Jonathan Foust Jonathan Foust
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- Religione e spiritualità
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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Who are You in the Absence of Desire?
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. -
Who are You in the Absence of Delusion?
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. -
Who are You in the Absence of Hatred, Judgement and Ill-Will?
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. -
Who are You Without a Sense of Your Self?
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. -
Seventh of the Seven Factors Cultivating Steadiness and Equanimity [recast]
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. -
Sixth of the Seven Factors: Cultivating Concentration and One-Pointedness [recast]
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.