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Jonathan Foust

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.

Talk Buddhism Education Meditation Religion & Spirituality
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
47 minutes
Episodes
61
Years Active
2024 - 2025
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Choose What is Already Changing [archive talk]

Choose What is Already Changing [archive talk]

This talk explores how to embrace impermanence.

 

You’ll learn about the inevitability of change and how understanding your reactivity and biases can help you access a quality of awareness that can h…

00:45:43  |   Fri 29 Aug 2025
Your True Nature is Already Here [archive talk]

Your True Nature is Already Here [archive talk]

This talk explores the nature of ‘true nature.’

 

You’ll learn more about the nature of ‘true nature,’ what gets in the way of experiencing this primal quality of being and some doorways of practice …

00:46:06  |   Wed 20 Aug 2025
How to Access the Flow State, Part 2 [archive talk]

How to Access the Flow State, Part 2 [archive talk]

This talk explores the mechanics for entering the flow state.

 

You’ll learn the role mindfulness plays in setting up the flows state, a review of triggers that can be helpful, how applying the princ…

00:46:34  |   Wed 13 Aug 2025
How to Access the Flow State, Part 1 [archive talk]

How to Access the Flow State, Part 1 [archive talk]

This talk explores what it means to be in flow.

You’ll learn about the magic of being in the flow state, some distinctions between mindfulness and flow and how to be more aware of how you consciously…

00:47:26  |   Wed 13 Aug 2025
How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 2 [archive talk]

How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 2 [archive talk]

This talk explores the power of willful attention inwardly as well as in the world.

 

You’ll learn some strategies for inner focus in your meditation as well as some outer focus to cultivate sustaine…

00:47:36  |   Tue 29 Jul 2025
How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 1 [archive talk]

How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 1 [archive talk]

This talk explores the power of willful attention.

 

You’ll learn what the Buddha said about concentration and liberation, some essential practices for deepening focus and how skillfully applying con…

00:46:31  |   Tue 29 Jul 2025
Am I Dreaming?  Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is  the Highest Thought of All [archive talk]

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is the Highest Thought of All [archive talk]

This talk explores the power of streaming thoughts toward love, compassion, kindness, joy and equanimity.

 

You’ll learn about the origin of the heart practices, how here love starts as a thought and…

00:45:41  |   Tue 15 Jul 2025
Am I Dreaming?  Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare Attention and Gratitude [archive talk]

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare Attention and Gratitude [archive talk]

This talk explores the practice of Bare Attention and how suffering ceases in the experience of gratitude. You’ll learn about the distinction of the linear mind and the intuitive mind, the practice …

00:43:48  |   Tue 08 Jul 2025
Am I Dreaming?  Thoughts on Thinking Part 3: Investigating Beliefs [archive talk]

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 3: Investigating Beliefs [archive talk]

This talk explores how to deconstruct beliefs. You’ll learn about the origin of thoughts and beliefs, the art of interrupting the stream of thinking, the art of deconstructing beliefs and the import…

00:45:32  |   Tue 08 Jul 2025
Am I Dreaming?  Thoughts on Thinking Part 2: The Power of Mental Noting [archive talk]

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 2: The Power of Mental Noting [archive talk]

This talk explores the power of noting or labeling your inner experience. You’ll learn how you can cut through discursive thinking by training your attention to the sense fields, but also what it me…

00:47:03  |   Tue 08 Jul 2025
Am I Dreaming?  Thoughts on Thinking Part 1:  Embodied Awareness [archive talk]

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 1: Embodied Awareness [archive talk]

This talk explores how to cut through the trance of thinking. You’ll learn how turning toward awareness itself reveals how much you rely on thinking and some practical strategies using embodied awar…

00:45:38  |   Tue 08 Jul 2025
Do you REALLY want to Wake Up?  Tracy Budd on his Journey of Intensive Practice

Do you REALLY want to Wake Up? Tracy Budd on his Journey of Intensive Practice

A few years back, Tracy retired and thought to himself, “What would happen if I practiced at home with the same intensity as I would on retreat?”

 

He was inspired to practice the “Elephant Path,” a …

00:57:06  |   Sun 15 Jun 2025
Jeff Fajans on the Flow State and Creativity: Conversations with Depth Practitioners

Jeff Fajans on the Flow State and Creativity: Conversations with Depth Practitioners

This conversation is with Jeff Fajans—a creative momentum coach, seasoned musician, and PhD‑backed creative performance researcher—who helps creative people bring their biggest ideas to life. 

 

Whet…

00:44:51  |   Thu 05 Jun 2025
Don't Believe All Your Thoughts

Don't Believe All Your Thoughts

As your practice deepens, you may begin to notice you are less identified with your thoughts.  'Observing without judgement' can open all kinds of new possibilities.  

 

This talk explores some strat…

00:45:11  |   Tue 20 May 2025
Why Practice?

Why Practice?

Mindfulness practice can get dry and rote.  When you remember why you are practicing you'll reconnect with your passion and deepest intention.  When you can sustain your practice, you may notice a nu…

00:45:16  |   Tue 20 May 2025
Skillful Effort: Maintaining Wholesome States of Presence

Skillful Effort: Maintaining Wholesome States of Presence

This talk explores how to manage your energy as you pursue your aspirations.

 

You’ll learn about four guidelines:  How to prevent unwholesome states before they arise, how to let go of unwholesome s…

00:40:33  |   Sat 10 May 2025
Conversations with Depth Practitioners:  “This is the New Normal” with Ray Manyoky and Tara Cassidy

Conversations with Depth Practitioners: “This is the New Normal” with Ray Manyoky and Tara Cassidy

This interview with Ray and Tara explores how to work with the deepest challenges of sickness, old age and death.

 

You’ll learn how Ray and Tara are working with Ray’s diagnosis of glioblastoma a ye…

00:52:25  |   Wed 30 Apr 2025
The Art of Yes: Mindfulness and the Power of Allowing

The Art of Yes: Mindfulness and the Power of Allowing

The talk explores some fundamentals of a meditation practice and how (sometimes) saying 'yes' to what is present can dramatically shift your relationship to the here and now.

You'll learn my favorite…

00:47:43  |   Fri 25 Apr 2025
Let Go Now: The Path of Release and Renewal

Let Go Now: The Path of Release and Renewal

The classic teaching "Be Here Now" requires that we "Let Go Now" - of everything and anything that is not present.  How do we do this? 

I share some guiding principles of the art of renunciation with…

00:48:12  |   Sat 19 Apr 2025
Four Phrases That Heal:  Loving the Unlovable

Four Phrases That Heal: Loving the Unlovable

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:

• Tak…

00:44:13  |   Tue 08 Apr 2025
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