Inspired Aliveness Podcast
Summary: The Inspired Aliveness Podcast is produced by Jon Bernie, author of Ordinary Freedom, who is a contemporary spiritual teacher who offers a compassionate, heart-centered approach to awakening. His teaching focuses on returning the attention to the already enlightened state that lies at the core of our human experience. He has four decades of practice and study in the Zen, Theravada Buddhist and Advaita traditions, and was formally asked to teach by Adyashanti in 2002. 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 and intimately with individuals to facilitate consciousness development and deep emotional healing.
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"This unknowable life is a mirror that allows us to discover the truth — not by beliefs, or concepts, or dogma, but by constant discovery." Recorded 6/18/2012 in San Francisco.
"Awakening is the discovery of your true nature. It may just be a flash; it may just be a glimpse, or a taste, or a sense. It could be fleeting. But it's the beginning of the possibility of full aliveness, of really living from the heart." Recorded 6/9/2012 in Santa Cruz.
"When awakening has shown itself, you realize you are not the crazy mind, even though that may still be operating, doing its dance. But you are not that! You are this aliveness, this attention, this presence; this life force that animates this amazing form called the body. And everything gets rebalanced, everything gets reorganized... Each moment is brand new, unknown, inexplicable, mysterious, awesome, awe-inspiring." Recorded 5/21/2012 in San Francisco.
"Why is it that we have moments of awakening, of really seeing or sensing or recognzing oneness, but then pull back into separation, resistance, avoidance; or longing, or analyzing? What is it that pulls us back into identity, the identity of the separate drama of who we are?" Recorded 5/14/2012 in San Francisco.
"Awakening — discovering your true nature, really intimately merging with it, even for just a flash — is the beginning of the pathless path. And that realization can set all kinds of things in motion." Recorded 5/12/2012 in Santa Cruz.
"We are literally the force of nature. Just be this presence, this aliveness, and see how the world is incredibly transformed." Recorded 4/30/2012 in San Francisco.
"When you've really entered this realm, there's no going back. It's right now — it's right here. There's an immediacy of awakened being, awakened presence." Recorded 4/23/2012 in Santa Cruz.
When you taste your true nature, you realize that it's infinite. You can't contain it; you can't control it; you can't hold on to it. Its very nature is letting go, opening, expanding — illuminating." Recorded 4/16/2012 in San Francisco.
"Contentment is when all the energies are lined up; when they’re all integrated, all flowing together, a perfectly balanced ecosystem. That’s equanimity, harmony — your true nature." Recorded 3/26/2012 in San Francisco.
"Freedom isn't about not being human. It's actually the opposite — it's about being fully actualized as a human. Isn't that really the purpose of life? To live fully each moment..." Recorded 3/12/2012 in San Francisco.
"How do you let go into the disorientation of no personal self? I think as the realization becomes more fully integrated, more foreground, then it’s just obvious. I like how in Buddhism they refer to it as a refuge, because it really is a sanctuary. A sanctuary without walls; a sanctuary without beliefs. Your true home ground of Being." Recorded 3/5/2012 in San Francisco.
"You can't personally surrender — letting go happens by itself. But if we deny or avoid the struggle, or resist it or try to manipulate it, we feed it. Surrendering means being awake in the struggle — in the center of it." Recorded 2/27/2012 in San Francisco.
"Notice what’s in the way, realizing nothing needs to be done, nothing needs to be fixed, figured out, gotten rid of; but just simply perceived, fully. When that occurs, awareness opens into itself." Recorded 2/11/2012 in Santa Cruz.
"Everytime you look, you can notice if there's projection going on, or if there's just this vulnerability, this intimacy of seeing... The truth is unknowable, it's a mystery. And we are that mystery. As soon as you realize that, a lot of the burden will drop away, because then you'll know it's within, that you don't have to seek it outside yourself." Recorded 2/6/2006 in San Francisco.
"Ironically, with no self, life becomes completely intentional. There's a clarity, an exactness in each moment, because nothing is in the way. There's no filter in the way of experience." Recorded 1/23/2012 in San Francisco.
