Teachings

  • Meditation In Action

    Meditation in action is a spiritual practice you can do all the time or whenever you feel like it. Enjoy this beautiful satsang talk that could be used as a guided meditation on letting go, undefended love, awareness and attention, dissolving the false sense of self so that real connection, creativity, happiness, healing and unconditional…

  • Empowerment Through Soji, The Simple Zen Practice of Cleaning

    In the daily routine of a Zen monastery, there is time set aside for Soji, or cleaning. Soji is a ceremony, and as such, it is a practice of mindfulness. During Soji, one is fully present in the moment, and free from the controlling mind in a way that can lighten one’s perspective and bring…

    Empowerment Through Soji, The Simple Zen Practice of Cleaning

  • Healing with the Practice of Presence

    Self-healing Podcasts by Jon Bernie. “Amid the post-traumatic stress of bad news these days, it takes more effort to be available.  It takes work to be conscious.  It takes even more effort to be intimate with reality, because reality can be pretty difficult to accept.  As you open more deeply, there is a realm of…

  • Trusting the Wisdom of Your Life Force

    For spiritual transformation to be possible, we must cultivate and engage with a very deep kind of trust.  This is not the kind of personal trust that has an interplay with the ego — ego cannot trust. This trust is the deeper realm of openness, of freedom, of liberation. It can manifest in ways like…

  • You Are The Garden

    You are not living in your mind anymore.  The mind becomes a helpful resource whenever you need it.  It becomes your friend rather than your tormentor, your judge, your critic, your executioner.  What comes with this awakening is a profound trust in the life force.  You are the garden, and you are flourishing.  Recorded in…

  • Where We Are Going

    Let’s cultivate the human perspective that is healthy and supportive rather than the old, abusive, beating-ourselves-up-because-we’re-not-good-enough approach.  The old way is where we are coming from.  I am teaching where we are going.

  • Realign with the Life Force of Your Being

    The new year is a beautiful symbol:  a fresh start.  Let’s try again.  And yet when you are on this path, and you are in alignment with it, you realize that fresh start is in every moment.  Recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 01-07-2019.  For more content visit www.jonbernie.org.

  • Healing Our Hearts

    If you’re aware of awareness, it’s like being in a beautiful breeze at the ocean. You just let it in, let it waft through you. Wonderful. That’s the sort of ultimate spiritual teaching when that’s in your field, when that’s present. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. And if you’re, you find that you’re resisting…

  • Life Is The Answer

    Letting go is always scary, until it’s bliss. At some point, as more is revealed to you in this opening of presence, what emerges through your whole being is profound trust. You will start to traverse that fear/bliss movement, and it’s scary, but intuitively you find your balance. You can’t push it, it’s a natural…

  • Ongoing Revelation

    People sometimes go on retreat or come to Satsang and have a difficult time, and they think “I didn’t really get enough Shakti” or, “I don’t feel any different”. But usually you figure out how you are on your path over time; not at the end of your retreat, or when you had your big…