exorcist_1699 Posted January 9, 2020 (edited) Our life is in fact a struggle between the spiritual( Shen) and the physical ( jing +qi) forces , and they fight with each other in every minute of it. The Taiji diagram already shows us its meaning : People get the need to masturbate either because the have accumulated too much jing ( physical side stronger) or because they are in depression, confusion .., for example, if their girlfriends run away from them, or they get fired, or playing too much online games..etc, that is , they are in spiritually low , depleted status .., then in either case , the balance is broken and you have the lust gets an upper hand ,so, you succumb to your lust.. Besides , it is not when people are in an awake status that they have to pay attention to , but say, in sleeping or whatever status or form it be , as long as jing is lost , then it is fatal and you lose. All other means to tame , say not watching porn videos, getting a bath of cold water when you get strong desire, not eating spicy food..etc are all trivial , not thorough . So difficult it is that although Taoist alchemy claims "capable of retaining jing gives people forever life" looks seemingly not so significant , hardly can people succeed in taming that beast inside. Nor the direct-qi-from-lower-dantian-upwards way be the solution because you are till using an ordinary mind's way to treat the problem . In fact, a deep emptied Mind is its through solution ( thorough treatment of unclean jing and qi ) as what the I-Ching says : "君子終日乾乾，反復道也" Edited January 10, 2020 by exorcist_1699 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
