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Burgs Podcast
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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
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Episode 66 - How You Meet Your Challenges
Apr 2000:10:09Tap to summarizeHow you reacted to what you have done throughout your life is karma. It is what prompts you to react. What happens to you has the potential not to your undoing but your teacher. One of the most valuable things you can get from your meditation practice is the attitude that what I am facing “it is what it is” and you can walk without fear of how things are going to turn out.
Transcribe →Episode 65 - The Energetics of Life
Mar 400:22:30Tap to summarizeYou can’t understand a computer by looking at it structurally. Rather, it’s the software side which allows you to understand what it does. It’s the same for a human being. We have come to such a materialistic perspective of life that we try to understand consciousness at the mechanical, physical and biological level. In order to understand life fully, we have to look at the software side or what the Buddha called “the fine material sphere.”
Transcribe →Episode 64 - Taking Responsibility for our Actions
Feb 100:15:35Tap to summarizeIt takes a lot of insight and discernment to see the functioning of karma. Seeing the causal process of dependent origination is how we come to demystify the process of life. Recognising that our actions have a cause and effect is one of the strongest prompts to create an unwillingness to cause harm to ourselves and others. If everyone realised that they are fully responsible for what they are doing, the world would be a very different place.
Transcribe →Episode 63 - The Path as Love
Jan 1400:12:51Tap to summarizeStillness is not just emptiness . When your meditation subtlety reaches a certain point, love spontaneously arises within the experience. You are not just resting in stillness, you are resting in a state of blissful love. The cultivation of this become the path out of suffering and the purification of your mind is reflected in how love expresses itself through you.
Transcribe →Episode 62 - Maturing our Capacity for Love
Dec 1000:18:24Tap to summarizeReal love is often not what we think it is and it takes some time to understand it fully. We build all kind of neuroses in our best efforts to experience love and don’t reach the point where we experience boundless unconditional love in its true form. Equanimity, love, compassion and appreciative joy are the four states of divine abidings that spontaneously arise in us as a reflection of the degree to which we remove the hindrances that bring us to suffering. We can actively mature our capacity for love. This is the path of love.
Transcribe →Episode 61 - Our Search for Meaning
Oct 1000:14:47Tap to summarizeIt’s really worth fighting to reclaim the deepest part of our heart and its capacity to feel. None of us are inherently greed or aversion rooted. What we are missing is our connection to what is contained in the stillness. When we overcome our numbness, the quest to find meaning in life is over.
Transcribe →Episode 60 - What's In the Way?
Sep 200:17:05Tap to summarizeThe five hindrances are the grossest parts of the mind that need to be attended to before we get properly settled or make progress towards refining the mind. So much of the work is around the refinement of character. The more tendency there is to unwholesome states of mind, the more painful it is to make progress.
Transcribe →Episode 59 - The Heart’s Longing for Purity
Aug 500:25:41Tap to summarizeThe Buddha shared the teachings of insight and concentration to those people who were committed to living a virtuous life. The ego pursues different things from the Dharma than the heart. We don’t become receptive to a higher understanding that the Dharma points to until we have learned to restrain the more selfish aspects of our mind. The first part of the Buddha’s teaching is virtue.
Transcribe →Episode 58 - The Age of Individuality
May 31, 202500:10:24Tap to summarizeWhen human consciousness is refined with kindness and respect and our hearts are pure, we are close to the divine. Our inspiration is to be close to that. But when humans get too self-absorbed, we are not moved by the divine. The general psyche is absorbed with itself and the pursuit of what it wants. We separate ourselves and cut ourselves off from the creative process. Individuality is a human obsession.
Transcribe →Episode 57 - Why The Buddha Taught the Dharma
Apr 29, 202500:42:27Tap to summarizeWhen the Buddha taught the Dharma he hoped that beings would free themselves from suffering. We swing from periods of good fortune to misfortune. When we are fortunate, there is a danger that we run our life on karmic overdraft and our merit runs out. When this happens, a life of good fortune is no longer supported. A fortunate human life is the rarest opportunity to free yourself from suffering.
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