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A Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan offers talks, guided meditations and inquiries into what it means to be awake in mind and heart.  www.jonathanfoust.com

Jul 29, 2025

This talk explores the power of willful attention inwardly as well as in the world.

 

You’ll learn some strategies for inner focus in your meditation as well as some outer focus to cultivate sustained attention on what is most important to you in your life right now.

 


Jul 29, 2025

This talk explores the power of willful attention.

 

You’ll learn what the Buddha said about concentration and liberation, some essential practices for deepening focus and how skillfully applying concentration can open up new inner worlds.

 

 


Jul 15, 2025

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.


Jul 8, 2025

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.


Jul 8, 2025

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.