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TAO  CALLIGRAPHY

CH'I

Ch'i, the universal energy  (lit. breath, energy), permeates and organizes all existence, and is responsible for the cyclical renewability of nature.
It is everywhere, and in everything, is  physical, unforced, can be felt and measured, is the tao's manifest power.  
An early translation was "ridgepole",  the supporter
of yin and yang - the mutually arising interdependent "opposites" of all existence.

It is the principle upon which chinese medicine is founded, and makes taoism a physical (as well as spiritual) pursuit : witness kung fu, acupuncture, herbs,
chi kung, massage, tai chi chuan, feng shui, etc..

                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                  
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