Τα καλύτερα Burgs podcast (2024)

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Episode 50 - Ending our Sense of Separation 18:06

2M ago18:06

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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 experience rather than get lost in thinking about it all and meditation is a process of gradually bringing t…

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Episode 49 - The Complex Idea of Ourselves 22:27

3M ago22:27

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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 26:28

5M ago26:28

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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 …

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Episode 47 - The Flavour of a Complete Experience 42:06

6M ago42:06

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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 …

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Episode 46 - Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows? 34:12

8M ago34:12

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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 hi…

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Episode 45 - Why Can't We Flourish All of the Time? 13:28

9M ago13:28

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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 ti…

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Episode 44 - What Disturbs our Serenity? 17:14

11M ago17:14

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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…

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Episode 43 - What Do You Want? 20:11

1y ago20:11

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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 future, this is realised through virtue and how you conduct yourself. The Buddha taught the path of the causal cessation o…

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Episode 42 - Vitality, Karma and Attitude 14:35

1y ago14:35

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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 are meditating, it is the attitude you bring to it which can bring the most coherence and transformation. When its not…

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Episode 41 - How Does Your Mind Impact Your Health? 28:39

1y ago28:39

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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 (consciousness and karma) which allows life to be expressed through us in all its extraordinary ways. In meditation, we can r…

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Episode 40 - Your Connection to the Divine 31:38

1+ y ago31:38

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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 sense of being connected to something sacred in his day and this was woven into the architecture of people’s mi…

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Episode 39 - A Loving Surrender 15:41

1+ y ago15:41

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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 from aversion, and finding forgiveness for yourself and others. On the path, love and insight need to mature in equal measur…

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Episode 38 - Vitality of Your Spirit 10:31

1+ y ago10:31

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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 is not personal. When you shut down, you choke the spirit that makes your feel alive. To be fully, powerfully alive is …

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Episode 37 - Reclaim Your Consciousness 19:22

1+ y ago19:22

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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 or broken part of our soul which we are disconnected from. The way to fill that hole is to be with the experiences in t…

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Episode 36 - Refinement of Character 20:12

1+ y ago20:12

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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 of the paramis: generosity, virtue, truthfulness, renunciation, patience, vitality / energy, determination,…

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Episode 35 - A Devotional Attitude 23:19

1+ y ago23:19

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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 think we are. When we surmount our pride, our heart opens and we can come into resonance with a higher consciousn…

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Episode 34 - Finding Peace Within Yourself 17:33

2y ago17:33

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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. We are transported beyond ourselves where the sense of “me” stops arising. When we clearly see the mechanism be…

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Episode 33 - Yoga of Sleep and Dreaming 19:42

2y ago19:42

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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 conscious of it). Dreaming can be seen as unpackaging our karmic tendencies – similar to the vipassana process –…

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Episode 32 - Discovering Your True Potential 39:14

2y ago39:14

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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 unifying yourself with your experience and ending the sense of seperation, representing one of the greatest a…

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Episode 31 - The Warrior's Path 25:50

2y ago25:50

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There is a huge disparity between the way we live as human beings and the way we are designed to engage with our experience consciously. The only way we cope is by shutting down so that we cant feel what we are doing to it. We need to wake up to what a human being really is and make changes in our lives to build our spiritual capacity. To do this, …

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Episode 30 - Your Journey Home 41:56

2y ago41:56

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What do our little human lives amount to? We all have to make choices in relation to the challenges in front of us. Many unwise choices are made due to the belief that there is no intelligent process behind our lives. Our path out of suffering is our way home and a deep connection to the intelligence which holds us.…

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Episode 29 - Shifting our Attitude to Life: The Big Humility Pill 30:19

2y ago30:19

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In this interview, Burgs suggests that we are at a threshold in human history where it is crucial we make the right decisions in our lives and create a critical mass for change. This time is calling for us to find the best qualities of what it is to be human and become the species that starts to give back. Burgs talks about the courage to step into…

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Episode 28 - A Vision for a Positive World 25:41

2y ago25:41

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In this meditation, we create in our heart a vision for the world as we would like to see it. If we cannot imagine the world we dream of, then it’s not going to happen. What are you going to change? Where are you going to find courage? What would you like to see happen in your life and in the world around you? We all want to see the world be a beau…

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Episode 27 - Dropping the Things that Worry You 19:00

2y ago19:00

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Are you able to switch off and drop the things that worry you? How can you be a more relaxed person and get into a deeply settled state? You might have tried yoga or meditation but perhaps have not made an agreement with yourself to actually be more relaxed. Burgs explores letting go our sense of control, trusting the power of life, dialling out of…

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Episode 26 - Finding Meaning in Your Life 25:29

2y ago25:29

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We can often feel that something is missing in our lives and run around looking for something that will give us meaning. That search can go on for our whole life. However, when we get in touch with the deepest part of our heart we know that there is nothing lacking. That is why we must do whatever we can to overcome numbness, reclaim our capacity t…

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Episode 25 - What is Going to be Important This Year? 18:28

2+ y ago18:28

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The choices we make this year are going to determine the direction of our lives and the lives of future generations. Life has changed dramatically in the last two years. It will never be the same again. But how will it be different? How can the choices we make lead to the growth in humanity? And what is the direction you want to take in your life? …

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Episode 24 - Seeing for Ourselves the Universal Truths of Life 32:14

2+ y ago32:14

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Life is an extraordinary mystery and the deeper existential questions are not answered sufficiently by science. Through deep yogic practice we can polish the mind and as this lens becomes more and more refined, fundamental spiritual truths are revealed in stages. The Buddha asks us not to subscribe to views but to see for ourselves what is true thr…

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Episode 23 - Coping with Covid: Reflections and Guidance 21:57

2+ y ago21:57

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If we test positive for covid-19, we are cast into a journey which we know can go a number of ways. Burgs shares his experience of having the virus with the impact not just on the physical body but also the subtle energetic body. By undertaking a digital detox and resting, he found that the virus was causing absolute turbulence in his body, and yet…

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Episode 22 - Delighting in What You Have to Give 31:54

2+ y ago31:54

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Giving back starts with each one of us doing the inner work to realise our reals needs are far less than our perceived needs are. Living simply is not a sacrifice but a relief. And this opens our heart so that we feel more connected to the people around us and all of life. Delight in what you have to give and find peace in your life. From little ac…

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Episode 21 - Why is Now the Time to Give Back? 29:40

2+ y ago29:40

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We are living in the most important time in history. We are being asked to bring about a total paradigm shift in what it means to be a human being. How can we be the generation to turn it all around? How can we give back more than we take out? We are using up our good fortune and the only way to accumulate it again is to create merit and give somet…

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Episode 20 - Finding Acceptance: Forgiveness, Grief and Love 23:18

2+ y ago23:18

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Why do we find it so hard to accept certain things? When we find it challenging to accept something, it is usually wrapped up in our idea of ourselves and how we think the world should be. A big part of acceptance is yielding on our position and to the way things are. Experiencing grief can be a healthy response to losing someone we love and can al…

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Episode 19 - Overcoming Our Deepest Fears 19:36

2+ y ago19:36

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Keeping fear packaged up inside us ties up a lot of our energy. It takes courage to turn this into something positive. What lies behind the fear we are holding onto? At the deepest part of ourselves is the fear of our existential annihilation. We can overcome this by gradually developing a relationship with what remains when our ego passes; the lov…

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Episode 18 - The Joy of Simplicity 13:20

2+ y ago13:20

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Upholding a complex life that is both expensive and difficult to mange vexes us to the point that we don’t experience joy. The path out of suffering is a gradual path of negotiation with ourselves, looking at which the degree to which we are attached to things that cause suffering and our willingness to let these go. If we are in conflict with lett…

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Episode 17 - Life Story of the Buddha Part 2 25:11

2+ y ago25:11

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Following the Buddha's enlightenment, a great Brahma asks the Buddha to teach others the path out of suffering. This leads to the Buddha's first teaching and the turning of the wheel of Dharma which has existed to this day. The truth lies within each and every single one of us waiting for us to discover it for ourselves. What are you going to do wi…

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Episode 16 - Life Story of the Buddha Part 1 25:27

3y ago25:27

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Burgs tells the early life story of the Buddha. Born as a prince, Siddhattha Gotama was destined to become either a great monach or a great spiritual leader. Leaving his palace in his late twenties, he encounters human suffering and the very next day renouces the life of sensual pleasures to live the life of a wandering ascetic. He learns from the …

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Episode 15 - Are you Living in a State of Stress? 30:01

3y ago30:01

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Our culture is built on the idea that we should always be challenging ourselves to achieve more and we drive ourselves to our limit for long periods of time. The result is that we can live our lives in an over-stimulated state for years and we are never deeply at rest. This can have a huge impact on our health and wellbeing. Our nervous system can …

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Episode 14 - What Determines the Quality of your Life? 26:27

3y ago26:27

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There are many offerings out there promising quick fixes and instant transformation. Yet the journey to free ourselves from suffering is a gradual process where we let go layers of conditioning in stages. This podcast explores how it is consciousness which is the greatest conditioning factor in our life and transforming this is a progressive path.…

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Episode 13 - The Courage to Do What is Being Asked of Us 22:34

3y ago22:34

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We are currently at an axis point where we are being asked to let go the persuit of our creations and feel more alive. Can we find the courage to do what is being asked of us and stand up for the freedoms of future generations, just as past generations have done?Από τον Burgs

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Episode 12 - Healthy Grief and Living Fearlessly 28:48

3y ago28:48

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Burgs explores how we always have the choice to make our suffering the making of us, no matter how painful it might be. "Healthy grief" is honouring our separation and a true state of love, as opposed to "unhealthy grief" which is not willing to accept the way things are. Grief is a process that can open us up more completely to life and does not n…

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Episode 11 - Relationships: Love as an Act of Generosity 32:22

3y ago32:22

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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.…

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Episode 10 - Self-Love: Feeling Love and Acceptance for Who You Are 31:54

3y ago31:54

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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.Από τον Burgs

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Episode 9 - Seeing Truth In Our Experience 28:46

3y ago28:46

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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 o…

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Episode 8 - What Does It Mean To Let Go Part 2 1:24:58

3+ y ago1:24:58

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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 an…

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Episode 7 - What Does It Mean To Let Go Part 1 1:34:24

3+ y ago1:34:24

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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…

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Episode 6 - Letting Go - Finding Forgiveness & Healing Past Wounds 1:00:02

4y ago1:00:02

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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 lockd…

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Episode 5 - Rite of Passage 41:00

4y ago41:00

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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 w…

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Episode 4 - Safe Guarding Our Consciousness Part Two 44:22

4+ y ago44:22

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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 lif…

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Episode 3 - Safe Guarding Our Consciousness Part One 48:16

4+ y ago48:16

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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 t…

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Episode 2 - The Give Back Generation 58:47

4+ y ago58:47

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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…

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Episode 1 - The Long Out Breath 51:22

4+ y ago51:22

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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 p…

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