Burgs Podcast

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1. Episode 69 - Virtue as an Organising Principle

   8 oktober 2026 · 23 min

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   You have two very strong and powerful opposing forces galvanising life; virtue and desire. When life is organised around virtue, the pursuit of our desires does not bring us to grief. The degeneration in the quality of life is all a reflection that we surrender our virtue to the wilful pursuit of our desires. The only way we can reclaim our quality of life is by making an unwavering conviction to stand in virtue regardless of what I have to give up in the process. There is no other way we turn things around towards the ascendency of consciousness. Lees meer

2. Episode 68 - The Rite of Passage to Awakening

   6 augustus 2026 · 27 min

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   The emergence into awakening is the process of the gradual fading of our sense of self in the experience. When we grow up, we galvanise our energy around being seen. This episode explores the story of the Buddha and the potential for spiritual transitions through different life stages. Being liberated from the bondage of self happens once we have had enough of exploring life from a personal level. Lees meer

3. Episode 67 - The Long Out Breath

   19 juni 2026 · 20 min

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   Expansion and contraction are the way of things. There is a reason why the universe is not in conflict. It stays in perfect balance. There is a place in our lives where we are not going to grow any more. We stop taking out and we give back. If you don’t breathe out when you are meant to, you hold a tremendous amount of conflict and tension within you. Wanting more is the cause of suffering. Now is the time to find a blissful way to breathe out. Lees meer

4. Episode 66 - How You Meet Your Challenges

   20 april 2026 · 10 min

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   How you reacted to what you have done throughout your life is karma. It is what prompts you to react. What happens to you has the potential not to your undoing but your teacher. One of the most valuable things you can get from your meditation practice is the attitude that what I am facing “it is what it is” and you can walk without fear of how things are going to turn out. Lees meer

5. Episode 65 - The Energetics of Life

   4 maart 2026 · 22 min

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   You can’t understand a computer by looking at it structurally. Rather, it’s the software side which allows you to understand what it does. It’s the same for a human being. We have come to such a materialistic perspective of life that we try to understand consciousness at the mechanical, physical and biological level. In order to understand life fully, we have to look at the software side or what the Buddha called “the fine material sphere.” Lees meer

6. Episode 64 - Taking Responsibility for our Actions

   1 februari 2026 · 16 min

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   It takes a lot of insight and discernment to see the functioning of karma. Seeing the causal process of dependent origination is how we come to demystify the process of life. Recognising that our actions have a cause and effect is one of the strongest prompts to create an unwillingness to cause harm to ourselves and others. If everyone realised that they are fully responsible for what they are doing, the world would be a very different place. Lees meer

7. Episode 63 - The Path as Love

   14 januari 2026 · 13 min

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   Stillness is not just emptiness . When your meditation subtlety reaches a certain point, love spontaneously arises within the experience. You are not just resting in stillness, you are resting in a state of blissful love. The cultivation of this become the path out of suffering and the purification of your mind is reflected in how love expresses itself through you. Lees meer

8. Episode 62 - Maturing our Capacity for Love

   10 december 2025 · 18 min

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   Real love is often not what we think it is and it takes some time to understand it fully. We build all kind of neuroses in our best efforts to experience love and don’t reach the point where we experience boundless unconditional love in its true form. Equanimity, love, compassion and appreciative joy are the four states of divine abidings that spontaneously arise in us as a reflection of the degree to which we remove the hindrances that bring us to suffering. We can actively mature our capacity for love. This is the path of love. Lees meer

9. Episode 61 - Our Search for Meaning

   10 oktober 2025 · 15 min

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   It’s really worth fighting to reclaim the deepest part of our heart and its capacity to feel. None of us are inherently greed or aversion rooted. What we are missing is our connection to what is contained in the stillness. When we overcome our numbness, the quest to find meaning in life is over. Lees meer

10. Episode 60 - What's In the Way?

    2 september 2025 · 17 min

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    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. Lees meer

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