Embracing the Ordinary

Mukti begins by speaking of two different paths of awakening associated with two very different focuses of meditation—the third eye and the hara. The first is a path of union, emphasizing radiant fullness, and the second is a path of liberation, emphasizing spacious emptiness. She goes on to explore more deeply the path of liberation and its call to the extraordinary ordinary, recalling Zen pointers that shift attention from knowledge in thought to knowledge in being. Mukti encourages fidelity to one’s unique journey, guided by sensing for deep resonance that lights one’s way.

Topics Include:

• Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
• Third Eye and Hara-Focused Meditations
• Receiving Life as It’s Given
• When the Transcendent and the Human Inform Each Other

Quotes:

“We can have an active, busy mind, and underneath we can sense an underlying stillness, and even become that stillness and live as that stillness. But it’s not static—it’s that, by contrast to the grasping and aversion, it operates in a paradigm in which grasping and aversion don’t occur.”

“There is an eye at the center of things that is untouched, whose day is going fine, even when on the surface it’s not going well.”

“All states come and go—good states, pleasant states, difficult states, challenging states—they all come and go, and they’re all a part of the oneness. Each of us is an expression of the One, so there’s going to be the dance and the play of life.”

“As we shine going forward, and enter into that shine, there’s a way that we have greater and greater acceptance of our humanness simply because we feel how it’s life itself expressing uniquely through each one of us.”

Recorded on May 27, 2026.
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