Teachings

  • Stop Thinking!

    We come here to allow clarity to arise to the surface. It may not be there at the beginning; there may just be a jumble of stuff. So you sit, and give yourself permission to relax, and breathe, and let go. And maybe you feel vulnerable, or uncomfortable in some way, and yet there’s something…

  • The Retreat Right Now

    Retreat is when you plant a seed in the fertile ground of mindfulness and attention — with as much tenderness, compassion, patience and open-mindedness as possible — letting go of the compulsion to compare, to analyze, to make conclusions and judgments about yourself and others. It’s amazing how much lighter you become when you let…

  • Allow Yourself to Be Transformed

    The silence is always here, even in the background of the words, the silence is still here. Listen to that silence. Feel into that silence, and allow yourself to be healed. Allow yourself to be opened. Allow yourself to be transformed. Recorded 3/6/2017 in San Francisco.

  • Let Transmutation Happen

    Whatever’s holding on; whatever’s resisting; whatever’s grasping; be the space of awareness that allows it to go through whatever it’s going through, and to let go when it’s ready. Be the spacious awareness within you and outside of you. Drop out of your thinking mind that wants the answers. Drop into your heart, and your…

  • Arriving at the Oasis

    The Oasis is where you are nourished, but it’s also where you are broken down; and where you are healed; and where you are liberated. Over and over and over, however much it happens, you’re always finding it. You’re always re-arriving here. Recorded 4/10/2017 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Spiritual Improvisation

    Can you, right now, let go of everything you’ve every learned, everything you’ve ever heard, everything you’ve ever experienced?

  • No News is Good News!

    When all the stories of the mind are dropped, it’s good news. We’re constantly talking to ourselves, constantly thinking — until we’re awake, fully present, and not interfering. Then every moment is new. Every moment is alive, right here. And that’s really what we’re here for — to discover the ease of being, and to…

  • Profound Fulfillment and True Satisfaction

    When everything in your experience arises from awakening, your life has a clarity of direction that arises from alignment with the source of your being. Now you live fully as consciousness itself, with a mind that is so flexible it can understand any position, any perspective, but without believing or being attached to any of…

  • Let *It* Let Go

    The one who wants to be free is incapable of letting go.  But eventually, as the space of awareness grows, it loses its power to control.  So as you’re able now, rest in awareness. Whatever might still be holding on, whatever might be resisting, or whatever might be grasping — just be the space of…

  • Everything is New

    Awakening is when you’re just here. Nothing coming or going. Everything is new, everything is fresh. When all our filters drop away and there’s just this presence, we can come to a deeper, centered alignment in our being. And when you feel that presence emerging, that’s what you want to give your attention to. Words…