Essays

Spiritual transmission is an invitation to rest in the wholeness of Radiant Divine Being. Transmission is (human) being to (human) being communion in the One Being, the One Divine Self, that we already are. I would recommend thinking of spiritual transmission as more of a resonant field, rather than as an energy beam sent from […]

Whole Being equals Ultimate Being or the Ultimate Divine Self.  Ultimate Whole Being is paradoxically simultaneously both unmanifested and manifested, transcendental and mundane, spirit and matter, divine and human, the formless and the form, the Emptiness and the Fullness, etc. Ultimate Being is the ineffable all-inclusive Totality. Therefore, Ultimate Being is indescribable and can’t be

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

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

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 communicate

You are the living paradox of Primal Feeling Is-ness in physical embodiment. You are a dynamic process as the Consciously Feeling or Feelingly Conscious body-mind (or body-mind-soul complex, to speak more completely). Paradoxically, you are simultaneously both Infinite and All-feeling Consciousness, as well as limited and mortal physical Matter… Conscious Matter. Or said the other

This is a reading of Van’s essay during the Trillium Awakening Teacher’s Circle Mutual Support Forum on March 22, 2020. The full presentation was titled “Exploring the Further Evolution, Elaboration, and Refinement of the Trillium Awakening Dharma – Evolving a dharma that best serves the fullest realization and enjoyment of Radiant Divine Being” by Van