Patience and Prolonged Practice are the only keys

"...patience and practice are the keys to success and in the meantime you should focus on the journey, not the goal."

"Sexual potency is absolutely indispensable to spiritual progress, for sexual energy is the key for making all the breakthroughs on the spiritual path. A sexually weak or impotent person has no hope whatsoever of reaching the higher stages of spiritual development, because he can not muster sufficient energy. He or she must first fully restore sexual vitality through detoxification, proper nutrition, breathing and exercise, and well-regulated sexual intercourse, then use this enhanced sexual potency as bottomless battery of power to propel the spirit to ever-higher realms of experience on the wings of pure vitality."

"During love making, partners may intersect their Microcosmic Orbits by touching tongues, and if the man retains his semen, they may inter circulate their energies internally. This completes de circuit of "dual cultivation", causing Yin and Yang energies from man and woman to flow from one into the other and back again, with their linked genitals forming the lower terminals and linked tongues forming the upper terminals of their enhanced Microcosmic Orbits."


"Just try to keep the mind as light and empty as possible, while leisurely exploring the inner channels for energy, and above don't worry about "results". It requires many words to describe this, but in actual practice it all occurs spontaneously, nonverbally, and totally intuitively. Patience and prolonged practice are the only keys that can open the gates of the Microcosmic Orbit."


"Shut off the three external treasures of hearing, sight and speech in order to cultivate the three internal treasures of essence, energy and spirit."


"True cosmic wisdom transcends all arbitrary human knowledge with direct, overwhelming awareness of Tao. This awareness and wisdom can be achieved only by transmutting ordinary spirit into cosmic spirit, a long and difficult process in which the adept gradually peels away layer upon layer of illusion and sheds ordinary knowledge until he uncovers the precious pearl of original spirit."

"As a child grows older and becomes socialized, this shining pearl gets buried ever deeper in the mental morass of education, obscured by passion and desire, dulled by the dust of illusion, and drowned in the murky waters of discursive thought. It is our most precious possession and our most uniquely human attribute, but due to our infatuation with the external physical world and its passing phenomena, most people go through life without ever realizing its existence, though everyone gets a glimpse of it at the moment of death.
The purpose of meditation is to peel away the layers of illusion, passion and conceptual thought so that the precious pearl of original spirit can fill our consciousness with the lustrous light of cosmic insight. The precious pearl of original spirit is our one and only immortal link to the universe. It is the immortal spiritual seed that is released from the flesh at death and replanted in the womb when new life is conceived."


"The generative force changes into vitality when the body is still; vitality changes into spirit when the heart is unstirred; and spirit returns to nothingness because of immutable thought."

"The lower Elixir Field under the navel is where generative force (essence) is sublimated into vitality (energy); the middle Elixir Field in the solar plexus is where vitality is sublimated into spirit; and the upper Elixir Field in the brain is where the spirit is sublimated for its flight into space."


"Let the Void be your cauldron; let Nature be your furnace; for your primary ingredient, take stillness;   for your reagent, use quietude; for mercury, take your vital essence; for lead, use your vital energy; for water, use restraint; for fire, take meditation."

Union of the Triple Equation

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity by Daniel Reid

The True and Lasting Pleasure

"Rainbow Girl: It is generally assumed that a man gains great pleasure from ejaculation. But when he learns the Tao of Yin and Yang, he will ejaculate less and less. Will this not diminish his pleasure as well?
Peng Tze: Not at all! After ejaculating, a man feels tired, his ears buzz, his eyes get heavy, and he longs for sleep. He is thirsty and his limbs feel weak and stiff. By ejaculating, he enjoys a brief moment of sensation but suffers long hours of weariness as a result. This is no true pleasure! However if a man regulates his ejaculations to an absolute minimum and retains his semen, his body will grow strong, his mind will be clear and his vision and hearing will improve. While the man must occasionally deny himself the fleeting sensation of ejaculation, his love for his woman will greatly increase. He will feel as if he could never get enough of her. Is that not the true and lasting pleasure of sex?"

The Secrets of the Jade Bedroom


"...it is the hills and valleys of the woman that first attract the man's attention, while she is most curious about the size and firepower of his weapons. Who will advance and who will retreat? In bed as in war it is just as important to know yourself as it is to know your opponent."



"The Spirit of the Valley is
inexhaustible...
Draw on it as much as you will, it never runs
dry."

Tao Te Ching



The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity by Daniel Reid

Earthly Manifestation of the Great Cosmic Dance

"The ceaseless intermingling of Heaven (Yang) and Earth (Yin) gives form to all things. The sexual union of male and female fives life to all things. The sexual union of male and female is thus regarded as the essential earthly manifestation of the great cosmic dance of Yin and Yang.

A commentary in the Book of Changes states, "The interaction of Yin and Yang is called Tao, and the resulting generative process is called change." Therefore the Way may be found in the interaction of Yin and Yang, in the union of opposites, not in one extreme or the other. Because of the ceaseless flux of Yin and Yang, the primary attribute of the Way is constant change, not stasis.

In the Book of Changes, the hexagram that symbolises sexual union is the 63rd, called "Completion". It consists of the trigram for "water/woman/clouds" placed over the trigram for "fire/man/light". This not only places Yin on top of Yang, it also suggests the image of cauldron water slowly coming to a boil over a fire. This is the quintessencial Taoist image for human sexual intercourse, concisely symbolising the essential differences between men and women in the sexual act. In order to last long enough to bring that cauldron of water to a rolling boil, the man must ration his fuel and carefully control his fire. If he burns his fuel too fast, his fire expires prematurely, leaving the water only lukewarm. But if he conserves his fire long enough to bring the water to a boil, then even the smallest of flame suffices to keep it hot for a long time."


The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity by Daniel Reid

Constantly Give Yourself This Retreat

"People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills; and you too are especially inclined to feel this desire. But this is altogether un-philosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself at any time you want. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind, especially if he has within himself the kind of thoughts that let him dip into them and so at once gain complete ease of mind; and by ease of mind, I mean nothing but having one’s own mind in good order. So constantly give yourself this retreat and renew yourself. You should have to hand concise and fundamental principles, which will be enough, as soon as you encounter them, to cleanse you from all distress and send you back without resentment at the activities to which you Return"




Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Only the Loving

“Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.”

D.H. Lawrence

Ozymandias

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Percy Byshhe Shelley

Take A Stand

"The environment is no longer just a rallying cause for the counterculture, but has come to the forefront as a major national and international concern.
(...)
Another major source of the global-warming effect is the wanton destruction and burning of our Central and South American rainforests. Rainforests account for an outstanding 80 percent of the Earth's vegetation, and are critical to our ecosystem.
Trees absorb the toxic gases of excess carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere, and convert it to breathable oxygen. Trees are our ultimate rejuvenators: without them, life on earth as we know it, could not exist. Rainforest trees also provide an environment for the largest diversity of animal and insect species in the world. By burning our rainforests, not only do we destroy the oxygen-producing vegetation and the environment in which the animals and plants live, but we release huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hasten the deleterious global-warming effect.
With all their importance, why are the rainforests being cleared so relentlessly? The answer is simple matter of pain and pleasure: economics. Huge tax breaks have been given in these countries as incentives for ranchers to clear the land. Is it to make room for more housing? Of course not. It's to clear grazing land for cattle to be exported as beef... (...)
The inefficiency of the use of this land for grazing is one of the most destructive, short-term decisions that man can make. We're bulldozing the source of our survival. Do you realize that every time you buy a quarter pound burger using rainforest beef, it represents the destruction of fifty-five square feet of rainforest? Once destroyed, it can never be replaced. Further, the current rate of species extinction is 1000 per year due to the destruction of the rainforests - an unimaginable assault to our ecosystem.
What's the point of it all? It's solely for the purpose of cycling more meat through our bodies, which medical science has already established is directly related to the top killers in this nation: heart disease and cancer. (...) Ultimately, we can not destroy the external environment without destroying our own internal environment.
Do you want to stop the destruction of our rainforests? Do you want to help restore the delicate balance of our ecosystem? (...) the most powerful thing you can do is to link pain to any of your personal behaviours that perpetuate the ill use of our planet. Clearly, one step would be to reduce or eliminate the consumption of hamburger meat. (...) The earth itself is at stake. Know that the decisions you make about what to put on your dinner plate determine, in a small yet undeniable way, such things as how much carbon dioxide is released into our atmosphere and how many plant and animal species will die each day.
(...) It's been said that water will be the gold of the future. How can this be true, on a planet that is predominantly covered with water? The reason can be found in our incredibly poor management of this vital resource. Specifically, it's related to the meat industry. Consider this: the amount of water that is used to raise one single steer is enough to float an american destroyer.
(...)
Did you know it takes 5214 gallons of water to produce one pound of California beef? This means that you can save more water by not eating one pound of beef than you could by skipping showers for an entire year!
(...)
Did you know that more energy is consumed by the beef industry than any other single industry in the United States?
(...)
It would be wiser to drive your car to the restaurant down the block than if you walked there, fueled by the calories you consumed from a quarter-pound of beef or chicken raised by the energy-inefficient standard of the industry.
(...)
One final issue we're all concerned about is world hunger.
(...)
The amount if food produced on any prime acre of land is markedly reduced when that food is beef. The same acre of land that would produce 250 pounds of beef would produce 40000 pounds of potatoes- roughly the difference between feeding one person and 160 persons! The same resources that are used to produce one pound of beef can produce sixteen pounds of grain. The land required to feed one meat eater for a year is three and a quarter acres; for a lacto-ovo-vegetarian one-half acre; and one complete vegetarian one-sixth acre. In other words one acre can feed twenty times as many people if they eat a vegetarian diet.
(...)
What's more, if every american were to reduce his or her meat intake by just 10 percent, the number of people who could be fed using th resources that would be freed from growing livestock would be 100 million! Thid is enough to feed every single starving man, woman and child on earth - and have a surplus.
(...)
As John makes clear, the decision about what to put on your dinner plate tonight is one that has profound processional effects. It sets in motion a whole series of events and activities that are shaping the quality of life on earth. You may ask "how can one person hope to turn the tide of such an enormous challenge?" John maintains that this battle will be won not on Capitol Hill or in boardrooms, but by individuals: "the shopper in the supermarket stopping at the meat counter , picking up that chuck steak marked 3,98 a pound and realizing that they're holding in their hand a very costly illusion. Behind that little price sticker hides the forests that have been cut down, our children's food and water supply, our children's topsoil, their future environment. And we have to look at that steak and say "that costs too much". Real power lies in the decisions you make in the supermarket and in restaurants and in your kitchen.
TAKE A STAND
By taking a stand, you not only stop participating in the misuse of our resources, but you send a clear message to big businesses whose lifeblood is tied to hamburger. In recent years, food-service companies have begun to respond to changes in consumer tastes by featuring salads and other alternative foods. (...) As a consumer, use the skills that you've learned in this book to bring about positive change: know what you want, use your buying power as leverage to interrupt destructive patterns, cause the companies to look for alternatives, and then reinforce them for the desired behaviours by patronizing their products and services.
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL - LEAD BY EXAMPLE
 As with any challenge, our environmental issues require education and action to create change."

In Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins