Mantak Chia Taoist Secrets Of Love Cultivating Male Sexual Energy (328 Pages)

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Also by Mantak Chia

Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book has been over a decade in the making. I thank foremost
those Taoist Masters who were kind enough to share their knowl-
edge with me, but never imagined it would be taught to westerners.
Such is the Tao.
I acknowledge a special debt to H. Reid Shaw for his encour-
agement after I had just arrived in America and for his hard work
on an initial manuscript.
I thank the many contributors essential to its final form: the
artist, Susan MacKay, Gunther Weil, Rylin Malone, and all my
students for their feedback, Master T.K. Shih, Kim Wang, and
Juan Li for their fine artwork; Jeffrey Antin, and Marcia Kerwit for
their additions; my assistant Jo Ann Cutreria for typing the man-
uscript into the computer and endless help; Daniel Bobek for his
long hours at the computer, and Barbara Somerfield for her pa-
tience as my publisher.
A special heartfelt thanks to Michael Winn for his selfless
labors, and for saying so eloquently and insightfully in English
what my Chinese does not permit.
Without my wife Maneewan the book would have been aca-
demic. For her gifts, my gratitude and love.

A WORD OF CAUTION
Any man suffering from venereal disease or any local illness of his
sexual organs or prostate gland should consult a medical doctor
and a qualified instructor of Taoist Esoteric Yoga before practicing
the methods taught here.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Author
Introduction: Taoist "Dual Cultivation" and the Quest for Sexual Love
by Michael Winn
Commentary: Chinese "Sexual Kung Fu": Will It Work In the West?
by Gunther Weil, Ph.D.
Summary of the Principles of Taoist Cultivation
PART I:
The Fundamental Premise: Sex Energy Can Be Transformed Into Spirit
Chapter 1: MALE SEX ENERGY IS STORED IN ITS SEED 1
The Extraordinary Power of the Sexual Elixir 2
Why Has the Spiritual Power of Sex Been Kept Secret?. 5
Why Reveal the Secret Now? 7
Chapter 2: WHAT IS "CHI" ENERGY? 11
Chi: Electricity of the Human Body 13
How does "Ching", or Sexual "Essence" Function in
Humans? 14
Major Phases of Chi Energy 15
Difference Between Hunger and Sexual Desire 17
Chapter 3: THE BIOLOGY OF ESOTERIC SEX 21
The Volume of Sperm Fluid Lost in a Lifetime 21
Your Body Has Atomic Energy In It! 22
Biological Importance of Sex Hormones To Health . . . . 25
Death and Sex in the Natural World 32
Chapter 4: THE SEXUAL ECONOMY 35
The Youthful Fury of Sexual Frustration 38
Sex and the Super Athlete 39
Sex, Commitment, and Marriage 41
Moral Effect of Semen Loss 46
The Controversy: Is Sex Good For Your Health? 47
Chapter 5: SEX IN THE ESOTERIC TRADITIONS OF THE
WORLD 51
The Difference Between Taoism and Tantra 57
Karezza and Coitus Reservatus 60
PART II:
Taoist Practices for Mastering Sexual Love
Chapter 6: THE DANCE OF THE TESTES: Exercises for Pelvic
Strength 65
The Pelvic and Urogenital Diaphragms 66
The Scrotum Pumps Cold Sperm Energy Upward 68
Sacral Pump and Cranial Pump 71
Three Postures of Testicle Breathing: Sitting, Standing,
Lying 72
Testicle Breathing: Step-by-Step 74
The Golden Nectar 79

Compressing Air into the Scrotum Increases Sexual
Power 79
Scrotal Compression Exercise: Step-by-Step 80
Venting Exercise for High Blood Pressure 82
The Power Lock For Sealing The Seminal Fluid 83
Power Lock Exercise: Step-by-Step 86
Safety Points For Testicle Breathing, Scrotal
Compression, and Power Lock 91
Cleansing Side Effects 93
Summary of Testicle Breathing 94
Summary of Scrotal Compression 94
Power Lock is the Basis for Alchemical Sex 95
Chapter 7: POLARITY IS THE KEY TO TRANSFORMING SEX
ENERGY 97
Yin and Yang: Battle of the Sexes 99
Higher Orgasm is a Delicate Balance of Polar
Energies 101
Prepare the Yin Energy with Gentleness 104
The Art of Passion: Timing and Frequency 105
Sex Position Affects the Flow of Energy 106
Cold Water Skinny Dip For Premature Ejaculation.... 107
Century Count: Build Your Staying Power 107
The Four Attainments of the Jade Stalk 109
The Nine Shallow/One Deep Thrusting Method 110
Chapter 8: THE SECRETS OF SEMEN RETENTION 113
Learn to Circulate Your "Chi" in the Microcosmic
Orbit 114
The Importance of the Microcosmic Orbit 117
External Locking: The Three Fingers Method 120
Timing and Safety Points 122
Massage the Perineum Afterwards 123
Be Aware of the Magnitude of Power Generated 124
Rotate Sex Energy to the Head Afterwards 126
Summary of the External Locking Method 127
Internal Locking: Draw Nectar Up to the Golden
Flower 128
Big Draw for Women 134
Big Draw and Masturbation 135
Morning Erection has Potent Chi 136
Automatic Mind Control of Ejaculation 137

PART III:
Transforming Sexual Energy into Spiritual Love
Chapter 9: THE YIN AND YANG EXCHANGE: Cultivating the
Valley Orgasm 143
Valley Orgasm Summary 156
Big Draw as a Contraceptive Method 157
A Woman's View of Dual Cultivation 159

Chapter 10: THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL STAGES OF
CULTIVATING SEXUAL ENERGY 163
Left-Hand Path 167
Cultivating The Right Hand Path 168
No Hand Path of The Tao 169
The Seven Spiritual Stages of Taoist Energy
Cultivation 172
Chapter 11: ORGASM AND WU WEI BY MICHAEL WINN 181
Preserving Polarity: What Does It Mean To Be Yang?
by Michael Winn 186
Chapter 12: COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON SEMEN
RETENTION 193
1. Will a vasectomy affect the Big Draw? 193
2. If Yin energy is cool, why is a woman so warm
when you have sex with her? 194
3. How long does it take to make love with your
method? 194
4. Why can't women absorb Yang energy directly
from a man's sperm during normal ejaculatory sex?
195
5. During the Yin/Yang exchange, I feel a mini-
orgasm in my genitals. Am I losing fluid? 195
6. Will occasional ejaculation harm my efforts to
learn the Big Draw? 195
7. What is the relationship between the strength of
the buttock and pelvic muscles and sex? 196
8. I feel less sexual desire after doing the Big Draw
every day for several weeks. What's happening
to my sexual energy? 196
9. Aren't you being a bit fanatic in trying to save every
drop of sperm? 197
10. What do Taoists say about sexual fantasies and
vibrators? 198
11. Will the Sexual Kung Fu practice kill my appetite
for the physical passion of sex? 198
12. What's the difference between the physical pleasure of
sex and the pleasure of feeling love? 199
13. If the goal is to build one's sexual energy up,
what's the harm of sleeping with a lot of different
women (or men) to share their ching chi? 199
14. Isn't the Big Draw a form of sexual vampirism? . . . 200
15. What is the best hour of the night to make love? .. 201
16. How are the eyes used in Sexual Kung Fu
practice? 202
17. How will health, tension, stress and different
psychological states affect Taoist sex? 202
18. What is the difference between mechanically
blocking ejaculation through celibacy and the Taoist
Cultivation method? 203

19. Summarize the advantages of the total body orgasm
compared to normal sex orgasm and ejaculation? .. 204
20. Could you explain what happens when you reach
the point of no return during an orgasm? 204
21. How do you feel about homosexuality and group sex?
206
22. What causes the penis to go flaccid if you haven't
ejaculated? 207
Chapter 13: STUDENT EXPERIENCES OF TAOIST SEXUAL
CULTIVATION 209
Interview with a 46 year old psychologist 209
Experience of a lawyer, age 29 214
Experience of a businessman, age 45 216
Experience of a Teacher, age 37 217
Experience of an Electrician, age 27 218
Experience of a Dry Cleaner, age 67 219
Experience of a Cook, age 30 221
Experience of a Garment Factory Owner, age 38 221
Experience of an Executive, age 38 222
Chapter 14: PRACTICAL GUIDELINES TO KEEPING SEX
RADIANT AND HEALTHY 225
1. Get Tuned with Your Partner's Energy 48 Hours in
Advance 226
2. Foreplay Begins with a Relaxed Atmosphere 226
3. Don't Make Love After a Big Meal 226
4. Avoid Intercourse in Any Extreme State 227
5. Don't Make Love When Drunk on Alcohol 227
6. Urinate 20 Minutes Before You Have Intercourse . 228
7. Sex During Extreme Weather Conditions Can Be
Unhealthy 228
8. Avoid Hard Physical Work Before and After Sex.. 228
9. Don't Rely on Artificial Sexual Aids 229
10. Don't Bathe/Shower Immediately After Sex 229
11. Don't Thrust Too Powerfully into the Woman 229
12. Your Sexual Power is Greatest in The Springtime . 229
13. If You Are 111, Make Love Passively 230
14. Stop Making Love if it Has Become a Routine
Chore 230
15. Don't Rely on Sexual Fantasy to Get Aroused . . . . 231
16. Keep several pillows handy 232
Chapter 15: EXERCISES TO INCREASE MALE POTENCY . . . . 233
How to Cure Impotency 233
How to Avoid Wet Dreams 234
Warming the Stove 236
Massage the Field of Pills 237
Harmonizing the Tendons, Marrow and Bones 237
Secret Taoist Method of Urinating 238
Six Exercises For the Kidneys/Back 239
How to Enlarge and Elongate Your Penis 240

How to Decrease Penis Sensitivity 241
Strengthen Your Erection 242
Reflexology Massage of the Penis 242
Indian Rope Burn Massage 244
Four Ways to Increase Sperm Count 244
Massaging the Prostate Gland 245
Anal Pump Squeeze Exercise 245
Tongue Kung Fu 246
Hot and Cold Baths for Sexual Health 250
Harmonious Energy for the Homosexual 251
How to Absorb Sexual Energy from the Sun 253
Chapter 16: ACUPUNCTURE, MOXIBUSTION AND HERBS CAN
HEAL WEAKENED SEXUAL ENERGY 257
Chapter 17: BIOLOGICAL FACTS EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT FEMALE SEXUALITY 267
The Uterus 268
Ovulation 268
Fertile Mucus 269
Nonfertile Mucus 269
Menstruation 269
Periods 270
Emotional Changes 271
Women's Sexual Anatomy 271
Inner Lips 271
The Shaft of the Clitoris 272
The Glans 272
The Position of the G-Spot 272
The Walls of the Vagina 273
The Cervix 274
Love Muscle 274
Sexual Response Cycle 274
Chapter 18: SUMMARY OF THE SEVEN STAGES OF TAOIST
ESOTERIC YOGA 277
The Small Heavenly Cycle (Microcosmic) 277
The Tongue is a Switch of the Circuit 279
The Seven Esoteric Formulas of the Seven Books of
the Tao 279
First Formula: Fusion of the Five Elements 279
Second Formula: Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and
Li 280
Third Formula: Greater Enlightenment of Kan and Li
282
Fourth Formula: Greatest Enlightenment of Kan and
Li 283
Fifth Formula: Sealing of the Five Sense Organs.. 283
Sixth Formula: Congress of Heaven and Earth
Immortality 284
Seventh Formula: Reunion of Heaven and Man. True
Immortal Man 285

ABOUT THE AUTHOR — Mantak Chia
The author of this book, Mantak Chia, was born in Thailand
on April 4,1944. When he was six or seven years of age he learned to
"sit and still the mind" from Buddhist monks while on a summer
vacation. This is not to say that he was passive and quiet as a child.
In fact, he excelled in track and field events during his grammar
school days in Hong Kong. It was during that time that he learned
the traditional Thai Boxing and met Master Lu, who taught him Tai
Chi Chuan. Shortly thereafter, Master Lu introduced him to
Aikido, Yoga and more Tai Chi. His knowledge of esoteric practice
did not begin, however, until he was eighteen and he had returned to
Thailand. It was at that time that a senior classmate, Cheng Sue Sue,
a student of Yi-Eng, taught him the level of Tao Esoteric practice up
to the Reunion of Man and Heaven.
When he was in his twenties, Master Chia studied with Master
Meugi in Singapore, who taught him Kundalini Yoga and the Bud-
dhist Palm. With the Buddhist Palm, he was soon able to eliminate
blockages of flow of life-force in his internal organs and to drive
cold, wet or sick energy out of patients who came to see his Master,
thereby restoring them to health. The young Mantak Chia felt, how-
ever, that Kundalini Yoga produced too much heat and could be
dangerous and so he later combined it with elements of Taoist prac-
tice, which had cooling effects.
Later, in his twenties, he met and studied with Master Pan
Yu, who had created a synthesis out of Taoist, Buddhist and
Ch'an teaching, and Master Cheng Yao-Lung, who had also cre-
ated a new system by combining Thai Boxing and Kung Fu. From
Master Cheng Yao-Lung, he learned the Shao-Lin secret method
of internal power as well as the Iron Shirt method called "Cleans-
ing the Marrow and Renewal of the Tendon". From Master Pan
Yu, he learned a variation of Kundalini and the "steel body", a
technique that is said to keep the body from decay. Master Pan Yu
still lives and practices in Hong Kong, where he treats patients by
transmitting his life-force to them. To better understand the
mechanism behind the healing energy, Chia also studied Western
medical science and anatomy for two years.
Yet, with all of these achievements, Master Chia was the man-
ager of the Gestetner Company in Thailand, was in charge of sales
of offset machines and was well acquainted with the working of
the company's copying and printing machines. He may well be the

only Taoist master in the world with a computer in his living room.
He is also married and has a son. His wife Maneewan works as a
medical technician. He is, in short, living proof that his practice is
very much down-to-earth, striving to enhance everyday life and
not requiring retreat from society to a hermit's life.
The main thrust of Chia's intention is to strip away the mys-
ticism, the mumbo-jumbo, the powers vested in the Guru, the re-
liance on things-other-worldly or magical. He seeks to present, in-
stead, a fully predictable working model that might be considered
as a scientific means of dealing with energy systems. In time, he
hopes this will lead to technological developments that might serve
to simplify or speed the means whereby such progress might be
made. It is with such hopes that he beckons members of the
medical community to investigate what he has to offer. There are
already physicians and lawyers and computer programmers, who
have experienced, first hand, the benefits that Master Chia's meth-
ods provide. It is up to them and others in the scientific commun-
ity to join Master Chia in his lifetime task of bridging the gap be-
tween reason and spirit, mind and body, science and religion.

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INTRODUCTION

Taoist "Dual Cultivation" and
the Quest for Sexual Love
by Michael Winn

"What a pity! A mountain peak as tiny as one square inch has been
the source of great inspiration and misery for centuries."

—Anonymous Chinese Poet on man's obsession with woman's sex.

Thousands of books have been written attempting to help men and
women resolve the problems arising from the endless search for
sexually fulfilling love. What could possibly be written that is new?
Taoist Secrets of Love is not just another flowery philosophi-
cal treatise on the ecstasies of oriental love. Rather it is a pragmatic
handbook that distills the secret teachings on sex of four different
living Taoist masters sought out by Mantak Chia during fifteen
years of travel and study in the Far East. As he put it, "I read a ton
of books telling me how great esoteric love-making was, but none
of them explained precisely how it was done. So I decided to write
it myself."
Most books on Taoist sex fail to instruct on how to transform
sperm energy once it is held in, where to store sex energy in the
body, how to best exchange it with a woman, and give cursory
treatment to the retention of semen. Chia synthesized the ancient
Taoist practices into simple but powerful methods that can be
easily learned by western men. This first volume is directed pri-
marily at men, simply because most men are sexually weaker than
women and lose more energy through sex than women. A later
volume will describe the esoteric Taoist sexual practices for
women, which includes voluntary arrest of the menstrual flow.
The sexual imbalance between men and women is obvious. A
woman can sexually receive her man for as long as she pleases, and
thus the Taoists say her yin essence is nearly inexhaustible. A
man's love making is limited to the amount of energy he has to
keep his erection. His yang essence is more easily tired. A woman
is sexually stronger than a man because biologically she needs to

be. Her reproductive organs must bear the strain of physically
producing children and nurturing them. The effects on men of this
primal biological inequality are profound, setting off a chain reac-
tion that can permeate male thinking and feeling on all levels, from
marriage to work to cultural roles we choose to play and to the
spiritual models we choose for our inner growth.
At heart most men are as terrified of women's infinite sexual
capacity as they are fascinated by it. The general effect on men is
to make them feel sexually insecure and causes them to attempt to
compensate with some other strength. Sexual insecurity may be
the primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial,
intellectual, and religious advantage over woman. Correcting this
sexual imbalance could have significant side benefits in establish-
ing a more harmonious society, although the primary goal of the
Taoist teaching on cultivation of sexual energy was personal health
and spiritual fulfillment.
The quest for sexually fulfilled love has taken on the dimen-
sions of a religion amongst those who are too liberal or too scien-
tific to believe in any traditional version of God. The power behind
this belief in romantic love, in an ultimate commitment to one
person, is the power of sexual experience. If offers something tan-
gible to be shared, a sacrament that is personal and present.
The decline of religion in the west may have begun when the
experience of sex became more powerful than the spiritual experi-
ence offered by religion in prayer or in fellowship. The current
revival of religion in the west ironically may be due in part, to a
sexual exhaustion following on the heels of the sexual revolution.
Sex became a drug, an opiate for the discontent. Total sexual free-
dom did not supply the stability people needed most. Today, peo-
ple are turning back to either marriage or religion to seek their
sense of an absolute.
The Taoists offer neither religion nor marriage as the solution
to stability, unless it be the marriage of subtle energies they iden-
tify as yin and yang. They simply encourage each individual to
cultivate his natural inner life-force, or chi. It is in this context the
ancient Chinese developed highly refined methods of increasing
sexual vitality for the single and the married man. There are two
main ways that these energy cultivation methods can be used and
this book will accordingly attract two distinct kinds of students.
The first student seeks worldly happiness in the form of phys-
ical, emotional, and mental satisfaction. This includes any layman
interested in strengthening his personal love relationship, in al-

leviating sexual frustration, in relieving boredom with sex, in cur-
ing impotency, wet dreams and premature ejaculation and in gen-
eral increasing his longevity and good health. If he is disciplined
and does the practices taught in this book, he can attain all of these
benefits.
The other student considers himself on a spiritual path and
wants to somehow integrate his sexual desires with his meditative
practice or spiritual beliefs. The students already drawn to study
the Taoists secrets of cultivating sexual energy with Master Chia
have come from an amazingly broad range of spiritual disciplines,
including every type of yoga: Kundalini, Hatha, Kriya, Tantric,
Siddha and martial artists as well as T.M., Zen, Buddhist, Sufi,
Hindu, and Christian adherents. The suggestion is that many
Americans, however satisfied they are with their basic spiritual
beliefs, feel the need to better integrate their sexuality with their
spiritual growth.
The Taoist practice of chi cultivation focuses on integrating
the divine or subtle energies into the human body, with the goal of
achieving a dynamic balance of opposing energies called yin and
yang. The Tao is the indescribable sum and absolute source of
these energies, which manifest in ever changing form. The Taoists,
being practical, proposed that a man can begin with the most ac-
cessible energy at hand, namely the sexual attraction between men
and women, and use that as a springboard to more subtle realms.
Taoist Esoteric Yoga is neither a religion, nor a path to salva-
tion. Its vision reaches very far, teaching that enlightenment and
physical immortality are only stages in a process of coming to
wholeness as a human. It also remains very near and practical. The
raw materials required for this evolution can be found at any given
moment within the life of an ordinary human being.
The Taoist teaching of physical immortality doesn't suggest
men no longer die. It means that before they die they have the
opportunity to cultivate a "solid" or substantial spiritual body,
also known as the Immortal Body, the Solar Body, the Crystal
Body, and other names. In the west the closest parallel to a Taoist
Immortal is probably an angel. This is different from schools that
teach how to become a holy man by dissolving the individual ego
into the bliss of cosmic oneness. The Taoists insist each adept
preserve his individual nature within a body (physical or spiritual)
so he can oversee the growth of his soul until final union with "wu
chi," the nothingness from which the oneness of the Tao emerges.
This "staying in your own body" precludes the adept from totally

surrendering to any guru or divine being or religious authority. No
one else can do your spiritual work for you.
Chia sees his role as simply that of a teacher who helps his
students empower themselves through cultivation of their chi en-
ergy. He passes chi (or "shakti") to his students only so they will
have a better sense of what to cultivate and refuses any dependent
emotional relationships. He describes himself as the lead driver in
a caravan of cars. "I can give each student a road map, a set of
tools and instructions on how to fix his car. We start out together,
and help and love each other as much as possible along the way.
But ultimately everyone has to make it on his own. Some will break
down, get lost, or choose a different route. Some may find a better
road than the one I plotted. As a teacher, there's no kindness I can
offer beyond the map and tools and precise instructions for driving
safely."
The Taoist premise is that few men ever penetrate the secret
of fully tapping the sexual power that is sleeping deep within their
own body. It is revolutionary for the average man to think he can
enjoy a deep and radiant pleasure in sex that penetrates perma-
nently to the core of his being, an experience far superior to ordi-
nary genital orgasm. The kind of prolonged "total body and soul
orgasm" cultivated by Taoists is normally thought to be the excep-
tional gift of passionate and sensitive women. It has even become
the greatest myth of western culture—the woman as passionate
object of romantic love, the one who brings love to its real tender-
ness. The Taoists taught that men can participate equally in love
through a truly exquisite balancing of sexual energies that is as
tangible as any physical sensation of genital orgasms.
How is it possible for a man to so radically transform his
sexual experience and through it his whole experience of life? Para-
doxically, this "higher orgasm" can be discovered only when the
"normal" or genital orgasm which so preoccupies America's sex-
ologists is de-emphasized. The beginning three basic stages of Tao-
ist "dual cultivation" of sexual energy for couples are:
1) The male learns to hold the penis erect for as long as desired
and does not ejaculate any sperm.
2) Man and woman re-direct sexual energy through specific
bodily channels into higher regions of the heart, brain and glands.
3) Man exchanges his super charged energy with the comple-
mentary energy of woman.
For the man, it is opening his feelings and subtle energy chan-
nels to the woman's essence and absorbing it during sex that is the
key.

If you are without a lover, the Taoists offer a modification of
this practice known as "single cultivation." This teaches a single
man how to put his sex energy to work creatively in daily life or
simply to enjoy life in good health without the plague of sexual
frustration. The goal of the Taoist masters was not to create a new
myth of a super macho orgasm which everyone would struggle to
achieve and thus create competition. Rather it was to teach men
and women practical ways of using natural energies to go more
deeply into life's greatest gift, the freedom to love.
So what does all this cultivation of sexual energy have to do
with love, of either the personal romantic type or the compassion-
ate religious variety? The Taoists teach it is the responsibility of
man and woman to balance the powers of Heaven and Earth har-
moniously within themselves and that harmony in other spheres of
life will follow thereafter. On the esoteric level, all acts of human
love are the spontaneous transformation of our seed essence. Our
seed essence, the seed of our very soul, is physically stored in the
body as sperm or ovarian energy. When we love someone, we not
only help them, but we also transform some of our own essence to
a higher level of energy. Thus the Taoists see sexuality as a pri-
mary source of power behind love on the human level. Anyone
following "the path of the heart"—the spontaneous and continu-
ous loving of all that one meets—will find their way much strength-
ened by the Taoist insights into using the power of sexuality to that
end.
At the same time it is the larger unseen cosmic harmony of the
Tao that is always present that allows the experience of personal
love to occur. Thus the Taoist term "harmony" is probably the
closest equivalent for the western concept of "love" or compas-
sion, on both the personal and universal levels. The Taoist goal is
not to fulfill the human ego with its insatiable desires. It is to quiet
the ego and calm the mind so that the subtle energies in the body
can be first observed and then cultivated to a high level of
awareness. Then the mind can see its true role in the larger order of
things and work harmoniously to keep the forces in balance. Per-
sonal love relationships can be one valuable stage in this process, a
microcosm of the larger subtle energy fields of the universe.
Western sexologists will undoubtedly dismiss these methods
as having no statistical or verifiable scientific basis and accuse
them of using vague terms such as "energy." It may be shunned by
Western religions who are against sexual pleasure as well as by
Eastern ascetic schools who believe spiritual enlightenment can be

found only by austerities that include sexual abstinence. The fact is
that the early Taoists were scientists who based their practices on
precise observation of human biology and psychology. They were
neither hedonists nor ascetics, but sought a middle path to create
the highest spiritual harmony possible between man and woman in
accordance with natural laws of the universe. The deeply philo-
sophical poetry of the Taoists, from the I Ching to Lao-Tse's "Tao
Te Ching" to the "Secret of the Golden Flower," all testify to the
sublime heights of their vision.
The fact these Taoist practices have survived by secret oral
transmission for several thousand years is the strongest testimony
that they work. The interviews I have conducted with dozens of
modern western couples using these Taoist sexual practices, con-
firmed they still work for an ordinary cross section of urban men,
young, old, white, black, Chinese, married and unmarried. Stu-
dents of yoga, martial arts, and meditation have found it especially
easy to learn the technique of seminal retention. Many people were
already aware of the importance of sexual energy in their spiritual
path, but simply lacked the method of expressing it directly in love
making.
The Taoist methods may appear to be similar to the tantric
sexual techniques becoming popularized in the west. The principle
of balancing male and female and using the body as the crucible for
transformation are essentially the same. As Nik Doulgas and
Penny Slinger suggest in their authoritative "Sexual Secrets" (In-
ner Traditions N.Y. 1980) Indian tantra may have originated with
ancient Taoists in China and then re-entered China hundreds of
years later with the effect of re-vitalizing Taoist sexual practices.
For westerners today the foremost practical difference is that
esoteric Taoism never assumed the cloak of secret rituals and invo-
cation of religious deities that can make tantra seem strange and ill-
fitting when transplanted to this culture. Sex was used more openly
in China as a medicinal form of healing and natural path to spiritual
balance without the same religious overtones. I strongly recom-
mend that you obtain Sexual Secrets as a companion volume to this
book, as it contains fresh translations of the classical Taoist
treatises on sex and has dozens of superb illustrations of Taoist
love-making positions not offered in this book.
It must be stressed that Master Chia does not teach his Taoist
methods of transforming sexual energy as separate from his prac-
tice of meditation, Tai Chi Chuan, Iron Shirt Chi Kung and other
Taoist arts. Sexual balance is a very important foundation for

building a healthy physical and emotional life, but the Taoist goal is
ultimately to gather the primal energies driving all our desires,
emotions, and thoughts and cultivate them back into their original
state of pure spirit.
The Taoist Masters of ancient China were no fools. They
knew love between man and woman is a mystery which cannot be
taught. Sex may be only the hand maiden of higher love, but our
sexual limitations often confront us with the feeling that our rela-
tionships with our lovers or that our life in general is incomplete.
The techniques taught in this book are not mechanical substitutes
for love. The Taoist secrets of love are meant to be mastered and
then discarded when the transformation of sexual energy is experi-
enced as a natural creative power of man, as easy as walking,
talking or thinking. Then the pleasure of sex can be ecstatic beyond
orgasm and love tender beyond belief.

Michael Winn
June 1984

Michael Winn is general editor of the Taoist Esoteric Yoga
Encyclopedia and an instructor at the Healing Tao Center in New
York. Born in San Francisco in 1951 and educated at Dartmouth
College, he has travelled to over sixty countries as a journalist,
photographer, expedition guide and observer of global culture. He
has practiced various kinds of meditation, Kundalini yoga, Chi
Kung and Tai Chi forms over the last fifteen years. He tested the
methods taught in this book during an extended period of celibacy
and later with a lover. Only after finding the methods effective, in
both situations did Winn agree to this collaboration. The principle
ideas belong solely to Mantak Chia as transmitted to him by his
Taoist teachers.

CHINESE SEXUAL KUNG-FU:
Will It Work in the West?
by Gunther Weil, Ph.D.

America's fascination with sex in the 1980's is matched only by its
massive confusion of attitudes towards it. We need the pleasure of
sex but can't decide how to deal with the emotional pain and com-
plexity that often accompanies it. We have all felt guilty, conflicted
or alienated by our sexual involvements and commitments at one
time or another. From where does sex draw such enormous power
to influence our lives?
No doubt, there is a biological imperative at work—the spe-
cies' need to reproduce and continue itself. Less clear but equally
powerful is the way sexual feelings become ensnared in the com-
plex web of our culture. Eventually the culture-wide sex habits
become a powerful set of unconscious influences. Most of us have
been carrying the excess baggage of the sexual mores of our age for
so long that we've forgotten how heavy the load is.
The cultural legacies of the Judeo-Christian ethic were the
axis around which the sexual experiments of the 1960's revolved.
The neurotic and barren life-styles of this ethic in previous genera-
tions were among the major causes of the sexual revolution of the
1960's. Alienated by sexual hypocrisy and the obvious destructive
effects of sexual repression, people began searching for new and
more honest ways of expressing their desires. Over the last twenty
years we have seen the sexual revolution come full circle. What
was previously illicit and forbidden became commonplace and ba-
nal. Some seek a solution to this current dilemma by returning to
the old morality. Some seek refuge in celibacy. And some of us are
still searching
The far reaching implications of the sexual revolution of the
1960's, including the various liberation movements that have ac-
companied it, are now being re-examined in the wake of wide-
spread conflict and unhappiness between men and women. The
recent quest for a "new frontier" for the sexuality of the 1980's, a
trend that is beginning to appear in the popular media, is essentially
a reaction to the unhappy results of the new morality experiments
of the last two decades. We thought we knew what we wanted, but
when we got it we realized something else was missing. Individu-

ally and culturally we are again examining the meaning of our
sexuality and the deeper purposes served by our loving rela-
tionships.
Many new ideas are now emerging from the New Age con-
sciousness movement which address this need. Witness, for exam-
ple, the concept of "High Monogamy" which emphasizes the chal-
lenge and excitement of conscious, through-time, relationships that
transcend romantic egotism. The much publicized revival of popu-
lar interest in Indian and Tibetan sexual tantra is another example.
Others are re-examining the merits of celibacy. The sexual para-
digm is shifting again, part of the polar shift of the American moral-
ity play. As this play continues we are further mystified by the
Moral Majority seeking to revive the old repressions and neurotic
patterns which drove us to seek relief in the first place.
Many of us are struggling to understand the meaning of the
conflict between the old and new sexual morality. Can we avoid
the pitfalls of both repressive and "liberated" sexual morality
which are by now all too familiar? Where do we turn for guidance
in seeking our own truly individual answers?
Unfortunately, our views about human sexuality are con-
stantly shaped by the fads and fashions of science and popular
culture. We are influenced as much by these trends—from Dr.
Spock to the Herpes scare—as we are by the actual biochemical
processes of our bodies and minds. We often "know" more about
who and what we are from what we read or see on television than
from a deeply lived experience of ourselves. It is obvious that we
lack a clear and impartial vision of our own social conditioning.
Our self-knowledge is usually derived from the world of well
known experts, books, films, TV, magazines, rather than from a
patient understanding of our deepest gut feelings or intuitions.
The power of these cultural influences can be understood by
carefully noting the cyclical and often contradictory scientific and
psychological theories about sexuality found in the popular media.
We can easily conclude that consistent valid and practical guide-
lines for the physical, psychological, and spiritual health of men
women are few and far between. This conclusion applies to most of
our difficult social and interpersonal problems, but is especially
true in the sexual arena. The fact is that we really don't know much
from our scientific or popular media sources about the function of
sex beyond the obvious reproductive and "pleasure principle" ar-
guments that have influenced all of our thinkers from Freud up to
the more recent sociobiologists.

Unfortunately, our lives are powerfully affected by this loss of
personal sexual self-knowledge. As a society we have chosen to
ignore what the great spiritual traditions once understood about
sexual energy and its role in personal transformation and spiritual
evolution. What knowledge we once had has been fragmented or
distorted by the institutionalized Judeo-Christian religions and re-
made to serve the lesser gods of social, political and personal con-
trol. Our Western institutional religious tradition has essentially
repressed and distorted the sexual instinct and thereby created a
variety of personal and social pathologies. In so doing, it has also
effectively removed sexuality from its spiritual foundations.
In this respect, Western psychoanalysis correctly perceived
the role of repressed sexuality in individual neurosis. Whatever
limitations the psychoanalytic view may have as a full representa-
tion of human potential, this much can be granted to Freud's in-
sights. Wilhelm Reich and Carl Jung understood quite well the
enormous power of liberated sex energy and its connection to a
larger universe of spiritual meaning. Jung rightly protested Freud's
emphasis on disease as a model for health as well as the nar-
rowness of his understanding of the range and purpose of the un-
conscious. He correctly emphasized instead the creative and tran-
scendental function of sexual energy within a spiritually attuned
and evolving individual.
But all of these psychologists and their legacies have missed
the point in one way or another. It is true that the sexual instinct
can both liberate and enslave, but in order to be truly liberating, the
sexual instinct must be channeled in the direction of another pur-
pose. Only in conjunction with the drive for spiritual transforma-
tion can sex become truly liberating.
Because of his lack of knowledge of the great spiritual tradi-
tions, Freud was completely unable to see this point. Wilhelm
Reich, whose work has influenced so much of the Human Potential
Movement's body centered therapies, was bold enough to bring
Freud's insights to their logical conclusion. Reich clearly recog-
nized that the ultimate result of repression was individual dis-ease
and political fascism.
But in his zeal to emphasize the destructive effects of sexual
repression, he also ignored the spiritually transforming functions of
sex energy. Carl Jung had just the opposite problem. He clearly
emphasized a spiritual and transcendental perspective on the sex-
ual instinct, but he left out the central role of the physical body in
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apply Jung's elaborate intellectual models to daily problems of
sexuality.
So we search in vain within Western psychology to find the
practical disciplines and principles we need in order to reconcile
the conflicts which face us in the sexual realm. This is a simple and
ordinary dilemma. But when we want to harmonize our sexual and
love relationships with our spiritual goals, our situation seems es-
pecially poignant. Time and time again the sexual function proves
to be a disruptive influence, generating conflict and division in our
lives. It should not be too surprising therefore that celibacy has
become an appealing alternative to so many who wish to follow a
spiritual path while remaining worldly men and women.
These facts become even more obvious when we observe the
behavior of the gurus, swamis and other teachers in "New Age"
spiritual circles. The numerous examples of apparently celibate
spiritual teachers born and raised in the puritanical context of tradi-
tional oriental cultures and suddenly set loose in the American
"new morality" is simultaneously sad and funny. We frequently
hear of this guru or that master who has fallen into the temptation
of sexual relations which their disciples. Scandals have now be-
come almost commonplace in the ashram and dojo. One does not
need to become cynical about this in order to recognize that the
sexual instinct is bound to find its expression in rather prosaic and
predictable ways no matter what the official spiritual dogma may
condone or prohibit. This has been true one way or another
throughout the history of the institutionalized Judeo-Christian
churches, as well as in the New Age spiritual scene, embracing as it
does so much of the Buddhist and Hindu life-styles. In regard to
sex, institutional religion, old or new, has little to offer us.
Turning to examples of the teachers of sexual tantra, the gap
between theory and practical knowledge becomes rather obvious.
We hear of the marvelous and ecstatic rewards of tantric inspired
relationships. Our New Age spiritual bookshelves and periodicals
lend themselves increasingly to the interest and fascination with
esoteric sexual practices.
But what is the real purpose of esoteric sexuality and where
can one find real knowledge and practical instruction in these pub-
lications? How is it possible for someone to actually apply these
rituals in a form that is applicable to ordinary life and relationships?
And how much do we really understand of the actual esoteric
teachings when they are removed from the larger religious and
ritualistic context of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions?

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In order to answer these questions we need to accurately
understand esoteric sexuality as the study and control of sex en-
ergy within ourselves having little or no connection with outer
rituals of culture. Beyond this, we need practical methods that can
be understood by the Western mind and applied in contemporary
life.
One way to discover these methods is to identify the essential,
fife-affirming aspects of sexuality found in mankind's cultural and
spiritual traditions and determine which work today. We must
carefully separate what we need to guide ourselves in the sexual
realm without getting bogged down in outmoded ways of thinking
and living.
The tradition of Taoism, the core of Chinese culture, presents
an interesting and practical perspective on this question. The an-
cient Chinese masters observed that the sexual function is closely
related to physical and mental health and is also the basis for the
cultivation of higher spiritual faculties. The position that effective
conservation of the life force energy and its gradual transformation
into a kind of spiritual/material substance is both the birthright and
responsibility of mankind. When practiced within the monastic tra-
dition of religious Taoism, the conservation and cultivation of sex
energy was largely a matter of celibacy.
But in its wisdom the Taoist tradition also provided another or
practical way: The path of Sexual Kung Fu (sometimes called
"Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu"). This practice indicated a way
by which a married monk or ordinary man and women could culti-
vate the Tao ("The Way") while remaining in worldly life. Because
of its eminently practical orientation in matters of health and living,
the Taoist tradition addressed sexual relationships in a straightfor-
ward and realistic manner.
The Taoist Sexual Kung Fu was and is today a method of
increasing longevity and health, harmonizing the relationship be-
tween the sexes, and a means of spiritual transformation.
Aside from some historical distortions in which the basic
egalitarian nature of the practice were subverted by emperors and
aristocrats in the direction of a kind of male exploitation of the
female, the basic premise of the method of Sexual Kung Fu is that
of spiritual development and the harmony of the male and female
energies.
Accustomed as we are in our Western traditions to consider
the field of sexology from within the limits of our religious, scien-
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essential meaning of the metaphor of Sexual Kung Fu. We have a
vague understanding of some kind of relationship to the martial
arts, but beyond this, the concept of a sexual kung-fu seems com-
ical if not downright ridiculous.
In fact, the literal meaning of "Kung-Fu" is method, practice
or discipline. The concept of sexual Kung-Fu implies a specific
method or practical discipline of having sex without ejaculation. At
the same time the Taoist tradition recognizes a certain form of
conflict between the sexes: a form that is universally represented
by the lawful opposition and dynamic interplay of the forces of Yin
and Yang. This lawful opposition plays itself out on the "battle-
field" of sexual relations and is expressed as the playful conflict
between sexual adversaries. A conflict, by the way, in which man
is weaker than his "strong enemy," and where the Kung-Fu of
ejaculation control is developed as a way of remedying this im-
balance of sexual force.
In the western world we also have a related notion of a battle
between the sexes. But we easily make a major error by assuming
that this expression connotes the same meaning as the Taoist meta-
phor in anything other than the most superficial sense of conflict.
Our Western concept of the battle between the sexes conveys the
morbidity and frustration of the ponderously serious sexual dramas
which dominate so much of our current thinking about rela-
tionships. It has little to do with the playful and transformative
aspects of sex as they are understood in the Taoist tradition.
Only when we move our thinking to the level of "sexual en-
ergy" is it possible for us to begin to see how the sexual function
can be properly understood and correctly employed in the service
of sexual harmony and health. According to the Taoist view, man
is constitutionally inferior to woman with respect to his sexual
capacities.
His energies are easily spent and with the advancement of
years his energetic capacity becomes severely diminished. It is this
factor that is a major cause of conflict between men and women
and it is this factor that is the basic underlying issue of so much of
the current sexual counseling and sex therapy.
From our contemporary perspective the idea of a sexual
Kung-Fu seems odd and maybe even a little revolutionary. But
with the growing interactions of oriental and Western culture and
medicine, and the resultant impact on Western sexology, the prin-
ciples and methods of Seminal and Ovarian Kung-Fu could gradu-
ally become accepted.

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Considering the fact that Western sexological research is
quite young, we might anticipate the kind of confusion that one
finds in a teenager exploring his/her sexuality. By contrast, the
Taoist tradition is over eight thousand years old and has reached a
full maturity in both theory and method. In fact, both traditions are
dealing with the control of the same powerful impulse. Whether or
not the Taoist Sexual King-Fu can work in Western society will be
determined in part by its translation of it into Western forms of
scientific understanding and psychology. Its acceptance may hinge
equally on the willingness of Westerners to adapt themselves to the
wisdom of the Taoist masters.
The ancient Taoist masters would enjoy this play of opposing
forces as the inevitable working of the Tao. A young Taoist master
has taken the bold step of revealing the secret methodology to the
west; it is up to the reader to test its truth.

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SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF
TAOIST CULTIVATION
OF SEXUAL ENERGY
1. The universe is filled with different kinds of dynamic en-
ergy, or "chi." The Tao, or "way," for each man is to creatively
transform his energy over a course of a lifetime back to its original
state of harmonious balance. Sexual essence, or "ching," is a
powerful, vital energy that is generated continuously within the
human body. Sexual drive propels the course of man's evolution
biologically by transmitting the genetic lineage. Emotionally it har-
monizes the love between man and woman, and spiritually pro-
vides a tangible link between the "ordinary" creative powers of
man and the eternal creative process of the cosmos. Refining one's
awareness of sexual energy—with or without a partner—is one of
the simplist ways of humans to return to pure consciousness and
experience the deepest rhythms of life. (Chapters 1 and 2.)
2. Sperm is the storehouse of male sexual energy. A single
ejaculation has 200 to 500 million sperm cells, each a potential
human being. There are enough spermotozoa lost in a single
orgasm to populate the entire United States if each cell was to
fertilize an egg. The manufacture of a sperm fluid capable of such
psychic super potency consumes up to a third of a man's daily
energy output and is especially taxing on the male glandular/immu-
nological system. (Chapters 3 and 4).
3. Conservation of sexual energy is the first principle of
cultivation. Ejaculation of the male seed for purposes other than
having children is a wasteful loss of an extremely precious trea-
sure. The energy loss over long periods of time weakens the phys-
ical health of the male, can lead to unconscious emotional anger
towards women and gradually robs the male higher mind/spirit of
it's power to rejuvenate itself. For this reason many traditional
spiritual orders in the world require male celibacy. Taoists accept
sexual love as natural and healthy, but know the momentary plea-
sure of genital orgasm with ejaculation is superficial compared to
the profound ecstasy possible when love is enjoyed without the
loss of the powerful male seed. It's every man's birthright to have
full control over his bodily functions and prevent this loss. The
secret Taoist methods of sealing the penis in order to conserve
"ching" are given in Chapters 5 thru 8.
4. Transformation of sex energy is the second principle of
cultivation. During sexual arousal, the "ching" or sexual essence
stored in the testicles expands rapidly and causes some energy to

naturally rise to higher centers in the heart, brain, glands, and
nervous system. This upward movement is cut short by ejaculation
outward, so most men never become aware of the full power of
their sexuality. The Taoist method perfects this upward transfor-
mation of sex energy by opening subtle channels from the genitals
up the spine to the head and back down the spine to the navel. The
expanding sexual energy is chanelled into this "microcosmic or-
bit" so it flows past all the major vital organs and harmonizes the
etheric energy complexes in the body, called "Tan Tiens" by the
Taoists (or "chakras" by the Hindus). (Chapters 7 and 8)
5. Balancing the polarity of female-male (yin-yang) forces is
the third principle of Taoist cultivation. Once the sex energy has
been conserved and transformed up, a single man can use medita-
tion to balance the male and female poles which exist inside every
male body. In the practice of "dual" cultivation, a couple balances
this field of energy between them by sharing and circulating their
subtle energies. The relationship becomes a springboard to trans-
form the sexual attraction into personal love and then into spiritual
awareness and service. The power struggle between the sexes
gradually diminishes and balancing their differences over work,
family, love, and the purpose of existence leads them into deeper
harmony. Balancing this core sexual polarity in a couple is true
depth psychology, as it nourishes man and woman at their inner-
most root. Chapter 9 details the "valley orgasm" method of ex-
changing the yin and yang energy during intercourse. A higher
level of this practice involves exchanging energy without sex, or
having orgasm within oneself, and must be learned from a master.
(Chapter 18)
6. Don't over-emphasize physical sex in your daily practice,
as it is easy to get stuck on pleasure without experiencing higher
subtle energies. Proper sexual refinement is only one small part of
the vast and all-encompassing Tao. If the mixture of your chi (gen-
eral vital energy), ching (sex essence) and shien (spirit) is im-
balanced, it will be difficult to unite yourself and feel whole and
peaceful. Cultivating sex energy is important in nourishing your
spirit, but without proper diet, exercise, meditation, virtuous moral
behavior and love, true cultivation is impossible. Likewise, don't
ignore sex and focus excessively on the higher spiritual centers; the
roof will easily fall without a strong foundation below. Tao is the
wholeness of Heaven and Earth, true harmony for man is the mid-
dle way between them, found in the balanced integration of their
subtle energies.

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7. Avoid sex without love. It creates imbalances in your phys-
ical, mental and spiritual bodies and will slow your real growth.
The Taoist techniques are meant to be practical, not mechanical. A
woman seeks tenderness of feeling in her lovers and will resent a
man who is overly compulsive or preoccupied with his mechanical
mastery of esoteric love methods. Dual cultivation is impossible
without the full participation of the woman, who must transform up
her yin essence stored in her ovaries. Regard the woman you love
as more than a powerful generator of yin energy; she is foremost a
human being worthy of your full love and respect.
8. You do not need a wife or girlfriend to cultivate your sexual
energy. In the beginning it is easier to practice controlling your
ejaculation alone, without the distracting excitement and heat of a
woman. At any stage it is essential to tell your lover exactly what
you're doing and ask her cooperation. The same principles of Tao-
ist cultivation apply to women, with sexual essence drawn from the
ovaries and this "ching" transformed upward into higher mind and
heart. Many women already have an intuitive feel for the process.
The receptive nature of women allows them to quickly learn the
Tao of love, especially if the man has mastered the process in his
own body.
9. Any male in reasonably good health can master the Taoist
methods of cultivating sexual energy taught in this book. If you feel
impotent or ejaculate prematurely, the rejuvenation exercises in
Chapter 15 should be studied before attempting the Big Draw
method taught in Chapter 7. The principles of cultivation are sim-
ple, but require steady attention. Its like cultivating a garden—hoe
a little everyday, and nature will do the rest. One day you will have
luscious blossoms and fruits. An impatient mind kills progress. Do
not feel guilty or angry when you spill your seed; it may take years
to fully master the Tao of love. The key is to relax, enjoy yourself
and keep practicing.

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PART I •
THE FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE: I
Sex Energy Can Be Transformed into Spirit

CHAPTER I

MALE SEX ENERGY IS STORED IN ITS SEED

"There is no medicine, or food, and no spiritual salvation that can
prolong a man's life if he fails to understand or practice the har-
mony of sexual energy."
—P'eng Tsu, physician to the Emperor

For more than 8,000 years of Chinese history, the "Sexual Kung
Fu Method" of retaining the seminal fluid during the act of love
remained a deep secret. At first it was practiced exclusively by the
Emperor and his innermost circle, who learned it from the Taoist
sages that advised the court. These wise men claimed in earlier
times it was a natural gift of all mankind. The Emperor needed the
method to prevent impotence and illness; improperly educated
monarchs were exhausted at an early age by the sexual demands of
their wives and concubines. In aristocratic families it passed from
father to chosen son alone, excluding wives, daughters and other
family members.
Sexual Kung Fu is an internal practice that permits men to
retain certain bodily secretions which are a source of incomparable
energy when stored and recirculated to higher vital centers. One
prevents loss of this biochemical energy by not ejaculating. Stop-
ping ejaculation is not to be confused with stopping orgasm. The

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Sexual Kung Fu Method provides an altogether unique and supe-
rior type of orgasm repeated over lengthy periods of love making.
Its secret is simply, there is no loss of seminal fluid during orgasm.
By practicing control of certain muscles, tendons, and fascia
of the lower trunk and by allowing the genital pressure to spread
over the entire body, the seminal fluid is withheld. At the same
time one thrills to pleasures of infinite variety. Indeed, the joys of
this kind of love must be considered quite different from ordinary
physical pleasure; the intensity is so great that it often leads to a
spiritual awakening.
A man who masters this method will find his sexuality so
enhanced that he will feel a revolution has occurred in his life. The
pair of lovers becomes a dynamo, generating great quantities of
electromagnetic energy. With this method one can make love more
often than before, with tremendous benefits to one's health. Sexual
Kung Fu stimulates production of precious hormonal secretions
instead of depleting them, as is ordinarily the case with ejaculation.
Every vital function is invigorated because one no longer dis-
charges life energy through the genitals. Real sexual fulfillment lies
not in feeling the life going out of you, but in increasing awareness
of the vital current that flows through the loins. The body is further
replenished by a method of "steaming" the vital energy up from
the sexual centers to the brain and higher organs such as the heart
and crown of head. The life-enhancing energy process is completed
by exchanging energy with one's lover during a relaxed meditation
following the creation of this supercharged sexual energy.
This powerful release and sharing of life's vital force is the
fundamental bond in human love. To awaken this dynamic energy
is also to experience the force behind man's biological and spiritual
evolution, also known as the Rising Kundalini.

EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF
THE SEXUAL ELIXIR

Wise men of the Orient have from time immemorial sought means
of preventing discharge of the seminal fluid. Without exception
they have realized the tremendous implications of the sexual act:
when performed with love and discipline, it may awaken dormant
powers in the mind and body. The nervous and endocrine systems
are particularly open to improvement. The act of love has long

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been recognized as healing, but the Taoist masters sought to go
beyond this and find the principles of physical immortality within
it. Many schools arose proposing various ways of tapping the se-
cret elixir of sexuality.
Those who fully understand conventional ejaculatory sex,
know it grossly exploits every gland and organ. With ejaculation,
the internal pressure of life is expelled from the body, leaving
behind in some sex-obsessed men only enough life force to fold the
newspaper, squeeze food through the bowels and make for the
psychiatrists's couch.
The sages considered one drop of semen equal in vital power
to one hundred drops of blood. The Hindu holy men refer repeat-
edly to Amrita, the elixir of life, a rejuvenation substance that may
be produced during prolonged sexual activity without ejaculation.
The production of this elixir, which westerners might call a higher
hormonal secretion, requires a sexual technique that prevents
ejaculation and thereby allows the body to enter higher and higher
states of energy.
Extraordinary powers, including healing and clairvoyant per-
ception, may evolve when one retains the semen and drives its
power back up into the body. Many gifted minds have held that if
one could retain these fluids for one's entire life, the body would
not decay after death. The Saints—Christian, Buddhist, Moslem,
or Taoist—all used the power dwelling in the vital seed to perform
"miracles."
DIAGRAM 1

THE SECRET OF SECRETS

Many esoteric sects have urged the eating of the seminal fluid
to increase sexual ability and bodily fitness. This practice is at least
as rational as buying vitamins. Scientific analysis has found it to


contain a treasure house of vitamins, minerals, trace elements,
hormones, proteins, ions, enzymes, and other vital nutritional sub-
stances.
But there is an additional property in the sperm seed which
present-day science cannot analyze and is far more important than
any vitamin. This may be called the Life-Force. Though it registers
on no scientific instruments, it is far from imaginary since it sepa-
rates the living from the dead. Ginseng root is an example of an-
other natural substance which shows no special properties under
chemical analysis, yet its life restoring powers are now widely
acknowledged. Love making is a powerful healing tonic because it
involves sharing the human life force, which is far more potent than
any herb or medicine.
Chinese aristocrats and adepts seeking the deepest level of
fulfillment have long had the capacity to return the energy of the
seminal fluid to the brain and vital bodily centers. But ordinary
people in our society have, until now, had no technique for recy-
cling this great life power to the body. Most men have found the
sexual lure irresistibly attractive and have happily lost their seed
when succumbing to it, unaware of the consequences to their
health or that there was even an alternative available to them.
With frequent ejaculation of sperm vitality ultimately plum-
mets. The big spender loses stamina, his vision begins to weaken,
hair tumbles from his skull: he grows old before his time. At first he
will not feel drained, but after years of abuse his capacities will
begin to drop alarmingly. When the hormonal secretions of the
sexual glands are regularly leached out, the body is sapped at its
root. Within a period of time that will range from months to de-
cades depending on the endowment of the individual, creative and
sexual abilities are halved, and the ability to withstand disease and
the frailties of old age is diminished.
To regain failing powers, the desperate big spender of vital
seed sometimes tries to borrow well-being from hormone injec-
tions, "uppers," "downers," intoxicants, megavitamins, hallu-
cinogens, and aphrodisiacs. These substances frantically stuffed
into the body may appear to help temporarily. He may seek to
regain his dwindling sexual powers with personal power purchased
with money or political influence. If he is on a spiritual path, or is
surrounded by a loving community of family and friends, this feel-
ing of a failing life power will be slowed. But so long as the pro-


digious energy waste continues, decline is inevitable. The organs of
digestion will be unable to assimilate sufficient nutritional energies
to replace those irrecoverable life energies lost by ejaculation.
The Taoist method of cultivating sexual energy recirculates to
the body the hormones, proteins, vitamins, enzymes, minerals and
electrical energies of the semen. When they are conserved and
transformed, one enjoys a marvelous sexual life, improved health,
deep inner balance, and rising spiritual consciousness.
The Taoist method of love actually stimulates the production
of hormonal substances of unusually high quality. One can learn to
focus energy on the endocrine glands during the act of love. When
the glands are bathed in energy, the quantity of their secretions
increases; more importantly, their quality improves. At higher
stages in the practice the hormones develop extraordinary proper-
ties.
The Sexual Kung Fu method allows one to generate and con-
serve more nervous and hormonal energy than are necessary for
ordinary functioning. This excess vitality may be channeled to
strengthen the body and to raise mental and spiritual abilities.
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.


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, and


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. These


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 contribution


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"


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.


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 has


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-


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)

T'ai Chi
(Pure polarity)
Yin/Yang duality
underlies all existence

Yang/Heaven
Shien, Ching
and Chi
Reunite

Five primordial elements
(Fire, water, earth, metal, wood)

Ching Chi,
Sexual essence Various kinds of Chi energy
underlies all
procreation
Sun
Outside Chi energy is
converted to Ching Chi
inside the body
• Food ' Water
Yin/Earth


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."

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