
Taoist Secrets of Love

In the practice of “dual” cultivation, a couple balances this field of energy between them by sharing and circulating their subtle energies.
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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.
Mantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
In fact, the literal meaning of “Kung-Fu” is method, practice or discipline.
Mantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
- 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.
Mantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
the basic premise of the method of Sexual Kung Fu is that of spiritual development and the harmony of the male and female energies.
Mantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
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
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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.
Mantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
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
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His energies are easily spent and with the advancement of years his energetic capacity becomes severely diminished.