num_pages: 260
description: 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.
language: English
title: Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life
titlecomplete: Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life
genres: Biography, Memoir, Zen, Philosophy, Spirituality, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 67
publisher: Harmony/Rodale