Taoist Secrets of Love

1. The universe is filled with different kinds of dynamic energy, or “chi.” The Tao, or “way,” for each man is to creatively transform his energy over a course of a lifetime back to its original state of harmonious balance.

Whether or not the Taoist Sexual King-Fu can work in Western society will be determined in part by its translation of it into Western forms of scientific understanding and psychology.

Love-making is an internal exercise which helps restore imbalances in bodily chemistry. A moderate amount of sex tends to repair hormonal disturbances, to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Sexual activity alters the body chemically. The reason this happens is because each gland in the body affects all the others. Thus when sex hormones

But in its wisdom the Taoist tradition also provided another or practical way: The path of Sexual Kung Fu (sometimes called “Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu"). This practice indicated a way by which a married monk or ordinary man and women could cultivate the Tao (’The Way") while remaining in worldly life.

In the practice of “dual” cultivation, a couple balances this field of energy between them by sharing and circulating their subtle energies.

4. Transformation of sex energy is the second principle of cultivation. During sexual arousal, the “ching” or sexual essence stored in the testicles expands rapidly and causes some energy to naturally rise to higher centers in the heart, brain, glands, and nervous system. This upward movement is cut short by ejaculation outward, so most men never beco

At the same time the Taoist tradition recognizes a certain form of conflict between the sexes: a form that is universally represented by the lawful opposition and dynamic interplay of the forces of Yin and Yang. This lawful opposition plays itself out on the “battlefield” of sexual relations and is expressed as the playful conflict between sexual a

the Taoist tradition is over eight thousand years old and has reached a full maturity in both theory and method.

3. Conservation of sexual energy is the first principle of cultivation. Ejaculation of the male seed for purposes other than having children is a wasteful loss of an extremely precious treasure.