Ching in relationships
Ching in relationships
The Taoist practice of Chi cultivation focuses on integrating the divine/subtle energies into the human body, with the goal of achieving a dynamic balance of opposing energies called Yin & Yang, beginning with the energy of sexual attraction between men & women, to ultimately cultivate a crystal solar or angelic body.
This leads to the union of the soul with "wu chi", the nothingness from which the Tao emerges.
The transformation and recirculating of the prodigious energy (hormones, proteins, vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and electrical energies) upwards to the vital organs and brain, allows for a marvelous sex life, improved health, deeper inner balance, and rising spiritual awareness.
The Taoist method of love stimulates the production of higher quality hormones. The Chinese word Chi means breath. We transform raw air by mixing it with other nutrients and refining it into a different kind of energy, which takes a solid form. It becomes our blood, flesh, bones, and never loses an inner rhythm as pulsation that flows through each cell.
Our vital organs like heart, liver, kidney, and glands refine this energy and send the Cosmic Chi to the higher functions of our brain, thus creating our thoughts, dreams, and emotions. From this emerges the human will to live and die, the power to love.
Chi is the glue and electric current between body, mind, and spirit, expressing as playful (positive) Yang and (negative) Yin energies, the result of a magnetic universe.
The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex (ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or "absorb" than a raw substance like food.
Food must be broken down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milliseconds to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling.
Thus sexual energy has a far higher potential value than food as a "nourishment" needed for human emotional maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also considered a part of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-of-factly.
A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, expressed through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb" that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which governs our organ vitality and general immunological system.
People become obsessed by their relationships as the exchange of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchanging and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible.
It can be known only through your feelings and intuition. A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly cultivated, and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous, sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough, divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it.
Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other examples of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real woman’s "yin" sexual energy.
Tao-loving-sex couple’s re-entry into the Garden of Eden
The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufactured and stored inside your body. This precious substance—sperm, with its extraordinary power to mate with a female egg and create another life—is manufactured and stored in your testicles for safekeeping. The point is that you are free to tap into your supply of sex energy at anytime by drawing the sperm power from the testicles.
If you run out of sperm your body automatically makes more. This helps you to be physically ready for your lover at all times. Even if you are without a lover, and never intend to procreate, your body produces the sperm and transforms it into creative sexual energy. So you can always transform this stored sex energy into spirit, your pure awareness, and express it through your creative persona at will.
So in fact "ching" is internal energy that nourishes us night and day without ceasing. The process of refinement is partly automatic, and partly voluntary. We can either help or hinder the process of transforming our sex energy into creativity depending on how aware we are of our internal process. Yet, like breathing, we draw on this source of energy constantly without being aware of it.
Although Freud stumbled upon this truth many millennia after the Taoist masters had clearly mapped out the role of sex in shaping our destiny, he didn’t realize that the neuroses he discovered could be healed by cultivating the sexual and other Chi energies within the body. When these energies are re-balanced through proper love-making and meditation, the mind is re-patterned and freed of old traumas and habits.
Taoist cultivation of one’s sexual energy is an extremely powerful tool for self therapy. So powerful, in fact, that it should be used only by those who have achieved a certain degree of integration in the body, mind, and spirit.
This unique human freedom of utilizing our sexual energy so flexibly does not come without it’s price. The price is that we spend an estimated 25% to 40% of our chi energy taken in through food, air, and sunlight just to manufacture this sperm energy and maintain sexual readiness.
Why does the body spend so much of its valuable resources to produce billions of sperm cells and regulate them with an accompanying hormonal system? Just to produce a few children over a lifetime? Nature is not that extravagant.
The enormous investment of our bodies in producing this sperm energy is to speed our overall evolution. The more successful man is in transforming his stored energy into higher creative/spiritual energy, the quicker his evolution.
This path of Taoist cultivation of chi energy is simply an attempt to most efficiently utilize the natural gifts every man is born with to evolve optimumly in a single lifetime.