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The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 06
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Thomas Cleary – The Taoist Classics
The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 06
Wang Ziqiao asked Peng Zu, "What is the essence of human energy?"
Peng Zu replied, "No human energy is more essential than sexual energy. When sexual energy is stifled, the hundred channels become ill, if sexual energy is undeveloped, it is impossible to propagate.
Therefore longevity is all a matter of sexual energy.
"The preservation of sexual energy goes along with its development. Therefore masters of the Way discovered exercises such as extending the hands downward, massaging the arms, and rubbing the belly to follow yin and yang. First exhale stale energy, then collect energy for the genitals, breathing it into the sexual organ, nourishing the generative organ, nurturing it like a baby.
"When that baby stands up strongly and repeatedly, be careful to avoid impulsive intercourse, so as to develop a good body. When the internal organs are firm, how can illness occur?
"Those who suffer from chronic ailments invariably have leakage of sexual vitality, congestion of energy channels, and emotional instability. They do not understand the Great way, so living energy leaves them.
"Ordinary people, born in ignorance, rely on shamanic curers. By the age of seventy they are bent over; complaining of their problems, they kill themselves. What a pity!
"Wherein lie death and life? Adepts govern them, filling the lower body, damming the vitality so that energy does not leak out. When the mind governs death and life, who can cause any loss? Carefully preserve energy/ avoiding loss, and you can prolong life for ages, enjoying happiness and longevity for ages.
"Longevity comes from storage and accumulation. Those who are full of life observe heaven above and apply it on earth below. Those who can do this unfailingly evolve, so they can be liberated from the body. Those who understand the Great way soar beyond the clouds and rise to the immortal realms, able to travel far as flowing water and high as a flying dragon, going at high speed without tiring.
". . . Wu Chengzhao made the four seasons his helpers and heaven and earth his constants. Wu Chengzhao lived together with yin and yang; yin and yang do not die, and Wu Chengzhao was on a par with them. So it is with those who have attained the Way.”