Synopsis
A Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan offers talks, guided meditations and inquiries into what it means to be awake in mind and heart. www.jonathanfoust.com
Episodes
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The Ten Perfections: #7 Seek Truth and Be Truthful [recast]
10/07/2024 Duration: 01h05minThis talk explores how to attune to what is true. You’ll learn how to discern between conventional and eternal truth, two essential teachings of truth and how to use your relationships and wise speech as a doorway to greater clarity and self-awareness.
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The Ten Perfections: #6 Be Patient and Tolerant [recast]
10/07/2024 Duration: 01h06minThis talk explores how to cultivate the quality of patience and self-restraint. You’ll learn about the power of refraining from those who have caused you harm, how to endure hardship, how to cultivate greater confidence in ultimate truth and about the near-enemies of patience and forbearance.
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The Ten Perfections: #5 Manage Your Energy [recast]
26/06/2024 Duration: 52minThis talk explores how to cultivate vitality, courage and resilience in your life. You’ll learn how you can manage the energy you have and how to build vigor and confidence to pursue that which calls you.
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The Ten Perfections: #4 Seek to Truly Understand [recast]
20/06/2024 Duration: 46minThis talk explores how to cultivate wisdom and insight. You’ll learn about the importance of cultivating the wise heart, what gets in the way of seeing clearly, the anatomy of an insight and how to balance wisdom with compassion.
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The Ten Perfections: #3 Renounce What Does Not Serve You [recast]
20/06/2024 Duration: 47minThis talk explores the potential of mindful renunciation. You’ll learn how critically important it is to know what is most important, cultivate the thoughts, behaviors and actions that will bring about that outcome and as well, identify and modify the the thoughts, behaviors and actions that get in the way of that outcome.
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The Ten Perfections: #2 Be Virtuous [recast]
06/06/2024 Duration: 01h06minThis 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 integrity.
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The Ten Perfections: #1 Be Generous [recast]
24/05/2024 Duration: 46minThis 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.
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Embodied Presence: Practices for Self-Care and Healing
21/05/2024 Duration: 45minThis 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.
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Embodied Presence: So What About the Chakras?
16/05/2024 Duration: 01h04minThis 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.
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Embodied Presence: Surfing the Waves
30/04/2024 Duration: 01h06minThis 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.