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The summer after my father died, between jobs and unsure what I could, should, or would make of myself, I attended a recruitment meeting for management positions with United Parcel Service. What I learned that day was, at least in 1984, that everyone who worked for UPS in any capacity started their careers unloading the…
Mini-Autobiography ~ May 2015
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…
Harmony
Regarding “harmony”… in music (as in life) this is never a static thing. Harmony has a vertical and horizontal component, chords and melody, and their combination or synthesis or integration as Song. Without relative tension and transition, musical harmony would not have its inner life and forward momentum. We want to distinguish between harmony as…
Living with Uncertainty
A good deal of our work in Trillium Awakening is about “greenlighting,” saying yes to what is arising. It’s tied deeply into our way to Trust in Being, to radically embrace who and how and what we are in any given moment. The path to realizing consciousness leads us to live in uncertainty, to embody…
Van’s Awakening Poem
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…
The Rot
The Rot is a core evolutionary process of the cocooning chrysalis. It is a composting of withered fruits. It is the foundation for the integration of the whole person with Consciousness. Decomposed matter yields energy.