Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26422475-20181104100351/@comment-734582-20181113065914

Actionmanrandell wrote: yet it also states that every life form already possesses chakra in its individual parts, Physical and Spiritual energy. Everyone has spiritual and physical energy because they have a body and brain. There's nothing mystical about it. What hagoromo gave was some sort of spiritual component of chakra, something that would allow people to communicate on a deeper level than mere words. However, people used that power to bind their inner energies and form normal chakra instead.

Kishimoto uses the word "chakra" for a lot of things that are obviously not the same. From the chakra of the fruit (a finite supply of power that can be spread and recovered) to the chakra of people (a supply that regenerates but isn't lost) to the chakra of beasts (solid and flesh-like, self-regenerating). This makes it that there are many apparent contradictions, but closer inspection often reveals it's just inconsistent terminology.