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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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The Art of Starting Over …. Over and Over
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
The Ten Perfections #10: Live in Balance
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,
The Ten Perfections #9 : Live from Your Heart
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
The Ten Perfections #8: Stay the Course
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
The Ten Perfections #7: Live in Truth
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 sel
The Ten Perfections #6: Stay Present Under Pressure
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 an
The Ten Perfections #5: Engage with Skillful Effort
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.
The Ten Perfections #4: See More Clearly
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.
The Ten Perfections #3: Let Go
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
The Ten Perfections: #2 Walk Your Talk
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
The Ten Perfections #1: Give Freely
This 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 tak
Conversations with Depth Practitioners: Stephen Josephs
How has your meditation practice shifted and changed since you first took it up? Please join this conversation with Stephen Josephs, who shares how his mediation has evolved over 60 years of daily practice. As one of the leaders in the Kund
The 8 Fold Path 8: The Collected Mind: How Concentration Opens the Door to Freedom
This talk explores the culminating factor of the Eightfold Path—Right Concentration—and the profound power of a steady, unified mind. In a world of constant distraction and fragmented attention, we investigate how deep focus becomes a gatew
Retreat #5: All Roads Lead to Now
This talk explores the movement from doing to being—from the disciplined application of effort to the natural ease of presence. After training attention, stabilizing the mind, and refining investigation, there comes a threshold where practi
Retreat Talk #4: Let's Just Cut to the Chase, Shall We?
This talk explores what remains when we stop circling around the edges of practice and face the deepest truths directly. With humor, candor, and a willingness to take the red pill, we'll look at the three characteristics the Buddha pointed
An Earth Day Invitation: Take Your Practice Outside With Heidi Schuttenberg
The best meditation hall has no walls. This talk explores how nature cultivates focus, non-judgment, and belonging, and how mindfulness can help us stay engaged with the world's pain without burning out. Bio: With 25 years of Vipassana prac
The Eightfold Path 7: Seeing Clearly to Live Fully
This talk explores Wise Awareness as the art of seeing life clearly enough to actually live it. So much of human regret comes not from dramatic mistakes, but from drifting through our days half-awake—disconnected from our bodies, driven by
Retreat Talk #3: Working with the Hindrances as a Path to Awakening, with Heidi Schuttenberg
The third talk in a weeklong meditation retreat, with Heidi Schuttenberg. Our unwelcome visitors are guides to our freedom. This talk explores the Buddha's five hindrances and offers practical tools for meeting them with compassion, curiosi
Retreat Talk #2: The Alchemy of Difficulty: Turning Reactivity into Freedom
The second talk in a weeklong retreat. We often assume insight arises from calm, clarity, or deep concentration. But in truth, it is often born in the very moments we want to escape. This talk invites a radical reframe: what if restlessness
Retreat Talk #1: Coming Home to the Body, with Lynn Teo
This is the first talk of a weeklong retreat in 2026. Lynn Teo starts by exploring various ways to resource the nervous system to support the capacity to be present to the moment's direct experience. Then, we investigate what mindfulness is
The Eightfold Path, Part 6: How to Do without Overdoing
This talk explores Right Effort as one of the most misunderstood elements of the Eightfold Path—revealing how much of our suffering comes not from a lack of effort, but from pushing, striving, and forcing ourselves in ways that create inner
Beyond the Witness: From Watching to Being [archive talk]
This talk explores the power of self-observation and what lies beyond the sense of self. You'll learn how the witness can free you from the tyranny of the mind and your reactivity as well as what can happen when you explore being aware of t
How to Awaken the Witness: From Identification to Observation [archive talk]
This talk explores the liberating factor of self-observation. You'll learn about how you can cultivate the optimal environment to develop the witness, the near-enemy of the practice and what it means to be aware of the light behind the obse
The Illusion of Self: How Mindfulness Reveals True Freedom [archive talk]
This talk explores how the most simple mindfulness practices point to liberation. You'll learn about the destination of cultivating present-moment awareness, understanding the nature of impermanence, recognizing inter-dependence and the pow
The Eightfold Path, Part 5: How to Make a Living without Selling Your Soul
This talk explores Right Livelihood as a living inquiry rather than a rigid moral rule, asking how we can earn a living without gradually betraying our values, vitality, or sense of dignity. Grounded in the Buddha's teachings and everyday w
Listening as Spiritual Practice Why Unguarded Attention Is the Greatest Gift
This talk explores listening as a radical act of compassion at moments of loss, when words often rush in to ease our own discomfort rather than meet another's pain. We examine how common responses to grief—reassurance, advice, spiritual fra
How to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 2: Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]
More on how to keep you keel in the water when navigating uncertainty. You'll learn some practical strategies for finding 'refuge,' a place of presence, particularly accessing Wisdom - clear seeing, Compassion - a heart that can hold it all
How to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 1: Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]
This talk explores how you might cultivate greater steadiness in turbulent times. You'll learn some practical tools for finding refuge in present-moment awareness, in cultivating Witness Consciousness and in watching the flow of phenomena w
What Is Your North Star? Questions That Awaken Wise Intention
This talk explores wise intention as a living, moment-to-moment inquiry rather than a fixed decision or self-improvement project. Drawing from the Buddhist understanding of Right Intention, it reframes intention as an embodied process of no
Seeing Clearly: Insight and the Path of Liberation
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 i
