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Qì

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Vital breath-energy in Chinese cosmological speech. Not pneuma as Greek breath alone, and not aether as classical fifth element.

Also known as Chi · Ki

Chinese tradition

Qì appears in Chinese tradition.
Wilhelm’s Yijing commentary neighborhood seats qi among the correlative breath-force speech of the Changes’ world. A named qi in that Chinese classic reception, not pneuma as Greek flatten and not wu-wei as Laozi dump.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.