[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

leviating sexual frustration, in relieving boredom with sex, in curing
impotency, wet dreams and premature ejaculation and in general
increasing his longevity and good health. If he is disciplined
and does the practices taught in this book, he can attain all of these
benefits.
The other student considers himself on a spiritual path and
wants to somehow integrate his sexual desires with his meditative
practice or spiritual beliefs. The students already drawn to study
the Taoists secrets of cultivating sexual energy with Master Chia
have come from an amazingly broad range of spiritual disciplines,
including every type of yoga: Kundalini, Hatha, Kriya, Tantric,
Siddha and martial artists as well as T.M., Zen, Buddhist, Sufi,
Hindu, and Christian adherents. The suggestion is that many
Americans, however satisfied they are with their basic spiritual
beliefs, feel the need to better integrate their sexuality with their
spiritual growth.
The Taoist practice of chi cultivation focuses on integrating
the divine or subtle energies into the human body, with the goal of
achieving a dynamic balance of opposing energies called yin and
yang. The Tao is the indescribable sum and absolute source of
these energies, which manifest in ever changing form. The Taoists,
being practical, proposed that a man can begin with the most accessible
energy at hand, namely the sexual attraction between men
and women, and use that as a springboard to more subtle realms.
Taoist Esoteric Yoga is neither a religion, nor a path to salvation.
Its vision reaches very far, teaching that enlightenment and
physical immortality are only stages in a process of coming to
wholeness as a human. It also remains very near and practical. The
raw materials required for this evolution can be found at any given
moment within the life of an ordinary human being.
The Taoist teaching of physical immortality doesn't suggest
men no longer die. It means that before they die they have the
opportunity to cultivate a "solid" or substantial spiritual body,
also known as the Immortal Body, the Solar Body, the Crystal
Body, and other names. In the west the closest parallel to a Taoist
Immortal is probably an angel. This is different from schools that
teach how to become a holy man by dissolving the individual ego
into the bliss of cosmic oneness. The Taoists insist each adept
preserve his individual nature within a body (physical or spiritual)
so he can oversee the growth of his soul until final union with "wu
chi," the nothingness from which the oneness of the Tao emerges.
This "staying in your own body" precludes the adept from totally