Teachings

  • Ask Into Vastness

    Are you able to surrender? Are you able to just be here? Whatever way works for you in this moment, it will open you, and it will bring you back into a harmonious presence. Maybe just being here, sensing this energy or presence in the room, if you can sense, see or tune into that.…

  • Wait Without Waiting

    Eventually you get tired of trying — tired of wanting to know the answers, or how long it’s going to take — and you just kick back. You just open. You wait without waiting. Your deeper presence begins to emerge, and radiate, and become foreground. Our fundamental nature is energy. Aliveness. When you stop, when…

  • The Creative Force of Discovery

    “When the veil of the knower drops away, the creative force of discovery guides your way. Each moment is revealed as new. Just as food has flavor, being has resonance, and the resonant being of being here, now, naturally encourages the dropping away of the veil of the knower. So we don’t come here to…

  • Love Being

    Happiness Podcast: “What is the nature of awakened life? What is the nature of freedom? The simplest description is being. When you’re being, you’re more available as a person. You’re more loving, more understanding, more open. You’re creative; alive! And lighter, not too serious. Just enough. Playful. Curious. Awakened life is about becoming fully, completely…

  • Leaving the Map

    “Having a map is good up to a certain point, but sooner or later the map ends, and then how do you find your way? As explorers, do we really know where we’re going? At some point we realize we don’t know, and what originally produced anxiety eventually produces freedom as we learn to listen…

  • Questions that Release You

    “What will it take to dissolve your mind’s control? Freedom is the absence of the thought called ‘I’. So find the questions that release you, that relax you; that allow opening to happen.” Recorded 1/4/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Fulfillment Right Now

    “As human beings, our greatest longing is to be open — to love. Awakening is the key to that, awakening to what you truly are, your pure essence. Find that spark, right now, and let that take you.” Recorded 11/23/2015 in San Francisco.

  • Be Fully Alive

    “All that’s required to be here is simply to be here; not doing anything, and yet being fully present — awake! — attentive, open and relaxed. Then you might start to sense something — an expansion, an opening, a radiance, a presence — a force, even — within you, around you, moving through you. And…

  • Pure Zen

    “The teaching that happens here is not just verbal. These words those are just suggestions, pointers to a deeper energetic transmission, a shift in perception to realizing that we are everything. That’s not a belief, not just some groovy concept — in that shift you begin truly to align with the fundamental energy of life…

  • Go with the Flow

    “Everything we experience — thought, feeling, sensation, energy — originates from the source. But what is the source? That primal, alive movement is unknowable, and yet it is what we awaken to. Its movement is like waves; so we learn how to go with the flow.” Recorded 10/26/2015 in San Francisco.