Taoist Sexual Meditation: Connecting Love, Energy and Spirit

by Bruce Frantzis

Since the first waves of Eastern philosophy traveled across the sea, Westerners have been intrigued by ancient traditions such as tantra, yoga, tai chi, and martial arts. Yet although some aspects of Taoist sexual practices have appeared in print, until now there has been no comprehensive book on Taoist sexual meditation.

The Water method of Taoist sexual meditation, as was taught by Lao Tse, author of the Tao de Ching, shows us how to use dissolving meditation to relax and let go. This foundation practice ultimately gets us out of our head and into our body and the universe. Sex expands into the world of spirit, enabling us to resolve and clear energetic, emotional, and karmic blockages. With sexual meditation it is possible to access more than four times the energy of solo meditative practices. This abundance of energy can then be directed to healing and to conscious evolution.

You will learn how to work with chi (energy) during sex, gain an understanding of Taoist ethics and morality, and realize the highest spiritual potential of sex as meditation. Find out how to increase sensitivity, activate your yin and yang meridians, and overcome cultural conditioning. Understand how the Chinese theory of the Five Elements can give insight into your own sexual nature and determine sexual compatibility with potential partners.

An accelerated path for internal development, sexual meditation has rarely been shared outside Eastern monasteries. Encouraged by his teachers to bring these authentic practices to the West, Frantzis presents Taoist Sexual Meditation as a profound spiritual path that can heal and calm the turbulence of mind, allowing it to open to the infinite potential of the Tao.

Genres: Sexuality, Taoism, Spirituality

488 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2012

About the author

Bruce Kumar Frantzis is a Taoist Lineage Master with more than 40 years experience in Eastern healing systems. He is the first known Westerner to hold authentic lineages in qigong, bagua, tai chi, hsing-i and Taoist meditation.
Frantzis has developed a practical, comprehensive system of programs that can enable people of all ages and fitness levels to increase their core energy and attain vibrant health. (-amazon)

Reviews

[Mindfulnessmyttymuhveli · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hindulaiset sekä buddhalaiset oppijärjestelmät ovat usein kokonaisvaltaisia ja pitävät sisällään myös harjoituksia, joissa hyödynnetään joko seksuaalista energiaa ja/tai seksiä edistämään tai syventämään hengellisiä harjoituksia. Molemmissa edellämainituissa ainakin suurelle yleisölle on tarjolla vain joko eriskummallisten seksiasentojen listauksia tai new-age henkistä visualisaatioharjoittelua, tarkoituksena saada lähinnä parempia orgasmeja tai päästä kuksimaan henkimaailman olentoja.

Taolainen järjestelmä pyrkii sen sijaan ennen kaikkea käytännönläheisyyteen ja hyvinvoinnin lisäämiseen, ja totta kai näitten ohella myös hengellisen harjoittamisen syventämiseen, jos harjoittajalla aikaa ja kiinnostusta moiseen löytyy. Toki taolaisuuden nimikkeen alla myydän myös näitä moni-orgasmioppaita, mutta Bruce Frantzisin kirja ei pyri samaan hekumointiin.

Kirja on kattava listaus erilaisista taolaisen meditaation periaatteista ja perustavanlaatuisista harjoituksista, joitten on määrä valmistaa harjoittajaa kohti seksin aikana tehtäviä harjoitteita tai seksuaalisen energian hyödyntämistä, mutta jättää paljon toivomisen varaa sen suhteen, että miten harjoituksia itse asiassa tehdään. Kirjassa on toki piirrettyjä kuvia esimerkiksi siitä, että mistä kohtaa kehoa miehillä ja naisilla aloitetaan energian siivilöinti tai puhdistaminen ja mihin energiaa viedään seuraavaksi ja niin edelleen, mutta tarkempi opastus ja neuvonta jää uupumaan. Kirja tuntuu jatkuvasti olettavan, että sen lukija lähtee etsimään opettajan ja ryhmän ja on valmis investoimaan sekä rahaa että aikaa siihen, että oppii harjoitukset edes vähän syvemmin. Toki osasyy kirjan paikoittain hyvinkin pinnallisen ohjeistuksen kanssa on kannustaa lukijaa todella tekemään valmistavia harjoituksia ja sitten etenemään kohti seksuaalisia harjoituksia, ja tätä kautta itse opettelemaan ja tutustumaan, mitä saa kehossaan aikaan. Silti Frantzisin kirjoja riivaa jatkuvasti vaikutelma, että kirjat ovat vain kutsukirje Frantzisin kursseille, ja ettei kirjoissa oikein lopulta opasteta tai anneta lukijalle mitään; kirja suurelta osin kuvailee ja listaa asioita, muttei opeta niitä. Tämä ei tosin päde kaikkiin miehen kirjoihin, joista esimerkiksi Lohikäärme&tiikeri chi kung kirjat ovat todella hyvä parivaljakko, joissa käydään edellämainitun liikesarjan liikkeet ja detaljit hyvin läpi.

Kritiikistäni huolimatta, jos lähtisin ostamaan jotain kirjaa, josta haluaisin tietää taolaisesta maailmankatsomuksesta ja meditaatioharjoitteista (esimerkiksi miten taolaiset tekevät hengitysmeditaatiota), ostaisin todennäköisesti tämän kirjan enkä ehkä mitään muuta Frantzisilta. Esimerkiksi Opening the energy gates... on toki hyvä, mutta sen sisältö löytyy suurelta osin tästä kirjasta myös. Samaten relaxin into your beingin harjoitukset löytyvät tästä kirjasta nekin.

[Taylor Ellwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book I’ve read on Taoist sexual methods. What I like about it is that the author methodically explains the various concepts and provides practices that you can do with a partner(s). The author does a good job of connecting various qi gong practices to the sexual work you can do, and exploring the Taoist inner alchemy that can occur with these practices. This is a book I recommend reading with your partner, so that you can do the practices together.

[Mark Rasmussen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Transcendent.

[Leo Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Almost essential for men to understand better their sexuality.

[Alex Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taoism is founded on flow. It's origins are mysterious but the bookish librarian Lao Tzu attained an understanding of flow after working for an Imperial household. In his retirement, he sought to exit civilization. A gatekeeper bade Lao Tzu to write down what he knew. Those writings became the Tao Te Ching. While there is evidence that Taoism is much older than that; that fragments of the Chuang Tzu were available before, Taoism has always been about the flow of life energy. It is no mistake that a human understanding of flow would be split into two energies that are sexualized; yin and yang. Female and male. Taoism gave rise to a host of other practices, from medicine, martial arts, meditation, feng shui, architecture, astrology and so on. All of it connected through these energies. So it's no mistake that there would be a sexual component to Taoist practice which emphasizes the intermix of energy.

A huge part of Taoist mastery of its technology involves the focus and release of various kinds of energy, so that we can flow with effortless will to a changing and tempestuous context. It seems that enlightenment would be the awakening of meta-energic abilities. In a sense, much of meditation and its machinic practice is like the calibration of various machines to emphasize technical aspects -- such as a bit parity check or testing each part of a muscle for its strength and dexterity. Being able to move effortlessly across a given field is analogous to mastery of a musical instrument -- so that the practitioner can run across the scales and play various patterns inside outside and upside down. Only in this area, it's moving energy: releasing and collecting it, focusing and patterning it from yourself to your partner and back. Once the field can be made smooth and awareness is gained though the technology of these techniques is one then ready for a higher plane of existence.

While at first grasp, this may appear to be a matter of various bodily poses, massages and internal awarenesses of focus, this book also talks about how these energies and their attendant blockages are bound karmatically, expressed in energy. The two for Taoism are the same. What we do, what we strive to do and how we effect others largely requires that even out and free up the flow between ourselves and others around us. Not to disturb others as nodes of flow but to compliment them. To interact with them at a mutually beneficial level, the most foundational of which would be this energetic state in which people can interact in terms of energy. The root of this would be at the most intimate, sexual practice -- although spoken of in the tradition of Taoist China.

While much of the book is on specific practice and poses, in a way these techniques are beyond the scope of what a book form media can do. Actual practice requires a teacher. So this is a very basic text, much of which is designed in its brief 500 pages, to introduce us to the philosophy of how to contextual what we are doing and why we ought to do it. The how is mentioned but it is less expressible in a book form. Bruce Frantzis is clear and precise. I suppose it's important to write a book to distribute knowledge but given that much of what he talks about is praxis that requires the guidance of a teacher, I wonder if the purpose of this book is to signal to others to get students more than it is to write a book that could in any way ever be complete unto itself.

[Katy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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