Physical to Karmic body yin/yang energy assignation and method of order

[Anonymous]

So, seeking a little clarity…with the way a person’s energy bodies (from physical to karmic) oscillate between yin and yang does that mean that there is a little drop of the opposite in each body or is each body the “little drop” in the next body up/out?
i.e. with me (male), is it yang physical body contained within a yin qi/etheric body, within a yang emotional body, etc. or with each body is their a little drop of the opposite energy in each? I can see it going either way (but only in as much as a little drop could be a blockage or a proprioceptive, perspective error, in one sense; so I’m leaning toward the simplicity of one being contained within the other and the perspective it gives us as different genders [i.e. male yang physical body is let into the world by its qi/etheric yin body, one could say, and female yin physical body let’s in the yang qi/etheric body]).
Thank you all

[Anonymous]

Another thought I’ve been juggling with mentioning, not sure if it is a distraction and a hindrance, but that I get the sense that the essence/7th body and body of the Tao/8th still follow the same polarity superficially.
For me, I feel like my essence body has characteristics of yang, but again this is incredibly superficial and goes “beyond yin and yang” as Bruce mentions. Likewise, whatever glimpses or swiss-cheese sense of the 8th I have it feels very much yin in its superficiality…though, pretty sleepy.
Likewise, I would venture that women would experience their 7th/essence as superficial yin or meta-yin whereas their 8th body would seem like meta-yang or superficial yang.
Makes me wonder if this isn’t the reason Buddhists have been commonly associated with thinking that only a man has a proclivity at Buddhahood in a lifetime; when a woman has attained her body of the Tao maybe a monk would think “well, she has her essence, but those poor females just can’t seem to match us.”
Definitely with the Taoist POV on this though; women are much closer to both brands of enlightenment than men.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t the idea of calling the sixth body the karmic body, like calling the physical body the bedridden body?

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