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Could it be that “jing” is the “worlds” energy/attention/intent keeping you hooked into this place? And it’s absolute stability and coherence comes from so many people being here? So basically jing is the lifespan of the individual in the world. And what matters then is to use this allocated lifespan, this “physical” time to exist and the “physical” resources for energy, to cultivate and refine qi and shen?

So yin qi is a stabilizing/material agent, yang qi is a psychic/immaterial agent.
Without yin qi the yang qi would be formless. Without yang qi the form would be without awareness. But I suspect the separation of yin and yang is an illusion. Shen refines from qi. Shen is attributed to the mind and spirit. Which to me sounds like logos. Which means the fundamental ability to have a reality existing/assembling at all, by nature of qi, which can be variously modulated (yin/?/yang spectrum).
How does Shen play a role in immortality?
Is a refined Shen then a realization, a unification of mental divisions coming from the yin/?/yang illusion?
And what then is emptiness, that Shen returns to? Is it silence? Is emptiness the only Way to get away from the deep subconscious rules that hold our fate?
Finally, what about earth and heaven? Do these symbols refer to qi?
Thanks for the people discussing in this thread.