On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Orlando Pedrajas wrote:

Why is everyone intepreting chi and ki as two different forms of gathering
energy?

Here!  Here!

I was under the impression that ki and chi are the same.  It's the energy
that is in all things, the earth, the plants, the animals, and even
people.

Hooray!  Someone got it!

Ki is merely the Japanese word/definition for this 'energy' and
chi is the Chinese word/definition. The western version of this same
'energy' would be the soul.

Maybe not quite the soul, per se, but definitely something along that 
line.

I've seen video footage of a Kung Fu Master in China (brought to my school
by Chinese exchange students)who demostrated his mastery over chi/ki by
tapping into the surrounding chi/ki and anchoring himself, and daring
other's to try and throw or knock him down.  Of course none succeeded.

Channel 9 (PBS for those of us in the NW) has done several documentaries
on chi/ki.  I believe I saw the same demonstration, although the master
was not necessarily a practitioner of Kung Fu but of Taichi.  I think he
was about 60 or 70 at the time.

The same exchange students defined chi/ki as the energy within, not just in
ourselves, but in all things.

This is what most people I know define it as.


Phuc Tram
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