Taoist Secrets of Love

Sexual insecurity may be the primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial, intellectual, and religious advantage over woman. (Location 310)

The quest for sexually fulfilled love has taken on the dimensions of a religion amongst those who are too liberal or too scientific 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 tangible 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 experience offered by religion in prayer or in fellowship. (Location 313)

The Taoists teach it is the responsibility of man and woman to balance the powers of Heaven and Earth harmoniously within themselves and that harmony in other spheres of life will follow thereafter. (Location 368)

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 (Location 408)

Reich clearly recognized that the ultimate result of repression was individual dis-ease and political fascism. (Location 464)

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 (Location 477)

The universe is filled with different kinds of dynamic energy, 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 harmonizes the love between man and woman, and spiritually provides a tangible link between the “ordinary” creative powers of man and the eternal creative process of the cosmos. (Location 533)

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/immunological system. (Chapters 3 and 4). (Location 540)