[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

6 Taoist Secrets Of Love
One reason for this neglect is simply general ignorance of the
ancient and highly secret methods used in the past. Taoist Masters
gained knowledge of these methods through unknown millenia of
relentless searching for the secret principles animating matter.
These methods are the fruit of many generations of inspired meditation
by sages coupled with my close observations on modern life.
This book fashions into a unified whole my personal experience of
the teachings.
The Taoist masters felt bound to reveal their potent secrets to
only the most select disciples, those who had proven their devotion
to the Master's ideals by years of arduous self-sacrifice and service.
Why did the Masters feel so strongly compelled to hide their
tremendous knowledge from the public?
The reason for this secrecy is not easily comprehended by the
western public today. The mass media have fostered a state of
mind in which anyone's life is everyone's business: the most intimate
details of private sex life are the most greedily lapped up.
Advertisers assure their clients today "Nothing sells unless it is
sexy." This mentality has made sex, in America, into a disposable
commodity, making it harder in our private lives to experience sex
as an intimate pleasure that can be cultivated over time to ever
deepening levels. Today sex is often consumed and thrown away
as soon as the lover becomes old or an inconvenience. Even the
women in the harem of Chinese Emperors and aristocrats fared
better, being assured of material comfort for life in exchange for
their sexual favors. The court society favored the position of men,
but at least the female sexual energy was respected for its healing
benefits and honored as being necessary for the spiritual development
of the male.
A classic Taoist story tells of a woman who learned the process
of sexual transformation and exchanged her yin energy with
her lover's yang energy and thereby achieved Immortality. She
thus became the guide to ancient emperors on the subject of love.
There is a recorded historical instance of a palace maid in 690 A.D.
becoming the Empress on the death of the Emperor. Empress Wu,
respected for her mastery of the art of love, ruled wisely for several
decades until her death.
The ancient Taoist masters were not superstitious. They were
natural scientists who laid the foundation for amazing technological
advances in medicine, chemistry, biology, navigation, and