Chi (eBook)

From Chapter 1: What Is Chi? We Are Made of the Life Energy Signal—,Chi Each one of us is endowed with apiece of the one original energy, the Tao. This energy,through a series of transformations, becomes our Chi. Our body is made of dust(material), which is amassed and propelled by theinvisible force and activities of Chi. When you see the physicalform of a friend, you are not seeing thereal her, but only the material from which she is made. Have you had the experience of attending a funeral or wake? If you were able to gaze upon the corpse of the person you once knew, you could easily see that 'they' were no longer there. Theforce that animated their body held the real person you knew, not the lifeless material in the casket. Similarly, you might claim tohave seen a tornadoeither in real life or ontelevision. But actually, you didnot 'see' the tornado. What yousaw was merely thedebris that the tornado churnedup and held togetherin form. The actual force we calla tornado was the invisiblepart you could not see that heldthe whirlingdebris together and gave itpower. Similarly, it is our Chi thatholds us together, animates us, and makes us who we reallyare. It is our true self. It is the source of consciousness,awareness, and life. Without it, nothing lives. While our invisible life forcesignal, Chi, is in orderly action, life thrives andwell-being abounds. Conversely, when this signal of the lifeforce, Chi, is in decay, becoming weak, or in theprocess of disintegrating, the 'life' of the material bodyis in a chaotic state. When Chi deteriorates, sufferingpredominates, even leading to death. Since this life energy signal iscomposed of the memory of the cosmic force, it canbehave only according to the law of its nature: it is alwaysin motion, transient, and dynamically playful. These arethe same characteristics of the one universal energy fromwhich your Chi came. Because of its likeness and affinity to the original cosmic force, our life energy signal iscapable of harmonizing with that original cosmic force.Our life energy can tune in to the signal of theoriginal natural force and follow its direction. It canharmonize with the One-chi in order to continue, tomultiply, to adjust to changes, to fine-tune itself, to adapt,and to 'survive.' Your Chi will always seek toharmonize itself and will always seek balance as bestit can. It will cause you to take action that will bringharmony and balance to your life and body. The degree towhich your Chi signal can maintain its integrity andclear reception of the original One-chi signal isthe extent to which your Chi is able to succeed inmaintaining harmony and the force of life within yourbody. The degree to which your Chi signal is confused,weakened, and off-balance is due to factors that muffleand block the signal from the One-chi. The next time you feel hungry orthirsty, realize that you feel the life energy signalin motion. When you are content, or you aredepressed, realize that it is only your life energy, the Chi,reacting in harmony or conflict with other forces. Like Mother Nature, or theweather, sunny 'blue-sky' days and unpredictable stormyevents coexist in our life. Everything in theentire cosmos is interrelated and interconnected. Chi isconstantly tuning, changing, and reacting just like the forcesthat govern the weather. Change is a natural partof life energy sustaining itself. The question is whetherthe changes in your life serve to help balance andsustain you, or whether the changes cause disharmony anddistress. The...