Jon Bernie is a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a contemporary spiritual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti. He leads regular classes, retreats, and intensives in the Bay Area and beyond. As a counselor in private practice, Bernie also works with individuals directly to facilitate consciousness development and deep emotional healing.
"This wonderful collection of Jon's teachings really captures his
ability to point us back to our own innate freedom."
--From the foreword by Adyashanti
"To find an accomplished spiritual teacher is a rare gift. To find
a book that puts you in a most lively way in the presence of such a
teacher is even more rare. But here it is! Jon Bernie's Ordinary
Freedom has all the power of the spoken word and vibrates with the
overtones of that teacher's caring, compassionate nearness. Deep,
yet always simple; simple, yet never simplistic; clear, eloquent,
and always to the point, Ordinary Freedom is not an ordinary book.
It springs from freedom and breathes freedom. Caution: This book
may be hazardous to your current level of consciousness! "
--Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB, author, lecturer, co-founder of
www.gratefulness.org
"What a beautiful, simple, heartfelt message! The end of seeking is
not something to be found in the future -- it is right here,
present at the very heart of experience, just waiting to be
discovered by those who are ready and willing to come face-to-face
with life. Jon Bernie expresses the timeless truth of non-duality
(non-separation) in such a warm, authentically human voice. He
meets you as a wise, loving friend -- rather than as spiritual
master or guru -- and gently points out the various ways in which
you are currently at war with your own experience. His message is
rare and precious in that it does not attempt to deny or transcend
our humanity, or dismiss it as an aberration, but rather embraces
it fully as part of an infinitely bigger picture. Jon honours your
embodied experience, whilst at the same time clearly and directly
pointing you far beyond the personal, to a wordless freedom that
belongs to no-one, and therefore is available to everyone. Read
Ordinary Freedom and rediscover something that you have always
known -- that this seemingly ordinary life is already the miracle
you've been seeking, and that here and now is forever saturated
with wonder. This is mature, grounded spirituality for grown-ups,
and I thoroughly recommend it.
--Jeff Foster, author of The Wonder of Being and An Extraordinary
Absence.
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