In this journey of endless awakenings, there is always a deeper revelation of who we are here to be that is waiting to be discovered. Accessing this deeper revelation is often a matter of how self-revealing we are willing to be. Jumping into the river of honesty and self-disclosure usually feels pretty hazardous and unpredictable….
Communing with the moon and stars (and all pieces of nature) is very special to me and is a direct connection to the Divine and all of its magical glory. Are you saying that you are feeling this as devotional? If you don’t mind could you say a little more? Yes, I can say more…
I cannot overemphasize the transformative power of deeply embracing the material; the physical, the earthy, the bodily, the feminine; the hidden, the mysterious, the intuitive. This is particularly true for people who have spent decades cultivating the transcendent, the non-material, the light, the one, the true, the pure, the immovable. We often only tolerate our…
Any truly transformative work is inherently hazardous and the Trillium process is no exception. If you get involved in this work in any serious way, a lot could be demanded of you not by any of the teachers or mentors but by the force of your own awakening being. If your hunger for realization has…
In my mind I had given up on “Enlightenment” a decade ago, yet some irresistible impulse had brought me to these pages. Here I discovered in Steve a humble man about my age who had also tried meditating for decades without much result. With a sharp and refined intelligence Steve was also down to Earth,…
“You know all those great spiritual ideals we’ve cherished for years? Those are actually real things and they can be experienced by ordinary people like you and me.” These words were spoken to me by my friend Max in 2002 and, needless to say, they got my attention. His voice was so matter of fact…
This life and this world often seem so beautiful and compelling that I am swept up in intensities of absorption in – the moment, the environment, the beloved. Something that is intoxicating and challenging at once. As I walk down a friend’s gravel driveway each stone shifts slightly beneath my feet as I move and each…
“It’s a particular pleasure for me to recommend Steve Boggs to you as a teacher, a transmitter of the Heart of reality and a truly remarkable devotee of the sweet mystery of life. In the ancient Indian tradition certain great adepts are said to achieve ‘supreme devotion,’ in which they live simultaneously in union with…
I tremble like a flower in a storm. The strong winds push me — this way and that — but around my roots the solid ground sustains me and tomorrow when the new sun rises my petals will lift like tattered flags and welcome the open sky.
[I love working with people interested and engaged in their whole Being awakening and their continuing unfoldment and integration. It is a sacred heartfelt connection for me and an honor to be included in each person’s process. – Rod] “Rod has a style that’s as full of ease as it is of insight. If you…
Written, audio, and video materials from Rod: http://www.awakeninginwholeness.com/resources/
Pele’s Way (written after my husband Tony’s death) The volcano erupts suddenly without warning. Its fiery energy sweeps over the landscape of my life, reducing my world to ashes. No crystalline forms remain. No concepts, no judgments, no rights, and no wrongs, no past and no perceived future remain. Only the stark emptiness in the…
A sense of relief comes when we enter this work and learn to welcome and be with all aspects of our human experience. We start to relax because we stop pitting parts of ourselves against one another, until eventually we come to know intuitively there is no boundary between inner and outer, subject and object….
My father went to M.I.T. and my uncle Frank taught math for over 50 years at the Boston Latin, a premier preparatory school. Unfortunately, I didn’t inherit their math genes and couldn’t begin to solve the math problems with which Uncle Frank was always testing me when I was a teenager. So it is not…
The realization of our paradoxical human/ divine existence, which in Trillium we call “second birth”, is just the beginning of our spiritual exploration–a foundation upon which to really explore our humanness and the divine fullness of the Being that is living us. I feel that this exploration must involve the deepening of relationship with our…
For me gratitude usually means being appreciative of positive situations – achievements, relationships, good health etc. If it makes me feel good I’m grateful. Since awakening and the second birth I’ve been appreciating a deeper value of gratitude – the disposition to open to all of what life brings. This level of appreciation is less…
Several middle school principals independently came to me in 2000 to see if I could use my performance skills to put together a program on character development to enhance their own initiatives in that area. After presenting several thousand of these character programs across the Midwest during the last decade, I began to see similarities…
Trillium Awakening as expressed by Fax Gilbert For me awakening is a movement into who we are as consciousness, who we are as a person and who we are in relationship. A whole being awakening. This movement can have specific transition points (recognitions, peak experiences) or can emerge as more of a flow, where the…
Van Nguyen was the most senior (chronologically) Senior Teacher of the Waking Down process, and is now the most senior Trillium Awakening Senior Teacher. He was born in San Francisco on March 5, 1951, and believes that he is one of the earliest Vietnamese to be born in America. After enduring a difficult childhood, he…
December 31, 2000 Great grace has graced my life. I had believed that it couldn’t happen to me, and then it did… I have been reluctant to place this free-verse poem that I wrote into the public sphere due to concerns about what some people might think about it. For one, I was concerned that…