give in increments of $24 to support this time spent doing the important work of exploring the mind and consciousness.
Your gift makes a difference
Your contributions will help us maintain and grow our rare, conducive environment for meditation and conduct groundbreaking research into the nature and potential of mind and genuine well-being. Your funds will support:
- Additional cabins to host more expert “Olympians of the mind” engaged in the deep work of intensive, transformational retreat
- Ongoing research and analysis in an unprecedented longitudinal, mixed-method scientific study involving full-time contemplatives
- Investment in educational product development to share mind training and mental health tools with the world, especially the world’s youth
- Maintain the operations of CCR North America, hire key staff, and enable us to assist the growth of CCR Europe and CCR Asia Pacific.
Join us monthly ghatika sessions
Give the world the gift of your own practice!
Join contemplative practitioners from among the global CCR community in monthly virtual guided meditations.
Come together with us to share 24 minutes in time—time that can be spent balancing our minds.
To participate in these sessions, please register here:
What is a ghatika?
In ancient India, a ghatika was a standard measure of one-sixtieth of a lunar day of 24 hours, and was often measured using a “ghatika yantra,” or a water clock.
This interval developed significance for meditation practice. CCR founder B. Alan Wallace has long emphasized the ghatika as an ideal length of time for a meditation session:
“A session of twenty-four minutes is a good starting interval; for most people, it is neither too short nor too long … and this is the session duration that the eighth-century Indian Buddhist contemplative Kamalashila recommended for beginning meditators.”
—B. Alan Wallace, Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
