Is Sex a Private Matter?
Over 4000 years ago, Taoist Master Lao Tzu advised that a person's approach to sex is a sign of his level of spiritual evolution. For those who aspire to the higher realms of living, there is "angelic dual cultivation," which allows every portion of the body, mind and spirit to meet its yearning for the integration of yin and yang.
Angelic dual cultivation is sexual intercourse in which highly evolved individuals join the subtle inner energies of yin and yang in the light of spiritual understanding. Instead of following the biological impulse, lovers refine their fire upward. In short, lovers forego fertilization-driven orgasm in favor of ever-deeper merging and relaxation.
By contrast, ordinary intercourse places all emphasis upon the sexual organs, and whatever physical energy is accumulated is summarily discharged. The subtle energies are also dissipated and disordered. "It is a great backward leap," says Lao Tzu.
So why is angelic dual cultivation advantageous, and why might it have spiritual significance in our return to wholeness, oneness, and primordial androgyny?...
The neurochemical aftermath of orgasm disturbs our subtle energies. It leads to a temporary sense of lack, which manifests differently in everyone. If it registers as a sense of depletion, then others will seem exhausting. If it feels like emotional neediness, others will seem selfish and uncaring. If it feels like scarcity, others will seem greedy. If we feel uneasy, others will seem threatening. No wonder love is tangled up with fear among humankind.
Metaphysics teaches that our thoughts, feelings and expectations create our experience of the physical plane. Perhaps you begin to see how the natural neurochemical roller coaster of conventional sex can cause humankind to operate on beliefs of defensiveness and scarcity....
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