By Jon Bernie
Inspired Aliveness with Jon Bernie
Find calm & healing in this relaxing, mindful living podcast by Adyashanti-lineage spiritual teacher Jon Bernie. Let go of living in the mind & be happy! The Clarity of Your Essential Being As you arrive fully and become more intimate...
Taking Time for Yourself in the Open-hearted Beingness Beyond Words | Jon Bernie Embodied Awareness podcasts “Won’t it be wonderful when we can do this without any words? Just our open-hearted beingness, unprotected, connecting. Because in that space, everything is...
Being present in the moment is almost a thing of the past. For healing, we have to reclaim the parts of ourselves that we’ve cut off. This healing is just a natural re-balancing of the nervous system. It isn’t about...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Excerpts from the recent day long retreat in Tiburon, CA. on 09-22-2018.
We are learning to let go of judgements and conclusions – to be vulnerable in the unknown – and to see the profound trust that we are. There is no need to perform or have to be somebody. Recorded in...
This can’t really be an accomplishment, it’s just reality. Actually, it’s no big deal. I love that when he was asked what enlightenment was, Suzuki Roshi replied, “Nothing Special”. There’s nothing like telling the truth and not turning it into...
Even though you might have your laundry list of problems, you can only take care of what’s in front of you. And you can only take care of what’s in front of you right now, if you’re actually here. And...
Fully Here is not living in the thought-forms of the past, the future or the present, but deeply communing with the life force of our being. Recorded in Santa Cruz, CA. on 07-07-2018.
Don’t wait for the guidance and reassurance to come from outside of you, it’s within you, it is you. When you bring awareness to the focus that the mind is holding there will be an easing that automatically occurs. Recorded...
Are you familiar with that profound stillness, within the center of your being, when you are at peace? Recorded in Tiburon, CA. on 6-09-2018.
As you become more aware of awareness and more established in presence, trust in the process that naturally grows. Recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 10-23-2017.
Give yourself permission to not know. The flower will bloom all by itself so enjoy yourself as much as possible. Recorded in Tiburon, CA on 04-21-2018.
The journey can be challenging but trust this profound openness and being that you are. Listen to that silence and open in to that space. Recorded in Tiburon, CA on 02-17-2018.
Your projections don’t have the weight that they once had. The judgements and reactions may still come through but they simply don’t stick. Recorded in San Francisco on 02-18-2018.
When silence is present it’s important to give it your full attention. Allow this silence to open and guide you to your own support within. Recorded in San Francisco on 09-25-2017.
Drop back in to the moment. Keep returning to reality and come back to the timeless, thoughtless and open-hearted moment. Recorded in Santa Cruz, CA.
We are not in control of how this unfoldment is occurring. Our effort here is to be available for the movement that actually is unfolding. Recorded 11-27-2017.
You have no where else to go but where you are. Recorded 11/13/2017.
There is a tendency towards thinking that you know where you are and how you are doing. We really can’t know what is happening and how it is going, so when we begin to surrender it naturally becomes a fulfillment...
Let the beauty that you are nourish yourself and everyone around you. Open your mind, open your heart, and really allow yourself to be available. Recorded 06/19/2017.
What if you knew that what you were trying to achieve was already done? Would you relax? Allow your authentic self to come to the foreground. Recorded on 05-15-2017.
Eventually you come to see that you simply just want to be at peace. Something comes over you, you close your eyes, you stop, and there is a stillness that comes. Discover what you truly are. Recorded 4/24/2017.
It’s important along the way to appreciate yourself and all the hard work you are doing and have done, to realize who you are and where you are. Allow this natural movement towards freedom to actually occur. Recorded 9/16/2017 in...
We learn along the way, each in our own unique way, how we are being guided to the essence of truth. Discover how trust can guide, open and liberate your being. Recorded 4/15/2017 in Santa Cruz.
We come here to allow clarity to arise to the surface. It may not be there at the beginning; there may just be a jumble of stuff. So you sit, and give yourself permission to relax, and breathe, and let...
Retreat is when you plant a seed in the fertile ground of mindfulness and attention — with as much tenderness, compassion, patience and open-mindedness as possible — letting go of the compulsion to compare, to analyze, to make conclusions and...
The silence is always here, even in the background of the words, the silence is still here. Listen to that silence. Feel into that silence, and allow yourself to be healed. Allow yourself to be opened. Allow yourself to be...
Whatever’s holding on; whatever’s resisting; whatever’s grasping; be the space of awareness that allows it to go through whatever it’s going through, and to let go when it’s ready. Be the spacious awareness within you and outside of you. Drop...
The Oasis is where you are nourished, but it’s also where you are broken down; and where you are healed; and where you are liberated. Over and over and over, however much it happens, you’re always finding it. You’re always...
Can you, right now, let go of everything you've every learned, everything you've ever heard, everything you've ever experienced?
When all the stories of the mind are dropped, it’s good news. We’re constantly talking to ourselves, constantly thinking — until we’re awake, fully present, and not interfering. Then every moment is new. Every moment is alive, right here. And...
When everything in your experience arises from awakening, your life has a clarity of direction that arises from alignment with the source of your being. Now you live fully as consciousness itself, with a mind that is so flexible it...
The one who wants to be free is incapable of letting go. But eventually, as the space of awareness grows, it loses its power to control. So as you’re able now, rest in awareness. Whatever might still be holding on,...
Awakening is when you’re just here. Nothing coming or going. Everything is new, everything is fresh. When all our filters drop away and there’s just this presence, we can come to a deeper, centered alignment in our being. And when...
It’s in times of darkness that we most need the light. That’s when we’re really challenged to either run and hide and avoid, or face what’s right here. So thank you for showing up for yourself. As hard as it...
“Have you found out yet what a relief it is to not think? It becomes effortless as you learn to relax into openness. It feels nurturing and comforting and healing.” When you’re no longer caught in meaning, or in trying...
What does it mean to arrive here fully? What *is* freedom? And what does it mean to truly take care of yourself?
Intimacy is the union of being with another without the filter of “me”. It’s a closeness, a heartfulness, an empathetic sensitivity. Even though we may not have conversed, we know each other profoundly. That’s really the depth of relationship that...
The draw to become spiritually free is often just have a little more joy, a little more enjoyment, a little less angst. Can you find that moment, even right now, where you’re not seeking, not trying, not resisting? Can you...
Every moment is the beginning of the journey. When you wake up, there is not endpoint called “enlightenment”. There’s just this closeness, this intimacy of connection. No one to defend. Opening is a natural, mysterious movement; and what we learn...
“The fundamental teaching — the guiding principle, the guiding light — is your own true nature. Whether you’re aware of that or not, it is, always has been, and always will be what you are. Belief has nothing to do...