Retreat with Mukti, Vol. 5 ~ Q&A Sessions

This 5-download set includes all the Q&A sessions with Mukti and retreat attendees during the October 2024 silent retreat at Garrison Institute, including the Friday morning session (which is also part of the Talks download set).

Please Note: The Talks and Guided Meditations from this retreat are available for purchase separately.

Q&A Session Topics Include:

• Mukti’s Personal Journey
• Beingness Functioning in Form
• The Relationship between Awakening and Trauma
• When Inquiry Falls Away
• Energetics in the Meditative Experience
• Seeing the World from Centerlessness
• Tracking Progress on the Path
• The Direct Approach or the Progressive Path
• Trusting Your Instincts and Sense of Body

QUOTES:

“What deep awakening shows us is just because something is layered over doesn’t mean it’s gone or it’s missing or that there’s further to realize, in terms of our essential nature.”

“Human beings have limits. The psyche has limits. People come up against those limits, and sometimes they recover and sometimes they don’t. And yet, my instinct tells me that healing is possible if the right circumstances and the right things come into play.”

“Nothing really needs to let go, other than in our minds.”

“There’s the part that can be in bliss and happy and full of well-being, and there’s the part that can be anxious and in distress. But in the middle is the sense of that which doesn’t even have a preference or wouldn’t make either one wrong, that’s totally allowing both.”

“We let the question work on us until it dissolves the questioner.”

“When you think of the unknown, it seems like such an unlikely place for there to be peace. But there’s a kind of unknown that’s quite powerful that’s not the unknown of not having the answer, where you might feel more powerless or more vulnerable. There’s a field of unknowing that’s incredibly powerful, and to return to it can feel like a return to our innocence, where it’s okay to express in a more pure way, to perceive things simply, without a lot of overlay.”

“Awakening is about being what you are. So the best suggestion I can give is to abide, to stop, to sense what it is to deeply just be. It’s like taking a vacation from the demands and discovering, ‘Wow, have I ever just given myself complete permission to just be and to actively do so?’”

“Before you worry too much about how you lived your life before, how you’re living your life now, how you are going to live in the future, why don’t you ask who’s living this life?”

Recorded in Garrison, New York on October 20-25, 2024.
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