When lovers are in close embrace subtle Yin and Yang energies are
concentrated into vortexes from the sexual region to the head and
eventually remain in the head at all times. WHY HAS THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF SEX
BEEN KEPT A SECRET? Our race has finally grown aware of the need to conserve natural
resources, lest we consume ourselves to total ruin. Fresh water,
soil, forests, and fuels must be spared, food produced more effi-
ciently, building and transportation accomplished with less waste. We have already exhausted a major portion of the readily recover-
able riches of the planet. The cost of basic commodities skyrockets
because, with the few resources left, we continue to over produce
inefficient machines such as cars and unproductive military arma-
ments—tanks, missiles, etc. Everyone is eager to conserve natural resources, but few even
dream of conserving the most critical resource of all: one's own
vital energies. The careful harboring of the energy stored within
man's seed is a truly rational energy program. Yet this aspect of
conservation is entirely overlooked by politicians and health
experts.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 medi-
tation 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 ser-
vice. 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 inti-
mate 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 develop-
ment of the male. A classic Taoist story tells of a woman who learned the pro-
cess 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 technologi-
cal advances in medicine, chemistry, biology, navigation, andMale Sex Energy Is Stored In Its Seed 7
many other fields that would not be discovered by western scien-
tists until 2000 years later. Nor did they crave exclusive possession
of their potent knowledge. They had their reasons for secrecy, and
their reasons were well-founded at the time. They were custodians
of the doctrine taught to them by their masters, and feared the
misuse of the great force unlocked by the secret principles. Per-
haps, they felt an obligation to protect the public from its tendency
to distort the purest teaching to suit its own base instincts. In rural
China, which was much less populous then, someone with such
esoteric knowledge could easily become a chieftain or a king. A
warrior could use his power to defeat his opponents. The Taoist Masters thus thought it dangerous to spread their
teachings too widely, and passed them on to only a few chosen
disciples before departing their earthly life. To guarantee that the
formulae not be used for selfish purposes, these Masters often
transmitted to each disciple only a part of the doctrine. Thus, only
if the disciples banded together and shared their learning could the
supreme potencies be unleashed. If anyone selfishly withheld his
learning, they would never receive the whole doctrine. In the
course of many generations, fragments of the innermost secrets
came to be regarded as the whole. My attempt is to reunite many
disparate parts into an organic whole which I believe similar to the
most ancient and complete teachings. WHY REVEAL THE SECRET NOW? Why violate the traditional Chinese teaching method and expose to
the general public these powerful principles? The simple reason is
that the historic moment is already late. The human condition is
too desperate to deprive our species of a potentially great infusion
of vital energy. If the human race is not quickly infused with a new
life energy to render it more harmonious than it has been for most
of the last 2,000 years, we are all, earthly Masters and mortals,
threatened with an untenably harsh existence, if not extinction. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market,
test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. Our race
spends its brief span fiddling with statistics, black boxes, noxious
chemicals, and above all, with meaningless words. A majority of
Americans daily pass more than six hours in a mesmerized trance
induced by a colored shadow dancing in a box of glass. These8 Taoist Secrets Of Love
machines have inadvertently become instruments of our own de-
struction; a tv programmed mind is not a free mind. Too few de-
vote even one second to entering deeply the great current of life
hidden within ourselves. Yet all the technological energy is eagerly
sought is an apish imitation of the electrifying ecstasies found hid-
den within the body and mind. There are positive signs; in Taoist thinking, any excess even-
tually leads to its opposite. Despite the current mediocrity of most
popular culture, there are tremendous forces driving the race into
expanded consciousness. It is clear that the reason for the chaotic
state of planetary affairs is the revolutionary advance in human
consciousness. In simplest terms, hydrogen bombs hover above us
only because we are clever enough to conjure them up. Hatred
contains the seeds of love. We have created a crisis in order to
force a solution demanding that we restore our balance with one
another and nature. Among the most important implications of this soaring up of
consciousness is that the ordinary man will be admitted to secrets
of life and mind that were formerly reserved for the chosen few. The French scientist Schwaller de Lubicz elucidated this idea: "It
is certain that such a revolution in thought ... is not the result of
whim. It is in fact a question of cosmic influence to which the
earth, along with everything in it, is subjected. A phase in the
gestation of the planetary particle of our solar system is completed
... A new period must begin, and this is heralded by seismic
movement, climatic changes, and finally, above all, by the spirit
that animates man." Not only do troubles press consciousness to
evolve, but changing consciousness bursts the constraints of exist-
ing order. I hope that the Taoist practices of cultivating male energy
presented here will attain higher perfection when subject to the
shock of opposing ideas, scientific study and personal experiment,
and the whole race's inventive genius. Today in China, it is for-
mally prohibited to keep secret beneficial practices: one must re-
veal all knowledge that may improve the general welfare. Hence-
forth, closely-guarded preparations of medicinal herbs, roots,
mineral waters, barks, muds, flowers, gems, venoms, as well as
yogic and meditation practices will reach perfection more quickly
by serving all. So the revelation of the Taoist secrets of sex is a contributionMale Sex Energy Is Stored In Its Seed 9
to human culture that may take time to manifest its real influence. Where a few great minds once acted, the full race of human genius
must now struggle to save our world from the dangers of its own
excess.CHAPTER 2
WHAT IS "CHI" ENERGY? "Essence, chi, and spirit are the three jewels of life!' —Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth,
Master Ni Hua Ching
Taoist cultivation of sexual energy cannot be understood until the
Chinese concept of "chi" is clear. Chi, also known as prana, the
warm current, Kundalini power, or the electro-magnetic life force,
is very difficult to describe because this life energy is invisible and
cannot be seen. However, we can feel it. "Chi" is simply the
Chinese word for "breath." On the physical level it is the raw air
we breathe in and out, revitalizing us and keeping us alive. Our life
hangs by this thin thread of breath every second of our lives, and
that thread is seemingly empty air. We transform that raw air by mixing it with other nutrients
and refining it into a different kind of energy, one that takes a solid
form. It becomes our blood, flesh and bones, but never loses an
inner rhythm of pulsation that flows through each cell. Our vital
organs—heart, liver, kidney, and glands—in turn refine this energy
and send chi power to the higher functions of our brain, thus creat-
ing our thoughts, dreams, and emotions. From this emerges the
human will to live and die, the power to love and ponder this
breathing planet suspended in the vacuum of space. As this "chi"12 Taoist Secrets Of Love
follows a self-perpetuating cycle, its rhythm becomes so natural we
hardly ever notice it. When was the last time you marvelled at the
simple fact you are breathing and your heart is beating? The ancient Taoist masters spent a lot of time observing the
flow of this "chi", which they recognized as the breath of the
universe that moves through everything. Chi is the glue between
our body, mind, and spirit, the link between our perception of the
inner and outer worlds. Living close to nature with few of the
distractions of modern civilization, the Taoists were able to map in
fine detail the workings of the chi energy both within the human
body and in the world at large. Later Taoists made numerous dis-
tinctions between the different kinds of "chi" that operate, so that
today in China the working heirs to their knowledge—the acu-
puncturists and herbologists—refer to as many as 32 different func-
tions of chi in the human body. The Chinese never bother trying to analyze exactly what this
"chi" is. Whether it is matter or energy or a process of changing
between the two is irrelevant. All that matters is how the chi func-
tions, in short, what it does. When you want light in your room you
turn on the lamp, the electricity flows and radiates light. You don't
analyze it, you simply flip the switch. When an acupuncturist in-
serts a needle into a point on a liver meridian, he switches on the
liver "chi" so it flows more powerfully. DIAGRAM 2
YANG ENERGY (HEAVEN)
+
YIN ENERGY
(WATER, EARTH)What Is Chi Energy? 13
CHI: ELECTRICITY OF THE HUMAN BODY
Modern scientists are beginning to describe the world in much the
same fashion that the ancient Taoists described it—as an interplay
of positively (yang) and negatively (yin) charged "chi" energies. Here is a recent description of electricity in Time-Life's science
magazine:
"Electricity is almost certainly the most elusive of everyday things: It
lives in the walls of our houses, and regulates the lives of our cells. It
bolts from the sky as lightning, and sparks from your finger if you
touch a metal doorknob after shuffling across the rug. It shapes the
structure of matter—making plastic pliable, oil slick, and glue sticky. It runs electric trains and human brains . . . Light is electromagnetic
radiation—and that includes everything from visible light to x-rays,
microwaves, and radio waves. The magnetism in iron magnets is
caused by the spinning of countless electrons twirling in unison, just
as the magnetic field of the earth is most probably created by the
swirling of electric currents in its molten metal core. "Your entire body is a giant electric machine: body chemistry (like all
chemistry) is based on electrical bonds. It even runs on electricity. The energy you need to see these words comes from the egg you ate
for breakfast; the egg got its energy from the corn consumed by the
hen; the corn extracted that energy directly from the electromagnetic
light of the sun through photosynthesis. "When you think about it, the universe is positively (and negatively)
electrifying. But because of the usually perfect balance between
positive and negative forces, most of the electrical power around you
is neutralized—and therefore unnervingly invisible, at least in the
normal sense . . . Essentially, everything around us is electrically
charged empty space." K. C. COLE,
Discover Magazine, Feb. 1984
What is curious is that even in China today, ordinary people
take for granted that the universe is made up of these charged
energies. If asked, they would say a garlic has a very hot (chi)
energy. It warms the body: therefore the essence of garlic "chi" is
hot, or yang. In the early centuries of China, chi was expressed in
written Chinese as a blank in the top portion of the Chinese pic-
togram and as fire in the lower part. This was done so that no
"fire"—no single creative energy might be conceived of as defin-
ing chi.14 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Chi pre-existed before everything in the physical world as
original chi, or pure energy. This neatly avoided disagreements
about the metaphysical nature of original chi (eg. is God good or
evil?) and focused attention on its functional manifestation in the
ordinary world, as hot yang chi in fresh garlic or weak yin chi in a
diseased liver. As a result, Taoist philosophy tends to be very
pragmatic and grounded in observation of the natural organic
world. Taoist cultivation of chi energy may extend into what may
at first glance appear to be impossibly subtle spiritual realms, but it
always begins with down-to-earth and in-the-body practices. DIAGRAM 3
THE ANCIENT CHINESE CHARACTER FOR CHI ENERGY
derived from the root of fire above
and emptiness below to denote its original purity. HOW DOES "CHING", OR
"SEXUAL ESSENCE" FUNCTION IN HUMANS? For the Taoists, sexual energy is called "ching," or "essence." It
can also be understood as a kind of "human electricity" because
like "chi" it is an invisible energy that flows through the body. However in its raw physical form, it is stored in men in their sperm
and women in their ovaries. Thus it is a kind of chi energy that hasWhat Is Chi Energy? 15
been transformed by bodily process into a more potent form. It is
raw matter distilled into a powerful essence that has the ability to
recreate the entire human organism. For men, their sperm power is
the essence of their "yang" or male energy. When you feel sexually aroused, this is your "ching" essence
expanding at a phenomenally powerful rate. Your whole being is
suddenly charged with new energy, your body fired with passion
and your heart transfixed with desire. It's like turning on the light
switch. Your entire world of touch and feeling is dramatically
changed from night to day within seconds. This happens in men
when they feel attracted to a woman because their hundreds of
millions of sperm cells begin vibrating and generating a larger field
of sexual electro-magnetic energy. It also occurs spontaneously in
the springtime. When trees are bursting with sap, man's ching is
attuned to the cycles of nature and expands as well. What is the
relationship of this sexual "ching" essence and the other types of
chi energies that form your life force? MAJOR PHASES OF CHI ENERGY
The following lists in simplified form some of the major phases of
"chi" in humans and their relationship to "ching" essence as well
as "shien," or spirit, the highest stage of refinement. These three:
chi, ching and shien, are known as the "three treasures" because
their proper cultivation leads one to enlightenment. 1. Prenatal Energy: Combines "chi" and "ching" inherited
from mother and father, expressed in the gene code and visible as
the innate vitality that people have. 2. Breath Energy: Body absorbs cosmic energy from the inha-
lation and exhalation of air. Those who breathe properly—relaxed,
deep breaths to the abdomen—will receive more energy. 3. Food Energy: The purity of chi received from food will
depend on quality of diet and ability of body to digest and assimi-
late nutrients. 4. Meridian Energy: Comes from different types of body cells
that produce the energy. It courses through the acupuncture chan-
nels linking all the vital organs and glands. 5. Pulsation Energy: The deep rhythm of your body, felt es-
pecially in veins and arteries, also seen in biorhythm energy flue-16 Taoist Secrets Of Love
tuations that harmonize our emotional, mental and physical bodies. 6. Sperm (Ovarian) Energy: "Ching" is the sexual essence
that exists from birth but grows more powerful when fed by other
types of chi (food, breath, etc.) Sex essence is the source of all
energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien). 7. Spirit Energy: "Shien" is the light behind our personality,
the ability to discriminate, human self-awareness. At its purest
level, it is our very being. 8. Wu Chi: The emptiness, or void from which all chi energies
originate and must return. (Original Chi)
DIAGRAM 4
THE CYCLE OF SUBTLE ENERGY
Wu Chi (Nothingness)
Yang/Heaven
Shien, Ching
and Chi
Reunite
Ching Chi,
Sexual essence
underlies all
procreationT'ai Chi
(Pure polarity)
Yin/Yang duality
underlies all existence
Five primordial elements
(Fire, water, earth, metal, wood)
Various kinds of Chi energy
Outside Chi energy is
converted to Ching Chi
inside the body
•Yin/EarthSun
Food ' WaterWhat Is Chi Energy? 17
The goal of Taoists is to cultivate the life energy to the highest
level possible, bringing good health and deep fulfillment of the
human aspiration for wholeness. The early sages observed the nat-
ural process of the raw chi of the universal elements—sun and
earth, food and air—being transformed into ching, or sex energy,
and in the male stored as sperm. The next step is far more subtle
and difficult to observe. The sperm energy is mixed with the chi of
the human vital organs and refined into shien, or spirit. In short,
sex energy offers a link between our biological and metaphysical
identities, between the animal and the divine. Sexual ability gives
man the divine power to re-create himself, but it also binds him to
his animal body and that of his lover. *
The Taoists believe that you can use any substance or force
that exists in the universe to feed the process of cultivating your
spirit, and thereby free yourself of the limitations of your animal
body. Everything has energy in it, and human consciousness can
absorb that energy if it so desires. But some substances are easier
for the human body to change into a useable form than others. For
example, you can absorb the energy from eating a good hot meal
more easily then you can from sitting on the beach under the sun. The solar energy is too raw and too powerful to be easily "di-
gested" by the body. Sunlight will burn you severely if you try to
absorb too much. But your body can easily assimilate a plate of
food and function for a long time on the calories and nutrients
digested. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUNGER AND SEXUAL DESIRE
What is the difference between food and sex as energies that our
bodies crave to be fed? Many people confuse the hunger for food
and sex as being similar biological desires that are both necessary
for survival. Clearly they are connected, as many people feeling
sexual frustration turn to food for gratification. An imbalance in
*If you are interested in a fuller elucidation of the working of chi energy in the spiritual
realms, read two books by Taoist Master Ni, Hua Ching: "Tao: The Subtle Universal Law"
and "The Taoist Inner View of the Universe and the Immortal Realm" (College of Tao, 117
Stonehaven Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049). There are many volumes in Chinese on this
subject, but I feel these are the best translations and commentary on the Taoist canon
available in English. Ni's translation of the I Ching is preferred over those of western
scholars, who don't understand fully the esoteric aspects of these classic texts. His transla-
tion is titled "The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth. "18 Taoist Secrets Of Love
ching (sex) energy ranks as a major cause of obesity—when you
are sexually frustrated, food is the easiest substitute. The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex
(ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been
refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or
"absorb" than a raw substance like food. Food must be broken
down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual
essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milli-
seconds to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or
the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our
entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling. Thus sexual energy potentially has a far higher value than
food as a kind of "nourishment" needed for human emotional
maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also consid-
ered a department of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-of-
factly. A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love
making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, ex-
pressed through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most
potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb"
that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which
governs our organ vitality and general immunological system. People become obsessed by their relationships as the ex-
change of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of
sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get
complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible
and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchang-
ing and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible. It can be known only through your feelings and intuition. A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly culti-
vated, and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous,
sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral
energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough,
divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it. Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other exam-
ples of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate
the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real
woman's "yin" sexual energy. The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food
and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufac-
tured and stored inside your body. This precious substance—What Is Chi Energy? 19
sperm, with its extraordinary power to mate with a female egg and
create another life—is manufactured and stored in your testicles
for safekeeping. The point is that you are free to tap into your
supply of sex energy at anytime by drawing the sperm power from
the testicles. DIAGRAM 5
The modern character for fire can be
interpreted as: the primordial element
of fire, physical fire, or psychic heat
burning beneath the Taoist cauldron. If you run out of sperm your body automatically makes more. This allows you to be physically ready for your lover at all times. Even if you are alone, without a lover, and never intend to procre-
ate, your body produces the sperm and transforms it into creative
sexual energy. So you can always transform this stored sex energy
into spirit, your pure awareness, and express it through creative
personality at will. So in fact "ching" is internal energy that nour-
ishes us night and day without ceasing. The process of refinement
is partly automatic, and partly voluntary. We can either help or
hinder the process of transforming our sex energy into creativity
depending on how aware we are of our internal process. Yet, like
breathing, we draw on this source of energy constantly without
being aware of it. Freud stumbled partially upon this truth many millennia after
the Taoist masters had clearly mapped out the role of sex in shap-
ing our destiny. Freud didn't realize that the mental neuroses he
discovered could be healed by cultivating the sexual and other Chi
energies within the body. When these energies are re-balanced
through proper love-making and meditation, the mind is re-pat-
terned and freed of old traumas and habits. Taoist cultivation of
one's sexual energy is an extremely powerful tool for self therapy. So powerful, in fact, that it should be used only by those who have
achieved a certain degree of integration in the body, mind, and20 Taoist Secrets Of Love
spirit. Severly imbalanced individuals may release more energy
than they can safely deal with, and should see a psychiatrist before
attempting to learn the Taoist methods. DIAGRAM 6
The average male spends about Vs of
his lifetime to produce sperm. This energy
can be cultivated for health & spiritual
development.100% Life force energy v
30% to produce
sexual energy
70% Is used for dally work,
digestion etc. This unique human freedom of utilizing our sexual energy so
flexibly does not come without it's price. The price is that we
spend an estimated 25% to 40% of our chi energy taken in through
food, air, and sunlight just to manufacture this sperm energy and
maintain sexual readiness. Why does the body spend so much of its
valuable resources to produce billions of sperm cells and regulate
them with an accompanying hormonal system? Simply to produce
a few children over the course of a lifetime? Nature is not that
extravagant. The enormous investment of our bodies in producing
this sperm energy is to speed our overall evolution. The more
successful man is in transforming his stored energy into higher
creative and spiritual energy, the more rapid his evolution. This
path of Taoist cultivation of chi energy is simply an attempt to most
efficiently utilize the natural gifts every man is born with to evolve
the maximum possible in a single lifetime.CHAPTER 3
THE BIOLOGY OF ESOTERIC SEX
Ordinarily discharge of the seminal fluid completes the act of love. As soon as the fluid is spent, the body strains to replace it. The
faster sperm is used, the more the body is forced to produce. Quite
obviously, production of this nutritionally rich and psychically su-
perpotent substance requires an enormous amount of raw mate-
rials. The reproductive glands receive these raw materials from the
blood stream. In its turn, the blood withdraws the precious ele-
ments from every part of the body, liver, kidney, spleen, etc.,
including the brain. Every organ pays heavy tribute to the glands that produce the
sexual seed. Because a single drop of semen houses such pro-
digious life energies, frequent loss of fluid depletes the body sys-
tems of their most precious nutrients and speeds the inevitable
physical decline into old age. Retaining the seed within the body is
the first step to reversing this cycle in which the male pays an
unnecessarily stiff price for sexual satisfaction. THE VOLUME OF SPERM FLUID LOST IN A LIFETIME
One may conservatively estimate the average American male
ejaculates 5,000 times in his lifetime, equal roughly to 4 gallons of
fluid. The Kinsey Report provided the following details on the
American male's normal frequency of ejaculation:22 Taoist Secrets Of Love
AGE
Puberty-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
51-55
56-60AVERAGE
EJACULATION
PER WEEK
3.17
3.3
4.14
3.51
2.9
2.42
1.95
1.8
1.54
1.09
More recent studies suggest that it is likely that the vital seed
is more frequently lost now than in the time of Kinsey's study
because the overall level of sexual stimulation and activity is pres-
ently higher. The effects of the sexual revolution, availability of
contraceptives, attitudes toward sex in television, film and maga-
zines has been particularly strong in encouraging premarital sex
among youth. But to avoid any statistical inflation, let us use the estimate of
5,000 ejaculations per lifetime made by Kinsey in the 50's. To
calculate the flood of fluid normally lost: 5,000 (ejaculations) x 3
cc (fluid) = 15,000 cc. This is 15 liters or roughly 4 gallons of fluid. The semen spent
in an average ejaculation has a volume of 2 to 5 cubic centimeters. These drops contain 200,000,000 to 500,000,000 individual sperm
cells. YOUR BODY HAS ATOMIC ENERGY IN IT! This is an astonishing statistic: a single male ejaculation scatters
two to five hundred million sperm cells. Cast upon two hundred
and fifty million female eggs, a single ejaculation could conceivably
generate the present population of the United States. Multiplying
this figure by 5,000 ejaculations per lifetime yields a numerical
indication of the seminal power. The normal male ejaculates enough semen to generate oneThe Biology Of Esoteric Sex 23
trillion human lives. Within a single man's loins sits the capacity to
sire more than two hundred times the present population of four
billion on the planet! In a very real sense every man can create a
stockpile of sex energy literally more potent than the atomic bomb. If this immense reservoir of psychic energy were to be redirected
towards love and spiritual harmony, the possibilities for a peaceful
existence seem unlimited. Some Western scientists may scoff at the idea that semen is an
immensely powerful substance. Yet no one can deny the pro-
digious life-potential in the seed of a single man. By gathering this
life-generating force within oneself, one collects tremendous en-
ergy. The effects of conserving this energy would differ with every
individual. No man or race produces the same type of energy. Each
creates according to its own genius. One group develops enormous
physical force, another massive resistance to disease, another
clairvoyant powers, still another great longevity. But all men have
the inherent ability to substantially increase their active lifespan by
creatively adapting to their environment. Scientists have tried to improve upon Darwin's thesis by
focusing on specific genetic impulses behind behavior that lead to
increased survival of an individual's gene pool. This correctly gives
a lot of evolutionary power to our sexual impulses, but ignores the
process whereby this sex energy is transformed into higher cre-
ative impulses of the mind and spirit. The evolved man directs his
animal body and instincts with his mind and spirit. The scientists
maintain the reverse is true. They are right, but only to the extent
that man's evolution back to his original self is incomplete. Man is still bullied about by his biological urges. When man is
complete, and has truly integrated his still clumsy body with his
mind and spirit, his total freedom of spiritual being is beyond the
control of biological instinct. This does not violate the physical
laws of the universe; it simply postulates that we are beings with
the inherent power to cultivate our energy to a level of power
where it allows us to direct our bodies freely. It is not mind over
matter, as that implies a battle. It is more mind inside matter. The
revelations of mind have allowed us to create nuclear bombs and
send man to the moon, so why not use mind to direct its own body
which is immediately at hand? Scientifically minded readers may refuse to accept this. No24 Taoist Secrets Of Love
proof is possible except in the experience given by daily cultivation
of one's chi. Many scientists may have thought it impossible to
have an orgasm without ejaculation, yet I and hundreds of my
students know it is only a matter of education, of training the mind
to control the chi in the domain of its body. While science may analyze the chemical constituents of semi-
nal fluid, it cannot account for the human seed's life-genius. This is
beyond instrumental measure. How can one measure a human life? Only a scientific philistine would try to reduce man to a mechanical
theory. These and other scientific explanations pale before the power
of the seed's ability to make 4 billion unique human beings with
creative intelligence. Theoretical physics now acknowledges it is
impossible to scientifically analyze the ecstatic fact of creation. Quantum physicists have accepted the likelihood that there is no
smallest particle, no physical building block upon which the cos-
mos is built. There are only the multi-universes of space and time
linked together by infinite fields of energy. These are currently
described as gravitational, weak and strong forces, and electro-
magnetism. Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of
nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find
ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it. Sexual energy is a field generated within the body and linked
to the larger cosmic fields in ways that no scientist can presently
understand. But there is no reason to wait 500 years for science to
come up with explanations of sexuality, as every man can experi-
ment with his own sexual energy field and draw his own conclu-
sions today. The Taoist masters were ancient scientists with a
genius for self-observation and were dedicated to furthering human
evolution. Each generation tested the practices taught to them by
their masters and tried to improve on it. The methods of chi
cultivation may have evolved over the millennia, but the principle
has remained the same: The ching or sperm power is a super potent
force readily available to men, awaiting only their harvest. Sexual
essence is a building block for expanding our personal universe,
the foundation for human love and evolution.The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 25
BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SEX HORMONES TO
HEALTH
Modern science has given us the opportunity to study the function
of sperm in the body in amazing detail. Each of the sperm cells
contains 23 chromosomes, prostaglandins, ions, enzymes, trace
elements and other essential parts of human life. Only the elements
of the egg and the nurturing environment of the mother are needed
to form a living human being of infinite potential. The seminal vesicles, two little sacks collecting sperm at the
base of the bladder, are tied to the vas deferens. They produce a
yellow fluid that mixes with the sperm and thickens the seminal
fluid. This secretion contains the sugar, fructose, which nourishes
sperm cells. The prostate gland also contributes to the reproductive secre-
tion. It surrounds the urethra (the main duct or tube running the
length of the penis) beneath the bladder. In ejaculation the prostate
jets forth a thin clear fluid which helps to propel the sperm. Cow-
per's glands along the urethra supply a few drops of alkaline secre-
tion, which serves to neutralize acid remaining from urination. DIAGRAM 7
Testis
(manufactures sperm and
male hormones.) PenisSeminal
Vesicle
(nourishes sperm with
yellowish fluid.) Prostate Gland
(propels sperm
with clear fluid.) Sperm
Palace
(Taoist energy point for
collecting sperm power.) Epididymis26 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Dr. Beyoihn, a noted endocrinologist, stressed the impor-
tance of the hormonal function of semen production: "Sexual hor-
mones are important to our harmonious development. When men
abuse the reproductive function, the secretions of the sexual glands
are lost. . . resulting in mental and physical weakness, inability to
concentrate, and a less tenacious memory. "*
Love-making is an internal exercise which helps restore im-
balances in bodily chemistry. A moderate amount of sex tends to
repair hormonal disturbances, to reduce cholesterol and blood
pressure levels. Sexual activity alters the body chemically. The
reason this happens is because each gland in the body affects all the
others. Thus when sex hormones are stimulated, it stimulates the
hormones secreted by the other major glands—adrenal, thymus,
thyroid, pituitary, and pineal. The illusion when you are young is
that you can stimulate your glands indefinitely, without paying a
price for it. Sex seems like a bottomless well of bliss. It is, if you
take the trouble to recirculate the sexual hormones within the body
instead of repeatedly ejaculating them. These sex hormones do more than just make you feel good. They literally invade every sphere of your activity and form your
personal identity. Recent scientific studies have shown that sex
hormones influence the brain's cellular organization. If you are
male, then your brain has male stamped on each cell. This is what
produces different proclivities in men and women. Dr. Gunter Dorner, director of the Institute for Experimental
Endocronology at Humboldt University in East Germany points
out: "The sex hormones . . . don't just suddenly appear out of
nowhere at puberty. Nor do they just meander about the body. THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO. The cells that are their targets
have already been primed in the womb to respond to the hormones
that are now being produced. This is true of the body, of the
reproductive organs, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. But it is also
true of the brain. The tissues, neural circuitry and chemistry of the
brain have already been stamped during fetal life by the sex hor-
mones. And the foundations have already been laid for the range of
behaviors that will characterize the organism as male or female in
adult life. "*
*E. Flatto, Warning: Sex May Be Hazardous To Your Health (Arco Publishers 1973). *Science Digest, September 1983, p. 87.The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 27
These hormonal differences obviously determine many of the
qualities in men and women the Chinese have called yin and yang. The Taoist goal of total integration of sexual impulse with the mind
begins to make sense even to a western intellectual when the con-
nection between sexual activity, hormonal balance, physical
health, and personality are examined together. The evidence for
health being powerfully affected by hormonal balance has been
well substantiated, and is even now a major topic for cancer re-
searchers in their efforts to understand how the mind and emotions
control our immune system. The Taoists would say it is un-
necessarily complicated to track each individual microscopic hor-
mone receptor and enzyme in the gene code to fight the hundreds
of different types of cancers and diseases that result when our
immune system fails. The Taoists contend the critical factor is simply balance—that
when male and female chi energies are balanced in the body, each
cell will have the energy to function perfectly, and hormones do
their job in making the body machinery run smoothly. This balance
of male and female hormones produces a happy personality who
lives harmoniously with the world. The specific Taoist practice of
sexual energy conservation and transformation is one of many de-
signed to insure that the internal equilibrium of the human energy
system is so powerful that no outside force can destroy its inner
balance. The Taoists thus see everything, hormones, sex, person-
ality, health, and beyond that, your spiritual destiny, linked inex-
tricably together. That is the working of the Tao, which links the
finite ordinary world of a Saturday night date to the explosion of a
super nova light years away. The principle of the fusion of energy
in both is the same. In olden times the Taoist secret of secrets was the method of
being reborn through a process of giving birth to your new self. When I first learned it I didn't understand it, but later, in studying
the endocrine system, I was able to see analogies. I realized that
both men and women have the makings of male and female hor-
mones and that, in effect, they are each capable of having inter-
course within themselves, and giving birth to a new self. The most important connection in the male hormone system is
between the testicles and the pituitary gland located between the
eyebrows, behind the forehead. These glands work together in the
transformation of sexual energy, a fact that you will experience28 Taoist Secrets Of Love
DIAGRAM 8
Pai-Hui (The Crown)
The power of mind control & spiritual
center
Corpus Callosum Skull
Pituitary Gland-
Cavity of the spirit
to transform
sexual energy into
a refined nectar
which is the food
of the spirit. Pons
Medulla Oblongata
SEXUAL ENERGY, GLANDS, HORMONES, PERSONALITY &
DESTINY ARE ALL LINKED TOGETHER IN THE BRAIN.Thalamus Gland
Pineal Gland
Occipital Lobe
(The largest cavity to store
sexual energy.) Cerebellum—
regulates breathing and vision
& is the initial storage area
of Ching
Spinal Cord—
the pathway Chi uses
into the brain. when you begin cultivating your sexual energy up. Your testicles
and your pituitary gland will begin to pulsate together when the
ching is cultivated properly, and is a sign that your glandular sys-
tem is working harmoniously all the time, not just during sex. The
pituitary gland in turn regulates the activity of the other glands. When they are in perfect harmony they secrete an exceptionally
fine nectar—a superfine hormonal substance undiscovered by sci-
entists—which floods the nerve centers of the brain and helps
create the feeling of bliss described by so many mystics. This is
only one phase of spiritual development, but one that is powerfully
affected by the balance of sexual energy in the body. Sexual activity is equally powerful in the more ordinary
spheres of health. Sex offers all of the health benefits of physical
exercise. Sex reduces the tendency to compulsive eating while
burning calories, and thus helps remedy obesity. Sex strains the
heart less than driving a car in city traffic, or watching a good
football game. Moreover, the heart rate quickly diminishes after
sexual action. (For someone on the verge of a heart attack, pas-
sionate sex may be sufficient to trigger it. Passive sex is recom-
mended in this case.) Loving is thus a great natural antidote to stress. Emotional
stress especially causes untold harm, as it is a continuous injury toThe Biology Of Esoteric Sex 29
every cell. Life in our urban society subjects us to increasing doses
of this potent poison. Stress directly causes cardiovascular degeneration, such as
arteriosclerosis and hypertension. Love restores impaired body
chemistry by activating the hormonal centers to defend the phys-
ical body and by harmonizing our mental and spiritual faculties. With frequent ejaculation, the benefits of sex begin to decline,
and vitality ultimately plummets. The sexual big spender loses
stamina. His vision begins to weaken, hair tumbles from his skull. He grows old before his time. The physical damage caused by
expelling the sexual essence from the body is greatly alleviated
only in couples or individuals who create and sustain a powerful
emotional and spiritual love. Over years of marriage, couples who consistently find a
deeper harmony naturally conserve some of their sexual essence. Insurance studies bear this out: married couples live longer than
single people. Two can often share the stress of life better than one
alone. A better balance of yin and yang is achieved. The very act of
love spontaneously transmutes lower vital chi and ching into higher
mind. The Taoist methods of cultivating sexual energy are power-
ful aids to those following this "path of the heart", but take the
path a step further by maximizing the benefits of sex for health and
personal growth. In Chicago a group of elderly people urge couples to practice
sex in a ritualistic fashion to preserve vitality. The group, called
"Sexy Senior Citizens," is the unconscious heir of many compara-
ble societies flourishing in the Orient for millennia which taught
Taoist methods of chi cultivation. With aging all bodily systems become less efficient. Among
these is the hormonal system, which regulates important electro-
magnetic reactions. If hormonal secretion declines from optimal
levels, the body must necessarily weaken. The relations between the hormones, sexuality and aging have
not been fully elucidated. However, many researchers in the van-
guard of medical science feel that the hormones regulating growth
and sexual development play a critical role in aging. These are
produced in the pituitary, thyroid and gonads. The testes have a double function: besides being the factory
for the sperm, they produce male hormones, among which is tes-
tosterone. The Sertoli cells in the testes produce another hormone,30 Taoist Secrets Of Love
inhibin. When not ejaculated, these hormones go into the blood
stream and are carried to every part of the body. DIAGRAM 9
Pleural Cavities
Diaphram
Peritoneum
Bladder
Sexual Kung Fu fills the cranial cavity with Chi. This overflows & begins filling other body
cavities with life-force, retarding the aging
process & strengthening the body's immunity to
disease.The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 31
Much evidence points to the link between harmonious sexual
activity and the retardation of aging. Loving sex stimulates high-
quality hormonal secretion. The presence of these hormones in the
blood appears to slow the aging process. With Taoist cultivation
one produces unusually potent hormones because one focuses en-
ergy directly on the endocrine glands, stimulating them to much
greater levels of activity. Because the hormonal energy is con-
stantly circulated within the body instead of being ejaculated, a
successful student of Taoist loving finds himself with ever-increas-
ing amounts of energy as he grows older. This increased circulation of sexual energy also redistributes
the chi within the body's storage system. As we grow older and our
life force is depleted, our body cavities increase in size and are
gradually filled with fat or various kinds of pollution that speed the
aging process and lower the quality of our final years. The Taoist
method draws sexual energy up from the testicles and fills the
spinal and cranial cavities with ching. When full, this overflows
and begins to fill the chest and abdominal cavities with rejuvenat-
ing life force. These reservoirs of chi within the body supply the raw mate-
rial used to make the body virtually impervious to disease in the
method known as "inner alchemy" to the ancient Taoists. This
process of refining the "Elixir of Immortality" or the "Pill of Im-
mortality" may be described in biological terms as storing the
body's life-force and then returning it to its source. The chi is
moved from these reservoirs within the body cavities into the deep-
est centers of the brain and bones. The secret of packing chi into
the bone marrow is well known to highly achieved masters of Tai
Chi Chuan and other internal martial artists. They know that mus-
cle power cannot survive the aging process, but that bones survive
for thousands of years. This practice which I will describe in an
upcoming book on Iron Shirt Chi Kung, is dependent on retention
of sperm power. Recent scientific studies show the importance of bone marrow
to the production of disease fighting white blood cells. These scien-
tists will eventually catch up with the ancient Taoist masters and
figure out the full connection between healthy sex, hormones and
bone marrow and the prevention of aging and disease.32 Taoist Secrets Of Love
DEATH AND SEX IN THE NATURAL WORLD
"... When the living organism, whether vegetable or animal,
achieves its aim, which is a new seed, its organism deteriorates." —Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man
Nature perpetuates its species through sex. In the male seed she
concentrates the parent's essential elements. The theme of paren-
tal sacrifice for the offspring is repeated in all life forms, from
amoeba to walrus, praying mantis to orchid. One may readily glimpse the death in generation by consider-
ing the Emperor Moth's brief span. This large moth travels many
leagues across the countryside in quest of his female: "The famous
principle of the struggle for life is here the struggle to give life, the
struggle to die. Although they can live three days in quest of the
female, they perish as soon as the fertilization is complete. "*
Plants, too, are subject to these laws. After a plant goes to
seed or bears fruit, it dies or enters a period of dormancy. Gar-
deners know that a plant prevented from going to seed outlives its
more precocious brothers. Most fruit-bearing trees do not produce
fruit until they are five or ten years old. During this period they
devote their entire biological force to the growth and strengthening
of tissue. Later in their life, plants split their vital force between repro-
duction and tissue maintenance. When they grow old they need all
of their remaining energies for survival: they withdraw power from
the sexual sphere and bear no more. Some male insects may increase their lifespan several fold
simply by not spending their seed. One may object that an insect's
sex life has no relevance to ours. Yet the insects excel brilliantly in
sexual invention and effectiveness. They comprise more than half
of the total animal weight on earth. They far surpass human erotic
variety. The insects make D.A.F. de Sade, Saint Anthony, and
David Bowie look like a troop of boyscouts discovering sex for the
first time. Insects work the web of material life with particular intensity. Their power to impose their definition of life is manifest in their
*Carlos Suares, The Cipher of Genesis (Shambhala 1978).The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 33
numbers, gigantic age and breadth of habitat, garb and custom. Marxist-Socialist deification of the State but weakly mimicks their
pitiless genius for collective organization. Rather than staggering
them, nuclear war will offer a rare occasion to spin new organs to
create an abundancy of new life forms. In all forms of life the reproductive act exhausts essential
energies. The offspring consume bodily stores of nutrition to get a
grip on their new life. Vital organs suffer the most depletion be-
cause they contain the densest concentration of nutrients. Among
humans, the female sacrifice of her bodily energy is unavoidable in
the passage to birth. The male, likewise, must surrender the po-
tency of his seed at least once to fertilize the female ovum. Nature warrants the sacrifice worthwhile, for it fulfills her
goal of multiplying life. She intends the old to make way for the
new. But amongst all material creatures, only man has the force of
will to oppose Mother Nature. "Not distance, not the difficulty of
the journey, not the danger of approach foils instinct (in the animal
kingdom). In man, who sometimes has the force to escape the
sexual commandments, disobedience may have fortunate results. Chastity in a human being can function like a transformer,
changing unused sexual energy into intellectual or social energy. Among animals, this transformation of physiological values is im-
possible. "*
It is the very possibility of transforming our instinctual and
essentially animal sexual energies into something higher that
makes us human, and potentially divine. The failure to direct our
sexual energy upward is a failure to fulfill our deepest human po-
tential. That is why unconscious sex with ejaculation of the male
seed is a kind of mini-death seen so often in the plant and animal
kingdoms. Two hundred to five hundred million sperm die upon a
single ejaculation. The expenditure of subtle energy is even much
greater than these huge numbers suggest. If this spent seed leads to any kind of rebirth in the man, or in
the woman, receiving new life, this loss or death is in harmony with
nature. But without transforming these mini-deaths into a sharing,
a love, a child, or a higher awareness of some sort, this act of sex
becomes a mere killing of the potential life energy stored in the
seed. Perhaps that's the connection between sex and violence. *Suares, op. cit.34 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Those radically opposed to abortion and contraception might as
well begin their campaign against men who kill their potential life-
force by ejaculating needlessly. Although the Taoists have no concept of sin, they might say
that man has fallen to his current weakened psychic state in large
part because he has squandered his sexual energies over the last
several millennia. The Chinese legends speak of a golden age when
all men lived in harmony with nature and transmuted their seed up
as naturally as you or I breathe. Whether or not this is literally true
is irrelevant—the kernel of truth in the story is that man is capable
of a much higher existence than what he now accepts. The story
bears a striking resemblance to the Biblical story of Adam and
Eve's fall from grace after tasting the forbidden fruits of sexual
love. In this sense, the end of the Taoist cultivation is to regain the
lost paradise which still exists within every man and woman, their
original nature. The major function of sex in nature is to create new life and to
perpetuate the species. Yet in our time humanity has been fruitful
and multiplied itself to the brink of overpopulation and its atten-
dant ecological horrors. The abuse of sexual power through indis-
criminate procreation has brought humanity to a global crisis. It
has accelerated the danger of a war which might result in the ex-
tinction of the species. Apart from certain insects and higher apes, animals engage in
sexual intercourse for reproductive purposes only. The female re-
ceives the male only at definite mating periods, that overall com-
promise a small part of the animal's lifespan. It is clear that sex-
uality plays a different role for humans than it does for animals, and
it is critical that men and women become educated as to the pos-
sibility sex can play in their own evolution and thus affect the
balance of nature as well.CHAPTER 4
THE SEXUAL ECONOMY
"Man cannot be without woman and woman cannot be without
man. If you think intercourse is an isolated or separate act, longev-
ity is threatened and every illness arises." —from the Recipe for Making Priceless Gold
Sun S'su-Mo, physician who lived 101 years36 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Every man is born with a certain amount of priceless vital chi
energy. Some begin with more than others, but for the sake of
simplicity let us assume an average man is born with a sum of
vitality likened at $1,000,000. Over one's life span this million dol-
lar's worth of life force is spent. Some spend wisely and live heart-
ily into the 80's and 90's. When you are young you spend it faster
because it seems like such a huge amount it could never run out. Most people in our consumer society spend more money than
they earn. They borrow themselves deep in the hole, assuming
they will earn enough to pay it back later. If they fail, they face
bankruptcy or a corrective period of lean living. Through poor
habits the same thing happens with life energy, only the penalty is
loss of appetite for life, sickness, and death. Let us say that someone earns an additional 100 units of life
force daily through breathing, eating and resting. Yet he may spend
125 units of life through poor diet, smoking, gluttony, overwork,
anxiety, constitutional weakness, drug abuse and frequent loss of
the vital sex fluid. To spend the extra 25 units he must continuously
borrow vitality from the brain and organs. This theft of vital energy
from one's own million dollar reserves gradually induces mental
and physical sickness and premature aging. Conserving sexual energy is a practical way to earn 125 units
and spend 100 units or less. It's an investment in one's physical,
mental, and spiritual growth. The imbalance of one's personal
economy can be corrected by reducing the disastrously wasteful
expenditure of ejaculation. A "profit" of 25 units of vitality is then
made by transforming the conserved sexual fluid into higher mental
or spiritual energy. Eliminating other bad habits will reduce the
loss and increase the profit, but no other single factor in life is so
potent as sexual energy. If you work hard all day, you've already used up much en-
ergy. If you then have a few drinks, eat a heavy dinner and later
have sex in which you ejaculate the vital sperm fluid, you are
overspending your life's provision prematurely. Some people
would call it a day well spent, as they cannot envision anything
better in life to spend their energy on. If you continue to overtax
your resources, you may wake one morning fatigued with life, sick
with arthritis or cancer, or maybe you won't wake up at all. You
will have prematurely exhausted your vital capital and may have to
die at an age that you feel is somehow "unfair" or possibly worse,The Sexual Economy 37
suffer through your final years in life with your creative powers and
physical faculties greatly diminished. I am a Taoist living in the twentieth century near New York
City and lead an extremely busy life. I have a wife and an overly
energetic young child. I own a computer, drive a car in city traffic,
deal with teaching hundreds of students, and maintain a heavy
travel schedule flying around the U.S.I know it is possible to lead a
rich and rewarding life without exhausting oneself, and have seen
my students do the same. The more you cultivate your chi energy
with daily practice, the easier it becomes to replace energy spent
and still end up ahead. Of course, if you choose a simpler lifestyle you can progress
much more quickly. That's why many Taoists choose to live up in
the peaceful mountains. But you can live by the same Taoist princi-
ples anywhere. The universe is bountiful if you know how to live
with it. Sexual energy is one of the most abundant gifts given to us
by nature, yet most people casually toss it away without realizing
the full value of its treasure. As Americans become more aware of the importance of per-
sonal health they are seeking to change their lifestyles. Many peo-
ple are now realizing that they have been living destructively. For-
tunately, they have grown conscious before it is too late. Whether
they are jogging or taking a dance class, they wish to begin a life-
energy conservation program. First they must pay the interest on
the vital sums they have overspent from their mind and body. After
a while they may repay both interest and principal as they begin to
produce and conserve more energy. At that point they can take the
path of cultivating their chi energy into its original spirit. Have realistic expectations. You may have spent more vi-
tality than you had to spare. Concentration and patience are neces-
sary to recover it. You can spend $100,000 in an hour, but you may
need one year to earn it back. Serious physical and mental trauma,
heavy use of drugs, and frequent ejaculation all involve grossly
excessive spending. Many young people seem to have unlimited
energy. But these youths are toying with the sources of life as if on
a wild spending spree. Many older people apparently in good health are, in fact,
tottering on the brink of serious breakdown. Only the strength of
habitual self-will allows them to continue to function. When they
have a check-up—often prompted by unconscious awareness of38 Taoist Secrets Of Love
their condition—the doctor may order an immediate halt to stren-
uous exertion. Often these people collapse in the first days of their
enforced rest because the flimsy strand of willpower which kept
them going has been cut. Friends will say, "I can't believe it. Yesterday he seemed strong as an ox." If you learn to balance your
account in the sexual economy, you will be taking the most prudent
steps possible to avoid such a scenario in your own life. THE YOUTHFUL FURY OF SEXUAL FRUSTRATION
One of my main concerns is the frustration of youth in our society. Upon the quality of their thoughts and acts civilization will endure
or crumble. Most male youths are more interested in sex than
almost any other subject. This is natural, as their bodies are work-
ing overtime to produce billions of sperm cells. Women cannot
imagine what an intense experience this is, as their energy cycle is
more evenly distributed over the fluctuation of a monthly men-
strual cycle. This build-up of male energy is a natural manifestation of
universal Yang energy. The development of traditional romantic
love at this stage is natural. If this expanding Yang energy finds a
receptive female to nourish it the love between them can mature
and spiritual evolution gradually awaken. The problem of ob-
sessive sex arises from a material society that stresses the value of
physical sex so highly that people remain immature all their lives
seeking to sustain a lusty image of sex that exhausts them and
ultimately blocks their evolution by stimulating them to rapid loss
of their seed. The harder youths try to grab pleasure, the more surely it
eludes them. In their frustration, many seek pleasure with increas-
ing fury, a quest for identity that leads to frequent masturbation
and promiscuity. The more often they spill out their vital seed, the
more empty they gradually become despite the temporary feeling
of gratification as the life force passes out their loins. Unrestrained
sexual frenzy can destroy a young man's fragile identity and melt
him into the mob mind cultivated by sex-for-profit industry and
sexually exploitive media shows. Higher vital energy which should
nourish the young person's true center serves instead to grease the
empty fantasy of his bed of lust. Afterward he is left with nothing. This spells spiritual disaster if the excesses are not corrected inThe Sexual Economy 39
time. This type of young man may have difficulty in his relationship
with women and ultimately this leaves a vacuum in his understand-
ing of himself and the female pole of his own male energy. For this same reason adolescents tend to fanaticism, political,
religious, or otherwise. Mao's Red Guard is but one youth group
that has propagated its reigning tyrant's brand of fascism. The
proliferation of various cults in the U.S. is strong evidence that the
young are not able to fill the void in their lives with the physical
pleasures that have become standard. If the fragile link with his
newly forming adult identity is frayed or broken by lack of love or
social nurturance, a youth has only the group psyche to animate his
life. The group mind provides the fullness their hollowness craves. As Nature abhors a vacuum, their own emptiness despises itself. These remarks apply to adults in our sex obsessed society as
well; many are desperately questioning for an identity that is their
own by natural right, if only they knew how to claim it. The proper
understanding of the function of sexual love in their personal evo-
lution would go far to correct these excesses. Education about
methods of chi cultivation of all types, but especially of the sexual
energy is the most direct solution. Teenagers will never give up
their sexual desire, but it is not far-fetched that many of them
would be interested in improving it if they knew how. SEX AND THE SUPER ATHLETE
There is a widespread belief among many professional sports
coaches that an athlete who makes love the night before a big game
loses his competitive edge. This is a controversial topic and a sur-
vey of existing opinion on the subject is inconclusive. Clive Davis,
editor of the Journal Of Sex Research, looked into the effects of
having sex before competition and concluded "You can always
find anecdotal reports to support any position you want to take, but
certainly you couldn't support either side medically." Top-ranked prize-fighters are the most vociferous in contend-
ing that they cannot violate natural laws without paying a stiff
price. Ken Norton publicly stated that he gave up sex for eight
weeks before his first fight with Ali and abstained for a similar
length of time in subsequent Ali fights. "A couple of times in my
first 10 or 11 fights, when I didn't abstain from sex, I think it hurt
me." Norton said that he believed that "9 out of 10" fighters give40 Taoist Secrets Of Love
up sex while training for a bout. Joe Frazier, who also fought Ali,
felt very strongly about the damaging effects of ejaculatory sex: "If
you mess around before a fight you don't have any reserve energy
left." It is rumored that the great Muhammed Ali observed strictest
sexual continence for as long as one year before his bouts. He
didn't publicize this because he keeps his training methods secret. The Taoist approach to sexuality resolves the dilemma facing
a male athlete who is forced to choose between losing his competi-
tive edge or his woman. An athlete can have the best of both
worlds by learning the secrets of conserving and transforming sex-
ual energy.
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        When lovers are in close embrace subtle Yin and Yang energies are
concentrated into vortexes from the sexual region to the head and
eventually remain in the head at all times. WHY HAS THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF SEX
BEEN KEPT A SECRET. Our race has finally grown aware of the need to conserve natural
resources, lest we consume ourselves to total ruin. Fresh water,
soil, forests, and fuels must be spared, food produced more effi-
ciently, building and transportation accomplished with less waste. We have already exhausted a major portion of the readily recover-
able riches of the planet. The cost of basic commodities skyrockets
because, with the few resources left, we continue to over produce
inefficient machines such as cars and unproductive military arma-
ments—tanks, missiles, etc. Everyone is eager to conserve natural resources, but few even
dream of conserving the most critical resource of all: one's own
vital energies. The careful harboring of the energy stored within
man's seed is a truly rational energy program. Yet this aspect of
conservation is entirely overlooked by politicians and health
experts. 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 medi-
tation 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 ser-
vice. 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 inti-
mate 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 develop-
ment of the male. A classic Taoist story tells of a woman who learned the pro-
cess 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 technologi-
cal advances in medicine, chemistry, biology, navigation, andMale Sex Energy Is Stored In Its Seed 7
many other fields that would not be discovered by western scien-
tists until 2000 years later. Nor did they crave exclusive possession
of their potent knowledge. They had their reasons for secrecy, and
their reasons were well-founded at the time. They were custodians
of the doctrine taught to them by their masters, and feared the
misuse of the great force unlocked by the secret principles. Per-
haps, they felt an obligation to protect the public from its tendency
to distort the purest teaching to suit its own base instincts. In rural
China, which was much less populous then, someone with such
esoteric knowledge could easily become a chieftain or a king. A
warrior could use his power to defeat his opponents. The Taoist Masters thus thought it dangerous to spread their
teachings too widely, and passed them on to only a few chosen
disciples before departing their earthly life. To guarantee that the
formulae not be used for selfish purposes, these Masters often
transmitted to each disciple only a part of the doctrine. Thus, only
if the disciples banded together and shared their learning could the
supreme potencies be unleashed. If anyone selfishly withheld his
learning, they would never receive the whole doctrine. In the
course of many generations, fragments of the innermost secrets
came to be regarded as the whole. My attempt is to reunite many
disparate parts into an organic whole which I believe similar to the
most ancient and complete teachings. WHY REVEAL THE SECRET NOW. Why violate the traditional Chinese teaching method and expose to
the general public these powerful principles. The simple reason is
that the historic moment is already late. The human condition is
too desperate to deprive our species of a potentially great infusion
of vital energy. If the human race is not quickly infused with a new
life energy to render it more harmonious than it has been for most
of the last 2,000 years, we are all, earthly Masters and mortals,
threatened with an untenably harsh existence, if not extinction. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market,
test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. Our race
spends its brief span fiddling with statistics, black boxes, noxious
chemicals, and above all, with meaningless words. A majority of
Americans daily pass more than six hours in a mesmerized trance
induced by a colored shadow dancing in a box of glass. These8 Taoist Secrets Of Love
machines have inadvertently become instruments of our own de-
struction; a tv programmed mind is not a free mind. Too few de-
vote even one second to entering deeply the great current of life
hidden within ourselves. Yet all the technological energy is eagerly
sought is an apish imitation of the electrifying ecstasies found hid-
den within the body and mind. There are positive signs; in Taoist thinking, any excess even-
tually leads to its opposite. Despite the current mediocrity of most
popular culture, there are tremendous forces driving the race into
expanded consciousness. It is clear that the reason for the chaotic
state of planetary affairs is the revolutionary advance in human
consciousness. In simplest terms, hydrogen bombs hover above us
only because we are clever enough to conjure them up. Hatred
contains the seeds of love. We have created a crisis in order to
force a solution demanding that we restore our balance with one
another and nature. Among the most important implications of this soaring up of
consciousness is that the ordinary man will be admitted to secrets
of life and mind that were formerly reserved for the chosen few. The French scientist Schwaller de Lubicz elucidated this idea: "It
is certain that such a revolution in thought. is not the result of
whim. It is in fact a question of cosmic influence to which the
earth, along with everything in it, is subjected. A phase in the
gestation of the planetary particle of our solar system is completed. A new period must begin, and this is heralded by seismic
movement, climatic changes, and finally, above all, by the spirit
that animates man. " Not only do troubles press consciousness to
evolve, but changing consciousness bursts the constraints of exist-
ing order. I hope that the Taoist practices of cultivating male energy
presented here will attain higher perfection when subject to the
shock of opposing ideas, scientific study and personal experiment,
and the whole race's inventive genius. Today in China, it is for-
mally prohibited to keep secret beneficial practices: one must re-
veal all knowledge that may improve the general welfare. Hence-
forth, closely-guarded preparations of medicinal herbs, roots,
mineral waters, barks, muds, flowers, gems, venoms, as well as
yogic and meditation practices will reach perfection more quickly
by serving all. So the revelation of the Taoist secrets of sex is a contributionMale Sex Energy Is Stored In Its Seed 9
to human culture that may take time to manifest its real influence. Where a few great minds once acted, the full race of human genius
must now struggle to save our world from the dangers of its own
excess. CHAPTER 2
WHAT IS "CHI" ENERGY. "Essence, chi, and spirit are the three jewels of life. ' —Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth,
Master Ni Hua Ching
Taoist cultivation of sexual energy cannot be understood until the
Chinese concept of "chi" is clear. Chi, also known as prana, the
warm current, Kundalini power, or the electro-magnetic life force,
is very difficult to describe because this life energy is invisible and
cannot be seen. However, we can feel it. "Chi" is simply the
Chinese word for "breath. " On the physical level it is the raw air
we breathe in and out, revitalizing us and keeping us alive. Our life
hangs by this thin thread of breath every second of our lives, and
that thread is seemingly empty air. We transform that raw air by mixing it with other nutrients
and refining it into a different kind of energy, one that takes a solid
form. It becomes our blood, flesh and bones, but never loses an
inner rhythm of pulsation that flows through each cell. Our vital
organs—heart, liver, kidney, and glands—in turn refine this energy
and send chi power to the higher functions of our brain, thus creat-
ing our thoughts, dreams, and emotions. From this emerges the
human will to live and die, the power to love and ponder this
breathing planet suspended in the vacuum of space. As this "chi"12 Taoist Secrets Of Love
follows a self-perpetuating cycle, its rhythm becomes so natural we
hardly ever notice it. When was the last time you marvelled at the
simple fact you are breathing and your heart is beating. The ancient Taoist masters spent a lot of time observing the
flow of this "chi", which they recognized as the breath of the
universe that moves through everything. Chi is the glue between
our body, mind, and spirit, the link between our perception of the
inner and outer worlds. Living close to nature with few of the
distractions of modern civilization, the Taoists were able to map in
fine detail the workings of the chi energy both within the human
body and in the world at large. Later Taoists made numerous dis-
tinctions between the different kinds of "chi" that operate, so that
today in China the working heirs to their knowledge—the acu-
puncturists and herbologists—refer to as many as 32 different func-
tions of chi in the human body. The Chinese never bother trying to analyze exactly what this
"chi" is. Whether it is matter or energy or a process of changing
between the two is irrelevant. All that matters is how the chi func-
tions, in short, what it does. When you want light in your room you
turn on the lamp, the electricity flows and radiates light. You don't
analyze it, you simply flip the switch. When an acupuncturist in-
serts a needle into a point on a liver meridian, he switches on the
liver "chi" so it flows more powerfully. DIAGRAM 2
YANG ENERGY (HEAVEN)
+
YIN ENERGY
(WATER, EARTH)What Is Chi Energy. 13
CHI: ELECTRICITY OF THE HUMAN BODY
Modern scientists are beginning to describe the world in much the
same fashion that the ancient Taoists described it—as an interplay
of positively (yang) and negatively (yin) charged "chi" energies. Here is a recent description of electricity in Time-Life's science
magazine:
"Electricity is almost certainly the most elusive of everyday things: It
lives in the walls of our houses, and regulates the lives of our cells. It
bolts from the sky as lightning, and sparks from your finger if you
touch a metal doorknob after shuffling across the rug. It shapes the
structure of matter—making plastic pliable, oil slick, and glue sticky. It runs electric trains and human brains. Light is electromagnetic
radiation—and that includes everything from visible light to x-rays,
microwaves, and radio waves. The magnetism in iron magnets is
caused by the spinning of countless electrons twirling in unison, just
as the magnetic field of the earth is most probably created by the
swirling of electric currents in its molten metal core. "Your entire body is a giant electric machine: body chemistry (like all
chemistry) is based on electrical bonds. It even runs on electricity. The energy you need to see these words comes from the egg you ate
for breakfast; the egg got its energy from the corn consumed by the
hen; the corn extracted that energy directly from the electromagnetic
light of the sun through photosynthesis. "When you think about it, the universe is positively (and negatively)
electrifying. But because of the usually perfect balance between
positive and negative forces, most of the electrical power around you
is neutralized—and therefore unnervingly invisible, at least in the
normal sense. Essentially, everything around us is electrically
charged empty space. " K. C. COLE,
Discover Magazine, Feb. 1984
What is curious is that even in China today, ordinary people
take for granted that the universe is made up of these charged
energies. If asked, they would say a garlic has a very hot (chi)
energy. It warms the body: therefore the essence of garlic "chi" is
hot, or yang. In the early centuries of China, chi was expressed in
written Chinese as a blank in the top portion of the Chinese pic-
togram and as fire in the lower part. This was done so that no
"fire"—no single creative energy might be conceived of as defin-
ing chi. 14 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Chi pre-existed before everything in the physical world as
original chi, or pure energy. This neatly avoided disagreements
about the metaphysical nature of original chi (eg. is God good or
evil. ) and focused attention on its functional manifestation in the
ordinary world, as hot yang chi in fresh garlic or weak yin chi in a
diseased liver. As a result, Taoist philosophy tends to be very
pragmatic and grounded in observation of the natural organic
world. Taoist cultivation of chi energy may extend into what may
at first glance appear to be impossibly subtle spiritual realms, but it
always begins with down-to-earth and in-the-body practices. DIAGRAM 3
THE ANCIENT CHINESE CHARACTER FOR CHI ENERGY
derived from the root of fire above
and emptiness below to denote its original purity. HOW DOES "CHING", OR
"SEXUAL ESSENCE" FUNCTION IN HUMANS. For the Taoists, sexual energy is called "ching," or "essence. " It
can also be understood as a kind of "human electricity" because
like "chi" it is an invisible energy that flows through the body. However in its raw physical form, it is stored in men in their sperm
and women in their ovaries. Thus it is a kind of chi energy that hasWhat Is Chi Energy. 15
been transformed by bodily process into a more potent form. It is
raw matter distilled into a powerful essence that has the ability to
recreate the entire human organism. For men, their sperm power is
the essence of their "yang" or male energy. When you feel sexually aroused, this is your "ching" essence
expanding at a phenomenally powerful rate. Your whole being is
suddenly charged with new energy, your body fired with passion
and your heart transfixed with desire. It's like turning on the light
switch. Your entire world of touch and feeling is dramatically
changed from night to day within seconds. This happens in men
when they feel attracted to a woman because their hundreds of
millions of sperm cells begin vibrating and generating a larger field
of sexual electro-magnetic energy. It also occurs spontaneously in
the springtime. When trees are bursting with sap, man's ching is
attuned to the cycles of nature and expands as well. What is the
relationship of this sexual "ching" essence and the other types of
chi energies that form your life force. MAJOR PHASES OF CHI ENERGY
The following lists in simplified form some of the major phases of
"chi" in humans and their relationship to "ching" essence as well
as "shien," or spirit, the highest stage of refinement. These three:
chi, ching and shien, are known as the "three treasures" because
their proper cultivation leads one to enlightenment. 1. Prenatal Energy: Combines "chi" and "ching" inherited
from mother and father, expressed in the gene code and visible as
the innate vitality that people have. 2. Breath Energy: Body absorbs cosmic energy from the inha-
lation and exhalation of air. Those who breathe properly—relaxed,
deep breaths to the abdomen—will receive more energy. 3. Food Energy: The purity of chi received from food will
depend on quality of diet and ability of body to digest and assimi-
late nutrients. 4. Meridian Energy: Comes from different types of body cells
that produce the energy. It courses through the acupuncture chan-
nels linking all the vital organs and glands. 5. Pulsation Energy: The deep rhythm of your body, felt es-
pecially in veins and arteries, also seen in biorhythm energy flue-16 Taoist Secrets Of Love
tuations that harmonize our emotional, mental and physical bodies. 6. Sperm (Ovarian) Energy: "Ching" is the sexual essence
that exists from birth but grows more powerful when fed by other
types of chi (food, breath, etc. ) Sex essence is the source of all
energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien). 7. Spirit Energy: "Shien" is the light behind our personality,
the ability to discriminate, human self-awareness. At its purest
level, it is our very being. 8. Wu Chi: The emptiness, or void from which all chi energies
originate and must return. (Original Chi)
DIAGRAM 4
THE CYCLE OF SUBTLE ENERGY
Wu Chi (Nothingness)
Yang/Heaven
Shien, Ching
and Chi
Reunite
Ching Chi,
Sexual essence
underlies all
procreationT'ai Chi
(Pure polarity)
Yin/Yang duality
underlies all existence
Five primordial elements
(Fire, water, earth, metal, wood)
Various kinds of Chi energy
Outside Chi energy is
converted to Ching Chi
inside the body
•Yin/EarthSun
Food'WaterWhat Is Chi Energy. 17
The goal of Taoists is to cultivate the life energy to the highest
level possible, bringing good health and deep fulfillment of the
human aspiration for wholeness. The early sages observed the nat-
ural process of the raw chi of the universal elements—sun and
earth, food and air—being transformed into ching, or sex energy,
and in the male stored as sperm. The next step is far more subtle
and difficult to observe. The sperm energy is mixed with the chi of
the human vital organs and refined into shien, or spirit. In short,
sex energy offers a link between our biological and metaphysical
identities, between the animal and the divine. Sexual ability gives
man the divine power to re-create himself, but it also binds him to
his animal body and that of his lover. *
The Taoists believe that you can use any substance or force
that exists in the universe to feed the process of cultivating your
spirit, and thereby free yourself of the limitations of your animal
body. Everything has energy in it, and human consciousness can
absorb that energy if it so desires. But some substances are easier
for the human body to change into a useable form than others. For
example, you can absorb the energy from eating a good hot meal
more easily then you can from sitting on the beach under the sun. The solar energy is too raw and too powerful to be easily "di-
gested" by the body. Sunlight will burn you severely if you try to
absorb too much. But your body can easily assimilate a plate of
food and function for a long time on the calories and nutrients
digested. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUNGER AND SEXUAL DESIRE
What is the difference between food and sex as energies that our
bodies crave to be fed. Many people confuse the hunger for food
and sex as being similar biological desires that are both necessary
for survival. Clearly they are connected, as many people feeling
sexual frustration turn to food for gratification. An imbalance in
*If you are interested in a fuller elucidation of the working of chi energy in the spiritual
realms, read two books by Taoist Master Ni, Hua Ching: "Tao: The Subtle Universal Law"
and "The Taoist Inner View of the Universe and the Immortal Realm" (College of Tao, 117
Stonehaven Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049). There are many volumes in Chinese on this
subject, but I feel these are the best translations and commentary on the Taoist canon
available in English. Ni's translation of the I Ching is preferred over those of western
scholars, who don't understand fully the esoteric aspects of these classic texts. His transla-
tion is titled "The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth. "18 Taoist Secrets Of Love
ching (sex) energy ranks as a major cause of obesity—when you
are sexually frustrated, food is the easiest substitute. The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex
(ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been
refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or
"absorb" than a raw substance like food. Food must be broken
down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual
essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milli-
seconds to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or
the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our
entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling. Thus sexual energy potentially has a far higher value than
food as a kind of "nourishment" needed for human emotional
maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also consid-
ered a department of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-of-
factly. A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love
making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, ex-
pressed through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most
potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb"
that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which
governs our organ vitality and general immunological system. People become obsessed by their relationships as the ex-
change of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of
sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get
complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible
and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchang-
ing and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible. It can be known only through your feelings and intuition. A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly culti-
vated, and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous,
sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral
energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough,
divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it. Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other exam-
ples of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate
the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real
woman's "yin" sexual energy. The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food
and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufac-
tured and stored inside your body. This precious substance—What Is Chi Energy. 19
sperm, with its extraordinary power to mate with a female egg and
create another life—is manufactured and stored in your testicles
for safekeeping. The point is that you are free to tap into your
supply of sex energy at anytime by drawing the sperm power from
the testicles. DIAGRAM 5
The modern character for fire can be
interpreted as: the primordial element
of fire, physical fire, or psychic heat
burning beneath the Taoist cauldron. If you run out of sperm your body automatically makes more. This allows you to be physically ready for your lover at all times. Even if you are alone, without a lover, and never intend to procre-
ate, your body produces the sperm and transforms it into creative
sexual energy. So you can always transform this stored sex energy
into spirit, your pure awareness, and express it through creative
personality at will. So in fact "ching" is internal energy that nour-
ishes us night and day without ceasing. The process of refinement
is partly automatic, and partly voluntary. We can either help or
hinder the process of transforming our sex energy into creativity
depending on how aware we are of our internal process. Yet, like
breathing, we draw on this source of energy constantly without
being aware of it. Freud stumbled partially upon this truth many millennia after
the Taoist masters had clearly mapped out the role of sex in shap-
ing our destiny. Freud didn't realize that the mental neuroses he
discovered could be healed by cultivating the sexual and other Chi
energies within the body. When these energies are re-balanced
through proper love-making and meditation, the mind is re-pat-
terned and freed of old traumas and habits. Taoist cultivation of
one's sexual energy is an extremely powerful tool for self therapy. So powerful, in fact, that it should be used only by those who have
achieved a certain degree of integration in the body, mind, and20 Taoist Secrets Of Love
spirit. Severly imbalanced individuals may release more energy
than they can safely deal with, and should see a psychiatrist before
attempting to learn the Taoist methods. DIAGRAM 6
The average male spends about Vs of
his lifetime to produce sperm. This energy
can be cultivated for health & spiritual
development. 100% Life force energy v
30% to produce
sexual energy
70% Is used for dally work,
digestion etc. This unique human freedom of utilizing our sexual energy so
flexibly does not come without it's price. The price is that we
spend an estimated 25% to 40% of our chi energy taken in through
food, air, and sunlight just to manufacture this sperm energy and
maintain sexual readiness. Why does the body spend so much of its
valuable resources to produce billions of sperm cells and regulate
them with an accompanying hormonal system. Simply to produce
a few children over the course of a lifetime. Nature is not that
extravagant. The enormous investment of our bodies in producing
this sperm energy is to speed our overall evolution. The more
successful man is in transforming his stored energy into higher
creative and spiritual energy, the more rapid his evolution. This
path of Taoist cultivation of chi energy is simply an attempt to most
efficiently utilize the natural gifts every man is born with to evolve
the maximum possible in a single lifetime. CHAPTER 3
THE BIOLOGY OF ESOTERIC SEX
Ordinarily discharge of the seminal fluid completes the act of love. As soon as the fluid is spent, the body strains to replace it. The
faster sperm is used, the more the body is forced to produce. Quite
obviously, production of this nutritionally rich and psychically su-
perpotent substance requires an enormous amount of raw mate-
rials. The reproductive glands receive these raw materials from the
blood stream. In its turn, the blood withdraws the precious ele-
ments from every part of the body, liver, kidney, spleen, etc. ,
including the brain. Every organ pays heavy tribute to the glands that produce the
sexual seed. Because a single drop of semen houses such pro-
digious life energies, frequent loss of fluid depletes the body sys-
tems of their most precious nutrients and speeds the inevitable
physical decline into old age. Retaining the seed within the body is
the first step to reversing this cycle in which the male pays an
unnecessarily stiff price for sexual satisfaction. THE VOLUME OF SPERM FLUID LOST IN A LIFETIME
One may conservatively estimate the average American male
ejaculates 5,000 times in his lifetime, equal roughly to 4 gallons of
fluid. The Kinsey Report provided the following details on the
American male's normal frequency of ejaculation:22 Taoist Secrets Of Love
AGE
Puberty-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
51-55
56-60AVERAGE
EJACULATION
PER WEEK
3. 17
3. 3
4. 14
3. 51
2. 9
2. 42
1. 95
1. 8
1. 54
1. 09
More recent studies suggest that it is likely that the vital seed
is more frequently lost now than in the time of Kinsey's study
because the overall level of sexual stimulation and activity is pres-
ently higher. The effects of the sexual revolution, availability of
contraceptives, attitudes toward sex in television, film and maga-
zines has been particularly strong in encouraging premarital sex
among youth. But to avoid any statistical inflation, let us use the estimate of
5,000 ejaculations per lifetime made by Kinsey in the 50's. To
calculate the flood of fluid normally lost: 5,000 (ejaculations) x 3
cc (fluid) = 15,000 cc. This is 15 liters or roughly 4 gallons of fluid. The semen spent
in an average ejaculation has a volume of 2 to 5 cubic centimeters. These drops contain 200,000,000 to 500,000,000 individual sperm
cells. YOUR BODY HAS ATOMIC ENERGY IN IT. This is an astonishing statistic: a single male ejaculation scatters
two to five hundred million sperm cells. Cast upon two hundred
and fifty million female eggs, a single ejaculation could conceivably
generate the present population of the United States. Multiplying
this figure by 5,000 ejaculations per lifetime yields a numerical
indication of the seminal power. The normal male ejaculates enough semen to generate oneThe Biology Of Esoteric Sex 23
trillion human lives. Within a single man's loins sits the capacity to
sire more than two hundred times the present population of four
billion on the planet. In a very real sense every man can create a
stockpile of sex energy literally more potent than the atomic bomb. If this immense reservoir of psychic energy were to be redirected
towards love and spiritual harmony, the possibilities for a peaceful
existence seem unlimited. Some Western scientists may scoff at the idea that semen is an
immensely powerful substance. Yet no one can deny the pro-
digious life-potential in the seed of a single man. By gathering this
life-generating force within oneself, one collects tremendous en-
ergy. The effects of conserving this energy would differ with every
individual. No man or race produces the same type of energy. Each
creates according to its own genius. One group develops enormous
physical force, another massive resistance to disease, another
clairvoyant powers, still another great longevity. But all men have
the inherent ability to substantially increase their active lifespan by
creatively adapting to their environment. Scientists have tried to improve upon Darwin's thesis by
focusing on specific genetic impulses behind behavior that lead to
increased survival of an individual's gene pool. This correctly gives
a lot of evolutionary power to our sexual impulses, but ignores the
process whereby this sex energy is transformed into higher cre-
ative impulses of the mind and spirit. The evolved man directs his
animal body and instincts with his mind and spirit. The scientists
maintain the reverse is true. They are right, but only to the extent
that man's evolution back to his original self is incomplete. Man is still bullied about by his biological urges. When man is
complete, and has truly integrated his still clumsy body with his
mind and spirit, his total freedom of spiritual being is beyond the
control of biological instinct. This does not violate the physical
laws of the universe; it simply postulates that we are beings with
the inherent power to cultivate our energy to a level of power
where it allows us to direct our bodies freely. It is not mind over
matter, as that implies a battle. It is more mind inside matter. The
revelations of mind have allowed us to create nuclear bombs and
send man to the moon, so why not use mind to direct its own body
which is immediately at hand. Scientifically minded readers may refuse to accept this. No24 Taoist Secrets Of Love
proof is possible except in the experience given by daily cultivation
of one's chi. Many scientists may have thought it impossible to
have an orgasm without ejaculation, yet I and hundreds of my
students know it is only a matter of education, of training the mind
to control the chi in the domain of its body. While science may analyze the chemical constituents of semi-
nal fluid, it cannot account for the human seed's life-genius. This is
beyond instrumental measure. How can one measure a human life. Only a scientific philistine would try to reduce man to a mechanical
theory. These and other scientific explanations pale before the power
of the seed's ability to make 4 billion unique human beings with
creative intelligence. Theoretical physics now acknowledges it is
impossible to scientifically analyze the ecstatic fact of creation. Quantum physicists have accepted the likelihood that there is no
smallest particle, no physical building block upon which the cos-
mos is built. There are only the multi-universes of space and time
linked together by infinite fields of energy. These are currently
described as gravitational, weak and strong forces, and electro-
magnetism. Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of
nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find
ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it. Sexual energy is a field generated within the body and linked
to the larger cosmic fields in ways that no scientist can presently
understand. But there is no reason to wait 500 years for science to
come up with explanations of sexuality, as every man can experi-
ment with his own sexual energy field and draw his own conclu-
sions today. The Taoist masters were ancient scientists with a
genius for self-observation and were dedicated to furthering human
evolution. Each generation tested the practices taught to them by
their masters and tried to improve on it. The methods of chi
cultivation may have evolved over the millennia, but the principle
has remained the same: The ching or sperm power is a super potent
force readily available to men, awaiting only their harvest. Sexual
essence is a building block for expanding our personal universe,
the foundation for human love and evolution. The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 25
BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SEX HORMONES TO
HEALTH
Modern science has given us the opportunity to study the function
of sperm in the body in amazing detail. Each of the sperm cells
contains 23 chromosomes, prostaglandins, ions, enzymes, trace
elements and other essential parts of human life. Only the elements
of the egg and the nurturing environment of the mother are needed
to form a living human being of infinite potential. The seminal vesicles, two little sacks collecting sperm at the
base of the bladder, are tied to the vas deferens. They produce a
yellow fluid that mixes with the sperm and thickens the seminal
fluid. This secretion contains the sugar, fructose, which nourishes
sperm cells. The prostate gland also contributes to the reproductive secre-
tion. It surrounds the urethra (the main duct or tube running the
length of the penis) beneath the bladder. In ejaculation the prostate
jets forth a thin clear fluid which helps to propel the sperm. Cow-
per's glands along the urethra supply a few drops of alkaline secre-
tion, which serves to neutralize acid remaining from urination. DIAGRAM 7
Testis
(manufactures sperm and
male hormones. ) PenisSeminal
Vesicle
(nourishes sperm with
yellowish fluid. ) Prostate Gland
(propels sperm
with clear fluid. ) Sperm
Palace
(Taoist energy point for
collecting sperm power. ) Epididymis26 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Dr. Beyoihn, a noted endocrinologist, stressed the impor-
tance of the hormonal function of semen production: "Sexual hor-
mones are important to our harmonious development. When men
abuse the reproductive function, the secretions of the sexual glands
are lost. resulting in mental and physical weakness, inability to
concentrate, and a less tenacious memory. "*
Love-making is an internal exercise which helps restore im-
balances in bodily chemistry. A moderate amount of sex tends to
repair hormonal disturbances, to reduce cholesterol and blood
pressure levels. Sexual activity alters the body chemically. The
reason this happens is because each gland in the body affects all the
others. Thus when sex hormones are stimulated, it stimulates the
hormones secreted by the other major glands—adrenal, thymus,
thyroid, pituitary, and pineal. The illusion when you are young is
that you can stimulate your glands indefinitely, without paying a
price for it. Sex seems like a bottomless well of bliss. It is, if you
take the trouble to recirculate the sexual hormones within the body
instead of repeatedly ejaculating them. These sex hormones do more than just make you feel good. They literally invade every sphere of your activity and form your
personal identity. Recent scientific studies have shown that sex
hormones influence the brain's cellular organization. If you are
male, then your brain has male stamped on each cell. This is what
produces different proclivities in men and women. Dr. Gunter Dorner, director of the Institute for Experimental
Endocronology at Humboldt University in East Germany points
out: "The sex hormones. don't just suddenly appear out of
nowhere at puberty. Nor do they just meander about the body. THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO. The cells that are their targets
have already been primed in the womb to respond to the hormones
that are now being produced. This is true of the body, of the
reproductive organs, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. But it is also
true of the brain. The tissues, neural circuitry and chemistry of the
brain have already been stamped during fetal life by the sex hor-
mones. And the foundations have already been laid for the range of
behaviors that will characterize the organism as male or female in
adult life. "*
*E. Flatto, Warning: Sex May Be Hazardous To Your Health (Arco Publishers 1973). *Science Digest, September 1983, p. 87. The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 27
These hormonal differences obviously determine many of the
qualities in men and women the Chinese have called yin and yang. The Taoist goal of total integration of sexual impulse with the mind
begins to make sense even to a western intellectual when the con-
nection between sexual activity, hormonal balance, physical
health, and personality are examined together. The evidence for
health being powerfully affected by hormonal balance has been
well substantiated, and is even now a major topic for cancer re-
searchers in their efforts to understand how the mind and emotions
control our immune system. The Taoists would say it is un-
necessarily complicated to track each individual microscopic hor-
mone receptor and enzyme in the gene code to fight the hundreds
of different types of cancers and diseases that result when our
immune system fails. The Taoists contend the critical factor is simply balance—that
when male and female chi energies are balanced in the body, each
cell will have the energy to function perfectly, and hormones do
their job in making the body machinery run smoothly. This balance
of male and female hormones produces a happy personality who
lives harmoniously with the world. The specific Taoist practice of
sexual energy conservation and transformation is one of many de-
signed to insure that the internal equilibrium of the human energy
system is so powerful that no outside force can destroy its inner
balance. The Taoists thus see everything, hormones, sex, person-
ality, health, and beyond that, your spiritual destiny, linked inex-
tricably together. That is the working of the Tao, which links the
finite ordinary world of a Saturday night date to the explosion of a
super nova light years away. The principle of the fusion of energy
in both is the same. In olden times the Taoist secret of secrets was the method of
being reborn through a process of giving birth to your new self. When I first learned it I didn't understand it, but later, in studying
the endocrine system, I was able to see analogies. I realized that
both men and women have the makings of male and female hor-
mones and that, in effect, they are each capable of having inter-
course within themselves, and giving birth to a new self. The most important connection in the male hormone system is
between the testicles and the pituitary gland located between the
eyebrows, behind the forehead. These glands work together in the
transformation of sexual energy, a fact that you will experience28 Taoist Secrets Of Love
DIAGRAM 8
Pai-Hui (The Crown)
The power of mind control & spiritual
center
Corpus Callosum Skull
Pituitary Gland-
Cavity of the spirit
to transform
sexual energy into
a refined nectar
which is the food
of the spirit. Pons
Medulla Oblongata
SEXUAL ENERGY, GLANDS, HORMONES, PERSONALITY &
DESTINY ARE ALL LINKED TOGETHER IN THE BRAIN. Thalamus Gland
Pineal Gland
Occipital Lobe
(The largest cavity to store
sexual energy. ) Cerebellum—
regulates breathing and vision
& is the initial storage area
of Ching
Spinal Cord—
the pathway Chi uses
into the brain. when you begin cultivating your sexual energy up. Your testicles
and your pituitary gland will begin to pulsate together when the
ching is cultivated properly, and is a sign that your glandular sys-
tem is working harmoniously all the time, not just during sex. The
pituitary gland in turn regulates the activity of the other glands. When they are in perfect harmony they secrete an exceptionally
fine nectar—a superfine hormonal substance undiscovered by sci-
entists—which floods the nerve centers of the brain and helps
create the feeling of bliss described by so many mystics. This is
only one phase of spiritual development, but one that is powerfully
affected by the balance of sexual energy in the body. Sexual activity is equally powerful in the more ordinary
spheres of health. Sex offers all of the health benefits of physical
exercise. Sex reduces the tendency to compulsive eating while
burning calories, and thus helps remedy obesity. Sex strains the
heart less than driving a car in city traffic, or watching a good
football game. Moreover, the heart rate quickly diminishes after
sexual action. (For someone on the verge of a heart attack, pas-
sionate sex may be sufficient to trigger it. Passive sex is recom-
mended in this case. ) Loving is thus a great natural antidote to stress. Emotional
stress especially causes untold harm, as it is a continuous injury toThe Biology Of Esoteric Sex 29
every cell. Life in our urban society subjects us to increasing doses
of this potent poison. Stress directly causes cardiovascular degeneration, such as
arteriosclerosis and hypertension. Love restores impaired body
chemistry by activating the hormonal centers to defend the phys-
ical body and by harmonizing our mental and spiritual faculties. With frequent ejaculation, the benefits of sex begin to decline,
and vitality ultimately plummets. The sexual big spender loses
stamina. His vision begins to weaken, hair tumbles from his skull. He grows old before his time. The physical damage caused by
expelling the sexual essence from the body is greatly alleviated
only in couples or individuals who create and sustain a powerful
emotional and spiritual love. Over years of marriage, couples who consistently find a
deeper harmony naturally conserve some of their sexual essence. Insurance studies bear this out: married couples live longer than
single people. Two can often share the stress of life better than one
alone. A better balance of yin and yang is achieved. The very act of
love spontaneously transmutes lower vital chi and ching into higher
mind. The Taoist methods of cultivating sexual energy are power-
ful aids to those following this "path of the heart", but take the
path a step further by maximizing the benefits of sex for health and
personal growth. In Chicago a group of elderly people urge couples to practice
sex in a ritualistic fashion to preserve vitality. The group, called
"Sexy Senior Citizens," is the unconscious heir of many compara-
ble societies flourishing in the Orient for millennia which taught
Taoist methods of chi cultivation. With aging all bodily systems become less efficient. Among
these is the hormonal system, which regulates important electro-
magnetic reactions. If hormonal secretion declines from optimal
levels, the body must necessarily weaken. The relations between the hormones, sexuality and aging have
not been fully elucidated. However, many researchers in the van-
guard of medical science feel that the hormones regulating growth
and sexual development play a critical role in aging. These are
produced in the pituitary, thyroid and gonads. The testes have a double function: besides being the factory
for the sperm, they produce male hormones, among which is tes-
tosterone. The Sertoli cells in the testes produce another hormone,30 Taoist Secrets Of Love
inhibin. When not ejaculated, these hormones go into the blood
stream and are carried to every part of the body. DIAGRAM 9
Pleural Cavities
Diaphram
Peritoneum
Bladder
Sexual Kung Fu fills the cranial cavity with Chi. This overflows & begins filling other body
cavities with life-force, retarding the aging
process & strengthening the body's immunity to
disease. The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 31
Much evidence points to the link between harmonious sexual
activity and the retardation of aging. Loving sex stimulates high-
quality hormonal secretion. The presence of these hormones in the
blood appears to slow the aging process. With Taoist cultivation
one produces unusually potent hormones because one focuses en-
ergy directly on the endocrine glands, stimulating them to much
greater levels of activity. Because the hormonal energy is con-
stantly circulated within the body instead of being ejaculated, a
successful student of Taoist loving finds himself with ever-increas-
ing amounts of energy as he grows older. This increased circulation of sexual energy also redistributes
the chi within the body's storage system. As we grow older and our
life force is depleted, our body cavities increase in size and are
gradually filled with fat or various kinds of pollution that speed the
aging process and lower the quality of our final years. The Taoist
method draws sexual energy up from the testicles and fills the
spinal and cranial cavities with ching. When full, this overflows
and begins to fill the chest and abdominal cavities with rejuvenat-
ing life force. These reservoirs of chi within the body supply the raw mate-
rial used to make the body virtually impervious to disease in the
method known as "inner alchemy" to the ancient Taoists. This
process of refining the "Elixir of Immortality" or the "Pill of Im-
mortality" may be described in biological terms as storing the
body's life-force and then returning it to its source. The chi is
moved from these reservoirs within the body cavities into the deep-
est centers of the brain and bones. The secret of packing chi into
the bone marrow is well known to highly achieved masters of Tai
Chi Chuan and other internal martial artists. They know that mus-
cle power cannot survive the aging process, but that bones survive
for thousands of years. This practice which I will describe in an
upcoming book on Iron Shirt Chi Kung, is dependent on retention
of sperm power. Recent scientific studies show the importance of bone marrow
to the production of disease fighting white blood cells. These scien-
tists will eventually catch up with the ancient Taoist masters and
figure out the full connection between healthy sex, hormones and
bone marrow and the prevention of aging and disease. 32 Taoist Secrets Of Love
DEATH AND SEX IN THE NATURAL WORLD
". When the living organism, whether vegetable or animal,
achieves its aim, which is a new seed, its organism deteriorates. " —Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man
Nature perpetuates its species through sex. In the male seed she
concentrates the parent's essential elements. The theme of paren-
tal sacrifice for the offspring is repeated in all life forms, from
amoeba to walrus, praying mantis to orchid. One may readily glimpse the death in generation by consider-
ing the Emperor Moth's brief span. This large moth travels many
leagues across the countryside in quest of his female: "The famous
principle of the struggle for life is here the struggle to give life, the
struggle to die. Although they can live three days in quest of the
female, they perish as soon as the fertilization is complete. "*
Plants, too, are subject to these laws. After a plant goes to
seed or bears fruit, it dies or enters a period of dormancy. Gar-
deners know that a plant prevented from going to seed outlives its
more precocious brothers. Most fruit-bearing trees do not produce
fruit until they are five or ten years old. During this period they
devote their entire biological force to the growth and strengthening
of tissue. Later in their life, plants split their vital force between repro-
duction and tissue maintenance. When they grow old they need all
of their remaining energies for survival: they withdraw power from
the sexual sphere and bear no more. Some male insects may increase their lifespan several fold
simply by not spending their seed. One may object that an insect's
sex life has no relevance to ours. Yet the insects excel brilliantly in
sexual invention and effectiveness. They comprise more than half
of the total animal weight on earth. They far surpass human erotic
variety. The insects make D. A. F. de Sade, Saint Anthony, and
David Bowie look like a troop of boyscouts discovering sex for the
first time. Insects work the web of material life with particular intensity. Their power to impose their definition of life is manifest in their
*Carlos Suares, The Cipher of Genesis (Shambhala 1978). The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 33
numbers, gigantic age and breadth of habitat, garb and custom. Marxist-Socialist deification of the State but weakly mimicks their
pitiless genius for collective organization. Rather than staggering
them, nuclear war will offer a rare occasion to spin new organs to
create an abundancy of new life forms. In all forms of life the reproductive act exhausts essential
energies. The offspring consume bodily stores of nutrition to get a
grip on their new life. Vital organs suffer the most depletion be-
cause they contain the densest concentration of nutrients. Among
humans, the female sacrifice of her bodily energy is unavoidable in
the passage to birth. The male, likewise, must surrender the po-
tency of his seed at least once to fertilize the female ovum. Nature warrants the sacrifice worthwhile, for it fulfills her
goal of multiplying life. She intends the old to make way for the
new. But amongst all material creatures, only man has the force of
will to oppose Mother Nature. "Not distance, not the difficulty of
the journey, not the danger of approach foils instinct (in the animal
kingdom). In man, who sometimes has the force to escape the
sexual commandments, disobedience may have fortunate results. Chastity in a human being can function like a transformer,
changing unused sexual energy into intellectual or social energy. Among animals, this transformation of physiological values is im-
possible. "*
It is the very possibility of transforming our instinctual and
essentially animal sexual energies into something higher that
makes us human, and potentially divine. The failure to direct our
sexual energy upward is a failure to fulfill our deepest human po-
tential. That is why unconscious sex with ejaculation of the male
seed is a kind of mini-death seen so often in the plant and animal
kingdoms. Two hundred to five hundred million sperm die upon a
single ejaculation. The expenditure of subtle energy is even much
greater than these huge numbers suggest. If this spent seed leads to any kind of rebirth in the man, or in
the woman, receiving new life, this loss or death is in harmony with
nature. But without transforming these mini-deaths into a sharing,
a love, a child, or a higher awareness of some sort, this act of sex
becomes a mere killing of the potential life energy stored in the
seed. Perhaps that's the connection between sex and violence. *Suares, op. cit. 34 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Those radically opposed to abortion and contraception might as
well begin their campaign against men who kill their potential life-
force by ejaculating needlessly. Although the Taoists have no concept of sin, they might say
that man has fallen to his current weakened psychic state in large
part because he has squandered his sexual energies over the last
several millennia. The Chinese legends speak of a golden age when
all men lived in harmony with nature and transmuted their seed up
as naturally as you or I breathe. Whether or not this is literally true
is irrelevant—the kernel of truth in the story is that man is capable
of a much higher existence than what he now accepts. The story
bears a striking resemblance to the Biblical story of Adam and
Eve's fall from grace after tasting the forbidden fruits of sexual
love. In this sense, the end of the Taoist cultivation is to regain the
lost paradise which still exists within every man and woman, their
original nature. The major function of sex in nature is to create new life and to
perpetuate the species. Yet in our time humanity has been fruitful
and multiplied itself to the brink of overpopulation and its atten-
dant ecological horrors. The abuse of sexual power through indis-
criminate procreation has brought humanity to a global crisis. It
has accelerated the danger of a war which might result in the ex-
tinction of the species. Apart from certain insects and higher apes, animals engage in
sexual intercourse for reproductive purposes only. The female re-
ceives the male only at definite mating periods, that overall com-
promise a small part of the animal's lifespan. It is clear that sex-
uality plays a different role for humans than it does for animals, and
it is critical that men and women become educated as to the pos-
sibility sex can play in their own evolution and thus affect the
balance of nature as well. CHAPTER 4
THE SEXUAL ECONOMY
"Man cannot be without woman and woman cannot be without
man. If you think intercourse is an isolated or separate act, longev-
ity is threatened and every illness arises. " —from the Recipe for Making Priceless Gold
Sun S'su-Mo, physician who lived 101 years36 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Every man is born with a certain amount of priceless vital chi
energy. Some begin with more than others, but for the sake of
simplicity let us assume an average man is born with a sum of
vitality likened at $1,000,000. Over one's life span this million dol-
lar's worth of life force is spent. Some spend wisely and live heart-
ily into the 80's and 90's. When you are young you spend it faster
because it seems like such a huge amount it could never run out. Most people in our consumer society spend more money than
they earn. They borrow themselves deep in the hole, assuming
they will earn enough to pay it back later. If they fail, they face
bankruptcy or a corrective period of lean living. Through poor
habits the same thing happens with life energy, only the penalty is
loss of appetite for life, sickness, and death. Let us say that someone earns an additional 100 units of life
force daily through breathing, eating and resting. Yet he may spend
125 units of life through poor diet, smoking, gluttony, overwork,
anxiety, constitutional weakness, drug abuse and frequent loss of
the vital sex fluid. To spend the extra 25 units he must continuously
borrow vitality from the brain and organs. This theft of vital energy
from one's own million dollar reserves gradually induces mental
and physical sickness and premature aging. Conserving sexual energy is a practical way to earn 125 units
and spend 100 units or less. It's an investment in one's physical,
mental, and spiritual growth. The imbalance of one's personal
economy can be corrected by reducing the disastrously wasteful
expenditure of ejaculation. A "profit" of 25 units of vitality is then
made by transforming the conserved sexual fluid into higher mental
or spiritual energy. Eliminating other bad habits will reduce the
loss and increase the profit, but no other single factor in life is so
potent as sexual energy. If you work hard all day, you've already used up much en-
ergy. If you then have a few drinks, eat a heavy dinner and later
have sex in which you ejaculate the vital sperm fluid, you are
overspending your life's provision prematurely. Some people
would call it a day well spent, as they cannot envision anything
better in life to spend their energy on. If you continue to overtax
your resources, you may wake one morning fatigued with life, sick
with arthritis or cancer, or maybe you won't wake up at all. You
will have prematurely exhausted your vital capital and may have to
die at an age that you feel is somehow "unfair" or possibly worse,The Sexual Economy 37
suffer through your final years in life with your creative powers and
physical faculties greatly diminished. I am a Taoist living in the twentieth century near New York
City and lead an extremely busy life. I have a wife and an overly
energetic young child. I own a computer, drive a car in city traffic,
deal with teaching hundreds of students, and maintain a heavy
travel schedule flying around the U. S. I know it is possible to lead a
rich and rewarding life without exhausting oneself, and have seen
my students do the same. The more you cultivate your chi energy
with daily practice, the easier it becomes to replace energy spent
and still end up ahead. Of course, if you choose a simpler lifestyle you can progress
much more quickly. That's why many Taoists choose to live up in
the peaceful mountains. But you can live by the same Taoist princi-
ples anywhere. The universe is bountiful if you know how to live
with it. Sexual energy is one of the most abundant gifts given to us
by nature, yet most people casually toss it away without realizing
the full value of its treasure. As Americans become more aware of the importance of per-
sonal health they are seeking to change their lifestyles. Many peo-
ple are now realizing that they have been living destructively. For-
tunately, they have grown conscious before it is too late. Whether
they are jogging or taking a dance class, they wish to begin a life-
energy conservation program. First they must pay the interest on
the vital sums they have overspent from their mind and body. After
a while they may repay both interest and principal as they begin to
produce and conserve more energy. At that point they can take the
path of cultivating their chi energy into its original spirit. Have realistic expectations. You may have spent more vi-
tality than you had to spare. Concentration and patience are neces-
sary to recover it. You can spend $100,000 in an hour, but you may
need one year to earn it back. Serious physical and mental trauma,
heavy use of drugs, and frequent ejaculation all involve grossly
excessive spending. Many young people seem to have unlimited
energy. But these youths are toying with the sources of life as if on
a wild spending spree. Many older people apparently in good health are, in fact,
tottering on the brink of serious breakdown. Only the strength of
habitual self-will allows them to continue to function. When they
have a check-up—often prompted by unconscious awareness of38 Taoist Secrets Of Love
their condition—the doctor may order an immediate halt to stren-
uous exertion. Often these people collapse in the first days of their
enforced rest because the flimsy strand of willpower which kept
them going has been cut. Friends will say, "I can't believe it. Yesterday he seemed strong as an ox. " If you learn to balance your
account in the sexual economy, you will be taking the most prudent
steps possible to avoid such a scenario in your own life. THE YOUTHFUL FURY OF SEXUAL FRUSTRATION
One of my main concerns is the frustration of youth in our society. Upon the quality of their thoughts and acts civilization will endure
or crumble. Most male youths are more interested in sex than
almost any other subject. This is natural, as their bodies are work-
ing overtime to produce billions of sperm cells. Women cannot
imagine what an intense experience this is, as their energy cycle is
more evenly distributed over the fluctuation of a monthly men-
strual cycle. This build-up of male energy is a natural manifestation of
universal Yang energy. The development of traditional romantic
love at this stage is natural. If this expanding Yang energy finds a
receptive female to nourish it the love between them can mature
and spiritual evolution gradually awaken. The problem of ob-
sessive sex arises from a material society that stresses the value of
physical sex so highly that people remain immature all their lives
seeking to sustain a lusty image of sex that exhausts them and
ultimately blocks their evolution by stimulating them to rapid loss
of their seed. The harder youths try to grab pleasure, the more surely it
eludes them. In their frustration, many seek pleasure with increas-
ing fury, a quest for identity that leads to frequent masturbation
and promiscuity. The more often they spill out their vital seed, the
more empty they gradually become despite the temporary feeling
of gratification as the life force passes out their loins. Unrestrained
sexual frenzy can destroy a young man's fragile identity and melt
him into the mob mind cultivated by sex-for-profit industry and
sexually exploitive media shows. Higher vital energy which should
nourish the young person's true center serves instead to grease the
empty fantasy of his bed of lust. Afterward he is left with nothing. This spells spiritual disaster if the excesses are not corrected inThe Sexual Economy 39
time. This type of young man may have difficulty in his relationship
with women and ultimately this leaves a vacuum in his understand-
ing of himself and the female pole of his own male energy. For this same reason adolescents tend to fanaticism, political,
religious, or otherwise. Mao's Red Guard is but one youth group
that has propagated its reigning tyrant's brand of fascism. The
proliferation of various cults in the U.
According to the text, the spiritual power of sex has been kept a secret because it is a powerful tool for spiritual growth and evolution, and the ancient Taoist masters feared that it could be misused or exploited if made public.
Why has the spiritual power of sex been kept a secret?
The text explains that sex energy is stored in the body and can be transformed into higher creative and spiritual energy, whereas food energy is not stored and is constantly being consumed.
What is the difference between food and sex as energies?
The goal of Taoist cultivation is to cultivate and refine the sexual energy to achieve a higher level of spiritual growth and fulfillment.
What is the goal of Taoist cultivation of sexual energy?
Yes, the text states that it is possible to transform the sexual energy into higher mental or spiritual energy through Taoist practices.
Can someone transform their sexual energy into higher mental or spiritual energy?
The text suggests that yes, it is possible to restore one's vital energy by conserving and transforming sexual energy, as this energy can be redirected into higher forms of energy.
Can one's vital energy be restored by conserving and transforming sexual energy?