Digest Number 463

[Guest guest]

Z'ev,

 

>I'd like to hear Ken Rose's point of view on this, since

he has written a book about qi.<

 

When I taught a seminar at the Chengdu University of

TCM a few years ago, I used to say to the students,

who were all masters and doctorate candidates, that

it would take a whole book to translate the word qi.

 

One day they got fed up with hearing this and challenged

me to do so. Yu Huan and I spent several years looking

at issues like the one that's been raised here how.

 

Those who are interested can find the results of this

investigation at:

 

http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/html/BreHisQi.html

 

I think it will still be a few months before the book is

released. Meanwhile I'm certainly happy to talk about

it at whatever length others wish to.

 

I'll share a curious anecdote on the subject. I recently

wrote a long essay about qi. It was 10,000 words or

so. Just out of curiosity, I used the auto-summarize

function in MS WORD and got my essay reduced

down to just eight words.

 

Here is what the computure figured out I was trying to say:

 

" Qi.

Qi is not qi.

Yin is yang. "

 

Ken