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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…
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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…
The Well of Onlyness
In the Trillium Dharma, Onlyness is defined as the quality of seamlessness of consciousness with phenomena; the recognition that all phenomena, objects, and others are of the “same essence” as your conscious embodied, non-separate nature. For many of us, myself included, Onlyness is easiest to experience with phenomena and objects, and not so easy with…
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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.
Engage!
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!…