• Episode 62 - Maturing our Capacity for Love
    Dec 10 2025

    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.

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    18 mins
  • Episode 61 - Our Search for Meaning
    Oct 10 2025

    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.

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    15 mins
  • Episode 60 - What's In the Way?
    Sep 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.

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    17 mins
  • Episode 59 - The Heart’s Longing for Purity
    Aug 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.

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    26 mins
  • Episode 58 - The Age of Individuality
    May 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.

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    10 mins
  • Episode 57 - Why The Buddha Taught the Dharma
    Apr 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.

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    42 mins
  • Episode 56 - When Your Buttons Get Pushed
    Mar 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.

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    32 mins
  • Episode 55 - The Time to be a Yogi
    Jan 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.

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    15 mins