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development of the will to retain the seed is identical with development
of one's true self: "... man, endowed with his self (which,
though static by nature, shelters living seed) must struggle against
and overcome the centrifugal sexual movement which tends to lead
him into the abyss of the female. . . . Instead of being carried
away, his mind rules."
Suares here alludes to the degenerative role played by woman
in unconsciously luring the seed out of man. She profits very
slightly from his great loss, since she usually doesn't have the yogic
skills to absorb it. Woman is a bottomless pit for the man who
incessantly gives his seed to her, although she can attempt to compensate
this loss with her nearly inexhaustable female energy and
love.
This chapter could be expanded to include the entirety of
initiatory writing. There are many works by Masters who have felt
the powers of semen transmuted by vital heat. When Moses is
wandering in the desert for forty years, he speaks in the Bible of
experiencing "a serpent fire." Since the Bible also declares Moses
was "trained by the Egyptians in all their mysteries," it seems
likely that this fire refers to the transmutation upward of his psychic
energies. Bodily experience of the subtle realm is the final
criterion in these matters.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TAOISM AND TANTRA
The principles of Tantra from India and Tibet have received wide
attention in the west in recent years, especially by seekers interested
in integrating their sexual impulses into their spiritual
growth. The principles behind Tantra are nearly identical to that of
Taoism. Both seek to reconcile the opposing dualities of life as
symbolized by male and female and both accept any moment or
experience in life as a starting point for spiritual growth and as an
end point for insight into truth.
Keith Dowman, a western scholar and practitioner of Tibetan
Tantric Buddhism put it succinctly: "Strip the (tantrie) yoga of its
arcane terminology and there is a simple meditation technique:
stimulate the desire and then use it as the object of meditation and
it becomes awareness—a field of Emptiness and pure Pleasure." A
Taoist would agree, only he might phrase it differently: "Within
every moment there is only the Emptiness of yin receiving the