Term category: Cosmology

  • Qi

    Qi is what the texts call the activity of a thing rather than the thing itself — the breath, warmth and movement by which a system does its work. This site leaves…

  • Yin and yang

    Not two substances, and not opposed forces: one process described from two sides. Day and night, winter and summer, rising and settling are yin-yang pairs, and health is the pair keeping its…