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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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Devotion to Presence

Sitting quietly, feeling a deep sense of Presence—

Open Silent Still Listening Presence

infinitely subtle, precious beyond measure, sacred, ungraspable

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Two Inseparable Truths

Yin/Yang: Not One, Not Two

Two Inseparable Truths

In one response to the question What IS This?, Buddhism speaks of the Two Truths, the relative (or conventional) truth and the absolute truth. From my perspective (and that of Buddhis...

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The Heart's Inmost Request

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The ungraspable immediacy of this one bottomless moment

No word-concept can capture this living reality. It is at once immovable and ever-changing; infinitely varied and yet undivided and without separation;...

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Darkness

Tami Simon and Andrew Holecek

“Stop, Drop, and Be Held in the Dark”

A friend sent me this link to a Sounds True podcast of Tami Simon in conversation with Andrew Holecek, author of Total Eclipse of the Mind, about “the ancient practi...

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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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    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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