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

Burgs Podcast

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 discourses to relaxing music on on my other YouTube channel Burgs Talks
And for more information about online retreats and other events please see my website www.theartofmeditation.org

Κεφάλαια

1. It's all about letting go... (00:00:18)

2. Loving Kindness Meditation (00:03:02)

3. Contemplate - What does it mean to let go? (00:15:36)

4. Letting go makes me feel like I don't care (00:21:31)

5. We aren't in control of what is going to happen to those around us (00:23:16)

6. What can we do to address the worry/fear? (00:26:12)

7. Going through the challenges in life helps us evolve (00:28:04)

8. I worry about what people are thinking about me? It stops me being me... (00:30:37)

9. How much charge is there around the idea of who you think you are and how you present this to the world? (00:32:45)

10. Can you try too hard to let go? (00:34:46)

11. When you know you want to let go, how do you find out the bits that you haven't spotted yet? (00:37:52)

12. Why do we hang on to our suffering? (00:44:53)

13. There is the suffering that is bourne of the hardship we experience, and there is the suffering we experience as mental anguish on account of the idea that it happned to 'me' (00:47:30)

14. What is left in me when I let go the idea of myself? (00:53:09)

15. The experience of awakening... (00:56:56)

16. Discourse with music (00:58:40)

17. What do we mean to wake up? (01:04:15)

18. I feel like I have let go a lot, but my mind is as busy as ever. Does that mean I haven't let go? (01:11:19)

19. Contemplate - See your idea of 'self' (01:12:36)

20. Discourse with music (01:18:50)

21. I feel willing to let go, but I struggle with a natural longing to love another... (01:27:02)