Can We Embrace “Yes Buts?” Painting The Sidewalk Joan Tollifson
“… This aliveness is always here. We don’t have to work to get it. It is ever-present. Seeking enlightenment is a form of postponement, postponing what can only be realized now ~ Joan Tollifson
Can We Get It Wrong? Pathless Path Through Suffering Joan Tollifson
“… Presence is where juice is, in the aliveness of this one bottomless moment … the {pathless} path {through suffering} is not moving away from this moment …” ~ Joan Tollifson
How Free Are We? Talks On Nonduality Joan Tollifson
“… The universe is not bound by its content, because its potentialities are infinite ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
True Meditation Is Awareness? Talks On Nonduality Joan Tollifson
“… True meditation as I mean it is simply awareness … meditation is an invitation to be aware, to be still, to be present …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Painting The Sidewalk : Why Sit Quietly? Joan Tollifson
“… Presence is where the juice is, in the aliveness of this one bottomless moment. …” ~ Joan Tollifson
True Meditation:How Awareness Lays Bare What Is? Joan Tollifson
“… Every moment, just as it is, is meditation …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Stillness, Allowing, Just Being… to True Meditation? Joan Tollifson
“… fall in love, fall intimately in love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ …” ~ Tony Parsons
The Joy of Nothing At All: Meditation – Joan Tollifson
“…That there is nothing which can be attained is not idle talk; it is the truth. You have always been one with the Buddha. ~ Huang Po
Illusion: Is The World Real? – Joan Tollifson
“… There is no ‘I’ to get enlightened. That’s illusion. There’s only being here with what’s here without division … Eyes and ears open, to let everything reveal itself as it is …” ~ Toni Packer
Separation: The Illusory Story – Joan Tollifson
“… When the story of separation is believed, solidity and reality are given to limitations and divisions that don’t actually exist …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Presence: You Are The Present Moment – Joan Tollifson
“… The present moment is presence itself…” ~ Joan Tollifson
Ecstasy of What Is – Joan Tollifson
“… This-here-now is ungraspable …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Mistakes & Allowing: The “Gifts” Therein – Joan Tollifson
“… life is in charge, not me. We must discover the willingness to allow life to unfold at its own pace, in its own way …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Self-Improvement: The Elusive Obvious – Joan Tollifson
“… the best place to begin any kind of change is always with simply being aware of how it is right now …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Choiceless Choice: the story of “me” … Joan Tollifson
“… No wave can ever go off in a direction other than the one in which the whole ocean is moving. We are all a movement of the whole …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Embracing What Is – Beyond Self-Improvement
“You are perfect just as you are, and there’s room for improvement.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
After Death: Reincarnation & More – Joan Tollifson
“… as consciousness or unicity, there is nowhere we are not, just as the whole ocean is there in every wave …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Choosing What Is: Liberation From All Obstructions
“… In this passing moment karma ripens and all things come to be. I vow to choose what is …” ~ Hogen Bays
Unbroken Wholeness – Joan Tollifson
“… Unbroken wholeness is the ever-present actuality … To awaken is to recognize the sacred everywhere, to live in devotion to this luminous presence …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Totally Obvious Yet Utterly Mysterious – Joan Tollifson
“… Our true immortality is the seamlessness that is without beginning or end for it is always Here-Now …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Death: Dissolving – Joan Tollifson
“… this book is about fully embracing death, and therefore life, wholeheartedly and relaxing into the total disintegration … and living and loving and being awake …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson: What is True Meditation?
True meditation “… simply means being present to what is: … the spaciousness in which everything is arising, the listening stillness, the aliveness and vibrant present-ness of everything …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson: What is Truth? … Dissolving the Traps
“… if we remain with that open question, not answering it, but simply listening openly, wondering silently, then perhaps we will recognize the truth … as the living reality that we are …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson: Consciousness, Awareness & Attention, Part 2 of 2
Everyone sees a completely unique movie of waking life. When we try to meet each other on the level of forms and appearances, the results are often unsatisfying. But as awareness, we are one whole undivided being. ~ Joan Tollifson Are consciousness, awareness and attention the same thing? Joan Toll …
Joan Tollifson: Consciousness, Awareness & Attention, Part 1 of 2
…consciousness is the common factor in every experience—the undeniable knowingness of being here now, the bare sense of presence. ~ Joan Tollifson Are consciousness, awareness and attention the same thing? Joan Tollifson answers this question by examining these familiar yet enigmatic “concepts.”
Joan Tollifson: Exploring The Simplicity of What Is, a 7-part series
“Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief. Liberation is when all the answers, explanations and positions disappear, and what remains is the open mind of not knowing.” ~Joan Tollifson In this seven part essay, The Simplicity of What Is, Joan explores “the imaginary problems that we th …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 7 of 7)
“Awakening is never about achieving something that isn’t right here, right now.” “Truth is not in the future, but Now. Not hidden, but obvious and unavoidable. Not in concepts, but in actuality.” This post concludes Joan Tollifson’s profound seven part series, the Simplicity of What Is.
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 6 of 7)
“Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief. Liberation is when all the answers, explanations and positions disappear, and what remains is the open mind of not knowing.” “Boundlessness… means that everything is equally insubstantial, that there are no separate “things” to be joined, t …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 5 of 7)
“Liberation isn’t about getting rid of anything; it’s about seeing that the apparent obstacle has no reality and that the “me” who wants to stop thinking is just another mental image, another thought, another movie character in another story.” -Joan Tollifson Continue Joan Tollifson’s compelling exp …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 4 of 7)
” …enlightenment is the end of the one who cares about being enlightened or unenlightened..” -Joan Tollifson “Whenever there is confusion and seeking, it’s a clue that thought is busy chasing its own tail. Actuality is simple.” Continue Joan Tollifson’s compelling exploration of the Simplicity of …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 3 of 7)
“Notice that everything is constantly changing, and yet, it all happens in this ever-present Here and Now. This timeless immediacy can’t be pinned down, nor can it be avoided.” -Joan Tollifson Continue Joan Tollifson’s compelling exploration of the Here and Now in Part 3 of this seven part series Th …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 2 of 7)
“Reality can’t ever be captured in concepts” -Joan Tollifson “Is it possible that the peace and well-being we seek…cannot be found or satisfied by answers or attainments or experiences of any kind?” Continue Joan Tollifson’s exploration of life’s universal questions in Part 2 of this seven part s …
Joan Tollifson: The Simplicity of What Is (Part 1 of 7)
“Ultimate Reality is right here in plain view. It is never hidden, it requires no belief, and it is utterly beyond all doubt.” – Joan Tollifson “What is life all about? Does it mean anything? Where are we looking for happiness or liberation? Do we have free will? What is enlightenment and how can I …
Many Roads to Awakening or Here/Now (Part 3 of 3)
“The ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment is effortlessly presenting itself right now. Here / Now is the boundlessness that has no opposite and no other. This is it.” ~ Joan Tollifson In this concluding Part of the 3-part series, guest author, Joan Tollifson con …
Many Roads to Awakening or Here/Now (Part 2 of 3)
“… we are not a discrete unit of consciousness encapsulated inside a body, but that the body, the mind, and this whole universe is in this aware space that is what “I” truly am … Awareness is boundless. It has no location, no owner … all experiences appear within it. Awareness beholds it all … is no …
Many Roads to Awakening or Here/Now (Part 1 of 3)
“The ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment is effortlessly presenting itself right now. This bare being is nondual, undivided, boundless, and without obstruction. … ” ~ Joan Tollifson In Part 1 of this 3 part series guest author, Joan Tollifson, explores the d …
