[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

Commonly Asked Questions 197
you are progressing well. You are conserving energy as never before
and beginning to change it to a higher form.
After no more than several weeks the power will complete the
microcosmic circuit and return much increased to the sexual centers.
The power will recirculate to the genital region, which will
then be permanently fortified. Once you have completed the circuit,
the power will flow throughout your entire body every time
you make love and revitalize you further. Then your appetite for
sex may well increase. Its different for each man and his lover.
9. Aren't you being a bit fanatic in trying to save every drop of
sperm? There's so much of it. I thought Taoism was a "middle"
path that advocated no extremes.
Cfaia: Semen retention is simple and natural once you've unlearned
your old habit. Taoists claim that it was once the middle
way, a natural function that all humans could do naturally, and that
our current sex habits are a product of degeneration. That's why
we've got 4 billion people on earth and all the problems of over
population and pollution of a once pure earth. If people felt more
fullfillment within, they would create fewer demands without. Not
to worry. Nature—the Tao—always finds the proper way to balance
itself.
The conventional idea of male orgasm as a few instants of
(literally) blinding pleasure is an extreme one. After ejaculation the
man is finished unless he digs deep into himself for more energy
only to rush forth again before falling off into a pleasant emptiness.
To spend the vital seed wastefully is to excrete life. Frequent
ejaculation is an infantile attempt to solve our lonely separation
from bliss. It is a rejection of the inborn joy that we may all know.
Of course, people can and do love deeply without retaining
their seed during sex. But these people are unconsciously transmuting
their seed power into love the rest of the time—this is
where love obtains its power of spontaneity. But they may miss a
deeper joy. Until you learn this deeper joy I must strongly recommend
you not be fanatic about losing a few drops of sperm—nature
is abundant and forgiving and its best to change gradually. Then the
change will be more permanent.
But at the same time you won't be motivated to change your
sex habits unless you remember that ejaculation isolates. It cuts
you off and enslaves you in small steps to a lower state of energy.
Ejaculation is one of many subtle forms of suicide, including drugs,