1. The Three Treasures: Jing Qi Shen, 精氣神.

三宝 精氣神

ESSENCE, VITAL ENERGY AND VITAL SPIRIT

The Masculine Essence (Nan Jing) is the core of the Masculine Principle.

The Spiritual Axis tells us within Chapter 8 that Life within Samsara is made possible through  男精, Nan Jing. When the essence of this masculine principle is united with the feminine essence 乸精 (nǎ​ Jing), then they form a Shen Mind.

Transforming Shen is the energy that transforns 乸精, Nǎ​ Jing, into Nan Jing,男精.

Let us examine this transformation closely so that we understand, realizing of course that this is just a model which has been built that artificially separates one whole body process.

The essence 乸精, Nǎ​ Jing, SHEN the feminine principle is transformed into the essence 男精, Nan Jing of HUN, the masculine principle by Transforming Shen.

This essence , 男精, Nan Jing of HUN, the masculine principle is then available to be tapped by PO, which is Cognitive Consciousness.

Qi,氣, is the natural energy and in 男精, Nan Jing, for example, Jing, 精, is the character of that energy

Jing Qi Shen (精氣神)

Jing Qi Shen (精氣神) are three Chinese characters used in Dao which refer to these three processes that govern higher consciousness and physical health. Now we must be very careful when we use that word "govern," for its use is frequent in Qi texts. I would prefer to always use the character 治, zhi, which does mean "to govern", but with a sense of  harnessing, rather in the sense of the natural harnessing a river by natural retaining banks.

The flow of the river then cures and heals.

Jing (精) means an essence, qi (氣) vital energy and shen (神) vital spirit.

The three terms appear in Huangdi Neijing (黃帝內經), the medical text of ancient China, dating to the first or second century B.C..

The text is said to have been originally composed by the Yellow Emperor, who reigned from 2497 through 2398 B.C., but investigation has suggested that the text was written much earlier.

Jing 精 Essence

Jing, 精, is said to be the energy base for the physical body, and is genetic, inasmuch as it is passed by the parents to their children at conception.

From the Chan vision we can add that that essence is directly related to the physiological sensing system and the internal sensing of thought.

It is said also that it is involved in the growth and development processes of body nutrition, and substance. The loss of jing is attributed to stress, overwork, illness, and abuse of all natural phenomena.

Qi  氣 Vital Energy

There are those that wish to use the antique Chinese expressions regarding Qi, calling it "Invisible Cosmic Energy". Such terms may be exquisite in the transcendental world, but we are talking here with our feet firmly planted upon the earth, even though we know well that all is illusion. We prefer to call qi, life generating energy which is separated arbitrarily from the boundless undestructible universal energy.

Qi is augmented by its interaction with Jing 精 and developed by that interaction. 

Shen 神 Vital Spirit

Shen, 神 Vital Spirit, is here the Transforming Shen and it  generates through its transformation of  乸精, Nǎ​ Jing into Nan Jing,男精  an all-encompassing awareness or the true virtue of the Life Force, which has little to do with the mundane expressions of love and benevolence professed by religions.

The true virtue which is not governed by words and only supported by the tool of cognition is expressed as the wisdom of the Life Frce, namely benevolent affect, not mundane love, true compassion, and the natural well-being of gladness.

Disequilibrium of the body affects the mind. All forms of distress of the mind have corresponding negative consequences for the body. That will come as no surprise.

Shen exists on the foundations of a strong jing 精 and a strong qi 氣; and the greatest efficiency is obtained by developing them together.

Possible sections for future entries

5. Raíces y nudos de los vasos (gen jie).

8. Raíces del espíritu (ben shen).

9. Origen y final de los vasos (zhong shi).

10. Los meridianos (jing mai).

15. Los 50 ciclos de circulación de la energía (wu shi ying).

22. Los desordenes mentales (dian kuang).

25. Raíz de la enfermedad (bing ben).

29. Transmisión de los maestros (shi chuan).

30. Tipos de energía (jue qi).

50. Sobre el valor (lun yong).

52. Energía defensiva (wei qi).

53. Sobre el dolor (lun tong).

59. Tratamiento de la energía defensiva anormal (wei qi shi chang).

64. Yin y yang en 25 tipos de personas (yin yang er shi wu ren).

69. Afonía, melancolía y ansiedad (you hui wu yan).

73. Sentidos y funciones (guan neng).

76. Circulación de la energía defensiva (wei qi xing).

80. Sobre grandes confusiones (da huo lun).