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Qigong

Literal Translation
A Chinese system of coordinated body posture, movement, and breath, used for health, meditation, and spiritual cultivation. The practised silence of qigong — the directed non-performance, the deliberate attention through stillness — is one expression of the Chinese contemplative tradition's relationship with silence.