{"id":30123,"date":"2018-04-15T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=30123"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:44:46","slug":"awakening-together-satsang-with-joan-tollifson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/awakening-together-satsang-with-joan-tollifson\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening Together Satsang with Joan Tollifson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivehq.com\/file\/df.aspx\/publish\/RAkers\/RDAPublicFolder\/AwakeningTogether\/Featured Talks\/JoanTollifsonSatsang.mp3\">audio<\/a>\u00a0or watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Joan.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">Joan Tollifson<\/span><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">\u00a0has roots in Buddhism and Advaita, but she belongs to no formal tradition. She is interested in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">seeing through the imaginary problems that we think are binding us and waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Joan\u2019s bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites a meditative exploration that is non-methodical and awareness-based, encouraging people to look and listen for themselves and to question all second-hand ideas and beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">Joan is the author of 4 books:\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"yiv5004627260\"><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">Nothing to Grasp;<\/span><\/i><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">\u00a0<i class=\"yiv5004627260\">Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality;<\/i><i class=\"yiv5004627260\">Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is;\u00a0<\/i>and<i class=\"yiv5004627260\">\u00a0Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv5004627260\">Joan offers private sessions and other meetings. For more information, visit her website at\u00a0<a class=\"yiv5004627260\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joantollifson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\">JoanTollifson.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Awakening Together Satsang with Joan Tollifson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_zjiuQ2njE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the audio\u00a0or watch the video below. Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Joan. Joan Tollifson\u00a0has roots in Buddhism and Advaita, but she belongs to no formal tradition. 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