[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

18 Taoist Secrets Of Love
ching (sex) energy ranks as a major cause of obesity—when you
are sexually frustrated, food is the easiest substitute.
The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex
(ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been
refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or
"absorb" than a raw substance like food. Food must be broken
down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual
essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milliseconds
to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or
the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our
entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling.
Thus sexual energy potentially has a far higher value than
food as a kind of "nourishment" needed for human emotional
maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also considered
a department of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-offactly.
A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love
making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, expressed
through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most
potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb"
that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which
governs our organ vitality and general immunological system.
People become obsessed by their relationships as the exchange
of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of
sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get
complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible
and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchanging
and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible.
It can be known only through your feelings and intuition.
A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly cultivated,
and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous,
sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral
energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough,
divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it.
Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other examples
of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate
the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real
woman's "yin" sexual energy.
The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food
and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufactured
and stored inside your body. This precious substance—