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In traditional Chinese culture, qi (also chi or ch'i) is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi is frequently translated as "energy flow", and is often compared to Western notions of energeia or élan vital (vitalism), as well as the yogic notion of prana and pranayama. The literal translation of "qi" is air, breath, or gas. The English word spirit (from Latin spiritus "breath") has many differing meanings and connotations, all of them relating to a non- corporeal substance contrasted with the material body In opinion ........ Spirit – is the force we know but can-not prove. The energy that flows from the terminals of the car battery. We see and measure it’s affects but can only spectulate what it is. The movment of electrons from and to nutrons. My life, our lives are the aprisions of many energies which we measure the affect whiout knowing it’s presences. The demands of our simple conscious awarness are just enough to know we don’t know. Yet in this realisation, is the freedom from the cycle of search and find. The final passage of the fictional story of self is the serrender to : “To thy own self be true” tell the universe “I am that I am” . On Mar 15, 12:17 pm, Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]> wrote: > Here in these following words lies an analogy which can be understood from > all levels of being. > > "I am" energy, yet energy is not "me" I am a function of the interaction > between awareness and the experience driven. > > Imagine conscious realisation, the "me" in the equation, to be > an anomaly that can become apparent in the mechanism of existing. > > The Chinese call this energy Chi. > > An analogue to this perhaps would be DC voltage. > > It is always present and moving in a direction. > > Think of the battery in a car. > > The negative leg of the battery is connected to the car by a thick metal > strap. > > The car shell itself is ground. > > With the ignition switched off (no circuit) if I use a meter to take a > measurement between the positive terminal of the battery and the ground, I > will see voltage. The meter will register flow of energy. > > If I take a measurement between the negative terminal of the battery and the > ground I won't see anything. The meter will register nothing. > > Nothing cannot be measured yet we know it is there because the battery needs > to feed back into it to complete any circuit we may choose to make. > > Think of desire as the means of driving experience and we have > something representative of the positive element, while awareness remains > the place experience feeds back to yet is immeasurable. > > Obvious perhaps? > > There's more. > > If I put a load on the battery by say switching the car's headlights on, the > voltage feeds the headlights and returns to the negative terminal to > complete the circuit. > > Desire, feeds experience and there is an awareness of it perhaps? > > Simple. > > Not quite as simple. > > While there is a load on the battery, if I then take the meter and connect > it between the negative terminal of the battery and ground (using it as a > bridging meter) it will register a flow of energy. > > While nothing itself cannot be measured by itself, under the load of > experience an energy flow can be measured between nothing and nothing. > > So desire feeds experience and there is awareness of it perhaps and this > feeds a separate and measurable energy which appears between nothing and > nothing. > > I choose to make this "me" > > In this analogous hypothesis I can prove my existence. > > There is no "real" me, yet one shows up in the face of experience. > > Cheers > > Mark
