
Jonathan Foust
Senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan Foust share weekly talks, guided meditations and inquiries that explore how to cultivate an awakened heart and mind.
Latest episodes

Aug 14, 2024 • 48min
BeFriending Fear, Part 1: Healthy and Unhealthy Worry
This talk explores the art of working with anxiety and dread. You’ll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy fear, the roots of fear and some strategies for transforming the experience of anxiety when it arises.

Aug 6, 2024 • 43min
Does Meditation Make You Lucky?
This talk explores the difference between luck and karma. You’ll learn how a mindfulness practice may help you cultivate a clearer intention, recognize opportunities and help you more quickly reset when you recognize you are off course. For those looking from the outside, you may appear quite lucky indeed.

Aug 3, 2024 • 47min
The Ten Perfections: #10 Be Steady and Equanimous
This talk explores the tenth of the ten perfections. You’ll learn how you cannot make steadiness and serenity happen, but can create the conditions that allow this inner state to arise. When you remember the fundamental quality of reality, you can more easily open to embrace your true nature.

Aug 2, 2024 • 47min
The Ten Perfections: #9 Be Kind and Compassionate
The talk explores the power of loving kindness. You’ll learn how to be more of a well-wisher to all, some techniques to more effectively express kindness in the world and a reflection on what might happen in your life if you were to be more adept at responding to challenges with an open heart.

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 5min
The Ten Perfections: #8 Develop Strong Determination [recast]
This talk explores the power of grit. You’ll learn the importance of first creating goals that are fully aligned with your heart and spirit and then developing your capacity to stay on your path, developing both perseverance as well as deep, intuitive inner listening.

Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 5min
The Ten Perfections: #7 Seek Truth and Be Truthful [recast]
This talk explores how to attune to what is true. You’ll learn how to discern between conventional and eternal truth, two essential teachings of truth and how to use your relationships and wise speech as a doorway to greater clarity and self-awareness.

Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 6min
The Ten Perfections: #6 Be Patient and Tolerant [recast]
This talk explores how to cultivate the quality of patience and self-restraint. You’ll learn about the power of refraining from those who have caused you harm, how to endure hardship, how to cultivate greater confidence in ultimate truth and about the near-enemies of patience and forbearance.

Jun 26, 2024 • 52min
The Ten Perfections: #5 Manage Your Energy [recast]
This talk explores how to cultivate vitality, courage and resilience in your life. You’ll learn how you can manage the energy you have and how to build vigor and confidence to pursue that which calls you.

Jun 20, 2024 • 46min
The Ten Perfections: #4 Seek to Truly Understand [recast]
This talk explores how to cultivate wisdom and insight. You’ll learn about the importance of cultivating the wise heart, what gets in the way of seeing clearly, the anatomy of an insight and how to balance wisdom with compassion.

Jun 20, 2024 • 48min
The Ten Perfections: #3 Renounce What Does Not Serve You [recast]
This talk explores the potential of mindful renunciation. You’ll learn how critically important it is to know what is most important, cultivate the thoughts, behaviors and actions that will bring about that outcome and as well, identify and modify the the thoughts, behaviors and actions that get in the way of that outcome.