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5.0 Is Chi an exclusively Chinese concept?

This question is often asked in a slightly different form:
“How is Yoga related to Kung Fu?” or “How does Chakra relate to Chi?
or “How are Prana and Chi related?”

In actuality it’s a very difficult question to answer because of the
number of cultures involved, and because it is so rare to find someone
who has deeply explored two traditions, let alone one!

At any rate, the Indians have ‘Prana’, the Greeks had ‘Pneuma’, the
Hebrews ‘Ruakh’, and many other cultures have different names for what
may at times appear to be a similar concept. But - are they related in
the sense that they describe the same basic thing?

On Apr 2, 1:38 pm, Renli gmail.com> wrote:

note: sorry I could not include footnotes in this, there spread out
over several pages, but I wanted to note that all the quotes are
properly footnoted in the original PDF.

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