i think..........
that some of you need to explore other cultures and concepts of chi or essence in the body rather than centralizing your knowledge and opinions on just Taoist thought. i dont dis-count that some of what the old texts say is right on the money,,HOWEVER,,,i will still maintain that chi is what is described as life energy in the body. it seems strange to me that it is broken down into these subtexts likie post natal chi and prenatal chi. as with the ageing process related to the body;s "deterioration" of jing or essence is purely speculative and has no REAL scientific OR spiritual bases. there is a blending here in this country of western thought and eastern. AS to which train of thought is the most viable and acceptable well, ill say this: the taoists thought at one time that when your stomach rumbled or ached it was because snakes were crawling around in there and had to be drawn out.
ill leave it up to the geniouses here to decide which explanation is uhhh ,,, REALISTIC. in the meantime i will also state that MOST spiritual doctrines will contend that the life essence of the body is constant and never ending while it is the flesh that is mortal and naturallly detriorates with time and use. when i put the subject of CHI into this spiritual category i merely sugeest that the reason i do is because what the eastern mindset explains as chi in simple terms is this "energy" or "force"(haha) if you will that makes up the life essence of everything cosmic and spiritual. the taoists WERE NOT Athiests so in that respect the conceot of chi has its spiritual value first and foremost. i merely contend that the chi or spirit is undying and when it comes to the spirit or chi that we have in our bodies it is infinite as we are all according to western thought IE" Einsteins thoery of relativity,,,specifically there is nothing that can be destroyed it only changes into something else.
now maybe we can discuss this with out Nexus being condescending or anyone else who is so certain that i am totally wrong on this.. for i do not believe that i am certain of this ideology,,but i feel a certain amount of correctness in it.
so lets lower our arrogance and have a decent discussion with out too much mud slinging.
MAny Respects,,The Willow Sword
Last edited by The Willow Sword; 04-29-2002 at 07:42 PM.
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.