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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"What's it like to just allow waiting? Allow expecting? Allow wanting to know? How can you become familiar with the intimacy of allowing?" Recorded 1/16/2012 in San Francisco.
"As listening into the silence deepens — that realization that we are just pure energy, that we are vastness itself — then I think we finally learn to be human, we finally learn to take care of ourselves, and the planet, and whatever's next. And resting in equanimity becomes the default setting." Recorded 1/14/2012 in Santa Cruz.
"It's ok to have beliefs, as long as you don't believe them — as long as you know they're beliefs, as long as you're not bound, imprisoned, chained by them. Then seeing is seeing, and listening is listening, even when it's silent. There's the flow of receiving and giving. There's no one in the way. Then there's effortless being, and aliveness." Recorded 11/28/2011 in San Francisco.
"The purpose of life is to be fully alive, however that’s appearing right now, and it appears in an infinite array of possibilities. Uniquely, creatively discovering each moment, the presence that we are is the creative intelligent force of the universe. We are that! And I think we’re just beginning to tap into the possibility of what that really is, and how it will evolve human consciousness." Recorded 3/10/2012 in Santa Cruz.
"You've probably heard the saying, 'give until it hurts'. But what I want to offer is: give until you don't exist anymore, until you dissolve. That's complete giving, when you give of yourself so completely that there's no more holding back... Because then the light that you are can just shine, the energy that you are can just flow, and everyone is nourished by it." Recorded 11/21/2011 in San Francisco.
The great silence is filled with light, and it illuminates from the inside out as we listen into it — as we tune in and allow ourselves to be healed of our loss, of our dissappointment, our pain, our lack of control. Our natural state, our natural being, is really no holding, no holding back. No resisting." Recorded 11/14/2011 in San Francisco.
"If you can have permission to keep discovering, then you can also have compassion for the blowback that awakening precipitates — the transformation that can often happen at the human, personal level, when we begin to align with... full aliveness. The purpose of our life is to become fully alive, to live fully in each moment, in being. That beingness is the meaning of life, no matter what our activity is or isn't." Recorded 11/12/2011 in Santa Cruz.
"When listening is happening, you've never heard this before, and we've never met before. It's brand new, right now. So there's this aliveness, this vibrancy of being. That's the freshness, the innocence of pure consciousness — always learning new things and becoming more sensitive, and totally, totally ok with being human, because the illusion of perfection has completely dropped away." Recorded 10/24/2011 in San Francisco.
"Let's talk about thinking, about finding out how to allow the mind to be the creative, flexible tool that it really is. What does it take to cultivate a really flexible thinking mind, so that it can be a useful support in this so-called journey?" Recorded 10/22/2011 in Santa Cruz.
"So we learn to let go, by sitting, by being available. By resting in awareness. By dropping all the comparisons, and judgments, and expectations, and agendas. How do you do that? It's impossible, actually; you can't do it. So you give up trying. Just notice that they're there, that's all. The awareness of them is enough. It's the offering into awareness. It's not problem-solving time, it's problem dis-solving time." Recorded 1/9/2012 in San Francisco.
"Allow your feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing, to dissolve you into awareness. Allow the dissolving to happen by itself, free of any anticipation or expectation, free of any agenda. Just being fully available, totally available in this moment, allowing openness to simply open into itself." Recorded 10/17/2011 in San Francisco.
"The relentless mind craves silence, craves a break, a relief from the endless mental movement. So what is it that you hear in the silence? What is it that's arising, or present in the space between the thoughts, between the words? Are you intimate with that space? That space which is what you really are?" Recorded 10/10/2011 in San Francisco.
"When we align with our energy, our being, our true nature, we begin to realize that every moment is a rediscovery, a renewal of awareness, of attention, of perception. We are continually reborn." Recorded 12/19/2011 in San Francisco.
"What is this journey that we're on, really? Is it just about awakening, being one with God, the infinite? You hear that a lot: just be presence and that's it. And there's truth in that, fundamentally. But really, awakening usually is followed by healing, by transformation and integration." Recorded 9/26/2011 in San Francisco.
"Are you conscious of what doesn't change? Usually we're aware of what's changing, and we either like that or we don't like that, depending on what's changing... One way to talk about our fundamental nature is that which doesn't change." Recorded 9/19/2011 in San Francisco.
