[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

Orgasm and Wu Wei 189
Yin and yang are not just concepts. They represent real
qualities of chi energy that can be stored in your body and used in
your ordinary life. A purely intellectual approach to Taoism is one
of the toughest obstacles a highly educated western student has to
overcome. Westerners consider the intellect to be the mind, while
Taoists see intellect as just one tool of the whole mind-body-spirit.
When Taoists cultivate their chi and refine the union of body,
mind, and spirit with their spiritual exercises and alchemical meditations,
they are training the mind to live in a world filled with
dynamic fields of energy.
This means to be a Taoist you stop living in a disembodied
world of words and concepts constructed by your intellect. You
doq't stop thinking, but you may need to learn how to think-feel
with your whole being. To do this you will develop faculties you
forgot you had and which are right now sitting dormant in the 90%
unused portion of your brain and body capacity. That is why sex is
so healthy for western men; it is the only time many of them escape
from the conceptual prisons of their intellect and ego, and gain an
experience of being wholly in the body.
If you are just beginning to cultivate your chi, don't worry if
you have trouble distinguishing between yin and yang energy. Just
do your exercises and meditations daily. When you begin to sense
any vibration, warmth, tingling, or altered sense perceptions it is a
sign your body is waking up to its subtle energy. In time you will
realize this play of ying/yang energy is not an abstract metaphysical
game, but your personal destiny. By knowing it you can slowly
come to grips with the source of the subtle forces working through
your psyche. These are the polarized energies that find their way
into your hormones, your health, your behavior, your male personality,
your perceptions of who you are and what the world is all
about.
Some men get the confused idea that becoming spiritual
means dropping their assertive masculine qualities and becoming
passive, meditative, wearing soft flowing clothes, and acting motherly
and nurturing after the yin female model. According to Taoist
teachings, this is a mistake; if a man becomes too yin he is in
danger of losing his polar attractiveness to women and the very
qualities that satisfy them both sexually and spiritually.
Instead of becoming spiritual, you may become a sissy—soft,
yielding, and spineless. Balancing the yin/yang polarity within your