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Right Now, Just As It Is

Joan Tollifson

Open, down-to-earth, contemplative exploration of present experiencing.

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Sewing the Invisible Rakusu

uncredited photo of rakusu found on San Francisco Zen Center site

A rakusu is a small bib-like Zen Buddhist robe worn around the neck. In many Zen schools, you sew together many tiny square pieces of cloth, and then your teacher does some...

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What Is, As It Is

How Simple Can This Be:

Just What Is, As It Is

This one bottomless moment is ever-changing and yet it never departs from the immediacy of right here, right now.

Experiencing is an uncontrollable, infinitely varied, ever-changing...

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What Really Matters?

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What do we really want? What really matters?

Chapter 10 from my first book, Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life, takes place in the 1980s, after I began practicing at the Berkeley...

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the ungraspable openness of being

Kinghorn Bay, Scotland—photograph by David Williams

“Be still and know that I am God.”

–Psalm 46

Be still and feel what is most subtle, most intimate.

Be still, empty yourself, and discover the ungraspable openness that you are....

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Not Postponing Freedom

Freedom can only happen NOW, but paradoxically, it may take time

Many people, hearing that “This is it,” and “Nothing needs to happen,” and “Everything is perfect just as it is,” are understandably frustrated, especially if they are s...

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  • Joan Tollifson

    Writer, author, explorer of what is. Background includes Zen, Advaita, radical nonduality, bare-bones meditation, contemplative inquiry, addiction recovery, martial arts, somatic work and visual arts.

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