qi? what is it

[mooyingmantis]

this is form another thread and i just have to ask you personally what you think the defination or what is qi, chi, ?

seems that we have a huge ignorance on this board of so called martial artists who think you can have a seperation of martial arts or anythign for that matter and qi, or a seperation of life and qi.

I cant believe that so many people are ignorant to such a basic understanding of energy. its the very fabric of exsistance and beleive it or not it is all connected....

so please post your understanding of qi, please dont say mystical super powers or we will put you in the firing line and shoot you

Mike,

Having a paradigm of how the universe works that differs from the Chinese paradigm does not equate to ignorance.

I was taught and have since studied the Chinese concept of Qi, Yin-Yang, Tai Chi, etc. I understand the concepts. I understand how their concepts probably arose and why they developed the way they did.

However, that doesn't mean that I have to accept them as my own philosophy.

[David Jamieson]

David,
So you are saying that:

Qi is to Chinese metaphysical life force, as Soul is to Christian Theological life force?

Not a challenge, just asking for clarification.

No.

Soul is the ethereal individual self. A conscious energy form.
Qi propels you through life, it is not conscious or exclusive to a single being.

[EarthDragon]

Ok perhaps sqying igrnorant was the wrong word.

I just posted this thread because of the lack of understading of qi from the IP thread. There we have people trying to say your not using qi to break brick sand I guess I was wondering how many people understood qi or even excepted its eixsistance in ou and the universe that surrounds us.
Seems that on a martial arts board more people would be hip to it, but supirse supirse

[SPJ]

qi is not mystical.

you have it, if not, you are dead.

the other is blood or xue.

qi and xue are both necessary for sustaining your life.


gong on the other hand is more unattainable.

there are so many myths about all the gong methods or gong fa.

if your light skill is so good, you may walk on the wall and fly on roof top, fei yan zhou bi.

if your body conditioning is so good, it is like a golden bell cover. jin zhong zhao.

if your head is so hard, it is like iron or diamond, see all the bumps on buddha's head

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there are more myths about gong than qi.

so what is gong?

gong, what is it?

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[EarthDragon]

gong is simply skill, something gained when reapeating a certain thing, i.e painting, pottery, kung fu, cooking etc etc thats my two cents

[Scott R. Brown]

if your head is so hard, it is like iron or diamond, see all the bumps on buddha's head

And here, all this time, I thought those were his corn rows!