"In the ancient Taoist tree of practices with branches such as acupuncture, herbology, massage, five element nutrition, qi gong, tai chi, feng shui, I Ching and meditation, the practices dealing with the sexual energy occupy a prominent place.
In ancient China Taoist masters were well known for their specialized knowledge on sexual matters. Emperors and Empresses would consult in secret Taoist masters for learning the essentials of sexual practice. This would be done not only for enhancing sexual pleasure with the numerous concubines that filled the court, but more specifically for attaining the Chinese ideal of having a long and healthy life."
"Suicide is a highly relevant topic nowadays because the news frequently shows young people blowing themselves up in a terrorist attack, or desperate people living in large cities who decide to end their lives. There is hardly any knowledge about what happens when someone commits suicide. In the Western world, we even believe that suicide can provide relief from pain and suffering. However, different Eastern traditions have studied death in detail ..."
"The energetic practices, the yogas, to which those of the Tao belong, enhance our energy and reciting mantras helps us to direct the practice to a higher level. They also allow us to restructure our consciousness by rapidly inducing inner space and silence, a break from our internal dialogue ..."
"Human beings tend to form habits and nature has developed ways to set things in motion and change them, regardless of our own personal decisions. Suffering is one of the ways used by nature –or our inner guide or universal consciousness, whatever we want to call it- to start a process of deep change ..."
"Every important culture has known the energy of achievement since antiquity, but here in the occidental and modern world this type of energy is not clearly defined, or even it is not known at all. The energy of achievement is based on the principle that every action produces a reaction ..."
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