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Something that stays constant for me is awareness. Whatever is happening inside of me in some response or reaction to pleasure or pain, I am aware of it in a full sense. It hasn’t always been this way. For most of my life, awareness was filtered through thinking and confusion. I often didn’t know what…
A talk from an online sitting, January, 2019 Winter time is, in Chinese medicine terms, a period of maximum Yin. Yin is coldness, darkness, stillness, quietness, transformation and potential. It contrasts with Yang – fire, light, action, noise, movement. This is reflected in how nature and our bodies respond in winter (well – in the…
The first time I saw a picture of the ruins of Macchu Pichu in Peru I was in my mid 20’s. I knew that I wanted to see it in person some time. It took me nearly 30 years to fulfill that desire. By that time I had started studying Peruvian based Shamanic healing practices….
A talk from and on line sitting, March 3rd “Grasping the means of our own realization” is an important part of the Trillium approach to awakening. It means that we are encouraged – and supported – to find our own unique route to awakening, rather than following a standardized path. I love this aspect of…
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…
A note from the author: I composed this piece late one night after a sitting I did at my friend Jen’s home. Jen had asked about the consciousness aspect of this awakening process. We didn’t get to fully engage this conversation during the sitting, so while driving home I reflected upon what I’d want to…