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Jonathan Foust

Jonathan Foust

By: Jonathan Foust
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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. Spirituality
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  • What Is Your North Star? Questions That Awaken Wise Intention
    Jan 9 2026

    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 noticing what genuinely supports clarity and ease, honestly recognizing what leads to contraction, and allowing the heart to recalibrate without judgment. The emphasis is on alignment over striving, and on learning directly from lived experience.

    You'll learn how to evaluate your life and practice through clear cause-and-effect, recognize when effort is actually creating more struggle, and make mindful course corrections that are kind, practical, and sustainable. The talk offers simple reflections and practices to help you listen beneath habit and preference, so you can open to what most deeply calls and let wise intention guide your actions with greater trust, coherence, and care.

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    52 mins
  • Seeing Clearly: Insight and the Path of Liberation
    Dec 25 2025

    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 illusions that shape our experience: the illusion that things are solid, that the self is fixed, that craving can bring satisfaction, and that suffering is personal. Each moment of genuine insight loosens the grip of confusion and reveals the luminous awareness that is already free.

    You'll learn how insight unfolds through the deep investigation of perception, self, desire, and suffering; how mindfulness and compassion work together to transform pain into wisdom; and how to bring these realizations into the immediacy of daily life. Through stories, reflection, and direct practice, you'll discover how to live from the natural clarity that sees through delusion and rests in the heart of liberation.

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    32 mins
  • Four Phrases That Heal: Loving the Unlovable [archive talk]
    Dec 21 2025

    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:

    • Taking responsibility for your inner experience

    • Attuning to the process of release

    • Reflecting on gratitude and the opportunity to grow

    • Resting in loving awareness

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    44 mins
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I have been listening to Jonathan for many years and still enjoy his talks. The talks centre around the dharma and the practice of meditation and mindfulness, but he does not claim to be Buddhist. I like that his approach is a practical, everyday, accessible approach to daily life, our problems and how to look inwardly and reflect in an honest way. I very much appreciate the work and effort and always find myself coming back to this podcast. He's a talented speaker and a very experience mediator, so a good mentor for those who have an interest in understanding themselves and their relationships better, and honing their meditation practice.

A long time listener.

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