Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is the Highest Thought of All [archive talk]
This talk explores the power of streaming thoughts toward love, compassion, kindness, joy and equanimity. You’ll learn about the origin of the heart practices, how here love starts as a thought and moves into an experience, the system for loving kindness and what it means to be awake both in heart and mind.
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare Attention and Gratitude [archive talk]
This talk explores the practice of Bare Attention and how suffering ceases in the experience of gratitude. You’ll learn about the distinction of the linear mind and the intuitive mind, the practice Bare Attention and a technique for opening to gratitude as a way of shifting the mind to a more fluid and intuitive state.
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 3: Investigating Beliefs [archive talk]
This talk explores how to deconstruct beliefs. You’ll learn about the origin of thoughts and beliefs, the art of interrupting the stream of thinking, the art of deconstructing beliefs and the importance, when you do this work, to err on the side of safety and self-care.
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 2: The Power of Mental Noting [archive talk]
This talk explores the power of noting or labeling your inner experience. You’ll learn how you can cut through discursive thinking by training your attention to the sense fields, but also what it means to ‘take the seat of the witness’ and note or label what is happening inside.
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 1: Embodied Awareness [archive talk]
This talk explores how to cut through the trance of thinking. You’ll learn how turning toward awareness itself reveals how much you rely on thinking and some practical strategies using embodied awareness for ‘remembering’ who and what you truly are.
Senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan Foust share weekly talks, guided meditations and inquiries that explore how to cultivate an awakened heart and mind.
Netherlands