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The First of the Seven Factors: Establish Mindfulness [recast]

Release Date: 01/26/2024

Seeing Clearly: Insight and the Path of Liberation

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the liberating power of clear seeing — vipassanā, or insight — the capacity to recognize things as they truly are rather than as we wish them to be. Through the practice of mindful attention, we begin to see through the illusions that shape our experience: the illusion that things are solid, that the self is fixed, that craving can bring satisfaction, and that suffering is personal. Each moment of genuine insight loosens the grip of confusion and reveals the luminous awareness that is already free. You’ll learn how insight unfolds through the deep investigation...

Four Phrases That Heal: Loving the Unlovable [archive talk]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to consciously direct the inner process of healing and release. Drawing on the classic teachings of Ho’oponopono, it introduces four phrases that guide your attention to: • Taking responsibility for your inner experience • Attuning to the process of release • Reflecting on gratitude and the opportunity to grow • Resting in loving awareness

The Eightfold Path 4: Understanding Right Action and the Ethics of Everday Life

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the heart of the Fourth Noble Eightfold Path factor—Right Action—as a living expression of mindfulness and compassion. We look at how ethical conduct arises not from rigid rule-following but from moment-to-moment awareness, attunement to the body’s signals, and a sincere intention to do no harm. Through stories, classical teachings, humor, and direct reflection, we explore non-harming, integrity, embodied wisdom, and the courage it takes to act wisely in a complex world. You’ll learn how to sense alignment in your actions, recognize the body as your most...

Do Unto Others: Mindfulness and the Golden Rule [archive talk]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to apply the Golden Rule in the context of mindfulness practice. You’ll learn how this timeless guidance ties into the practice of compassion (Karuna), interconnectedness (Dependent Origination), loving kindness (Metta) and non-harming (Ahimsa).

The Anatomy of Now: A Somatic Pathway to Awake Awareness

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the radical simplicity and depth of awakening to the present moment. Drawing on early Buddhist teachings and modern somatic inquiry, we’ll investigate the building blocks of experience — sensation, feeling tone, perception, and awareness — to understand how the mind creates “now” and how freedom is discovered in direct experience. You’ll learn how to discern between sensation and story, how to recognize the birth of reactivity, and how to rest in awareness itself. Through reflection, humor, and practical meditative guidance, you’ll discover that the...

Your Obstacles are the Path: Grace in Difficulty [archive talk]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the possibility of ‘problems’ as profound opportunities for growth and expansion. You’ll learn the importance of equanimity, cultivating convergent and divergent thinking and deep investigation into the nature of attachment and the nature of self.

The Eightfold Path 3: Wise Speech - Speaking from Clarity, Kindness and Truth

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how every word we speak carries the power to create harmony or division, awakening or confusion. Drawing from the Buddha’s teaching on Right Speech—truthful, kind, useful, and timely communication—you’ll discover how mindfulness transforms the way we express ourselves and listen to others. Words become more than sound; they become expressions of presence, integrity, and care. Through stories, reflection, and a few moments of silence, we’ll explore how conscious speech can become a profound practice of awakening in daily life. You’ll learn how to pause...

The Space Between Sensation and the Story

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the powerful and often-overlooked moment between what we feel and what we think about what we feel. Rooted in both Buddhist insight and somatic inquiry, we’ll examine how raw sensation arises, how the mind instantly weaves a narrative around it, and how those stories—when left unexamined—can calcify into beliefs that shape our identity and behavior. With mindful attention, this space between sensation and story becomes fertile ground for transformation, offering a doorway into clarity, compassion, and inner freedom. You’ll learn how to recognize and decode the...

Living from the Still Point: Taking the Seat of the Witness

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the power and peace found at the still point—the place of awareness untouched by the waves of thought and emotion. When we take the seat of the witness, we discover a dimension of consciousness that is both intimate and vast, both deeply embodied and profoundly free. Drawing on the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness and insight, this talk illuminates how awareness itself can become the refuge, how turning toward what arises with stillness and curiosity reveals the freedom that has always been here. You’ll learn how to recognize and rest in the witnessing presence...

Listening from Within: The Dharma of the Felt Sense

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the transformative power of tuning into the felt sense—the subtle, bodily knowing that lies beneath thought and emotion. Rooted in early Buddhist teachings and supported by contemporary somatic practices, the felt sense offers a direct path to presence, insight, and release. By connecting deeply with the body from the inside out, we ground our awareness in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and begin to directly experience the liberating truths of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. You’ll learn how to recognize and trust the language of inner...

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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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