Burgs Podcast
Arts & Culture Podcasts
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
Location:
United Kingdom
Description:
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
Language:
English
Website:
https://theartofmeditation.org/
Episodes
Episode 60 - What's In the Way?
9/2/2025
The 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.
Duration:00:17:05
Episode 59 - The Heart’s Longing for Purity
8/5/2025
The 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.
Duration:00:25:41
Episode 58 - The Age of Individuality
5/31/2025
When 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.
Duration:00:10:24
Episode 57 - Why The Buddha Taught the Dharma
4/29/2025
When 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.
Duration:00:42:27
Episode 56 - When Your Buttons Get Pushed
3/28/2025
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 accumulated. If you change the way you react in the present, it will change how you will react in the future.
Duration:00:32:00
Episode 55 - The Time to be a Yogi
1/15/2025
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 up of your mind in a permanent and enriching way that will serve you for the rest of your life. Burgs explains why now is the time to be a yogi.
Duration:00:15:04
Episode 54 - How can I create more space?
11/10/2024
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 people feel overwhelmed because they bring too much into their life – it is crowded out and there is no spaciousness. Rather than looking at how can I cope with this, look at how can I create more space?
Duration:00:29:15