The Essence of Masculine Energy

A man´s drive for physical, intellectual, and spiritual excellence stems from the yang force. Yang energy in men not only defines physical prowess but extends into intellectual, leadership, and creativity. It is no coincidence that history’s renowned composers, philosophers, and poets are predominantly men; their creations reflect the power of Yang - the intellectual force. Understanding this concept will explain the hierarchy of Yang and is a key to personal and spiritual growth.

Physical Excellence: The Basic Form of Masculine Yang

Yang energy manifests primarily in a man´s physical strength—the athlete, the warrior. Men with strong physical Yang energy have mastered such excellent skills like tenacity, resilience, and the ability to face discomfort for a prolonged period of time in order to achieve set goals. It is within this fundamental realm of Yang that a man develops his foundational masculine qualities, such as competitiveness, determination, perseverance and healthy aggression necessary for survival and achieving success in the outer world.

Intellectual Power: A Higher Level of Masculine

Beyond the basic physical masculine qualities lies the upper realm of Yang - intellectual power. It is within that higher Yang a man acquires and masters such skills as analytical reasoning, logic, creativity, strategic planning, management of resources and leadership skills. These traits reflect a higher form of masculine, allowing a man to succeed in the external world. Having a lot of this higher masculine energy is reflected in the outer world as material and financial success, power, and innovation.

However, the highest superior form of Yang is wisdom.

Wisdom: The Highest Form of Masculine

Thirst for finding questions to our existence and meaning of life, seeking the truth and wisdom - only the most advanced and enlightened men, who usually have already achieved success in the outer material world,  seek this highest form of power - the superior power of wisdom.

Men who reach this advanced stage come to understand that although Yang is creative, loud and energetic, it is bound by time. It easily gets  lost, expends itself and dies on the battlefield without Yin.

Wise men seek knowledge and truth to be able to answer the most difficult questions about our being and existence in order to have a happy, meaningful, and fulfilling life.

In Asia, the best martial arts warriors devoted a significant part of their lives to their spiritual growth and development.

“Kill your ego” is one of the foremost spiritual practices for a warrior. He must destroy his ego, which is masculine in nature, in order to feel the Divine in him, his soul, his connection to the Creator, which is the feminine aspect of him -  Yin.

Soul = Yin

Ego = Yang

According to the legendary psychologist Freud (1923), ego is that part of our ID, which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. Ego is only a part of a person - the conscious personality. It is what the person is aware of when they think about themselves.  

S.Kazakov, a russian QiGong master states that most people perceive their development within the concept of “I am”, i.e. they do their personal development for themselves, they think within their “I” terms: “I want this, I want that,” “I will do that”, “I will get this”, “I will get that”…it is “I”, “I”, “I”, all about “me”. But at some point this “I” (our ego) realises that it cannot jump above its head because there are aspects and areas in the world and in the Universe where our ego cannot get. “I” (ego) is limited. Kill it, step out of its limitations and then you will be able to see and understand so much more. From this moment your spiritual growth begins that leads to freedom from your ego and realisation of your immortality.

“The vast part of life is spent on education, on reaching professionalism, marriage and career; whereas the second part of life is the time devoted on development of inner “Self”. If this development does not happened, an individual falls ill because the rules of the afternoon life are different than of the morning”

— Carl Jung

“The first part of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

— Carl Jung

A masculine man with strong Yang energy should continue developing and sharpening all of his yang qualities every day for the rest of his life.

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Relationships

YANG MUST ALWAYS SERVE YIN

In general terms yang is the power and yin is the Divine Truth.

A masculine man should always protect yin. But what is yin? Yin has its strong presence in young children, old ladies and gentle women - all who are unable to defend and protect themselves.

When a man is very masculine having a strong healthy yang, he will naturally attract a feminine woman with strong Yin. The higher the Yin in a woman, the stronger is her yang inside her core. And vice versa, the more masculine and advanced a man is, the more prominent his Yin is inside his core.

Man seeks that mysterious part of him that is oblique and wholly unfamiliar to him - that small black yin dot in his predominant white masculine yang nature. He has only a fleeting sense that it is there, until he sees his reflection in his beloved.   This is his Yin, that part of him that is his very Soul, and so with great enthusiasm he seeks it in her - for she is a mirror of his soul.  Remember, the feminine Yin is the reflection of the greater Whole, God, in its entirety in Daosism.  So his quest for union is nothing short of seeking to be in touch with his own spiritual nature - his Yin nature.  This is what attracts a man to a woman. A man, on his own, does not feel complete. He needs a woman to feel completeness and wholeness. Once merging, they become whole. But how many men (or women) know this?

He must seek knowledge to be able to give the words to her wordless truth, and for this he must sharpen his yang on a daily basis. It is not by accident that the vast majority of poets of all times were men who tried to put into words (words are a yang form) their feelings for the woman describing her beauty and qualities, or their attempts to understand the world and the essence of Creation.

A woman’s power is in experiencing and intuitional knowing. But she struggles to put it into words, and therefore, she needs a man, the doer in the outer world, to do it for her.

YIN = FORMLESS TRUTH  

YANG = GIVES THE FORMLESS TRUTH A FORM WITH A HELP OF WORDS AND ACTIONS.  

In the marriage union, it is the woman who has a guiding, navigating and inspiring role, and the man is the one who deals with the external part of life. It is the role of yin to guide and inspire yang to the right action. The result for a woman in a healthy relationship with a masculine man (especially the one who also possesses higher yang) is that she will trust his views on politics, money, and why the electricity doesn’t work in the house.  She is glad to be of a help to him on his quest for the world. 

If his yang is strong - then she relaxes, not having to manage the outside world, so she becomes free to put more attention on being predominantly yin and developing her feminine qualities. The woman must feel secure and safe with the man enough to let her yin flow. And when a man experiences the profound beauty of the yin nature awakening in him, a profound sense of duty to serve something higher, more noble than his own ego gratification, does he escape the seductive delusion of power and control.  In this ideal state of harmony and service to the divine in each other and in the world around them, the sacred marriage expresses true love.

In Chinese cosmology Yin is ‘receptive’ while yang is ‘active’. We can observe these divine roles even in the most fundamental and basic aspects of living, such as the conception of life itself. It is the man, who is predominantly yang and therefore active, who naturally leads and dominates. It is the man who penetrates the woman to leave his semen inside her.

A woman is receptive for she is predominantly yin. It is not her divine role to be active and deliver the semen. Her fundamental role is to conceive and new live and bring it to the outer world. And these are the differences between yin and yang, man and women, who naturally have different roles and functions in this world and in their union.

We can observe the nature by looking further into the conceiving process of life.  After the man leaves his semen inside the woman, hundred’s of his sperm eggs flow to surround one woman’s egg and only one out of a hundred of his sperm eggs - the fastest, most fertile and the strongest - that will break through the woman’s egg’s outer layer and fertilize it. We may deny natural competition and impose the notion of gender equality but the nature speaks more eloquently quietly showing us how different and, at the same time, complimentary woman’s and man’s roles are.

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