Engage! — a spoken presentation for the Feast of Sittings, Fairfield, May 30, 2016 Imagine this talk as the culmination of a wonderful Spring event, a living room full of bright enlivened participants. Afterwards, someone says, this felt like a graduation talk–and perhaps it has that character–at least it comes at that time of year!…
Words fail me…..when I feel like this, fallen with such intensity…. into I know not what. Pressed full-force, from the inside out, to meet the one you are. The I that I am moving with forceful osmotic pressure through the membrane that has separated my heart from yours………. for so long. Incarnating…maybe for the first…
This is a mystery that has recently been revealed to me. It’s the tail of life’s comet full of “unexpected” events, and a way to fall more deeply into love with life, your life, as it shows up moment by moment. I’m sitting in a big easy chair in my living room surrounded by silence…
My recent transition from a Trillium Awakening Mentor to an Interning Teacher has represented a sort of spiritual blossoming for me, a coming to fruition of years of seeking and practice. And yet, I’m aware that, like a blossom, this time of transition will continue to unfold until it rots, dies, and falls away to…
New Jersey, where I grew up, is bisected north to south by two major highways, the Garden State Parkway and the Turnpike. If you’re a South Jersey Girl, like me, they take you home from metropolitan environs of New York to the rural, marshy farmlands of this small, coastal state. The terminus of the Garden…
Embodied awakening is a deeply incarnated and humanizing process that simultaneously anchors our identity in our unbounded nature. As unconscious material arises for integration and healing our awakening deepens, and we begin to realize the paradox of being both a unique body-mind and the Totality Itself. While this paradox calls us into a more intimate…
By Margit Bantowsky Tear down this house! Run naked toward the Moon and tumble down the mountainside in her arms. Throw away all your straight-jacket dreams of safe worlds and metered days, your heart has already been broken. Jump into the fire of this raw, real present-tense dance, and embrace it as the divine gift…
If you’ve been a seeker for a while, then you are probably aware, at least conceptually, of some of the paradoxes of Being. I sometimes like to imagine two of the core paradoxes as a vertical axis intersecting a horizontal one: — Vertical Paradox: I am both consciousness and matter, both infinite and finite —…
An Angel fell from the sky one day. You see, the problem was, she thought she was supposed to fly as high as possible. No one gave her a guidebook, or told her the Real Deal About Angels. All she saw was posters in the mall of Angels ascending, smiling, happy, stylish, successful. And always…
For the sake of discussion, let’s divide reality into two domains: the exterior, or objective world, and the interior, or subjective world. The study of the exterior world is considered to be science, the aim of which is to understand the fundamental mechanics of the material world, primarily in order to control and manipulate it….
As we each take up our torch of self-awareness to explore and deepen into our multi-dimensionality in the Rot, we free ourselves from our outmoded ways of being from the past. As we investigate our shadow aspects and relinquish self-judgment about how we “should” be different than we are, we continue to morph, transform and…
Along with reading, basking in the transmission, and receiving direct teaching guidance in one-on-one and group settings, I have noticed that there are some very specific practices that enable practitioners of this way to make the best use of this body of work. A Regular form of Mindfulness Practice. The joy and freedom that accompany…
Let’s explore the Trillium path from perspectives based on one of the earliest, and still-current, “maps”, which portrays “three worlds’ – Upper, Lower-or-inner, and Middle World – as the constituents of reality and of consciousness. Holding a conceptual framework of awakening can help us to relax into that awakening process as it unfolds. Without a…
Trillium Awakening offers not so much an “Ontology” – what there is or a “Cosmology” – what the universe is as it conveys an “Epistemology” – how to know Thus it is oriented toward learning the means to experience both deeply and broadly … more of who each of us is: … “awakening” … “becoming…
This morning I feel moved to say that in our most fundamental, most foundational, most singular, most essential nature, we are free, open, spacious, silent, self-evident, self-validating, limitless, motionless, endless, changeless, beginningless, undisturbed, uncreated, unbounded, unborn, all of the un’s and non’s and in’s we can come up with, consciousness. And that pure, pristine, absolutely…