Senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan Foust share weekly talks, guided meditations and inquiries that explore how to cultivate an awakened heart and mind.
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The Ten Perfections: #2 Be Virtuous [recast]
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This talk explores how paying attention to your behavior can support you in your life. You’ll learn how all traditions have guidelines regarding your moral behavior, how morality is often based on a negativity bias and how ultimately, it’s up to you to determine what you really want and define for yourself what it means to be virtuous and in integr…
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The Ten Perfections: #1 Be Generous [recast]
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This talk explores the power of cultivating an attitude of love and care in your life. You’ll learn what the Buddha said about giving, how intimately receiving is connected to generosity, the shadow-side of the practice and the power of taking generous actions when you feel called.Jonathan Foust
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Embodied Presence: Practices for Self-Care and Healing
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This talk explores some practices for cultivating embodied compassion and care. You’ll explore what means to ‘heal’ as well as a few ‘deep dives’ - first into a chakra scan then a scan through the body focusing on reflection, gratitude and well-wishing.Jonathan Foust
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Embodied Presence: So What About the Chakras?
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This talk explores how to investigate the inner energy centers through the lens of mindfulness. You’ll learn about the chakras, a bit on the origins of different approaches, the components of each one and how to explore through the lens of non-judging awareness.Jonathan Foust
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Embodied Presence: Surfing the Waves
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This talk explores how to work with challenging energies. You’ll learn how embodied awareness can open the door to higher degrees of self awareness and how in that recognition of what is arising you can learn to ‘ride the wave’ of resistance and discover what is on the other side.Jonathan Foust
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Embodied Presence: Whole Body Breathing and Subtle Energy Awareness
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This talk explores how to open to more subtle felt-sense awareness through mindful breathing. Whole Body Breathing is yet another tool for drawing attention to the play of energy and sensations within and can dramatically heighten awareness of what is arising and how you are relating to it. This talk includes a guided meditation on this technique.…
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Embodied Presence: Practical Tools for Your Meditation Practice
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This is an adaptation of the first talk of a five day retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone North Carolina. You’ll learn some practical suggestions for embodied meditation and how the body can be an ally in your practice.Jonathan Foust
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Who are You in the Absence of Desire?
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This talk explores who you are free from the wanting mind. You’ll learn about the nature of desire, strategies for working with a greed-filled mind, what can arise as desire lessens and finally, some thoughts on being desire-free and enlightenment itself.Jonathan Foust
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Who are You in the Absence of Delusion?
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This talk explores who you are in the absence of ignorance and confusion. You’ll explore the nature of delusion, strategies for overcoming delusion and being more clearly into the nature of reality and what it means to be awake beyond the fluctuations of emotions, thoughts and beliefs.Jonathan Foust
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Who are You in the Absence of Hatred, Judgement and Ill-Will?
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This talk explores who you are beyond the reach of aversion. You’ll learn about how, in our relationship to hatred there can be a rush to premature transcendence and how, by turning toward aversion, what is possible when hatred ceases, namely the arising of inter-connectedness, compassion and love.Jonathan Foust
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Who are You Without a Sense of Your Self?
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This talk explores who you are beyond the conditioned self. You’ll learn about what arises with the dissolution of the ego: A greater sense of interconnectedness, an increased flow of compassion and empathy and not least, a more tangible sense of freedom from stress and suffering.Jonathan Foust
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Seventh of the Seven Factors Cultivating Steadiness and Equanimity [recast]
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This talk explores the seventh factor of awakening. You’ll learn how this factor is the the complete expression of all and as you cultivate both spaciousness and steadiness, wisdom and compassion can flow unrestricted.Jonathan Foust
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Sixth of the Seven Factors: Cultivating Concentration and One-Pointedness [recast]
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This talk explores the power of sustained attention. You’ll learn about the consequence of chronic distraction, the levels of concentration you can achieve in your meditation practice, how to balance concentration with deep relaxation and how to bring more sustained focus into your life.Jonathan Foust
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Fifth of the Seven Factors: Cultivating Calm and Tranquility [recast]
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This talk explores how to cultivate a calm and relaxed presence. You’ll learn how tranquility is critical to mindfulness practice and sets the stage for more and more intimate awareness of what is happening and how you are holding it.Jonathan Foust
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Fourth of the Seven Factors: Cultivating Rapture and Joy [recast]
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This talk explores ways you can bring more joy into your life. You’ll learn about the two essential forms of joy and how practicing ‘yes’ to life can cultivate more aliveness, radiance and upwelling of well-being in your life.Jonathan Foust
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Third of the Seven Factors: Cultivating Energy and Vigor [recast]
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This talk explores ways you can cultivate greater aliveness and vitality. You’ll learn how mental and physical energy, vitality and aliveness are integral to the process of being more awake, aware and present in your life.Jonathan Foust
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Second of the Seven Factors: The Art of Investigation [recast]
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This talk explores the power of looking closer at what is present. You’ll learn how cultivating curiosity, examining what is arising and how you are relating to it can lead to not only greater freedom, but profound insights into the nature of reality.Jonathan Foust
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The First of the Seven Factors: Establish Mindfulness [recast]
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This talk explores the factors that go into not only waking up, but working with the most profound challenges in your life. You’ll learn how recognizing the filters through which you perceive is truly a key to liberation and how some specific techniques can sharpen your awareness of when mindfulness is slipping away.…
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The Power of Intention + A Year in Review
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This talk explores the impact of having your personal North Star. You’ll learn how helpful it can be to clearly articulate what you most want, to reflect on the good in your life, to acknowledge what grows you and what calls you. I share a bit from my own Year in Review and offer some time for your reflection.…
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What Mindfulness Off the Cushion Looks Like
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This talk explores some tips and tricks for being more mindful during your day. You’ll learn the fundamentals of applied mindfulness, my morning routine, how I try to remind myself to be more mindful during the day …. and the importance of being mindful when you hit challenges. Finding your optimal routines can make a huge difference in feeling mor…
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The Keys to Cultivating Faith and Trust
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This talk explores the dance of trust, faith and doubt. You'll learn what gets in the way of trust, three levels of maturing faith, how embracing and investigating doubt is integral to wisdom and and suggestions as how to navigate the leaps of faith in your life.Jonathan Foust
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Four Reasons I Love My Plant-Based Lifestyle
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Please note there are a few graphic examples animal suffering from my experience working on farms that might make you uncomfortable. This talk reflects on my journey with different diets and food philosophies. You’ll learn why and how I landed on a plant-based lifestyle to dramatically cultivate my health and vitality, support the environment, expl…
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You Can’t Stop the Surf, but You Can Surf the Waves [archive]
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This talk explores how to go with the flow. You’ll learn how life is filled with constant challenge and how, when you learn to let go and bring full attention to the here and now, you can open to new possibilities in your life.Jonathan Foust
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Gratitude and Giving as a Spiritual Practice
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This talk explores to transformative power of generosity. You’ll learn how giving as a spiritual practice reveals what is between you and a truly generous heart, how generosity requires you learn how to fully receive … and the Buddha’s teachings on how fundamental generosity is to the experience of liberation.…
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When to Step Up and When to Step Back [recast]
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This talk explores the art of engaging and disengaging. You’ll learn about stimulus / response and how your practice of meditation can open up more space for you to be more skillful as to how you respond to the moment — and to the challenges that arise in your life.Jonathan Foust
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