Anger is a sensitivity to others but can also be an especially potent foundation for human kindness. The Non-Corporeal Soul (Hun) transforms assertiveness and awareness of others into benevolence.

Qi is the cosmic breath that unites disparate forms.

For the Chinese, however, phenomena occur independently of an external act of creation, and there is no great need to search for a cause.

In the Chinese view, the truth of things is imminent; in the Western, truth is transcendent.

[Heaven] knows the great beginning, and [Earth] acts to bring things to completion. … [Heaven] is Yang and [Earth] is Yin.”10

Qi is not so much a force added to lifeless matter but the state of being of any phenomena. For the Chinese, Qi is the pulsation of the cosmos itself.

Causality is relationships of resonance and resemblance. Connection, contact, and compulsion is the intimacy of similar Qi.

concern is insight into the web of phenomena, not the weaver.

This ability for one thing to influence another is called in Chinese gan ying, which is usually translated “resonance.”5 If Qi is the link, resonance is the method.