[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

Orgasm and Wu Wei 185
me into a trance where I forgot I even had a body. My conscious
mind would shut down while my body raced to absorb the high
dose of subtle yang energy.
The point I'm trying to make in describing such a subtle and
subjective personal experience is that Taoist cultivation teaches
balanced meditation in all the body's tan tiens (or chakras). This is
considered the most stable marriage of yin and yang—the cooler
grounding lower centers receiving the heat from the expanding
higher centers, the classical mixture of fire and water. This is the
middle path of the Tao—staying grounded in your body while on a
lifetime journey though the subtle energy realms.
The spiritual direction of Taoist dual cultivation is not Sudden
Enlightenment, or astral travel, dissolution in bliss, or fantastic
visions. These might occur as temporary side effects of the practice.
But the main intention of the Taoists aspiring to immortality
was simply to maintain a dynamic balance of energy during the
10,000 ordinary moments of the day. The Taoists are suspicious of
any transcendental path that claims to be very high and very quick
or that leaves the human body uncared for in the rush to become
divine. Their wisdom is that what counts is an evolution that lasts,
and that such growth usually comes slowly and steadily. The
10,000 daily moments when stretched over 25 years adds up to a
125 million moments, so you have plenty of opportunities to practice
cultivating the your chi over a lifetime. Fortunately, these
millions of moments occur one by one, making the task simpler,
and a bit less imposing.
Many people in the west want 60-second Enlightenment, and
they may well get what they project—Enlightenment that lasts 60
seconds. The Taoist process may seem slow to some with its insistence
on circulating higher energies into the lower centers. It seems
much easier to open a third eye and go to the spiritual worlds
directly, without bothering with a clumsy and heavy physical body.
This is the value of the Taoist practice of dual cultivation of sexual
energy. It leads to the acceptance of the ordinary moment, of
human desire, of the never ending sexual impulse, as a valuable inthe-body
way of understanding the Tao.
This emphasis on the ordinary in daily life being an essential
part of the wholeness of the Tao is why the ancient sages did not
live for peak spiritual experiences, or seek an explosive peak
orgasm in sex. This seeking after bliss is like trying to be all yang. It