Burgs Podcast Burgs
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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
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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 perspective and open the door to some of the charge we are carrying.
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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 intellectual reflection. The eightfold noble path leads to liberation through insight. As soon as you see what this is, you free yourself. The liberation is in the seeing. In order to see, we have to pay wise attention
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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 illusion of self. When we are absorbed in what we are doing, our sense of self fades. The arising of the sense of me in the middle of my experience is what creates the sense of separation.
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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. Burgs goes onto to discuss karma and consciousness and asks what do you know to be true? The views we cling to are highly predictable on account of the way our mind works and our conditioning. The “wisdom of the idiot” acknowledges that we know nothing and are open to life as it is – rather than rigidly clinging to our views.
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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 the karmic forces that are underpinning our lives. There will be times when we are supported karmically, and times when we are challenged. If you get a sense of what is going on in the background, you can time your decisions appropriately, and act when the energy is right.
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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 our field of perception opens and negative mental states reveal themselves which are below the threshold of our normal awareness. We know these mental states are just below the surface but usually distract ourselves from feeling them - maintaining a more limited level of consciousness.
Customer Reviews
The greatest teacher!
I spent a long time trying to meditate to no avail. That is before I found Burgs, through the invitation of a friend to one of Burgs Let Go Retreat. What an experience that was! That happened more than 10 years ago...and I was hooked! I never stop thinking how like I am to have been presented with the opportunity to have the most amazing teacher ever!
Soothing
Found Burgs via Mt. Wolf and have never stopped trying to find more of his works. Incredibly insightful with an incredibly soothing easy listening manner. His guided mediations have been the only ones to work for me.
Thank you
I do not know a single person who would not find HUGE benefit in listening to this amazing podcast. Thank you Burgs for opening my heart and the heart of many others.