Joan Tollifson - 'Painting the Sidewalk with Water' - Interview by Renate McNay

Joan Tollifson 'Painting the Sidewalk with Water' Interview by Renate McNay
She is the author of 'Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life', 'Awake in the Heartland', 'Painting the Sidewalk with Water' and 'Nothing to Grasp'.
Joan points to the most obvious and impossible to avoid: the ever-present, ever-changing present moment. She also talks about her disability and compulsive, habitual behaviour and her biggest relief... that there is nowhere to go and nothing to become. Toni Packer was her Teacher.
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[@joanhiggs468]

I loved listening to this very wise, humble woman. And as much as I was irritated by the interviewer's constant interruptions and insistence on personal story, Joan's honest, self-reflective responses were refreshing and rewarding (particularly regarding those annoying personal habits!). Joan Tollifson is definitely on my reading list. Thank-you.

[@jbottone]

Joan has an amazing ability to bring my awareness to the actual territory and relinquish the map.

[@TheseEyesGod]

It illustrates clearly how the paths we take are so infinitely varied - and how there is blessing, huge blessing, in each & all of them. Her grasp of the "map" aspect of conceptual things is simply lovely. Joan is also delightfully aware of how our "faults" or "shortcomings" are just what they are - can equally be seen as blessings, as our teachers - if nothing else, of humility. Joan is so delightfully real. "I" deeply enjoyed this =D

[@Novacynthia]

Marshall McCluan The Map is not the territory ~ I live this~ Joan is ever brilliant clear joyful in her sharing🦋❤️✨🌎🌻🧘‍♀️brings me into smiles in my❤️space🦋

[@koanforty]

How extraordinarily correct. Her "modest" remarks discuss that it is Life that is happening.Yet, there is a clear sense that there are personal decisions. --- Joan is :Clear; Generous; Helpful; and Wise. To the best of my understanding this is the enlightened perspective.

[@TheseEyesGod]

Beautiful lady. Beautiful interviewer. Beautiful interview. What a blessed experience! Thank you, Universe, for the gift of this.

[@johnnywlittle]

At first I simply enjoyed this interview than upon further viewing I started to realize that Renate has no idea of what Joan’s really speaking about or pointing to. I love Conscious TV and found it fascinating how someone can be lost in ‘the search’ and ‘seeking’, even after being in spirituality and it’s business for decades. What’s even cooler is Joan not having the need to point that out to her, at least in a direct egoic way (probably what I’m doing) but Instead she still stayed on point yet still having allowing Renate to continue looping around w/her questions on explaining the map and the so called ‘road to enlightenment’ for the individual.

[@michele292]

Thank you so much for this wonderful interview. Joan, thank you for such raw honesty.

[@coenterhaar9183]

Fantastic interview! Joan is so articulate in explaining the mystery of being alive. She never waivers from recognising what is happening and unfolding and the here and now. She doesn't label or conceptualise anything. Awake and enlightened wisdom! Thank you Joan! 😊

[@olotbesalu2258]

Delightfully unpretentious , thank you xx

[@McLKeith]

Joan is an amazing teacher. Perhaps it is her time with Toni Packer. She is an example of Hui Neng’s effortlessness.

[@Davidthemarathoner]

Lovely interview. Thank you so much.

[@webdowser]

Such a smooth and exciting interview. I'm somehow, softly exhilarated and relaxed after listening. Thank you Conscious TV

[@stuffbyjackie]

This was a wonderful interview, thank you for posting. I'm headed back in for a third listen.

[@nicholaryan2144]

beautiful

[@nowoneful]

Thanks for the Interview! I feel a lot of gratitude towards you guys from conscious tv, youre doing an awesome job. I loved Joan! I'm looking forward to get one of her books. :) LOVE xx

[@centrino538]

nowoneful did you read one?

[@hammockman5589]

The action figures that seems to be here are waves in the ocean. We can all experience the wave "experience", the problem is when the waves believe themselves to be individual and separate oceans rather than waves sourced by and from the same ocean.

[@hopes26]

The belief is nothing but an appearance in the ocean. Just be aware of that, and it will go away

[@benitoe.4878]

"The map is not the territory" -- Alfred Korzybski, Founder of General Semantics

[@lilacwine1971]

ahh,so lovely

[@dabrupro]

Stories are always about forms, yet only the formless can talk and listen. -- Sri Baba Ganoush There is no cause. You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you. You will dream some other dream at that time. Do realise that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being -- this is the absolute truth. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

It's all interpretation based upon words and knowledge. There is no present or now only a continuity of the the past. There is no believer and belief, only belief. People often call certain experiences or feelings spiritual, awakening, or whatever but they are just empty words, labels, etc.

[@astreaNght]

What's wrong with biting fingers?

[@laisa.]

I guess they use it as a pointer here?

[@camc3640]

@@laisa. She uses it as an example to describe what it is all about... Just being present to what is appearing in the moment .....

[@MegaFzx]

The lady interviewer is naive to say the least. There was no 'Big Bang'. The universe is infinite, consciousness is infinite. If you feel the need to use left brain science then you need to at least know what it's about because when you do not you are lacking in understanding and so clueless as to what it is you're involved with. Her questions are too, naive therefore. An enlightened inquisitor would help get answers from an obviously bright interviewee. Sh

[@laisa.]

She is naive but you may be condecending. Same same but different. A story regardless. Because who knows? Not you. Not me.