Concept
Qigong
Overview
Qigong () is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation said to be useful for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance the mystical life-force qi.
Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. People practice qigong throughout China and worldwide for recreation, exercise, relaxation, preventive medicine, self-healing, alternative medicine, meditation, self-cultivation, and training for martial arts.
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We see also the influence of habit in all the emotions and sensations which are called exciting; for they have assumed this character from having habitually led to energetic action; and action affects, in an indirect manner, the respiratory and circulatory system; and the latter reacts on the brain. Whenever these emotions or sensations are even slightly felt by us, though they may not at the time lead to any…
Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
States what Qigong is.
But in the sense of common people, not all the Universe is called Body, but only such parts thereof as they can discern by the sense of Feeling, to resist their force, or by the sense of their Eyes, to hinder them from a farther prospect. Therefore in the common language of men, Aire, and Aeriall Substances, use not to be taken for Bodies, but (as often as men are sensible of their effects) are called Wind, or…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Qigong is.
There is in human beings, as in plants and animals, a certain natural impulse of growth, and this is just as true of mental as of physical development. Physical development is helped by air and nourishment and exercise, and may be hindered by the sort of treatment which made Chinese women's feet small.
Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals
Close in meaning to Qigong; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Qigong
Related ideas
- Yin and yang
- Koan
- Buddhahood
- Chinese alchemy
- Mantra
- Meditation
- Proprioception
- Collins English Dictionary
- Qi
- Mysticism
- Taoism
- Buddhism
- Taiji (philosophy)
- Yoga
- Mawangdui
- Ming dynasty
- Enlightenment in Buddhism
- Confucianism
- Chinese philosophy
- Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)
- Tao Te Ching
- Tai chi
- Dantian
- Taoist meditation
Place in the tradition
Part of Taoism.