Jonathan Foust
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Four Phrases That Heal: Loving the Unlovable [archive talk]
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: •…
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Jonathan Foust has published 50 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Buddhism, Education.
Jonathan Foust is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 41m.
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