Teachings

  • Understanding from the Heart

    Jon discusses the deeper intelligence that arises when we drop the tendency to analyze and learn to listen from the heart; energetic shifts that can take place as we deepen into awareness; and learning to get out of the way of our own healing process. Recorded 9/14/2009.

  • Relaxing the Grip

    Jon discusses the role of questioning; the value of letting go of the need to understand; and suggests that true learning is not separate from realization itself. Recorded 8/31/2009.

  • What We Think Is Negative Is Often a Doorway

    In this satsang Jon discusses listening from the heart, the deeper listening that can arise when we let go of the struggle to understand; and how what we instinctively resist is often a doorway to freedom. Recorded 08/24/2009.

  • The Opportunity in Every Moment

  • You Get Here When Nothing Else Works

  • Embracing What We Avoid

  • Finding Out How

  • The Relief of Freedom

  • Being Human is Not a Problem

  • “Knowing” vs. Understanding

    Being with what is, is understanding. From the perspective of understanding—of being—we don’t project our conclusions or judgments onto whatever is happening. When we project our conclusions onto reality, it may seem that we know something; but this kind of knowing is defensive. Its nature is endless unfulfillment. It offers a kind of illusory security,…

    “Knowing” vs. Understanding