Teachings

  • Flavors of Retreat #1–Arrive and Unburden | nondual teacher Jon Bernie

    In this retreat video, Adyashanti lineage spiritual teacher and former Zen monk Jon Bernie offers guidance to participants about the retreat process, giving up notions of enlightenment, spiritual awakening; he also speaks about spiritual transmission, allowing your humanity, accepting our imperfection, unconditional love, consciousness, happiness, opening into feeling, relaxing into Presence.

  • Spiritual Transmission–attuning to the teaching beneath the words | Jon Bernie

    Jon Bernie speaks about  ~ energetic resonance of awakened consciousness ~  shakti ~ realizing the unified field ~ the essential teacher-student communication on the direct path ~ dissolution of identity ~ absolute reality ~ facing discomfort ~ surrendering to our true nature ~ the constancy of Presence ~ energetic awareness ~ loving life ~ profound…

  • Zen Algebra

    “One minus one equals freedom. Coming back to zero, everything and nothing simultaneously. Relative and absolute integrated — one minus one. Whatever you have, give it away. Whatever you’re holding on to, let go of. Return back to zero; to openness; to clarity. Then you are what you see. You are what you feel. Everyone,…

  • Letting *Letting Go* Happen

    “Let yourself begin to find a natural, easy stillness.  In allowing yourself simply to be aware — to be awareness — you literally begin to feel or see as spaciousness, as presence; as vast, boundaryless consciousness itself, enriching and enlivening your whole being.” Recorded 6/13/2015 in Santa Cruz.

  • The Miracle of Pure Aliveness

    “Forget everything you know: your past, your future, your beliefs. Because what happens here is a mysterious, amazing, miraculous process of becoming unburdened, of lightening up — of enlightening! — so that the light that you are actually can shine, the loving heart that you are can radiate, and you can be happy — unconditionally…

  • Discovering What’s Real

    “The real gift of awakening and opening is truly loving. We open into being authentically loving beings — enlightened, radiant, filled with spirit, and completely grounded in authentic humanity.” Recorded 4/13/2015 in San Francisco.

  • What’s In the Way?

    What is “awake”? Awake is when you’re connected, when you’re actually available to what you’re sensing and feeling, and to what others are sensing and feeling. When we stop, when we open, we see and feel how we’ve been holding back, and how we can begin to get out of our own way.

  • Spiritual Bypassing–the danger of neglecting your humanity

    Being in Presence can become a high, a state you want to maintain. Recorded at the Spring Retreat 2015 in San Rafael CA. Topics:  ~ shakti ~ trauma work ~ nonduality ~ therapy and spirituality ~  spiritual maturity ~

  • The Reality of Connection

    Connection is our true nature. It’s an aliveness, a presence, a vastness. The reason we come here — the reason we *are* here — is to discover that for the first time; or to rediscover it; or to deepen into what is already present for us.

  • Cracking the Paradigm–part 1 of the spiritual laboratory

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