The First of the Seven Factors: Establish Mindfulness [recast]
Release Date: 01/26/2024
The Art of Starting Over …. Over and Over
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores one of the most essential—and liberating—skills on the spiritual path: the willingness to begin again. Inspired by S. N. Goenka’s simple instruction to “start again,” we’ll look beyond returning to the present moment and explore how each new beginning also invites us to remember what matters most. Drawing on the experience of moving across the country, letting go of what no longer belongs, and discovering that every ending is also a beginning, this talk offers a fresh perspective on the practice of starting over—not only during life’s major transitions, but...
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The Ten Perfections #10: Live in Balance
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores the tenth of the ten perfections. You’ll learn how you cannot make steadiness and serenity happen, but can create the conditions that allow this inner state to arise. When you remember the fundamental quality of reality, you can more easily open to embrace your true nature.
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The Ten Perfections #9 : Live from Your Heart
Jonathan Foust
The talk explores the power of loving kindness. You’ll learn how to be more of a well-wisher to all, some techniques to more effectively express kindness in the world and a reflection on what might happen in your life if you were to be more adept at responding to challenges with an open heart.
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The Ten Perfections #8: Stay the Course
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores the power of grit. You’ll learn the importance of first creating goals that are fully aligned with your heart and spirit and then developing your capacity to stay on your path, developing both perseverance as well as deep, intuitive inner listening.
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The Ten Perfections #7: Live in Truth
Jonathan Foust
This 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: Stay Present Under Pressure
Jonathan Foust
This 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: Engage with Skillful Effort
Jonathan Foust
This 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: See More Clearly
Jonathan Foust
This 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: Let Go
Jonathan Foust
This 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 Walk Your Talk
Jonathan Foust
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 integrity.
info_outlineThis 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.