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until the pressure builds to too great a point. Again, you ejaculate if you wish. Even this practice of ejaculating once or twice every one to three months will result in a substantial economizing of energies lost in the ordinary way of life. You can enjoy tremendous advantages if you hold on to the seed regularly in this way without advancing to higher levels in the practice.

ROTATE SEX ENERGY TO THE HEAD AFTERWARDS

Rotation of the sexual energy upward is a most important practice after External Locking. The three finger method keeps much of the power from escaping but it does not, by itself, drive the energy upward. Thus a special technique has been evolved for this important removal of the power.

This method removes sex power from the lower centers to the reservoirs of power in the head. When the head is charged to capacity with energy, high quality energy overflows to the entire frame. The method is similar to Testicle Breathing (chapter 5), with the difference that there is a reservoir of ching chi amassed during love-making and held inside the lower trunk of the body. Because the energy is already removed from the testicles and is warmed (but in the process of cooling) after love-making, this rotation of energy to the head is far more potent than Testicle Breathing.

Basic Technique: After intercourse using the External Locking, wash and massage the Hui-Yin and Chang-Chiang points with a silken cloth, or your fingers if none is available. Then assume a lying position on the right side. Draw power from the penis, testes and Hui-Yin up to the head. The tongue must be pressed against the palate, as in all exercises where the energy is circulated.

Draw up the power from sexual organs as in the testicle breathing. Don't use too much force as you inhale the air. Upon exhalation, fix the power at the highest point to which it has flowed. Do not let the power fall from its highest point when you exhale. Then draw up the power anew from the three lower centers on the next inhalation.

To understand this process, you need only think of filling a very long straw with water. The bottom of the straw is at your penis/testicle and the top of the straw is the crown of your head. The straw is too long to fill with one breath, so you must inhale and then stop the end while exhaling. Otherwise, the fluid will run out,

and you will have to start all over again. Fix the power at the level to which it has been drawn, then exhale; then inhale the fluid still higher. You will feel a cool energy (or warm if still sexually aroused) leave your groin and pass up your spine.

Keep driving the power higher and higher up the spine into the skull and Pai-Hui. It may take one or two months for the power to pass the coccyx, but once it passes this difficult bridgehead, it will leap up to the middle of the back. Then it will jump to the nape of the neck and from there up to the Pai-Hui.

After some weeks or months of practice (depending on the individual's body and frequency of practice) the head reservoir will fill and the power will run down the front of the body with relative ease. It travels through the point between the brows, then down through the roof of the mouth to the tongue tip. It continues through the throat, chest, and navel. Collect the energy at your navel, when the chi is full in the navel (cauldron) it will overflow to the sex center and rejuvenate the sex organs, and complete the circuit at the Hui-Yin.

This technique will not be realized overnight. While you feel the lukewarm (the retained sperm) in the lower body within days or weeks, it may take a few months to bring it completely up the back and into the head. Don't be discouraged: if you persist the power will definitely flow. You will open a critically important route for the passage of vitality to all parts of the body.

When you have completed this circuit, you will feel a flow of cool energy, the Yin Energy, circulating the entire length of the route. This is a very important accomplishment and marks the completion of a cardinal step in your increasing power and health.

SUMMARY OF THE EXTERNAL LOCKING METHOD

A.During love-making

1.When you feel ejaculation is imminent, use the three fingers to stop the flow of the seminal fluid.

B.After love-making

1.Wash and gently massage the Hui-Yin (perineum) and ChangChiang (coccyx) with a folded silk cloth.

2.Lying on the right side, draw the power up to the head from the penis, testes and Hui-Yin. When full let it flow down to the palate,

throat, heart center, solar plexus and collect the energy in the navel. Finally recirculate the sexual energy back to strengthen the sexual organs.

INTERNAL LOCKING: DRAW NECTAR UP TO THE GOLDEN

FLOWER

More than any other part of the book this method requires close study. It explains in detail the essential practice of semen retention, transformation, and exchange of male and female energies. You will do well at first to adhere closely to the technique as I describe it. When you attain a fundamental mastery, you may experiment and make suitable changes. You will find certain techniques consistently effective. Everybody is different, so use what works best. Remember that seminal retention is a means to an end and not itself the ultimate goal. We save seed to gather energy so that we may more deeply delight in love and life.

True esoteric methods are not complicated. If only a genius can do it, it is probably no great practice. The simplicity of esoteric love is itself the real secret. I explain everything in fine detail so there will be no lingering questions or risk of misguiding you. But once you get it, its simple. For brevity's sake I will refer to the practice of "Draw Nectar Up to the Golden Flower" as simply "The Big Draw." This is the abbreviated term my English speaking students use in place of the more ancient Chinese name, and describes the process most succinctly.

For the sake of clarity I have broken down the Big Draw method into its component parts. When practiced properly it is a single action performed by your unified body, mind, and soul. If you feel these three aspects of your person are not well integrated, work on mastering the Big Draw on the physical level and meditate everyday on the microcosmic orbit to aid in evenly distributing your energy. You may go through a rough period if you have a lot of blocks or impurities that your newly heightened chi is attempting to clean out. With continued practice you will feel the chi of your physical body become more integrated with the subtle sexual essence and spirit of your person. You will know this by the way your life begins to flow more smoothly and lovingly.

As you dive deeper she grows tighter. Consequently, seminal retention becomes more difficult. In terms of our "battle of the sexes" metaphor, plunging deeply too often is like repeatedly entering too far into enemy territory. There the encircling enemy overcomes you. Retreat from deep penetration is treacherous. To do it successfully requires great discipline and little movement.

With practice you build up first to six shallow, and later nine shallow, alternated with one deep thrust. If you are a novice at seminal retention, or if you encounter a new or exciting partner, you may find it difficult to go 81 shallow (and 9 deep) strokes before resting.

When you first sense ejaculation approaching, no matter what the number of strokes, stop thrusting and tightly close the urogenital diaphragm. When you stop thrusting do not pull out altogether. Retreat to about one inch of penetration in the vagina. Remain there until you've regained control. Thrusting itself generates a great deal of electricity. Still more electromagnetic energy is produced during the sex act because the hundreds of millions of sperm swim more quickly than usual. As energy accumulates in the genital system, local nerves shoot stimulation up the spinal column to the brain, which gives the order to fire. In this sense even genital orgasm really occurs in your mind. You are just training your mind to have a higher, more mentally and spiritually integrated orgasm.

If your partner tries to wrap her body around you and pull you in deeply, retreat to the point where she can no longer follow you. When she lowers her arched back, follow her down, staying near the mouth of her vagina. Teach the woman to rest when you need to recover your composure: never forget that she is your supreme ally when you gain her loving cooperation.

Step 2: Do 9 Rapid Hard Contractions While Holding The Breath.

After inhaling through the nose, quickly perform 9 very hard contractions of the entire undertrunk musculature, teeth and fists. This is a variation of the form you have been practicing as the Power Lock exercise in 36 repetitions. In that exercise you did one long muscle contraction for each deep breath. For the Big Draw you do 9 rapid muscular contractions for each breath. These contractions are very hard and absorb so much power that little energy remains in the nerves to trigger ejaculation. Do up to six sets of 9 contractions, until the urge to ejaculate leaves you.

With this method your excited sex energy tends to leave the nerves and lodge in the contracting muscles. The breath taken after 9 contractions must be drawn in quickly so that the nerve impulse is cut as frequently as possible. Repeating the 9 contractions 6 times should definitely reduce the urge to ejaculate. You may do less than the 6 sets of 9 contractions if fewer sets allow you to regain self-control. Because you are lying in the arms of a woman with your penis inside her vagina, your seed will be far more volatile, like a young bucking bronco with a spur under its saddle. The added nine contractions of the Big Draw are necessary at first to rein the seed under your control. In time you are able to remove the irritating bucking caused by the spur and enjoy a smooth and powerful ride.

Your genital glands expand in preparation for shooting forth the fluid. The Big Draw contractions reduce their size, literally squeezing the energy out of them and lessening sexual-electrical tension. The shorter the time interval between contractions, the greater the power of the muscles to grip the seed. If much time elapses between clenchings, the muscles get poor traction. Inhalation also must be too swift to allow energy to slip back into the genital region. Holding the breath through all 9 contractions weakens the nerve impulse to ejaculate.

Your goal is to change the direction of the seminal fluid. Physically speaking, the speed of your sperm energy must be accelerated up the spine. Acceleration takes place only at the moment of muscle contraction itself and not while holding onto the contraction. Thus, it takes many separate contractions to drive the fluid deep into the body and defeat the urge to spend your seed.

Step 3: Clench Buttocks Tightly.

Tightly clench your buttocks. The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. The driving power of the largest muscle in the body must be turned to advantage. Bring the two cheeks together with such force that you actually lift up the whole body.

Maintaining good tone of the buttocks is crucially important for overall health. When this muscle is flaccid, power continuously drains out of the body. When it is firm one of the two main lower body energy leaks is plugged. The other lower body energy leak is through the penis in ejaculation.

One can tolerate pain more easily when clenching the muscles

very tightly. Just as the nervous impulse called "pain" is weakened by hard muscular contraction, so is the nervous impulse to ejaculate weakened. In both cases the muscles absorb energy: this interferes with the nervous message. Contraction of certain key muscle groups withdraws energy from the genital area. Clenching the buttocks is especially helpful in breaking the nerve circuit between the brain and genitals at the base of the spine. Squeeze the buttocks until they are rock hard; the message to ejaculate is in effect intercepted and never delivered.

Step 4: Clench Teeth Tightly.

Clench your teeth and push your tongue hard to the roof of your mouth. Clenching the teeth tightly interrupts nervous flow at the head and neck. It also helps tighten the buttocks. These two muscle contractions must be simultaneous, so that they reinforce each other and secure complete locking. As you clench, press the semen deeper and deeper into the body. Greatest retraction of fluid occurs toward the end of the count: during the 7th, 8th and 9th clenchings you drive the fluid most deeply inward. Be irresistibly determined to force back the fluid. The contractions from 1 to 9 should grow harder and stronger.

As you prolong the act of intercourse, your pleasure will grow more intense. When you reach a high level of pleasure, you should keep the urogenital diaphragm constantly closed. This helps prevent the sperm from sneaking halfway out the door. Stop the fluid behind the dam. When it has spilled over, attempts to stop it or to harness its power are futile. You must stop the ejaculation before the sperm has begun to move within the body.

Step 5: Pull The Wave Of Energy From Genitals to Head

The Big Draw may be conceived as an internal wave beginning with contraction at the penis tip, moving through the perineum and buttocks up the spine to the head. In this way the energy, traveling along the crest of voluntary muscular contraction, will be forced up to the crown.

If you have difficulty drawing power to the head, you may draw it first to the navel. After it accumulates there for a while, again direct the power down to the hui-yin and up the spine to the head. It should help it flow more easily, particularly if you have carefully harbored the seed.

essence grows the greater your will power becomes in all of your life. In work, play, family relationships, your will to love and spiritually grow unfolds with a renewed vigor that daily will surprise you.

Step 6: If Erection Is Lost, Begin Thrusting and Use Gentle Sucking.

After the first round of thrusting and Hard Contractions, you may occasionally contract the penis head inside the woman while you are thrusting. The penis head is like a baby gently sucking milk at his mother's breast. You begin to lightly draw the Yin in this manner. The Big Draw has greater effect when the penis is already filled with Yin energy from Gentle Sucking.

Keep clear in your mind the difference between the Gentle Sucking and the Big Draw. Gentle Sucking accompanies regular thrusting. Only the penis head, testes and uro-genital diaphragm are contracted: the rest of the muscles remain relaxed and do not draw in power. In this technique we do not drive the energy far. We prevent our own energy from inching forward and leaping out into the woman. We also fill the penis itself with energy which we will transfer to the head with the Big Draw.

BIG DRAW FOR WOMEN

The woman should also perform the Big Draw, using the vagina to suck in the Yang power from the man's penis. The detailed explanation for women will be found in the next book, Ovarian Kung Fu. Until the detailed explanation appears, she may simply adapt the principles of Seminal Kung Fu and perform the Big Draw on her ovaries. Women often have a good intuitive understanding of the process; hence their sexual superiority. But higher levels of love always exist. I strongly suggest that women train to suppress her genital orgasm. This will appreciably reduce her loss of energy in the act of love. She too can gradually achieve a "higher" orgasm as a "mysterious portal" to the Tao. Man and woman can attain the Tao together by this way of "dual cultivation."

THE BIG DRAW AND MASTURBATION

The Big Draw method works well for single men who either cannot find a woman partner or who have chosen to remain celibate. Men with lovers may also choose in the beginning to train themselves alone. In fact, I recommend this for most men, as it is much easier to block the urge to ejaculate when you are not being stimulated by the heat and touch of a woman. The Big Draw for single men is performed exactly the same way as described for couples, only instead of thrusting into a woman's vagina the single man stimulates his penis glans by caressing and massaging it.

This is different from masturbation which ends in ejaculation. You must break the urge to ejaculate before the semen escapes, using the rapid hard contractions and clenching of the Big Draw. This may be done in any position—standing, sitting, or lying—but standing may be preferable at first as it firmly roots your feet on the ground and connects you with its cooling yin energy.

A good reason for practicing the Big Draw alone is that you can clearly observe if you have mastered the first level of the method, physical control over ejaculation.

When you arouse your penis, massage it until you sense the first glimmering of the urge to ejaculate, and then do the Big Draw before the sperm begins to move. You should do the contractions and raw repeatedly until you see your penis become flaccid. The stiffness of your penis becomes the barometer of your ability to do the Big Draw. The more quickly you can soften the erection, the closer you are to mastering the method. Eventually you will be able to command it down with your mind by merely drawing the energy out of your penis and bringing it to your head without any muscular clenching.

This method can be extremely useful to any man who feels sexually frustrated. You simply make love internally, between the yin and yang poles within your body, imagining you are pulling the ching chi up to make love to your highest center, the crown. However, if you lose your seed while masturbating it will go for nothing, and thus masturbation is far worse than losing your seed to a woman, who at least gains from it and gives her sweet yin essence in exchange. Even if you retain your seed, masturbation offers only a very dry, yang energy that can be very fiery and intense but imbalanced, unless you know the higher level meditation to de-