From the book: Mantak Chia - Cultivating Female Sexual Energy

"Losing-Energy Pleasure and Gaining-Energy Pleasure

The Taoists identify two kinds of pleasure:
“losing-energy pleasure” and “gaining-energy pleasure.” Most of
us are well experienced in losing-energy pleasure.
We have described the brief,intense pleasure that drugs, such
as marijuana, heroin, cocaine, or amphetamines, introduce into
the system as they quickly draw and burn up life-force from a
person’s organs, brain, and glands. This is like a bonfire started
with gasoline;it burns very intensely and is very gratifying,but the
fuel is gone and the fire becomes extinguished all too soon. The
increased desire to experience that intense excitement, followed
by the increased use of drugs, draws out the vital energy from the
organs as wel as from the brain and bone marow.

Some of the entertainment we seek is also losing-energy
pleasure. When we are entertained in excess with activities such
as watching television, energy from our organs is required to pay
attention,and soon our life-force energy is drawn out toward the event
we are watching and hearing. We imagine ourselves to feel good
because we perceive ourselves as relaxing, thereby decreasing
our stress. We do feel the release, but our vital organs are being
drained of their life-force by this excessive energy expenditure. This
stress to our organs creates a negative energy: and if they do not
have the means to transform it back into positive energy, we will
accumulate too much and eventually our negative emotions will
burst out.

Even though something such as quiet music can help us relax
and create a sense of harmony in the body,too much attention to it
will make our eyes, ears and nervous system lose energy to the
outside. Afterwards, we continually seek new songs, movies and
shows because these things are never satisfying our needs, but
are further arousing and increasing our need for stimulation. The
more we try to satisfy one or two of the senses by an outside means,
the greater the need for satisfaction we create for all the senses.
When you try to satisfy the mouth and tongue, the eyes, ears and
nose need something to stimulate them. It is a never-ending,increasing requirement of the senses.Multibillion-dollar businesses have arisen to satisfy our senses. They make tremendous profits
because ultimately they do not really satisfy us or bring us true joy
and true happiness.If these companies create dentertainment that
would satisfy us for a long time, they would go out of business.
The Taoists regard our organs as the body’s parents and the
senses as the children. When they separate there is no harmony,
but rather disharmony and need.People try to search for happiness,
satisfaction and love out side of themselves rather than within.They
listen to the desires of their bodies rather than their minds and
spirits.The more they search,the more they create a need and will
never really find what they are looking for. Instead they create a
deterioration within themselves.True happiness, true joy and true
satisfaction come with inner peace.

By turning inward we wil not lose the energy outward, and so
can gain energy for ourselves.For example, if we eat a tasty food
but do not have an inner harmony in our organs and senses, our
eyes will want more,like children in a toystore.We might decide to
see a movie, and then the ears wantto be stimulated as well. We
then might decide to go to a night club or a bar In the end we might
feel the need to get drunk,to smoke,or take drugs. Turning sexual
energy and there sultant orgasm inward is the first step to gaining-
energy pleasure and to a control of the senses. Once you have
more sexual energy inside, the organs wil become stronger and
will then be able to control, satisfy: and balance the senses."

""Virility, like health, is natural, and a natural life invariably means virility and all the superb mental and physical qualities associated there-with. Impairment or loss of virility is, in every instance, the result of an unnatural life, involving abuses or excesses of various kinds. The influences tending to destroy virility may be of two kinds, those which directly affect the generative system and those which indirectly affect it through lowering the tone of the entire bodily organism. In other words, virility is affected on the one hand by abuses of the generative system itself, and on the other hand by abuses of the body as a whole, as for instance through the use of alcohol or tobacco."



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"A point which cannot be emphasized too strongly is that loss of virility is not a condition which concerns merely the sexual organs, but one that means also a loss of energy and impairment of function throughout the whole body, involving, in most instances, a failing of mental faculties. Nothing indicates this more clearly than the difficulty of mental concentration in hard, sustained work that is experienced by those suffering in a marked degree from weaknesses of this type. The loss of memory that follows too frequent seminal drains shows very plainly the relation of virility and healthy sexuality to mental vigor."

You can see the relation of memory problems, concentration problems and mental problems with sexual weaknesses already on this forum.

"Masturbation is undoubtedly the first and most important of all the causes of sexual weakness. Not only, is it the active cause of trouble in by far the greater number of cases, but it is especially serious because it commonly begins earlier in life than other abuses. Owing to the importance of this. particular practice in causing both sexual and general debility I shall devote a special chapter to it. If this one evil could be eliminated it would save literally millions of men from sexual weakness and the generally lowered vitality that accompanies it." "