Winter programme update
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Dear friends Many of you have been asking about the upcoming six week online programme, The Art of Concentration, which is due to start this weekend. I have decided to postpone the start of this course, as the general feedback I have been getting is that an early start in the new year would be preferable instead of squeezing it in just before Christmas. People feel that December is a time of distractions and aren't able to fully commit to the course. So with this in mind, I have decided to delay the start of The Art of Concentration until the new year. This would allow for the teachings on how to develop concentration to flow directly into the start of our year long journey of "The 40 Meditations of the Buddha". Having just hosted the rerun of the Art of Breathing, where I developed our concentration practice using the breath (anapana), I feel that there is enough instruction and guidance to start the process of building your concentration and that everybody would be served well to follow and review these instructions over the coming weeks. To this end, we are in the process of making the Art of Breathing weekend retreat available to any of you who wish to follow it or return to it, so you can engage with the process of building your concentration. We have also had a high number of requests to re-run the Spiritual Self Care online weekend retreat. Since we won't have the 6 week online course running now, we are going to offer this weekend for those of you who wish to engage with something before the end of the year. We'll be in touch with details on registration very soon. sending much love Burgs |
The Art of Meditation
Dear Friends, Most of you are aware that Burgs offers a number of online offerings to share the teachings on meditation and spiritual development. We do our best to make these as available as possible to as wide a group as is interested. As mentioned previously we are launching "The Art of Concentration" course. Concentration and stability of attention is the very doorway into a deeper, more refined, and enriching relationship with ourselves and almost every aspect of our life. Its importance...
Hello everyone. We hope you have all had a peaceful merry Christmas. This is just a brief message to both wish you a Happy New Year and to invite you to our New Year online gathering on Wednesday 1st January at 7.00 pm (UK time). I will give a brief Dharma talk on the theme of, “Caring For What Matters Most” and we will then do Loving Kindness and Sharing of Merits meditation, where we will dedicate our good deeds from 2024 towards our wellbeing and happiness for 2025. To join please click...
Hello everyone. We are in the process of finalising our program for the first 6 months of 2025. We have some exciting things coming up both online and in-person. We have two main focuses for the year ahead. I will continue to frame this work within the principles of "Love as the Path" that we explored last year. Firstly I will be offering a deep and thorough meditative journey into the "Art of Concentration" in our year long meditation program "The 40 Meditations of the Buddha". The...