Seeking some feedback on the following. Please feel free to post your thoughts/comments (please be concise and to the point if possible. If you write a 1000+ word essay, it makes my eyes glaze over and avoid reading it. ) --
Xing is "Original nature or True Nature", and lies in the domain of consciousness. Its root is the spiritual heart/MDT.
Ming is the" Life force or Qi", and lies in the domain of energy, and its root is the Lower Dan tien.
Practices like Qigong work on Ming. Xing needs more intricate (and simpler) forms of meditation wherein emphasis is not on cultivation and "adding to" (jing, qi and Shen) and/or "transformation" (Jing to Qi, Qi to Shen), but rather of letting go and reduction/elimination (of artificial mental concepts, preconceptions and even subject-object interactions, aka Shen to Emptiness).
Ming requires/implies "you wei" or doing, while Xing requires "wu wei" or not-doing. But the two are not mutually exclusive, but rather parts of a continuum. Without proper cultivation of Ming, Xing cannot be realized(?).
We have to go from doing to not-doing, effort to effortlessness. All it takes is patience, sincerity and clarity of mind.