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stripping out the deeper principles - WHAT IS CHI?From: Michael Winn
Subject: General
Date/Time 2006-12-05 03:45:33
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MessageThe question is legit. But the problem is fundamental: what is chi? There is no clear "objective" scientific asnwer, because machines, the current tools of mechanistic western science, are unable to mesure the totality of human consciousness, its chi flow.
The results on health of chi kung have been "objectively" studied, see the 3500 studies on my articles page. But the essence of chi kung itself - its mechanism that causes it to improve health - cannot be "stripped down" in the typical reductionist western scientific way - because the Chi in Chi Kung is part of the entire field of Chi of the cosmos. That is why a cosomology helps you to deepen your chi kung.
If you practice chikung only on the superficial sensory level, you fail to perceive the subtle.
If you simple relanguage chi to call its the quantum field, you've just given your mental habit a placebo of a modern nature, and one that doesn't quite match the original.
So like all deep and true things, there is a little mystery at the core.
One solution is simply to enjoy it.
michael
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