Thank you for explaining a conversation that I had to me, based on the few words I shared here. 🙄 They also literally used Naruto as an example of how chi works, FYI.

you just dismiss it because they settled on using a different way of speaking and describing concepts that are nontraditional in western societies.

That’s funny, I was under the impression I grew up as a Chinese in an Asian society. Guess I was mistaken.