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Training the Greatest Gift

2010 graduates of the Mukpo Institute. The author, Luc Jacobs, is on the far right.

Luc Jacobs describes his experience at the Mukpo Institute, engaging training, study, and meditation to discover that becoming who you already are is a gift to everyone.

Mukpo Institute has been in existence for several years now, but somehow it has not attracted that many students, which really surprised me initially. But then I felt glad, since I got to know my fellow students on a level that might have not been possible with a bigger number of people, and a very special and intimate bond was created between all of us.

It is not an easy task to describe what happens at Mukpo Institute, but I think my friend Johann (my fellow Mukpo brother) summed it up pretty well, by saying that we get to meet the high’s and low’s of our mind at close range. I think he forgot to mention the middle range as well, but that goes pretty much without saying.

Myself, I went for the two semesters — one in fall, and one in spring — and they were quite different for me. The first semester, I had expectations that I would get a decent head start towards enlightenment, ample supplies of bliss, laser-like abilities to make clean-cut decisions about the most important aspects of my life, and perhaps get involved in a wild and romantic love affair whilst I am at it… Not bad as an agenda, I thought. Continue…