Taoist Perspectives on Sexual Energy and Retention Practices

The Taoist perspective emphasizes conserving sexual energy to achieve higher consciousness and balance in life.

### Taoist Perspectives on Sexual Energy and Consciousness
* 🧘 The Taoist philosophy emphasizes **quieting the ego and calming the mind** to cultivate awareness of **subtle energies within the body**.
* 📚 In exploring Mantak Chia's "Taoist Secrets of Love," the focus is on **transforming sexual energy, or Qi, back to a harmonious balance** over a lifetime.
* 💖 Sexual essence, or ching, is described as a **vital energy** that fosters **biological evolution**, **emotional harmony**, and **spiritual connection with the cosmos**.
* 🔄 The first principle of cultivation is **conserving sexual energy**, as ejaculation for non-reproductive purposes can lead to **health issues and emotional imbalances**.
* 🌌 Taoists advocate for **enjoying sexual pleasure without ejaculation**, contrasting with the more restrictive views of some Hindu teachings on **celibacy**.
* ⚖ The transformation of sexual energy through meditation helps **balance the male and female forces within**, enhancing **overall vitality and consciousness**.
* 💪 Mantak Chia notes that the retention of semen can lead to **extraordinary powers and heightened awareness**, which are often reported by practitioners of NoFap.
* 🧠 Ultimately, the failure to **direct sexual energy upwards** is seen as a failure to reach one's **full human potential**, with historical figures like Muhammad Ali exemplifying the practice of **sexual restraint for enhanced performance**.

The Taoist's goal is not to fulfill the human ego with 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. What's up, guys? In today's video, I'm gonna be reading from the works of Mantak Chia, who has a Taoist ideological philosophical view towards, you know, this discipline of premature young. I'm somewhat versed with the Hindu perspective on cultivating male sexual energy, and I've talked about that quite a bit on my channel. But I had been curious about Mantak Chia and his works, and recently Improvement Pill created a video in which he mentioned the works of Mantak Chia a few times. So I wanted to read the best ideas that I could come across from this book. The book is Taoist Secrets of Love.

cultivating male sexual energy. It will be in the description box below, and let's get started. So, here's what Mantak Chia says: the universe is filled with different kinds of dynamic energy or Qi, the Tao or wave. For each man, it 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. Spiritually, it provides a tangible link between the ordinary creative powers of man and the eternal creative process of the cosmos. And this is something I've said that I've felt within myself. In one of my earlier videos, I talked about how, you know, retention of the vital energy is basically holding on to the infinite intelligence and the creative powers of your ancestors because it is the force that, you know, it is the force that is carried down from time in memoriam.

and this is something that I found this paragraph interesting because Mantak Chia is using a similar vocabulary. He says it's transmitting the genetic lineage, and from that comes the ordinary creative powers of man being aligned for the first time with the eternal creative processes of the cosmos, which is kind of an amazing thing. He goes on to say refining one's awareness of sexual energy is one of the simplest ways to return to pure consciousness and experience the deepest rhythms of life. 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 treasure. The energy loss over long periods of time weakens the physical health of the male, can lead to unconscious emotional anger towards women, and gradually robs male higher energy and spirit of its power to rejuvenate itself. For this reason, many traditional spiritual or spiritual orders in the world require male celibacy. Taoists accept sexual love as natural and healthy but know the

momentary pleasure of genital orgasm with ejaculation is superficial compared to the powerful ecstasy possible when love is enjoyed without the loss of the powerful male seed. Okay, so a little bit to unpack there. One thing that I've found over the reading of this book is that the Taoist perspective of enjoying sexual pleasure is very different, or comes across as quite different, than the Hindu perspective that Swami Sivananda had preached in his book The Practice of Promotora. Basically, the Taoists believe there should be a level of awakening of the sexual energy, but it shouldn't be so much that it should be expended. So, soft intimacy or practices such as Korres are often highly encouraged within the Taoist discipline because it sort of awakens your manly desire without expelling it, releasing it, and causing that weakness that comes about afterward. And so, this is one of the reasons why Mantak Chia actually encourages men to sort of like stimulate themselves just a little bit and then to breathe deeply and pull

that energy upwards, whereas Swami Sivananda might have said that you should basically never, never even have a single sexual thought. That's one way they just differ. Transformation of sex energy is the second principle of cultivation. The expanding sexual energy is channeled into this microcosmic orbit, so it flows past all the major vital organs and harmonizes the etheric nature complexes in the body. These complexes are called chakras by the Hindus. Balancing the polarity of female-male forces is the third principle of Taoist cultivation. Once the sex energy has been conserved and transformed, a man can use meditation to balance the male and female poles which exist inside every male body. Interesting stuff. Um, I really enjoyed his perspective, though I didn't a lot of what Mantak Chia said. I didn't really know how to process or do something with, but it still has been cool to like know that a tradition outside of my own has similar ideas, you know. We're all grasping towards a

similar truth. Okay, let's keep reading. Wiseman of the Orient 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, and I think this ties into the fact that people on nofap have reported higher testosterone levels, or at the very least, higher aggression. I've never measured my testosterone levels, but one thing that I definitely struggle with now that I've been over basically eight months of cultivation is there's a lot more aggression that I have to work through. It takes a bit more meditation for me to be able to process all that. Otherwise, I just can be really curt with people, and I have no patience with anyone's BS. Extraordinary powers, including healing and clairvoyant perception, may evolve when one retains the semen and drives its power back up into the body. That's awesome. She also

known as prana, the warm current, Kundalini power, or the electromagnetic lifeforce, is very difficult to describe because this life energy is invisible and cannot be seen. However, we can feel it. One great indication of, I think, having chi or prana—I've mentioned it a few times, and it's something that I viscerally feel—I feel that I'm completely used to it at this point, is getting stairs and getting, like, movement towards me from animals and bugs, you know, at work. So, would someone pointed this out to me, but basically when I'm sitting in my cubicle, when I'm sitting at my desk, at least three or four times a day, people walk up specifically to me and start conversations with me. Or if I'm walking through, like, a hall, people will often stop me to have these many conversations with me. And at one point, someone pointed it out to me, like, This is actually pretty bizarre. You are constantly having people just randomly walk up to you and talking to you. Why is

that and I didn't really, I mean, I didn't really have much to say on the matter except before. I feel this could be a result of cultivating chi or prana. Some Western scientists may scoff at the idea that semen is an immensely powerful substance, yet no one can deny the prodigious life potential in the seed of a single man. By gathering this life-generating force within oneself, one kind of collects tremendous energy. 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 developed enormous physical potential, another massive resistance to disease, another clairvoyant powers, still another great longevity. But all men had the inherent ability to substantially increase their active life span by creatively adapting to their environment. Okay, this is something that Becoming Alpha talked about, like we are all slightly different, you know, we're all slightly different, you know, the way our biology, physiology manifests. So, the practice of NoFap, it would have slightly

different effects on different people, and maybe that's why for me it comes out with a little bit more aggression, whereas someone else might go through a bit more of a flatline type scenario. But I find this to be an incredibly interesting notion that he says one person might develop enormous physical force, another great resistance to disease, another clairvoyant powers. And by the way, I do feel like I have a bit of this. I do have, like, I can sort of read people's emotions at the very least, much more than I ever could. And still another great longevity. I think that's an incredibly exciting notion. It is the very possibility of transforming our extinction and essentially animal sexual energies into something higher that makes us human and potentially divine. The failure to direct sexual energy upwards is a failure to fulfill our deepest human potential. I don't have much to say on that, but it's like kind of a building thing. Like, if you're not able to master your retention cultivation, that on some level, you're failing your deepest human.

potential. It is rumored that the great Muhammad Ali observed the strictest sexual countenance for as long as one year before his bouts. He didn't publicize this because he kept his training methods secret, and I think this is something that was widely practiced and is continually practiced in the fight game. Retention, or at least continence to some degree before a fight, is pretty standard practice. And this is the last thing that I had noted down in my notes of reading this book. The loss caused by ejaculation is not limited to the physical sphere; mental and emotional functions are profoundly influenced. Hormonal fitness directly affects personality and capacity for creative thought. The mind suffers from the loss of testosterone, the hormone secreted in the testes and spent in ejaculation. So, it's something that's widely adhered to, followed, and talked about by the Tallis. I think Mantak Chia in the modern world, at least, is the loudest speaker on retention or having a degree of sexual retention, but these ideas are very, very similar to

what the Hindus have said in their talk of premature death. The only thing that might be slightly different is that Mantak Chia thinks it's beneficial to have a degree of stimulation so that you can sort of keep that energy alive and it doesn't become stagnant. Whereas a Hindu might say that you shouldn't even have a single sexual thought. And with my experience, I think personally I'm leaning towards maybe our respective is better for long-term health. Like, I think having a degree of stimulation in your life is perfectly healthy. But that's my first take, my first read-through on this book. I think there will be a lot more to talk about moving forward, but that's it for this video, guys. I hope you found this one beneficial. And let me know in the comments below if you enjoy me talking through the books I read. If you want me to keep up with the sort of style of video where I just talk about the books I've read and some of the best notes that I encountered in them. That's it for this one, guys. I will

see you in the next one. Till then, stay strong. Cheers. [Music]

Cultivating Chi Energy - The Best Ideas from Mantak Chia

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The Taoist goal is to calm the ego and cultivate awareness of subtle energies in the body.

Mantak Chia's teachings emphasize the importance of transforming energy to achieve harmonious balance throughout life.

The conservation of sexual energy is crucial, as its loss can weaken physical health and lead to emotional imbalance, which is why many spiritual orders require male celibacy.

The Taoist approach to sexual pleasure emphasizes awakening sexual energy without expending it, contrasting with the Hindu perspective of complete abstinence.

Taoist practices, like soft intimacy and deep breathing, are encouraged to conserve and transform sexual energy, while also balancing male and female forces within the body.

The cultivation of sexual energy is believed to improve the nervous and endocrine systems, potentially leading to higher testosterone levels and increased aggression, while also offering extraordinary powers like healing and clairvoyant perception.

Prana, or life energy, is invisible but can be felt, often manifesting in the way people are drawn to interact with you.

The conservation of this energy, such as through practices like NoFap, can lead to different life effects and potential, varying from physical strength to clairvoyance.

Each individual has the ability to increase their active lifespan by creatively adapting to their environment.

The Impact of Sexual Energy on Human Potential

Sexual energy has different effects on individuals, potentially leading to physical strength, disease resistance, clairvoyance, or longevity.

The failure to direct this energy upwards is seen as a hindrance to fulfilling human potential.

Retention of sexual energy, as practiced by figures like Muhammad Ali, is common in the fight game and is believed to influence mental, emotional, and hormonal fitness, thereby affecting personality and creative thought.

Perspectives on Premature Death: Hindus vs.

Hindus advocate for complete avoidance of sexual thoughts to prevent premature death, while Mantak Chia suggests a degree of stimulation to keep energy alive.

The speaker leans towards Chia's approach, believing that some stimulation is healthy for long-term well-being.

The video discusses the speaker's first impressions of the book and invites viewers to share their thoughts on the content.