Teachings

  • 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

  • The Question of Service

    I’d like to look at the idea—the concept—of “being of service.” From the perspective of separateness, we often desire to help, to fix, to ameliorate; and of course there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s possible to be of service in that way, clearly. From a deeper perspective, however, we have to talk about it a…

    The Question of Service

  • The Role of the Mind

    What is the point of talking about the inexpressible? Since it can’t really be defined, explained or understood by the analytical mind, why bother? The thinking mind, as much trouble as it can be, is also a function of the inexpressible and clearly has an agenda of wanting to know and understand. The sooner we…

    The Role of the Mind