Taoist Secrets of Love

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

the basic premise of the method of Sexual Kung Fu is that of spiritual development and the harmony of the male and female energies.

Refining one’s awareness of sexual energy—with or without a partner—is one of the simplist ways of humans to return to pure consciousness and experience the deepest rhythms of life. (Chapters 1 and 2.)

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.

The secret Taoist methods of sealing the penis in order to conserve “ching” are given in Chapters 5 thru 8.

5. Balancing the polarity of female-male (yin-yang) forces is the third principle of Taoist cultivation.

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.

2. Sperm is the storehouse of male sexual energy. A single ejaculation has 200 to 500 million sperm cells, each a potential human being. There are enough spermotozoa lost in a single orgasm to populate the entire United States if each cell was to fertilize an egg.

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