Jonathan Foust

This talk explores moving from conceptual to non-conceptual awareness.   You’ll learn what gets in the way of feeling the mystery, how ‘the five aggregates’ make up each moment, the doorway into non-conceptual perception as well as the doorway of gratitude. How My Son Ruined My Life:  Selma Baraz:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojF-o_eWp-o

This talk explores the power of streaming thoughts toward love, compassion, kindness, joy and equanimity.   You’ll learn about the origin of the heart practices, how here love starts as a thought and moves into an experience, the system for loving kindness and what it means to be awake both in heart and mind.

This talk explores how to cultivate both wisdom and compassion.   You’ll learn how suffering is both internal and external, the keys to the release of suffering and how to foster your intention to be awake in the midst of turbulent times.

This talk explores how to increase your happiness level.   You’ll learn how stress and dissatisfaction can be transformed and how happiness is not only your birthright, but your greatest responsibility and contribution to others.

This talk explores the practice of Bare Attention and how suffering ceases in the experience of gratitude. You’ll learn about the distinction of the linear mind and the intuitive mind, the practice Bare Attention and a technique for opening to gratitude as a way of shifting the mind to a more fluid and intuitive state.

This talk explores how to deconstruct beliefs. You’ll learn about the origin of thoughts and beliefs, the art of interrupting the stream of thinking, the art of deconstructing beliefs and the importance, when you do this work, to err on the side of safety and self-care.

This talk explores the power of noting or labeling your inner experience. You’ll learn how you can cut through discursive thinking by training your attention to the sense fields, but also what it means to ‘take the seat of the witness’ and note or label what is happening inside.

This talk explores how to cut through the trance of thinking. You’ll learn how turning toward awareness itself reveals how much you rely on thinking and some practical strategies using embodied awareness for ‘remembering’ who and what you truly are.

This talk explores how you can open to greater insight and wisdom in your life. You’ll learn about the characteristics of a wise person, what gets in the way of wisdom, the anatomy of intuition and insight and the natural flowering of compassion when you see clearly into the nature of reality.

This talk explores the power of paying attention on purpose as well as the power of non-judging awareness. You’ll learn about how getting control of your concentration can make a huge difference in your life as well as what happens when you turn attention to awareness itself. This talk includes a number of practical, experiential reflections.

This talk explores how you can cultivate lasting happiness. You'll learn how to avoid the biggest trap in seeking happiness and how you can cultivate happiness both externally - through wise and skillful action - as well as internally - by how you pay attention.    

This talk reveals the best technique for awakening heart and mind.   You’ll learn about techniques that awaken your capacity for sustained present-moment awareness, techniques for cultivating awareness of change, techniques for purifying the heart and techniques for opening to the mystery.  And at the end, the best technique of all.

This talk explores what I think of as the “Frank Sinatra Sutta.”   You’ll learn the importance in meditation - and life - of willful doing combined with conscious being.  The result of this balance is ‘knowing,’ the arising of insight into the nature of reality itself.  

This archive talk explores how your perception of stress and suffering in the world is a mirror your inner world. You’ll learn how, by reflecting on the core teachings of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the path that leads to the cessation of suffering, you can change yourself. And by changing yourself, you can truly change the world.

This talk explores why, after 52 years of practice, I still meditate. You’ll learn about the science behind meditation, what all great traditions say about the practice, the power of empirical evidence and the potency of the intention to live in authentic cooperation with reality.

We’re back! We had so much fun last time we are doing another.   Here’s the second installment of practice questions with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust. 

Jonathan interviews his wife, Tara Brach, regarding common practice questions and weighs in on a few himself.

This talk explores how to increase your capacity for joy and wholesome states.   You’ll learn about the nature of Joy, what gets in the way of the experience and how to cultivate more and more positive and fulfilling qualities of presence.

This talk explores the near-enemy of love:  Attachment. You’ll learn about the nature of attachment and attachment styles in relationship as well as keys to healing what holds you back from loving fully.

This talk explores how to free yourself from feeling like an imposter. You’ll learn the power of self-awareness, the importance of investigating inner states and how to break out of the box of the doubting mind.  You’ll also explore ways you can reframe your experience and turn attention to sincerity, service and the possibility of a life of authenticity and overflow.