Gazing with Van: 5 minutes

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….

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…

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,…

I feel so VERY SAFE with you, like I am securely held, safely, with love and nurturing, in a large hammock and I can’t fall out. 🙂 –W. Someone like you, who is intimately familiar with broken souls and broken zones, can help me process in my body the traumatic emotions I have repressed and…

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…