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Waking Down in Mutuality (also known as WDM, Waking Down) and Trillium Awakening, are a set of spiritual teachings and a community that seek to support the integration of spiritual awakening into ordinary human life. Waking Down and Waking Down in Mutuality are registered trademarks of Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder.[1] The teachings are also offered through the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle (formerly known as the Waking Down Teachers Association), a non-profit association of autonomous teachers.[2]
Waking Down was founded by Saniel Bonder in the early 1990s after (and partially as a reaction to) 20 years of work with his former guru, Adi Da Samraj.[3] While acknowledging the necessity for an organization to have some amount of hierarchy, and for a teaching organization to have a body of recognized teachers,[4] WDM and Trillium Awakening describe their work as aspirant (or participant) centered rather than teacher, guru, or organization centered.[2][5][6]
Waking Down in Mutuality teachings are offered by the Bonders,[1] through The Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle, and through an educational non-profit for the training of teachers, The Institute of Awakened Mutuality.[2] Trillium Awakening teachers do their work mostly in the form of "sittings" (interactive gatherings), private sessions between teachers and students, and workshops which are taught either by a single teacher or by multiple teachers working together.[7][2]
Bonder describes his teaching on spiritual awakening as similar to Zen and Advaita Vedanta in that it assumes the reality of nondual consciousness, but also as different from them.[8] According to WDM, realizing that one is not exclusively one's human nature makes it possible to live that nature more fully, rather than requiring rejection of it.[9] For this reason WDM encourages attention to the passionate and embodied aspects of human being, an orientation it holds in common with the tantric traditions of India.[10] The integration of the worldly and spiritual dimensions of life, and the attention to conscious mutual relationships this is said to entail, is central to the Waking Down teaching.[11]
- ^ a b "Saniel and Linda". Waking Down. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
- ^ a b c d "Trillium Background". Trillium Awakening. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
- ^ Bonder, Saniel (1998), Waking Down p. 7
- ^ Bonder Saniel (2002), Sure Fire pp. 38-39
- ^ Bonder, Saniel The Human Sun Seminar, Fifth gateway (2000)
- ^ Khalsa, Sat Puran Singh (2008) Journey into Spiritual Maturity: A Thematic Analysis of Transpersonal Development pp. 104-105
- ^ "History of Waking Down in Mutuality". Institute of Awakened Mutuality. Archived from the original on 2016-02-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Bonder, Saniel (1998), The Conscious Principle pp. 52-53
- ^ Ardagh, Arjuna (2005), The Translucent Revolution pp. 84-85
- ^ Bonder, Saniel (1998), The White Hot Yoga of the Heart p. 143
- ^ Bonder, Saniel (1998), Waking Down p. 70