[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

INTRODUCTION
Taoist "Dual Cultivation" and
the Quest for Sexual Love
by Michael Winn
"What a pity! A mountain peak as tiny as one square inch has been
the source of great inspiration and misery for centuries."
—Anonymous Chinese Poet on man's obsession with woman's sex.
Thousands of books have been written attempting to help men and
women resolve the problems arising from the endless search for
sexually fulfilling love. What could possibly be written that is new?
Taoist Secrets of Love is not just another flowery philosophical
treatise on the ecstasies of oriental love. Rather it is a pragmatic
handbook that distills the secret teachings on sex of four different
living Taoist masters sought out by Mantak Chia during fifteen
years of travel and study in the Far East. As he put it, "I read a ton
of books telling me how great esoteric love-making was, but none
of them explained precisely how it was done. So I decided to write
it myself."
Most books on Taoist sex fail to instruct on how to transform
sperm energy once it is held in, where to store sex energy in the
body, how to best exchange it with a woman, and give cursory
treatment to the retention of semen. Chia synthesized the ancient
Taoist practices into simple but powerful methods that can be
easily learned by western men. This first volume is directed primarily
at men, simply because most men are sexually weaker than
women and lose more energy through sex than women. A later
volume will describe the esoteric Taoist sexual practices for
women, which includes voluntary arrest of the menstrual flow.
The sexual imbalance between men and women is obvious. A
woman can sexually receive her man for as long as she pleases, and
thus the Taoists say her yin essence is nearly inexhaustible. A
man's love making is limited to the amount of energy he has to
keep his erection. His yang essence is more easily tired. A woman
is sexually stronger than a man because biologically she needs to