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We are living through challenging times when problems that seem both monumental and intractable beset us on all sides. The center of our common life seems to not be holding because our traditional cultural, political, spiritual, educational and commercial institutions all seem to be not up to the task of renewal. When what once was…
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…
The Paradox of the Conscious Body
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…
Be All that You can Be
Childhood: Learning to be a limited body-mind personality We are One, we are many. We just cannot be explained. We were born living as a number of paradoxes, which are impossible for the logical mind to comprehend. The most basic is the paradox of being both the finite and the infinite simultaneously. Because most of…
Saniel’s Intro to Steve
“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…
The Privilege to Rest in Being
It’s such a blessing to have a free day, a day in which the movement of Being is unfettered and flowing. Today has been just such a day, off from work, a morning unscheduled. I woke at 7:30 to the bright cold, laid and lit a fire, meditated, ate. I split wood and kindling, ate…