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Cady Goldfield wrote:
I believe that there are not "Chinese concepts and Japanese concepts" when it comes to the body method itself; rather, there are cultural differences in the ways they are described. For most, if not all, of them, they came to Japan via China, with Chinese terms for them. The Japanese did their best to come up with equivalent vocabulary, as well as a cultural context they could relate to (as in the the metaphor of the Kojiki for the concept of In/Yo (Yin/Yang).
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I think you are conflating the concepts with whatever the phenomena may be.
They are not one and the same, and that is and has been a big problem with our "discussions" here.
There are always concepts. All of us have them. Some are closer to reality, and hence more useable than others, but none are ever reality.