The Chinese 4000 years ago were essentially kind of obsessed about jing or life essence, for immortality or long life. The Indians got the same goal, but a little bit different in their methods.

Jing, in Western parlance, is hormones. If you have a balanced and healthy hormonal level, testosterone for males and estrogen for females, you will live a long time. Just because your body can maintain itself for longer if the hormone levels are present. Women know that certain bone issues come up if they stop the estrogen production. Artificial human hormone regeneration or supplements, thus allows older people to live longer.

So semen was often seen as the direct manifestation, but it was only an indirect manifestation. It takes energy to replenish the sperm stores, but for a young male with a high levels of testosterone, that’s not really a problem .Just drink your vitamins and eat protein, it’s similar to losing blood. Of course, it’s also why religious orders had vows of celibacy. Not having sex meant that energy would go somewhere else. If a person had a high level of concentration, he could even become enlightened by living in a cave, meditation while sleeping, and not having sex. But not usually a life style most people would prefer, of course. And that kind of enlightenment, religious attainment of complete understanding of the universe via opening the third eye, cannot be explained in words or anything else for that matter. Only the person that has it, knows it. Nobody else can even benefit from such. And I’m not being facetious, that kind of path to enlightenment is real. And no, Ghandhi wasn’t it. Think back to all those saints Christianity had instead. There are other ways to achieve enlightenment. Miyamoto Musashi achieved it by facing death countless times, and learning how to live. One feels very alive after escaping death. That, strangely enough, gives a person new perspective on life, and aids them on the road to enlightenment (true understanding of reality).

To get back to Indian Yoga practices and various issues like that: the basic metaphysics of China would be Taoism. The conception of yin and yang. In Western parlance, this means spiral power, the combination of the straight line (yang) and the circular tangent (yin). Yin is considered indirect and mental in origin, whereas yang is physical and action orientated. Thus yin is considered female and yang, male. The spiral then is the two mixing together. But to fully visualize this, simply think of a DNA strand. That is a spiral. A black hole is a spiral. A tornado, the one in Kansas even, is a spiral. Hot and cold. Yin and yang, whenever two of these forces meet, you get power. Life power. Destructive power. Now you can clearly visualize, a little bit, of how “religion” plays a part in this.

So a lot of Ancient Indian and Chinese methods were to either get life essence back or make more of it or drink more of it. They didn’t know what it was, because they couldn’t study the human anatomy like Western medicine can. But at the same time, Chinese and Indian medicine is far more advanced, given that they had 4000 years to experiment on humans without any FDA approval.

All I know is, I’m never going to have the same opinion of yoga after this enlightening discussion…and I don’t mean that in a “Ooh, how interesting! way.

Sheesh, this is so 1967 summer of love crap. Before I met my true love I was embarrassingly promiscuous. This concept of male orgasim without ejaculation was all the rage within a certain segment of hippy chicks. It was then, was 2,000 years ago, and is today utter BS. AND as a farm boy I’ve seen plenty of what comes out of the south bound end of a north bound bull.