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"Muz Murray, a world travelling
mystic master, was inspirational, enchanting us with his workshops
on Mantra, Mystical Awakening and Meditation. One thing that struck
me about Muz was the humility, gentleness and depth of this
remarkable soul; untiring, ready to share every minute with all of
us, answering all our questions which expressed our fears,
anxieties, joys, hopes and aspirations on the Path.
We truly had an inspirational week
of spiritual nuturing."
- The Gibraltar Integral Yoga
Newsletter (re. The Integral Yoga Festival, Quinta da Calma,
Portugal)
"Hungry for more. Muz Murray, the
perfect yogi master, breath even, body soft and still, sat in
Padmasana and intoned the Mantras. It was a wonderful privilege to
be taught by someone with so much depth of experience. His research
has taken him to ashrams in India, Japan, Tibet to Hindus, Sufis,
Tibetan and Japanese monks. He has discovered that very few of them
really know how to intone the mantras so that they truly create the
essential vibration through the body's bones and nervous system."
"From the first sutras of
Patanjali, we know that yoga is about the cessation of the movement
of the fluctuation of the rain waves. The energy force of mantra
helps to lead us there. I found that awakened again within me was
the delight of the Gayatri mantra, revealing new light. So powerful
was our chanting that at times I did not know I was in the hall."
"Muz explained how he had spent
three months plucking out every 'negative' or 'wrong' thought like
pulling 'pile' out of a carpet piece by piece. Here was someone who
had really worked at the mind, body stuff to create that calmness
that inevitably contributed to his beautiful voice. Can I hold what
I have learnt? Will he come back to this country and our neck of the
woods? I hope so."
- Winkie Harrison (Inner Yoga Trust
Newsletter)
"Thanks for everything in your workshop: your teaching,
your love, you gave so much... a very special experience. After
singing the mantras, when we all sat around you and you looked at
each one of us, something happened inside of me, something moved
me deep inside. At that moment I felt like I was receiving a lot
of extra energy in the heart-centre. I've never felt anything like
that. The effect it had on me, the energy it gave, was overwhelming;
and it's still working its way through! Usually I have a lot of
thoughts and many questions, but that Sunday I just felt silent,
peaceful, no questions. It felt so good!"
- B.Omvlee (Holland)
"I feel I have to write and tell you what a lasting
impression that weekend has made on my life. It was a truly wonderful
experience. I had never done chant to any great extent before, but
I find it has a positive effect on me."
"I was finding my course
of study on Yoga Philosophy a bit difficult to understand-until
I attended your workshop, and then it was like a light had been
switched on-and suddenly I could see! I haven't been the same person
since! But I like this new me!"
- E.R. (Slane,Eire)
"I do not feel I can leave the path I shared with
you without saying that it was indeed a privilege to 'Share the
Quest' for a short while. It is ten years since I have left a gathering
so refreshed and renewed, But most of all I enjoyed the Satsang
period-listening to your replies to the questions raised, where
your very special presence showed it-Self to the full.
Thank you
for what you imparted...but more importantly, for your unique way
of imparting the Truth."
- N.L.
"My wife and I were recently lucky enough to attend
a seminar by you in Basildon. I do not yet fully understand what
I got from you, but I experienced something unknown to me before,
and it was not until Tuesday evening that I seemed to return to
something like normal. I do not think it was only the mantra, although
it does give inner peace-and I find your
Sounds of Silence cassette
inspiring. Only as I write I realise that what you gave us was your
presence, for you were in tune with all life. "Thank you for the
Life Force that you imparted to me."
- N.Cook (Laindon.)
"It was just an ordinary Wednesday. I went to a
meeting in which the topic this week was a talk on 'Sound' by Muz
Murray-never heard of you-you started chanting. 'O dear,' I start
smiling to myself, 'whatever will you get yourself into next?' Your
strange noises turn into sweet melodic chanting: I'm enchanted and
very happy. I listen to your talk-I understand. I still feel your
presence while looking at your books afterwards. I leave with one,
knowing that I have been close to a 'special human.' "I read several
pages of Sharing the Quest before sleeping. Suddenly-I found myself
in your words. I now understand myself to be worthwhile...You have
given me great inspiration. Come back soon."
- Jay (Hadleigh)
"The whole weekend was so happy,
so full of goodwill, with Muz a very caring teacher, sharing with us
a very important part of or daily lives
— the vibration of sound."
"It
was as if the subtle body recognised the sounds of the Mantrams;
rather like the feeling of invisible fingers running across the
strings of a harp and plucking a tune which massages the body, mind
and soul. If that sounds exaggerated, from my own experience it
hardly explains it. So many people have written and telephoned me
since — people new and those experienced in yoga — saying how well
the weekend worked for them, how happy and toning it was.""
-
Mavis Fielding (Wheel North Journal)
"Muz is truly a very special being and unlike many
Realised masters, he is very accessible and approachable. When he
chants I feel all my cells vibrating harmoniously with the universe.
His eyes transmit so much love and inspiration, I feel it bubbling
up inside myself filling me with endless joy."
- A. J. Oliver (London)
"Muz is an alchemist of the soul-a catalyst radiating
in the centre of the group, teaching us the 'Way of Sunconsciousness'
and mysteriously transmuting everybody's inner world into something
one can no longer forget. And we go back to the 'normal' unreal
world we all live in, like aliens fallen from heaven. Knowing, anyway,
in our heart of hearts, we can go back 'home' into it, whenever
we like."
- W. C. M. (France)
"Muz-he's some guy: just being in his presence
starts to weave an inexplicable magic upon your consciousness. And
when your soul recognises the soul of an enlightened being it begins
to dance with pure joy!"
- Nawaratri Brand (London)
"Apart from Krishnamurti, you are the only being
I have been close to whose attainments are so mighty, and I found
you inspired and inspiring, and can only offer my profound gratitude
for your patient work with us. Seeing you, I realise how beautiful
and worthy is the spiritual path."
- Jeremy S. Gluck, SPRITECH (Swansea)
"Having had a chance to reflect, thank you again
for packing so much in to a one day session. Feedback from individuals
has ranged from ecstatic, to "thought provoking," to dumbfounded!!
About a quarter of those present were either Yoga teachers, or training
to teach; a few were other sorts of healers; the majority were individuals
who attend Yoga classes regularly. Their responses are an indicator
of the level of their lack of exposure to mantra in their classes.
Some, I know, have been attending classes for over ten and twenty
years and only ever chanted Om. This is not a condemnation of the
individual teacher but more a recognition of the need for more in-depth
training of BWY teachers in this area and/or the resources with
which to build their experience. You really are such a rare commodity,
how on earth can ordinary Yoga teachers acquire even a basic level
of skill, unless we press you to find more training opportunities.
Many Yoga teachers introduce Mantra to their classes tentatively
because they think all mantra has a devotional purpose, as in religiosity-and
with general classes they never progress from that perspective-of
course it turns many off at that point too. I have even been at
BWY in-service training events where established Yoga teachers say
they do not use mantra at all-because of the religious connotations
and/or because they can't sing!!! The BWY is expanding its teaching
population at an alarming rate at present and many student teachers
are getting virtually no informed introduction to mantra. The second
thing I really liked about your presentation, which I know you have
been teaching for a long time now. It was that you offered people
a way in, by introducing them to the vowels and consonants and their
correspondence to regions of the body - that is so helpful. The
`logic' of it as the sound moves forward in the mouth is beautiful.
I should like to add that since then several people have endorsed
the same views and on one more thing that stood out: it is your
sheer dedication to your passion. After spending so many years building
up your expertise, it shows... and it was truly valued here."
- Gill Winstanley (British Wheel of Yoga representative for North Wales)
"Thank you for a weekend when the
doors and windows of our hearts and minds were opened to the
sunshine of love and peace."
- Y.M.
(Yorkshire)
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