Teachings

Everything is mirroring what you are in this moment. The struggle ends there. And then there’s this intimacy of being, this closeness of interconnection — the taste of the truth.

Probably the most important instruction is to really live from your heart. To really see from your heart. To approach your human condition, whatever it’s presenting, with love, with forgiveness, with compassion and gratitude.

Can you locate awareness? Recently I’ve come up with some suggestions that might be helpful, some hints for allowing awareness to emerge.

We are absolutely, perfectly being guided. So how can you find that guidance? How can you tune into, or feel, sense or see, what is clearly being shown to you, right now?

How can you be a channel, rather than a receptacle? In other words, how can you be a vehicle for movement of energy, rather than a contained unit that’s separate? How can you be vulnerable, rather than defended? How can you be open so the light can come in?

How can you become free from the type of thinking that’s constricting, limiting? Thinking doesn’t have to be restricting. It can be liberating. The mind can be liberated, just like the heart and the body.

Once we get out of the way — once we find out how to actually get out of the way — then we begin to receive the profound, beautiful grace of presence and awakened consciousness, the joy and bliss of this mysterious life, and it begins to radiate through every cell in this body, literally…

When you can really tune in and listen, completely surrendering, allowing this presence that you are to literally liberate you, then it’s a total joy to be here. And enjoying this richness is nothing that needs to be held onto at all. Then life is just one discovery after another, one surprise after another, one…

There’s really no spiritual work to be done; there’s only human work. And when we really understand the human work, then naturally the spirit radiates and the heart expands.

In the opening talk of a recent retreat, Jon offers: “We’re really here to be here — to dissolve into being here. Anything else is really extra… So relax and allow yourself to just be here. Allow yourself to be profoundly nurtured, and nourished, by the love and unconditional acceptance that’s in this space.”