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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.

religion & spirituality buddhism

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34:38

Your Body is a Temple: Coming Home to Sensation

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/09/23

This talk explores the profound practice of coming home to the body—not as an object to fix or improve, but as sacred ground for awakening. Drawing on early Buddhist teachings and somatic insights, we’ll reflect on what it means to honor the body as a temple of presence. Through stor25ies, reflections, and practical guidance, we’ll explore how sensation itself can become a direct path to freedom. You’ll learn how to ground attention in the felt sense, meet difficult sensations with compassion, and

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30:21

The Eightfold Path, Part 1: The Path to Freedom

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/09/16

This talk explores how the Buddha’s Eightfold Path offers a clear, practical guide to living with greater wisdom, compassion, and inner freedom in everyday life. We’ll look at how each step on the path supports both personal transformation and the well-being of others. Wise View, the first step, invites us to see life as it truly is—recognizing impermanence, the causes of suffering, and the possibility of liberation. It’s about shifting from a narrow, self-centered perspective to a broader

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37:04

Begin Where You Are: Laying the Groundwork of...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/09/16

This talk explores how to begin a mindfulness practice by starting exactly where you are. Rather than striving for a particular state or trying to “do it right,” we look at how mindfulness arises through simple remembering—the act of returning to presence, again and again. We’ll reflect on how the breath can become a reliable ally, how intention can quietly shape our experience, and how there’s no wrong way to begin. We’ll explore four key themes: (1) how mindfulness is the practice of remembering

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45:43

Choose What is Already Changing [archive talk]

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/08/29

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 help you move from reactivity to wisdom, compassion, creativity and enthusiasm.

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46:06

Your True Nature is Already Here [archive talk]

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/08/20

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 that can bring you into an intimate, embodied sense of presence.

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46:34

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

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/08/13

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 principles of flow to meditation can deepen your practice and some cautions and concerns about the practice.

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47:26

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

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/08/13

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 or unconsciously sabotage the flow state.

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47:36

How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 2...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/29

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 sustained attention on what is most important to you in your life right now.

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46:31

How More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 1...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/29

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 concentration can open up new inner worlds.

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45:41

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is ...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/15

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 moves into an experience, the system for loving kindness and what it means to be awake both in heart and mind.

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43:48

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/08

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 Bare Attention and a technique for opening to gratitude as a way of shifting the mind to a more fluid and intuitive state.

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45:32

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 3:...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/08

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 importance, when you do this work, to err on the side of safety and self-care.

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47:03

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 2: The...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/08

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 means to ‘take the seat of the witness’ and note or label what is happening inside.

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45:38

Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 1: ...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/07/08

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 awareness for ‘remembering’ who and what you truly are.

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57:06

Do you REALLY want to Wake Up? Tracy Budd on his...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/06/15

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 very disciplined approach that cultivated deepening concentration. His journey was powerful, traumatic and brought him to his knees, but opened up vistas he could only imagine. Here he shares his story, what he learned and what we might offer by way of encouragement and caution for those looking to

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44:51

Jeff Fajans on the Flow State and Creativity:...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/06/05

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. Whether you’re drafting a feature film script, launching a new business, or building a product from scratch, Jeff blends flow science, mindfulness, and creative productivity and leadership principles to move you past procrastination and into real, lasting creative momentum. Here are some links: More info

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45:11

Don't Believe All Your Thoughts

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/05/20

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 strategies for shifting your relationship to thinking.

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45:16

Why Practice?

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/05/20

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 number of benefits. Beyond the physiological and emotional boosts you'll feel, ultimately you'll notice the arising of two distinct faculties. Wisdom is your capacity to recognize what is true. Compassion is your capacity to allow and open to truth.

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40:33

Skillful Effort: Maintaining Wholesome States of...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/05/10

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 states when they have arisen, how to cultivate wholesome states that have not yet arisen and how to maintain wholesome states that are already here.

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52:25

Conversations with Depth Practitioners: “This is the...

Jonathan Foust ·

2025/04/30

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 year ago. They speak beautifully of how the practice deepens, how to find steadiness and how to open again and again to love.

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