Burgs Podcast
Burgs is the founder of the organisation The Art of Meditation, and has been teaching and holding retreats for the past 25 years. He has an exceptional ability to teach beginners whilst skilfully steering well-practised meditators with many years of experience to develop their meditation to deeper levels of accomplishment. Listen to inspirational live recordings from retreats covering a wide variety of topics all to do with meditation, consciousness and the wonders of life.
Website: https://theartofmeditation.org/
Email: podcast@theartofmeditation.org
Website: https://theartofmeditation.org/
Email: podcast@theartofmeditation.org
Episodes
56 episodes
Episode 56 - When Your Buttons Get Pushed
How you are feeling now is a result of how you have reacted to what you have experienced in the past. The way we react is hardwired into us. It is a conditioned response. We each have a different stock of reactions that we have accumulate...
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Episode 55 - The Time to be a Yogi
Giving back and breathing out can be an adventure. You have to put a significant amount of time and energy into your practice to see what you are truly capable of. Committing to a long retreat, for example, is an opportunity to change the make ...
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Episode 54 - How can I create more space?
How can I manage my life in such as a way that I feel comfortable and settled in the experiences that I am engaging in? Part of the answer is looking at taking care of yourself, being realistic and maintaining a balance at every level. Many peo...
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Episode 53 - Being Volitional or Functional
The Buddha talked about beings that are volitional (driven by personal will) or functional (performing their function seamlessly in an awakened state). The transition from adolescence to adulthood is when we find out who we actuall...
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Episode 52 - The Experience Brings the Fruit
The experience is what has a transformative effect in meditation. Seeing something we have not seen before can create a paradigm shift which helps us transform our suffering. Peak experiences are not the cessation of suffering. The real testame...
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Episode 51 - The Ground for Happiness
The Buddha was not interested in teaching the momentary cessation of suffering but finding a pathway to cut off at the root the habit of bringing ourselves to suffering. When he was a prince twenty-five centuries ago, he came to the conclusion ...
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Episode 50 - Ending our Sense of Separation
We may not have recognised it but somewhere inside us is a longing for a sense of deep connection to what we are part of. We try to do meet this through ideas but this is not the same as being totally present. We need to turn up fully to our ex...
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Episode 49 - The Complex Idea of Ourselves
With more mindfulness, you can see what you are bringing to this moment from the past. When you witness this without a sense of self, you see things much for how they really are rather than what you think they are. We can bring a more objective...
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Episode 48 - The Eightfold Noble Path
The goal of meditation is to free ourselves from suffering of the affliction we experience in our life. To see clearly what life is, we have to polish the lens that we look through. Understanding comes from insight rather than studying or...
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Episode 47 - The Flavour of a Complete Experience
What did the Buddha say was the cause of suffering? You might think that attachment is the cause of our suffering, but attachment itself is caused by ignorance. If we saw what life truly is, we would not suffer. Our ignorance is the illus...
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Episode 46 - Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows?
You don’t know what you are going to get in life – good luck or bad luck, who knows? Sometimes life goes your way and sometimes it does not. It does not matter what you get, it matters how you meet each experience with a clear mind....
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Episode 45 - Why Can't We Flourish All of the Time?
Sometimes the conditions are not present for us to be flourishing and we are either struggling or coping. The maturing of our insight ensures we can make more skilful life decisions, so that our expectations are realistic and in tune with...
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Episode 44 - What Disturbs our Serenity?
What causes disturbances in our meditation once we have established serenity and are not throwing any more pebbles into the pond of our mind? It’s our old stock of unwholesome mental states which shake our heart base. This happens because...
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Episode 43 - What Do You Want?
Are you looking to learn to meditate or realise the path out of suffering? Your welfare in the here and now is dependent on the accumulation of merit in the past. If you are practicing to enhance your welfare for now and in the futu...
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Episode 42 - Vitality, Karma and Attitude
Following on from the last episode, Burgs explores the themes of vitality, karma and stress. The quality of your mind has a very significant impact on the quality of your life – much more so than what you eat, for example. When you ...
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Episode 42
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Episode 41 - How Does Your Mind Impact Your Health?
What is the mechanism by which the state of our mind impacts our health? There are four causes for the arising of material states; temperature, nutriment, consciousness and karma / action energy. It is the subtle materiality (consci...
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Episode 40 - Your Connection to the Divine
We have tendency in a materialistic culture to take the Dharma into our mind at an intellectual level but we have to put the Buddha’s teachings into the context of the deeply spiritual culture within which he taught. There was an inherent...
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Episode 39 - A Loving Surrender
Happiness arises when you chose to accept yourself to be what you are without any judgement. It’s important to find a sense of loving kindness for yourself. This is what will help you to let go. It is a loving surrender, free...
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Episode 38 - Vitality of Your Spirit
There is a current of vital force running through you. Vitality is partly generated from the volition or desire that we bring to our actions. There is also the vitality of our spirit – the current of life that is driving you which i...
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Episode 38
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Episode 37 - Reclaim Your Consciousness
Your soul is something that is inherent in you and is deeply conditioned by everything you have experienced. It feels like something that is fundamentally “me” which we can break down and dismantle. We might experience a fractured o...
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Episode 37
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Episode 36 - Refinement of Character
The 10 paramis are qualities of our character identified by the Buddha that act as wholesome support to our mind on the path out of suffering. Once these qualities come to perfection in us, we make very swift progress. Burgs explores each one o...
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Episode 35 - A Devotional Attitude
The Dharma is a transmission of an experience of reality which frees us from suffering. It is about the transformation of our hearts, not our ideas. A devotional attitude helps us to get beyond ourselves and our limiting ideas of who we t...
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Episode 35
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Episode 34 - Finding Peace Within Yourself
When we are deeply moved by something, such as music, art or nature, it switches on a faculty of consciousness that does not involve the mind. It works at a spontaneous level - arising directly through awareness at a non-conceptual level. ...
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Episode 34
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Episode 33 - Yoga of Sleep and Dreaming
Sleep lies at the centre of our lives but we often miss its importance. In some ways, it can be seen as a doorway to the greatest of all spiritual awakenings – resting deeply in the clear light of awareness (even though we tend not to be consci...
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Episode 32 - Discovering Your True Potential
Meditation can be a way of life rather than a pallative for stress. There is a significant gap between what we can currently experience at a conscious level and what our true potential is. The spirit of the yogi is a gradual process towards uni...
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