hey joe..we do the chi in tai chi...merle
Hi, Bill!,
Good to catch you. Well, it was my post you replied to about Chi, not JMJM's.
Maybe you know this, but you wrote JMJM.
Sometime, if you like, I will tell you my experience of Chi, over the years. I
began early as a Yogi, before I
Is 'chi' a philosophical concept or is it part and parcel of 'reality'?
Has the reality of Chi been detected by modern science, or is it beyond
the realm of modern science?
Is it of any significance whether chi is detectable or not by modern
science?
Is chi more easily experienced by East
Hi Ed,
Good question. If you google energy medicine, acupuncture, you may
find the answer.
It has been around China over 4 - 5,000 years.
It is also the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as per my
previous post from UCSF.
In short, Chi is what the Chinese call all kinds of
, 9/10/08, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Zen] Chi
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 1:13 PM
There are two types of Chi, internal and external. Qi-Gong,
pronounce
Cheee-Gong
There are two types of Chi, internal and external. Qi-Gong, pronounce
Cheee-Gong is a practice which the teacher gives students the Chi, which
is external or additional Chi or Yang Chi (means strong and masculine).
While Sitting Chan, in japan it is called Za (sit) Zen (Chan),
cultivates
Hello JMJM,
Thank you very much!
JODY
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27i Wikipedia gives an interesting history that
is probably very incomplete, but short.
I thought CHI was the energy that was focused during zazen, especially from the
Dhyana Mudra over the CHI center, the navel.
Fitness,
It's an interesting article. Thanks for the link. I noted the
following passage:
Qi and li (理, li, pattern) are their fundamental categories much as
matter and energy have been fundamental categories for people in the
West. Their use of qi (lifebreath) and li (pattern,
From: Edgar Owen which is more or less what I've been saying about chi (the
common substance of things) and the forms it can take on which correspond to
the discrete things
the more that people have pointed out the differences, the more that I have
noticed the similarities. I appreciate
