Ki / Qi / Chi

[italian_guy]

I voted 3 because I'm not sure if it exist or not, I'm not experienced enough to make a more definite statement. At the moment the only thing I care is that ki exercises and their martial application are effective in improving my health and my self defence capability. I think I'll have a better idea of deeper meaning of what I'm practicing after some time (several years maybe).

 

At least this is what I think.

[fangshi]

KI is not some mysterious force nor is it impossible to explain in scientific terms. Ki just is . Ki is the yin as the physical body is yang .

[KF Dude]

One feel is worth a thousand words. Yes, chi definitely exsists.

[ovine king]

but that's kinda only half of the answer.

 

if you say it exists, then what do you say it is?

[Master Jules]

Explaining what Chi is is very difficult. Its like trying to explain to a blind man what a color looks like. You dont "see" the air, but you feel it when it blows......you dont "see" heat, but you feel it......

[ovine king]

well, that's kind of what makes people sceptical.

 

it doesn't help when not everyone will agree on what it is.

 

the pedantic chinese people will go on about how what most people call chi is nothing but a twisted misunderstanding of chinese ideas that were used to describe something that they couldn't/didn't understand fully 200-300 years ago.

 

AKA body mechanics.

 

the modern western guy who worships all things chinese up to the point of cultivating a strange moustache, dodgy skin tone and wears a chinese jacket everywhere he goes will tell you about the magical mystery tour he went on where he saw first hand displays of the wounderful chi.

 

AKA bunk.

 

then there are the ones who can perform some of the 'tricks' (no offence meant) but have no real explaination of how/why it works, only that it does.

 

AKA the ones who want to know what it is.

 

okok, i know this is a horrible generalisation but it's just to give an idea of what i mean.....

[alevensalor]

On some level or another, Chi most certainly does exist. I have seen too many things to think otherwise. I do, however, believe that science will one day be able to explain the connections, because it is not a magical or impossible force, it is something very real that can be demonstrated over and over by applying the scientific method.

 

You can see it work. I have both used it and been used by it, so I have to go with option #2.

 

~A!

[delli04]

Absoulutely it exists.

 

I also study Ba gua Xing yi and Tai ji

[NineTailedFox]

Yes, absolutely, Ki does indeed exist.

[Gilbert]

ki exists.

 

I've been in aikido.

 

and i used to summon up energy(not somthing magical or anything when i say summon up energy). but one feels it through the body. later on one develops to have it in them all the time without having to summon it up.