Teachings

“When listening is happening, you’ve never heard this before, and we’ve never met before. It’s brand new, right now. So there’s this aliveness, this vibrancy of being. That’s the freshness, the innocence of pure consciousness — always learning new things and becoming more sensitive, and totally, totally ok with being human, because the illusion of…

“Let’s talk about thinking, about finding out how to allow the mind to be the creative, flexible tool that it really is. What does it take to cultivate a really flexible thinking mind, so that it can be a useful support in this so-called journey?” Recorded 10/22/2011 in Santa Cruz.  

“So we learn to let go, by sitting, by being available. By resting in awareness. By dropping all the comparisons, and judgments, and expectations, and agendas. How do you do that? It’s impossible, actually; you can’t do it. So you give up trying. Just notice that they’re there, that’s all. The awareness of them is…

“Allow your feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing, to dissolve you into awareness. Allow the dissolving to happen by itself, free of any anticipation or expectation, free of any agenda. Just being fully available, totally available in this moment, allowing openness to simply open into itself.” Recorded 10/17/2011 in San Francisco.

“The relentless mind craves silence, craves a break, a relief from the endless mental movement. So what is it that you hear in the silence? What is it that’s arising, or present in the space between the thoughts, between the words? Are you intimate with that space? That space which is what you really are?”…

“When we align with our energy, our being, our true nature, we begin to realize that every moment is a rediscovery, a renewal of awareness, of attention, of perception. We are continually reborn.” Recorded 12/19/2011 in San Francisco.

“What is this journey that we’re on, really? Is it just about awakening, being one with God, the infinite? You hear that a lot: just be presence and that’s it. And there’s truth in that, fundamentally. But really, awakening usually is followed by healing, by transformation and integration.” Recorded 9/26/2011 in San Francisco.

“Are you conscious of what doesn’t change? Usually we’re aware of what’s changing, and we either like that or we don’t like that, depending on what’s changing… One way to talk about our fundamental nature is that which doesn’t change.” Recorded 9/19/2011 in San Francisco.

“Freedom is being home. It’s home without a location. It’s home where everything is the location.” Recorded 9/10/2011 in Santa Cruz.

In the opening talk of a recent retreat, Jon invites us to surrender, to give up believing, and to allow ourselves to be guided by the deep truth revealing itself in the utter uniqueness of each moment. Recorded 11/3/2011 at Santa Sabina Retreat Center in San Rafael.