18 min
Talk
Deeper Meditation (Beyond Mindfulness)
Burgs discusses what lies past mindfulness practice and how meditation deepens beyond it.
About the teacher
Burgs
Burgs conducted his first retreat in Asia in 1996 and has since led hundreds of retreats, from five days to five months, teaching thousands of students. He trained extensively in Jhana and samatha practice under Pa Auk Sayadaw in Burma, becoming the first Westerner to complete all forty samatha meditations described in the Visuddhimagga, and studied Dzogchen under H.H. Dodrupchen Rinpoche in Sikkim, India, alongside further study with Pak Merta Ada in Bali.
His teaching, offered through The Art of Meditation, moves from foundational concentration and mindfulness through to advanced consciousness states, with particular attention to the dynamic relationship between body and mind. He is the author of the autobiography Beyond The Veil and the two-volume The Flavour of Liberation.
“This human life is so hard to come by, so rare and so precious. Don't get to the end of it wishing you had done more.”Burgs
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Talks & videos
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12 min
Meditation
Total Wind Down Meditation Before Sleep (Deep Rest Meditation)
A guided practice intended to be followed lying down before sleep.
10 min
Meditation
Reconnect to Source - Deep Soul Healing Meditation ( Guided ) : Burgs
A guided healing meditation led by Burgs on reconnecting with source.
16 min
Meditation
Connect to Pure Awareness: Meditation for Deepest Letting Go: Burgs
A guided sitting in which Burgs leads the listener toward letting go into pure awareness.
Listen
Recordings from Burgs.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations, playing from the platform this teacher publishes them on.
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Episode 68 - The Rite of Passage to Awakening
Burgs uses the story of the Buddha to describe awakening as a gradual fading of the sense of self across the stages of a life.
From the podcast Burgs Podcast
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Episode 67 - The Long Out Breath
Burgs draws on the rhythm of expansion and contraction to talk about the point in life where we stop taking and begin to give back.
From the podcast Burgs Podcast
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Episode 66 - How You Meet Your Challenges
A short talk on karma as the habit of reaction, and on treating what happens to us as a teacher rather than an undoing.
From the podcast Burgs Podcast
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Episode 65 - The Energetics of Life
Burgs argues that consciousness cannot be understood from a purely mechanical, materialistic view of the human being.
From the podcast Burgs Podcast
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