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Getting to Know Your Five Spirits
In Chinese, the character for Zhi is 志. The top half of the character is Shì 士, meaning soldier/scholar, and the bottom is Xin 心, heart/mind/intention. Thus the combined characters create the meaning of a trained and disciplined person acting with intent. The simplified translation is will/aspiration/ideal, or to keep in mind.
Getting to Know Your Five Spirits
The Po is the part of the soul that is inexorably tied to the body and the earth. It’s the animal part of us, that thing which ties us forever to the environment we came out of. It’s active from the moment of conception, as the earliest organizational principles of the body are formed.