Burgs’ Way of Teaching

How does Burgs teach Chi Kung?

In his capacity as an extremely accomplished meditator and healer, Burgs is able to both generate a powerful healing chi field within the space he works, and to transmit directly ‘heart to heart’, the essence of higher Chi Kung practice to the student from the very beginning.

He teaches what he calls ‘the simultaneous bottom-up and top-down approach’. In essence ‘do nothing and get everything - do much and get lost’.

Thus Burgs teaches both by (a) getting people to bring strong awareness to the bodies while engaging in various exercises, and (b) by introducing them to their higher minds and body automatic through spontaneous movement and releasing. This simultaneously works from the bottom up, by gradually introducing the student to the fundamentals of Chi and Khi Gung, whilst introducing them at the very beginning  to the ‘top-down’, the highest expression of Chi Kung.

“I have observed so many teachers and practitioners losing their way with their practice through becoming over-complicated and accumulative in their approach to Chi Kung. The very essence of Chi Kung is to let go enough of our accumulated energy structures and layers to let the pristine ever perfect essence of our being re-emerge. Chi Kung should simply be a process of letting go of old patterns, thus allowing a natural response to the ever greater flow of chi to do all the work for us. All our efforts should be geared to cultivating our attunement to the higher energy forces that surround us and are within us.”

This leads to the realized state of union of our own body’s chi field with the vast, perfect and undefiled chi field that underpins all of creation. In Taoist terms, this IS the TAO itself. This is the higher intelligence that is always perfect and can never not be. It sits deeply within us at all times and would perfect everything for us if we would listen. In this sense when we really do learn to do nothing (i.e. get out of the way and stop interfering), we really can have everything.

Why do even beginners get such profound results when working with Burgs?

It can take a lifetime of practice following the path based solely on external form to achieve any significant results at an energetic level with Chi Kung. Even if one comes to Chi Kung knowing absolutely nothing, as long as one can permit oneself to be open enough to receive the ‘heart essence’ of the teaching from the beginning, one rapidly becomes attuned to the higher chi field of the teacher. To have an exposure to such a field (and its healing impact) based purely on one’s own efforts might well take decades.

By ‘plugging-in’ or ‘tuning-in’ to the Chi Kung class the ‘body automatic’ begins to take back control of a process that the lower mind has been running obsessively (and consequently interfering with) for many years. It is because we are so obsessed with ourselves ,and insist on projecting our ego or idea of ourself into our practice, that the lower mind has the habit of constantly interfering, degrading the pure expression of the practice and generally getting in the way.

Burgs is a gifted healer and meditator and has the ability to generate powerful healing chi fields within the space in which he works. This creates a tremendous energetic support for the group, as the individual senses at a deep level that the more they let go, the more they open to chi. Sometimes students experience a powerful healing effect even while sitting listening to the discourse at the opening of a class, and the body will often start to release and heal at this stage.

Once the group chi field is established the process of healing and attunement will often happen spontaneously. Once this has begun to happen, all we need to do is “dance to the tune of the heart.”