Underrated spiritual teacher 😌

Thank you very much Jeff. To accept non-acceptance, to completely let go of trying and doing is a true act of trust and love. Thank you

Something I've needed to hear my entire life. Thank you🥲

"Peace that passes all understanding."

I have never heard this presented more clearly. Just lovingly be with what is wishing for nothing more. Well done!!!

I love hearing you so much Jeff

You are an incredible dude and I’m so grateful for all you share!! 💚🌿🧚‍♀️

i resisted watching this video today but it turned out to be very apropos for what is going on in my life...facing some things that I've been avoiding, denying, hating within myself. good timing Jeff. I love your message. thank you

I should not be in peace, but I WANT TO BE AT PEACE, because anguish is very tiring, it's depleting! I have been not resisting my anguish but I feel handling it makes my body weak, it hurts, it cuts my breath, it feels so heavy....and for me it's not a matter of "being spiritual" but a matter of being able to handle life, handle my work, my children... it is very difficult to live in internal conflict, it complicates everything

Thank you Jeff. Your words make me back to true relax mind.

this is living proof that is wayyyy difficult to just BE.

Stop fight the life and you'll get peace.

This is the message for me today, investigating unease in the moment

Wow, thank you.

Beautiful, thank you!

Incredible. Thank you.

Thank you for the reminder 💜

This hit the nail on the head !

Thanks Jeff!

Thanks Jeff for this truth. Gratefully received.

Thank you Jeff this came at the perfect time. 💜

Thanks Jeff. So refreshing to hear this.

Thank you! I really appreciate this kind of teachings ))

Thank you

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!!

Thank you!

Thank you so much.. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much for this

Merci Jeff

Amazing you put me in peace

Thank you so so much Jeff Foster.

Jeffry, you are amazing) thank you so much 🙏 I see you when I sleep.

Thank you for this video. You said something I knew (in a way) but the way you gave it shows an other perspective.

healing words

Thanks for the awhhhhh💜💜

Jeff always appears so calm and happy to me, I cant imagine him getting genuinely pissed off.

Wise words..

I'm sitting here eating ice cream for hours. I guess it is okay. Thanks!!!

Totally agree!!!!

BRAVOOO BEAUTYFULL & THNXXXX🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Thank you Jeff I needed this message, as I am/was trying very hard to allow everything ... there is the word trying again haha, so from now on I Love myself just as I am :)

I'm so grateful...

Beautiful. we are in same boat of unknown world.

Great video, thanks Jeff :)

Great one Jeff! Thanks for new video. Hope you’ll keep making them.

This is so wise Thank you Should have found this channel earlier

i just got this video when there was a tightness in the belly and i saw this video!!

That’s deep.

It would be so lovely to see an interview between you and Br. Phap Linh from Plum village . You both have such a natural way of making meditation seem helpful in this current world of chaos and worry

Those who watch vid's like this may get the feeling that all one has to do is this, or that. and everything will be ok. And what Mr Foster says is true, but one can not "just" let go of stress. And if one tries, and fails, then there's the stress of failure, and that piles on even more stress. Btw stress can be a powerful tool. Pain is the great motivator in our lives. That does not mean that one should go looking for stress, and pain. Not to worry, life will provide that kind of motivation all by it's self. The question is who, or what feels that pain. When it comes to the spiritual the why doesn't really matter, it's the who, or the what. See into this, and one is well on their way. Our true nature is bless, and the clearer we see into it, the happier we will be. Mr Foster is right in saying that if one has one eye on the prize, then one only has one on the path. At least that's what I think he was saying.

Yeah,it's really paradoxical. And maybe that's also why it's so hard to grasp this, peace in the midst of non-peace or non-peace in the midst of fighting non-peace to change it to peace~~ ^^ Thank you Jeff, you really described me well.

for the longest time, like a half a lifetime lol, i had no idea what peace even was, i had been so addicted to action

Great

I felt even LESS at peace after watching this video!! I find it so frustrating that just because some people use "I want peace" as a way to escape the present moment, that we all seem to get lumped in the same category and diagnosed as "trying to be spiritual" just because we have a desire for peace. Maybe I misheard, but that's how this video made me feel. There's nothing wrong with having desire - of any sort - it is only when we superimpose this desire on the present moment and try to tell the present moment "how it should be" that we run into trouble. Desire IS spirituality too - if "not peace" is an expression of the one indivisible life, then desire for peace is just another expression of that same life too. There IS Nothing else. I'm not going to violently push away my desire for peace just because someone else has diagnosed it as "trying to be spiritual", or "projecting into the future" - if my foot is caught in a bear trap it's not unspiritual for me to want it out, in the future or not - but I can be wise enough to honour my (future) desire in the wide open space that holds the sensations of my present moment reality too. Without bias, preference or judgement. If I see an animal being harmed, if I see a child being abused, if I see the oceans being polluted, if I feel unrest within myself, my desire for a healthier society, healthier me or more peaceful moment is not wrong. My heartfelt empathy and self-love is not me "trying to be spiritual". It is an expression of deep love and care. Yes, I will need to face the sensations that arise here first and foremost and act from a spaciousness that embraces and includes my distaste. Yes, I will need to pursue my vision and inspirations VIA and THROUGH the present moment and the sensations it evokes and remain detached from the outcome, but it doesn't make my inherent empathy-inspired desire wrong. I just feel this point of view, while EXTREMELY helpful for those who beat themselves up with "trying to be spiritual" all the time (and bless you for helping these people out) also creates a more subtle violence for the rest of us, that if we have desires or feel like we want change in any way then this is somehow wrong. I feel suppressed by this perspective. Like this perspective forces me to "stay put", to not want more, to deny my genuine heart callings for change because it is deemed "unspiritual" to be able to accept the present moment completely AND simultaneously desire change. Like these two perspectives are mutually exclusive somehow. Anyhow, just what came up for me. Holding the space for the sensations of frustration this evoked within myself and grateful for the opportunity to see more and with greater subtlety and make peace with my lack of peace around a video about finding peace without acknowledging our desire for peace as peaceful because to make peace with our desire for peace is somehow unspiritual. Lol.

Brilliant though not easy

Embrace yourself and whatever you are experiencing...yeah?

Sometimes, as I listen, I think I’m getting it and just as I do, I miss it. I seem to get close to what is being said in the video but not quite there.

🙏🏻

He's absolutely right, anything that involves some sort of trying, and being in a different state does not work. People want to apply some sort of technique and they have an expectation of feeling a certain way. It's all pressure and tension that perpetuates the disturbance. You are either 1)Trying to convince yourself that you are in a peaceful state which is self deception, ego and inauthenticity or alternatively, 2) You are having problem with how you're feeling and want to be feeling peaceful, and this shows as depression, apathy, frustration and pain.

Merci Jeff Thank you. / Are you planning to come to Eastern Canada / Québec at some point ? : ) : )

This is like saying if you find yourself in an explosion, don't run away. Just stay there and die. Amazing advice from people with no answers.

We have mistaken 'Spirituality with over ' thinking ... Consciousness is Beyond Coceptual thinking & perceptions , Beyond the Mind all together .... HUMANITY IS LOST IN THE MIND !!!!

"Should"-ing is always useless (both in yourself and morally towards others.)

Sometime I feel sorry for Jeff. Specially when spiritual people aks him questions about how to live. Step up people, you are doing it already!!!!

fuckkkk i love you jeff. this is just what i need right now

😀💫💫💫💫🖖

But what about consciously creating your reality then?

Quickly help me!!!! I'm in my body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stand it !!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhg

I disagree at 11:20, Jeff. We do that to children. "There's no reason for you to be upset, you have your toy." "Big boys don't cry"..etc. We're taught it. Then we do it to ourselves....thinking that's the way it's done...thoughts? Otherwise...dead on.

Thank you!