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Born with only one hand, Joan Tollifson grows up feeling different. She comes out as a lesbian in the tumultuous 1960's, sinks into alcoholism and drug abuse, sobers up in 1973, becomes a political activist, embraces Zen Buddhism and then a very bare-bones spirituality that has no fixed form or tradition, and spends a number of years living and working at a rural meditation retreat center. Bare-Bones Meditation reveals the inner process of the mind in a new way, and Tollifson's account is beautifully written--intense and from the heart.
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What so many people (including me) enjoy about this book is that its not by a teacher but by a student. Here's someone who experiences all the ups and downs we do and is not afraid to admit it, examine what's happening, and write her way out of it. When I read Joan's book, I find it hard to believe that it's her writing and not mine, she so precisely describes the difficulties and delights of meditation practice. She doesnt miss a beat.
--Toinette Lippe, editorial director of Bell Tower
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- PublisherHarmony/Rodale
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0517887924
- ISBN 13 9780517887929
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