[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

In order to answer these questions we need to accurately
understand esoteric sexuality as the study and control of sex energy
within ourselves having little or no connection with outer
rituals of culture. Beyond this, we need practical methods that can
be understood by the Western mind and applied in contemporary
life.
One way to discover these methods is to identify the essential,
fife-affirming aspects of sexuality found in mankind's cultural and
spiritual traditions and determine which work today. We must
carefully separate what we need to guide ourselves in the sexual
realm without getting bogged down in outmoded ways of thinking
and living.
The tradition of Taoism, the core of Chinese culture, presents
an interesting and practical perspective on this question. The ancient
Chinese masters observed that the sexual function is closely
related to physical and mental health and is also the basis for the
cultivation of higher spiritual faculties. The position that effective
conservation of the life force energy and its gradual transformation
into a kind of spiritual/material substance is both the birthright and
responsibility of mankind. When practiced within the monastic tradition
of religious Taoism, the conservation and cultivation of sex
energy was largely a matter of celibacy.
But in its wisdom the Taoist tradition also provided another or
practical way: The path of Sexual Kung Fu (sometimes called
"Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu"). This practice indicated a way
by which a married monk or ordinary man and women could cultivate
the Tao ("The Way") while remaining in worldly life. Because
of its eminently practical orientation in matters of health and living,
the Taoist tradition addressed sexual relationships in a straightforward
and realistic manner.
The Taoist Sexual Kung Fu was and is today a method of
increasing longevity and health, harmonizing the relationship between
the sexes, and a means of spiritual transformation.
Aside from some historical distortions in which the basic
egalitarian nature of the practice were subverted by emperors and
aristocrats in the direction of a kind of male exploitation of the
female, the basic premise of the method of Sexual Kung Fu is that
of spiritual development and the harmony of the male and female
energies.
Accustomed as we are in our Western traditions to consider
the field of sexology from within the limits of our religious, scientific
and cultural conditioning, it is difficult for us to grasp the
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