Guided Meditations, Group Excerpts, and Talks
Guided Meditations
Johann’s style is to loosely guide, with longer times of silence.
Meditation is Just This, Never That
35 min | December 1, 2025
Three Ways of Gratitude
31 min | November 24, 2025
A Lightly Guided Direct Path Meditation
34 min | November 17, 2025
I Am Not Thought
30 min | November 3, 2025
There Is Nothing to Transcend
34 min | October 27, 2025
*Note: This practice took place during heavy rain, which can be heard on the recording.
Awareness of Awareness is Not Two Things
27 min | October 20, 2025
A Simple Direct Path Meditation
29 min | September 19, 2025
The Isness of Being (Nature Meditation)
43 min | April 20, 2025
Thought Is Not the Problem
35 min | April 19, 2025
The End of Seeking
39 min | April 19, 2025
Awareness Is Infinite and Impersonal
38 min | April 18, 2025
Reality Can Only Be Evoked, Not Described
26 min | April 7, 2025
A Direct Path Experience of the Brahma Viharas (Awareness Is Love)
31 min | March 31, 2025
A Powerful Way to Use Mindfulness with Emotional and Physical Pain and Stress
32 min | March 24, 2025
Being Is Enough
20 min | March 12, 2025
Nothing to Do
39 min | December 2024
Who Am I? I Am
39 min | December 2024
Being Isn’t Personal, It’s Shared
39 min | November 2024
Being Aware Is Who We Are
35 min | November 2024
Being Aware
22 min | October 2024
The Natural Love of Nature
33 min | April 2024
The Nature of Our Being Is Love
35 min | April 2024
What Do I Really Want?
40 min | April 2024
Relaxing into Being
43 min | November 2023
Let Everything Be as It Is
28 min | December 2021
Group Excerpts and Talks
Most of these were recorded during dedicated meditation groups in Boulder, or meditation retreats in the Rocky Mountains.
Going Directly into Challenging Emotions
10 min | December 1, 2025
What Am I Really Yearning for?
28 min | November 10, 2025
“I Am” Is Not My Ego
17 min | November 7, 2025
Thinking Is Not the Problem We Think It Is
81 min | November 3, 2025
Being Here Now: How Real Is Time?
12 min | September 19, 2025
The Radiance of What Is: Living with the Beauty and Pain of the World
66 min | July 21, 2025
The Direct Path to Nowhere
30 min | April 17, 2025
How Can I “Practice” the Direct Path?
22 min | April 7, 2025
Intro to the Flavors of Love (the Brahma Viharas)
44 min | March 31, 2025
Introduction to Mindfulness and Emotional/Physical Pain and Stress
57 min | March 24, 2025
From Purification to Presence: The Timeless Direct Path to Awareness
33 min | March 12, 2025
Enjoyment and Play
27 min | November 2024
Introduction to the Direct Path
19 min | October 2024
Small Self, Ego, Lack: Who Am I?
66 min | October 2024
Turning Towards Pain
29 min | October 2024
Being with Fear
29 min | September 2024
Mindfulness, Equanimity, and Purification
21 min | September 2024
You Are Nature: The Unconditional Beauty of What Is
34 min | July 2024
Love and the Direct Path
25 min | April 2024
Ecodharma and Non-Separation
74 min | February 2024
Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional
31 min | February 2023
What Is Real and Who Am I?
63 min | January 2023
Forgiveness Is Essential
28 min | January 2020
Intro to Loving-Kindness (Metta)
35 min | January 2020
Deeper into Loving-Kindness (Metta)
36 min | January 2020
Compassion, Joy, and Gratitude
47 min | February 2020
Equanimity Is Not Indifference
56 min | February 2020
Why Meditate?
49 min | October 2019