Retreat 2024 – Munir Peter Reynolds

2024 Mureeds Retreat Recordings

Morning Practice, Wednesday April 10, 2024

Morning Practice, Thursday April 11, 2024

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Behind the Illusory Veil
Our grasp of reality is certainly under a lot of pressure in 2026, especially around the significance of “Me” and “You”. Drawing from the great Sufi poet Rumi, Munir pulls back the assumed veil separating us and explores the purifying influence that brings us home to remembrance of our essential unity. Spoiler alert: Rumi says, “I, you, he, she, we… In the garden of mystic lovers these are not true distinctions.”
Luminous Cave of the Heart
Munir explores presence as the light of the world. What to the mind seems “dark” – our innermost being – actually blazes with the light of a thousand suns, as when Lord Krishna reveals his vast being to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Presence, as the felt sense of silence and stillness in the body, shines as the emanation of that radiance of pure being. Our commitment to be present means embodiment of the same force that created the universe and the human body, able to meet every condition and situation. Being present is the only true refuge, and stands as the greatest gift we can give the world or ourselves.
Just Being in the Everything and the Nothing
The great Hindu sage Nisargadatta said “Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.” What if spiritual maturity means simply being natural? What does it mean to be natural and how do we recover that? Munir speaks about Nisargadatta’s teaching on the “I Am” and two great pathways to our real self found in all of the spiritual traditions – the path of subtraction, or effacement of the ego; and the path of inclusion, or love. As these paths converge they reveal a great truth about what we eternally are which intimately meets every situation with compassion and understanding. We become natural by completely being what we really are.
Glimpses from the Rose Garden of Love
A question that may be on many minds is, “How can I keep a loving and compassionate attitude in the face of so much chaos and injustice all around?” Munir will approach this by first helping us remember common illusions in how we view ourselves and the world. Our longing for harmony is actually a reminder or echo of what we already are. When love and truth come together in our direct experience in the heart, which we could call the “rose garden of love”, we may catch “glimpses” of the eternal and infinite wholeness that we already are. A mere glimpse may suddenly reveal the entire vista. From this understanding comes the strength to live a Fierce Love, loving “what is” in the face of all appearances and resistances.