Getting Out of the Way--surrender into awareness | nondual teacher Jon Bernie
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Nondual spiritual teacher and former Zen monk Jon Bernie suggests that most of what is referred to as spiritual practice is learning to get out of the way of natural awareness. ~ profound effortless attention ~ clinging to spiritual awakening ~ being one with awareness ~ the blindspot of compulsive spiritual practice ~ awakened consciousness ~ Presence ~ concepts are not the Truth ~ www.jonbernie.org/
Adyashanti lineage teacher Jon Bernie offers a compassionate, heart-centered approach to spiritual awakening, providing guidance on re-aligning with the already enlightened state that is our essential nature. He has four decades of practice and study in the Zen, Theravada Buddhist & Advaita traditions. A series of early awakening experiences as a teenager led Jon to ordain as a Zen monk in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and subsequently to the practice of retreat-based Vipassana (insight meditation) as an early student of mindfulness meditation teacher Jack Kornfield.
Jon’s spiritual trajectory was profoundly altered by meeting Jean Klein, an accomplished teacher of Advaita Vedanta and Kashmiri Yoga, with whom he studied for an extended period. Jon subsequently spent time with H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji) and Robert Adams, both direct disciples of Ramana Maharshi. Jon’s spiritual development was also greatly aided by his decades-long relationship with Brother David Steindl-Rast, who, along with Thomas Merton, was one of the first Christian monks to seriously practice in the Zen and Tibetan traditions. Jon was formally asked to teach by Adyashanti in 2002.
In addition to his work as a nondual spiritual teacher, Jon is also an experienced healer and teacher of somatic embodiment, trained in the Alexander Technique, Zero Balancing, and the Qigong system of Dr. Yu Penxi. He works closely with individuals to facilitate consciousness development and deep emotional healing.
Jon offers satsang and meditation retreats in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally.
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Didn't. Forget you John. Come back guy. We need you.
No one should underestimate the power and vicelike grip of conditioning, and how that makes taking your hand off the wheel and letting life move through you almost impossible
Trust and abide in awarness as soon as you glimps what you always knew you were seeking - stay with the energy. Thanks Jon for sharing your insights so clearly.
Lately, I've been coming to this. Seeing that it's all much simpler than I ever thought, that really I have to just hang out and feel, whatever it is in this present. Just harmonise with the awareness/presence. Let go of complicated techniques, breathing etc(trying). As soon as I'm in it, the breathing does what it should do by itself, not under my "command". My body knows what should be.
Right you are!!! The comment below is right on! Spirituality, intent, love, choices/decisions,. , are all something to see! Not to do. Observing it activates it. One must do e x a c t l y as they are doing!, for they are. I have decided not to choose, chosen not to decide. I have forgotten to remember and I have remembered to forget. I do e v e r y t h i n g by doing nothing. We are resistance/acceptance. We re in the middle. We re both, in balance , is presence.
A great blind spot is all these MUST DO THINGS to be so called Enlightened
Right on! We re human beings. Not human doings. well, we re both. Still/active. All the rules imposed upon spirituality are contrary to the very philosophy embraced. No?
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