Gazing with Van: 5 minutes

By Margit Bantowsky   Tear down this house! Run naked toward the Moon and tumble down the mountainside in her arms. Throw away all your straight-jacket dreams of safe worlds and metered days, your heart has already been broken.   Jump into the fire of this raw, real present-tense dance, and embrace it as the divine gift…

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…

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.

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…