Unfortunately, I think i finally believe in an accumulation of factors that behave in a somewhat predictable way, and are collectively called chi, or life force, even though there is no such singular entity, but only an assortment of completely uncountable and interconnected factors that are conceptualized for practical reasons as chi.
I think a big part of the chi concept is being aware of and intentionally correcting with your hands the environment around you. It's like a form of chiropractic, except instead of adjusting the back and nervous system, you treat everything in life as a kind of nervous system and adjust it, create it, accept whatever can't be changed or covered, and the result is a sense of freedom from the discomfort of unconscious preferences. You intelligently create your life then according to your drives and you'll exist in a close approximation of heaven. If you actually succeed at achieving bliss, you invite lots of trouble though. It's an extension of the little known, Buddha fucked us all theory which goes like this: Maybe we're all living in the wake of Buddha's awakening because of the need for balance... yin and yang... so one person's transcendence leads to anarchy and trouble for the rest of us. Fucking buddhas and they're inability to be normal multi-faceted individuals. Damn you Buddha!!!!! But a part of me hates the idea of chi because it seems like such a system. Implying that the universe is a prison of rules and regulations and that everything is casaul and pre-destined, that nothing is conscious or self-created except for some jesus-god that did it once, on a lark, and never again, and no one else. If the universe has nothing but laws, those laws must evolve, change, and jump like quantum fuzz, on some level, otherwise the whole system is a prison. And reality is not a prison, possibly a nightmare, but not any sort of prison.
I think a big part of the chi concept is being aware of and intentionally correcting with your hands the environment around you. It's like a form of chiropractic, except instead of adjusting the back and nervous system, you treat everything in life as a kind of nervous system and adjust it, create it, accept whatever can't be changed or covered, and the result is a sense of freedom from the discomfort of unconscious preferences. You intelligently create your life then according to your drives and you'll exist in a close approximation of heaven. If you actually succeed at achieving bliss, you invite lots of trouble though. It's an extension of the little known, Buddha fucked us all theory which goes like this: Maybe we're all living in the wake of Buddha's awakening because of the need for balance... yin and yang... so one person's transcendence leads to anarchy and trouble for the rest of us. Fucking buddhas and they're inability to be normal multi-faceted individuals. Damn you Buddha!!!!! But a part of me hates the idea of chi because it seems like such a system. Implying that the universe is a prison of rules and regulations and that everything is casaul and pre-destined, that nothing is conscious or self-created except for some jesus-god that did it once, on a lark, and never again, and no one else. If the universe has nothing but laws, those laws must evolve, change, and jump like quantum fuzz, on some level, otherwise the whole system is a prison. And reality is not a prison, possibly a nightmare, but not any sort of prison.