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Burgs Podcast

61 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings

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: [email protected]

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Episodes

Episode 11 - Relationships: Love as an Act of Generosity

March 20, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

Burgs explores the nature of love we have with a partner. He examines how attachment can smother our love and how fear only shrinks the heart. Healthy relationships require sacrifice and hard work. We should seek to love people unconditionally for who they are rather than expect more than is reasonable. 

Episode 10 - Self-Love: Feeling Love and Acceptance for Who You Are

March 12, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB

In this episode, Burgs explores what we mean by loving kindness and that if we are going to love others, we must first find love for ourselves.   It includes a meditation with reflections on self-love, acceptance and healing our relationship with ourselves. 

Episode 9 - Seeing Truth In Our Experience

February 26, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MB

In this podcast Burgs investigates how we can enter deeply into our experience so that the innate truth it contains reveals itself, beyond our limiting thoughts and ideas.  The podcast journey's into this state of presence where we learn to rest within the experience so it reflects perfectly its true nature.  From this state we can see clearly into our life and are prompted act according to its deep innate wisdom that always shows us what it is we need to do.

Episode 8 - What Does It Mean To Let Go Part 2

November 26, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

This podcast is an edited version of Burgs' radio show through YouTube livestream on Sunday 24th May 2020. The topic of discussion is Letting Go - What does it mean to let go? The episode continues to explores the various aspects of letting go, whether it be in our lives or on the cushion whilst meditating. A number of audience led questions are answered during the show which helps explore the theme of the evening. Burgs also touches upon subjects like loneliness and familial responsibil...

Episode 7 - What Does It Mean To Let Go Part 1

November 15, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB

This podcast is an edited version of Burgs' radio show through YouTube livestream on Friday 22nd May 2020. The topic of discussion is Letting Go - What does it mean to let go? The episode explores the various aspects of letting go, whether it be in our lives or on the cushion whilst meditating. A number of audience led questions are answered during the show which helps explore the theme of the evening. You can hear more radio shows on my YouTube channel BURGS Listen to more meditative d...

Episode 6 - Letting Go - Finding Forgiveness & Healing Past Wounds

May 12, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MB

This podcast is an edited version of Burgs' new radio show through YouTube livestream on Saturday 9th May 2020. The topic of discussion is forgiveness. The episode explores some of the harder areas in our lives where we might find it hard to find forgiveness for others, as well as ourselves.  Since the coronavirus Covid-19 has put the world on lockdown in early 2020, Burgs has been hosting a daily YouTube livestream. This can be found at the channel page Love vs Virus.

Episode 5 - Rite of Passage

February 18, 2020 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB

In this podcast Burgs investigates the notion that when we actually see how consciousness functions, we start to engage with the spiritual path as a rite of passage; a rite of passage out of spiritual adolescence where we feel we may be owed something by life to a point where our perspective deepens into a state of spiritual maturity where we see we are responsible for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the planet upon which all life depends.

Episode 4 - Safe Guarding Our Consciousness Part Two

November 04, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

This episode continues an interview with Burgs where he discusses why and how we could approach looking after our consciousness. The interview discusses why many people are currently feeling so disconnected and confused about what to do in the face of the climate emergency and great social upheaval, and looks at how to develop a new attitude to life and to our minds in this time of great uncertainty. https://theartofmeditation.org/ Read more on how we might look after our consciousness - ...

Episode 3 - Safe Guarding Our Consciousness Part One

October 13, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MB

This episode is an interview with Burgs where he discusses why and how we could approach looking after our consciousness. The interview discusses why many people are currently feeling so disconnected and confused about what to do in the face of the climate emergency and great social upheaval, and looks at how to develop a new attitude to life and to our minds in this time of great uncertainty. https://theartofmeditation.org/ Read more on how we might look after our consciousness - https:/...

Episode 2 - The Give Back Generation

September 21, 2019 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MB

In this podcast, Burgs introduces and discusses the notion of what he calls the Give Back Generation. This is an attitude and way of being that seeks to encourage us to think of our lives in terms of being net contributors to life and to our planet so that by the end of our lives we have put back more than we have taken out at all levels. The group discussion looks at the various aspects of this way of being. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.theartofmeditation.org Youtub...

Episode 1 - The Long Out Breath

September 02, 2019 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MB

In this podcast, the first in the series from The Art of Meditation, meditation teacher Burgs sits with a panel of his students to discuss how me might respond to what is happening globally, from the climate emergency to the need for rapid social change. The podcast looks at how we might develop a new attitude to these global challenges and seeks positive and practical solutions in the face of much global uncertainty in this extraordinary period in history. E-mail: podcast@theartofmeditatio...