Rephrase in elegant English and summarize in a succinct way: Let's start at the beginning. Once upon the time you have existed as a stainless lordly being which had nothing but joy and freedom and no limits at all. Experiences appeared and disappeared precisely according to your intent and all was bliss. Then, because you were not differentiating, you gave rise to a certain mental formation that produced a mental split. This mental formation is maintained by you, dear drunk immortal, in an ongoing fashion even as we speak right at this time. From the point of view of infinite bliss, there is no such thing as harm. Because of this, you enter into such formation joyfully and play with it. This split divides the appearances into what you will consider valid appearances (a.k.a. real) and invalid appearances (a.k.a. unreal/hallucinations/dreams). Because of your propensity for entertainment, when structures arose, you gave them weight from your heart and thus imbued them with the weight of validity. All that is maintained in an ongoing fashion! Which means, it's not something you do in the past. It's something you do right now and outside time too.
 
So what happens then? Your intent became committed to so many things! Out of all the appearances you only identify yourself with a tiny fraction. Then you believe your intent is only valid within that fraction and outside what happens is NOT your intent. However this seeing of "outside" as "not your intent" can only be maintained by your consent and ongoing commitment -- and this takes energy!
 
Further, since your intent as a mortal being flows through structures, it is not efficient, and much energy is lost for useless things. Let me give you example.
 
For example there is a cup on the table and you need to lift it to your lips. If you had your original intent, then the cup would miraculously float to your lips. However because your appearances are structured by your ongoing commitment, your remaining intent has to flow through the structure of your anatomy, through the structure of what you believe to be laws of physics, overcome inertia, overcome gravity, overcome other forces like friction, and finally, finally, after much struggle the cup is there by your lips, and you need a nap. In essence your intent is working against itself, and this is perceived as "effort".
 
The reason that happens is NOT because you LOST your QI!!!! Not at all. Recognize this -- your qi is there, but it's committed to so much work! You're maintaining structures everywhere in your experience! You're maintaining the whole universe with your qi. Even when you use the "fraction" of your qi that you believe to be yours (as opposed to the universal qi), you can't use it directly, but you have to employ it through the structures. That's why you get tired.
 
If you store qi in the manner you describe, you can marginally improve your health, if you don't overdo it and if you focus more on kindness then on raw energy storage. However, in the grand scheme of things, you'll still be getting tired and maybe even sick, because your qi is tied up in the universe, in the structures, in all your commitments. Even the idea that you have to SUCK qi, as if this other qi is not yet yours and you have to forcefully attract it and store it, that idea itself is tiring, just even thinking about it makes one want to take a nap. How can you spend energy to store energy? It makes no sense! If I spend 5 newtons to store 3, I am still losing 2. So where is the storage? The only way to store, is if you spend 1 to store 10, but how will that work???? You need energy to hold energy in place. To restrict energy, to prevent energy from escaping, you must resist the natural impulse of energy to escape by using your own energy! Thus you cannot truly store it. It's a MYTH. Chuang Tzu knows this and laughs even right now. I can hear him laughing. All the FALSE taoists with no understanding at all try to store energy like fools. But if you are wise, if you want to be like Chuang Tzu, just stop and think for a moment.
 
The notion of storage involves the notion of containment. Containment is a kind of restriction, a limit. That means that storage has a limit. For example, if you store 2 liters of water in a 1 liter bottle, the bottle explodes. If you store too much electricity in a capacitor, it explodes. Every contemplator knows this intimately. If you store too much fat in your body, it explodes slowly and you die. Why? Because storing implies a limit, and exceeding that limit breaks the identity of the storage containment field. It breaks what it means "to be a container", and thus the process of containment passes beyond recognition.
 
And like I said before, containing something takes energy in the first place! So in reality you always end up using 10 units of energy to hold 5. It's never 100% efficient and never mind being 200% efficient!
 
In truth all qi is your qi. When black holes suck in matter, that's you. When Sun shines, that's you. When someone threatens you, that's you. When the country runs poorly, that is you. All energy is yours. And your identity is something you can change, thus all identities are yours and you are also none of your identities.
 
I hope this explains things. Don't look far. You have the heart of immortality right within right now. It's very near. Only fixed beliefs block perception of it.
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