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Replenish jing and qi are easy, even for people who are over 70 as we already get a lot of jing and qi accumulated in our bodies , only that they are always stuck at some places (usually at those main acupuncture points where sore , sting pains are felt when being pressed ) , or in some unbalanced status that they cannot be used . By applying our mind or our fingers on them , we can release them and then they can act as some kind of replenishment ; this is why they are called the internal medical storage . Replenishing Shen likely is more difficult as doing some mental maths or learning some foreign languages does sharpen our mind or keep our memorial power , they are not anything an upgrade of Shen . Anyway, as "whenever Shen consolidates , jing and qi also gather " , using Shen in a mindless way can be viewed as some higher, spiritual exercises to reversely replenish jing and qi . This is why some followers of Zen who do theirs well , not to speak of Taoists' much easier jing-qi-shen way , can regenerate and enhance their jing : Regrowing fallen teeth , removing a hemorrhoid , regaining hard erection ..etc

Feeling of heat , like boiling water , and glow down to the marrow level can be some criteria of judging how well people's cultivation of jing and qi . The uplifted jing into brain can upgrade people's shen's level , say they can now conversely use shen to polish their jing's quality : " 神凝則精凝" (" once shen gathers , jing also consolidates " ) . And , this is the key / reason of qigong healing for many symptoms of diseases , say feeble knee , strange tumor , bad memory , deteriorated eyesight ..etc can be due to lack of jing .

Thanks . A good piece of Taoist essay . So many keys and details in it which look useful .

Here I refer to reincarnation , as mentioned , a series of repeated afterlives , not just some simple idea of afterlife .

Despite reincarnation originally not a Taoist concept , in fact it comes from Buddhism , Taoism does make use of it yet in the terms of jing ,qi and shen . A person dies because he uses up all jing and qi in his body , or in some cases, his physical body seriously damaged , that his spirit ( a yin-typed of shen ) is forced to leave . In most cases, this reluctantly forced to leave, yin-type of spirit cannot take its fate along in its own hands ; without a physical body , it may roam a long time in some places , say in an old fortress , a deserted tunnel or under a desolate bridge near seashore for some reasons .. not necessarily going into an afterlife soon after death ; even if it can incarnate, in what life form : a woman , a pig or a worm ..is no guarantee . So ,Taoism emphasizes on the everlasting life , an achievement better be accomplished in THIS lifetime as long as some yang-qi still lurking inside the physical body , not the afterlife.

2- 3 inches under the navel , an area inside..

Hardly is visualization viewed by Taoism as any kind of decent way despite it likely being the hottest way proposed by many people . I view it as one belongs to those ways which " you can easily come across in your lifetime , yet hardly does it make you succeed " ( " 易遇而難成" ) . Of course, to its opposite , you get those ways which " seldom can you come across in your lifetime , yet it likely enables you succeed " (" 難遇 而易成") . Headache : you stop practicing such way, then it will recede. Headache due to having initialized uncontrollable qi : Shift your attention back to lower dantian and withdraw your qi to it ; or shift your attention to the bottom of your feet , say the acupuncture points " 涌泉 " :

Talking about Taoist meditation , likely the lower abdomen , a big place below the navel for men as their starting point , is the location appropriate . For women, should be middle of their breasts . Notice that the principle is wherever yang /sex pleasure / convex arises, wherever is the place. For TCM treatment , say if you want to do some acupressure or place a TCM plaster on some acupuncture point to replenish jing , then it is the " Guan Yuan " (" 關元" ) , 4-finger width below your navel :

When people come across troubles and adversities, how can they do to overcome ? Most of them will try using the knowledge , experiences and material assets they get , working out some plans to solve them . On the other hand, some may adopt lessening ,even getting rid of their expectations or desires, so as to make them feel better, another way of solving their troubles . In fact, we can have some Zen's formulae , as we get in other disciplines , to treat them : 1) "Eliminate the ego, not eliminate the scenarios( those difficulties and adversities ) " ("奪 人不奪境" ). As there is no ego, to where those worries or sufferings hooked to ? 2) " Eliminate those scenarios , not the ego" ( " 奪境不奪人 " ) 3)"Eliminate both the scenarios and the ego " (" 人境俱奪") 4) "Eliminate neither the scenarios nor the ego " ("人境俱不奪") . Capable of entering the Universal or Ontological mind/ Consciousness , the core , as 4) refers to , enables us to 'make use' of no-Mind to deal with all things and matters in non-doing way ; it is only those people whose consciousness are always staying at the surface , far from the core , do they get the necessities of raising varied of ideas and emotions , or expressed in their look pretty terms: tactics or strategy , to solve problems . Below is an atom-like model of people's mind :

Because most of the post-natal jing we get is through eating and drinking , by accumulating them and paying attention to the lower abdomen , where the digestion process ends, we can arouse qi ; with qi accumulated , and arisen , we then forget it, forget that it is being forgotten , to attain Shen ; with the skill of playing with Shen , a mindless Mind , grasped and refined , we get more high quality qi accumulated ; then quantity leads to quality jumps , an intercourse between Shen and qi happens , and, embryonic breathing arises ..; notice that hardly can a mind be settled and emptied by itself ; no-mind implies hardly can it or should it raise any intention to empty itself, instead, it can be grasped and emptied by qi. This is the crucial difference between Taoist way from others' .There are 2 main thresholds to cross in this process : 1) Your capability of arousing qi by whatever way you are taught by your teacher / research 2) Your capability to understand and attain a mindless Mind ( can have varied degree of depth ) Attainment of qi lets you understand what most of the TCM writings talk about ; attainment of a mindless Mind/ a no-mind Mind lets you understand what most of the Buddhist writings talk about provided that you read classical Chinese ;

I do think that both Buddhism and Taoism 's goals nearly are the same : Solving troubles of Aging, Sickness, Death and Living ( Reproduce ) . The main difference is that in this process , Taoism emphasizes both physical and spiritual proofs , yet the Buddhists overlook the physical ones . In this sense, Taoism is much closer to modern science than Buddhism for at every step, it requires proof, otherwise, Taoists will look into their ways, try finding anything wrong . For example , hardly correct practice of MCO allows you suffer from any diseases; even cancer can be a piece of cake provided that you always pay attention to spiritual things , not interested in them only after having been told by the doctor that you get 3-month life to live . If you find qi not so powerful , then it is your practice problematic , you should try finding out what things wrong in your practice.. However , in the same situation , many shallow-minded Buddhists will say : the body is illusory , some kind of attachment , why care about it ..;

Only few separate writings from the whole collection of the Taoist canons are translated from the classical Chinese into English : " Secret of Gold Flower " , writings of Wu-Liu School , writings of Zhao Bi-Chen ..etc , less than 1% of the valuable Taoist writings worthy of translating into English .

Although both Taoism and Buddhism talk about Emptiness, they get very different temperament , which may reflect the original, different characters of the Chinese and the Indians : 1. The Chinese are relatively practical people who speak less , the Indians are more eager to express themselves. 2. Taoists cultivate and meditate in small groups of few people , Buddhists do them in big groups , say in hundreds, even in thousands. 3. Taoism wants to say as little as possible , Buddhism , although emphasizes that the Void or the Buddha Heart is beyond reach by words, in fact says a lot . The volume of Buddhist Sutras is huge, nobody knows its exact quantity ; Taoist Canons' volume originally was small, it is only due to the pressure of the translation of the incoming Buddhist Sutras that it gets big ; however its volume is still no match to the Buddhist ones . 4. Comparing to the zealous Buddhists who are eager to preach their briefs so as to rescue all people ( in fact, all creatures if animals can hear and understand ) of the world , Taoism is a cold , indifferent religion , whose followers think that only people who are embodied in relatively cleaner qi , hardly can they be interested in Tao , or understand its significance .

Replenishment of jing , regretfully rooted in Nothingness ( " 虛" , Taoist term ) or Emptiness ( " 空" , Buddhist term ) , not rooted in the earth or any other places despite doing exercises and eating jing- enhancing food also help . But we are talking about " root " , so we refer to something fundamental . As nothingness or emptiness is invisible and difficult to deal with , I assume most people do not like it . However , by just capable of attaining an emptied Mind , without thinking of anything related to the female body or its underclothes, we can arouse sex pleasure , heat and " jumps" at the perineum or lower abdomen part is a clear proof of such a linkage . Notice that an emptied Mind gets the same character as , or is equal to , the emptiness everywhere.

The " Yin Fu jing " « 陰符經 » says: " 宇宙在乎手，萬化生乎身 " ( " All things come from the body ⁕ , grasp the cosmic in your own hands " ). Since the cosmic is full of qi , and our bodies are the embodiment of it , so capable of initializing qi from our bodies , manipulating it and expanding it beyond the body boundaries implies the control of the basic force of the cosmic in our own hands something possible . With the fundamental force in our hands, basic / fatal troubles of life : To live ( and to reproduce), to age , to get sick , to die (生老病死) can be solved . Of course, if you can only initialize qi and circulate it in your own body , incapable of of expanding it beyond, then there is no way of talking about the cosmic stuff ; yet talk about curing some diseases in it is still feasible . ⁕ Notice that Taoist view of the body as a mini cosmic.