• Qi (chi, hei, gi, ki, khi)
• an active principle forming part of any living thing
• energy flow

air breath gas spirit

• steam rising from rice as it cooks
• "when Chinese thinkers are unwilling or unable to FIX the quality of an energetic phenomenon, the character qi inevitably flows from their brushes"
• 1 - adequate nutrition
• 2 - performed a kind of prognostication by observing qi in the sky
• vital energies of an individual when properly nurtured it was capable of extending beyond the human bod to reach throughout the universe
• MORAL CAPACITIES
• crane, gibbon: experts in inhaling
• DIRECTED & DIVINE
• ZHUANG ZI > accumulation of qi: humans are born
• the highest YIN is most restrained
• the highest YANG us the most exuberant
• intercorse between Heaven (YIN) and Earth (YANG)

exuberance + restraint = HARMONY - life things are born

• fire and water do not have life but do have qi
• grasses and trees have life but not perceptivity
• fouls & beasts have perceptivity but do not have yi (sense of right/wrong duty/justice)
• men have qu, life, perceptivity, and yi
• 150BC - no concept of radiant energy
• THE FORMLESS
• Traditional Chinese Medicine:
• qi circulates through natural channels in the body called meridians
• relieve imbalances

-herbal medicines -special diets -physical training regimes -moxibustion -massage -acupuncture

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