Solala Towler has taught and practiced Taoist meditation and quigong for more than 25 years. He is the editor of The Empty Vesssel, a journal of Taoist practice and philosophy. Towler has written several books and teaches quigong and sound healing at conferences and workshops around the country. Visit him at adobetao.com.
"When two people love each other from the highest level of their being, they create a vortex of healing love energy that surrounds them and travels out in waves to affect others." writes Towler. He calls this the sacred union. It is cultivated and nurtured by using such Taoist principles and practices as wu wei, the watercourse way, the cosmic dance of yin/yang, the tai chi of communication, and Taoist sexual yoga.
The path of sacred union brings a sense of balance and harmony into our lives that is very important in this era of excess and all kinds of addictions stemming from imbalance. The Taoist practices of meditation and quigong offer ample resources for our journey to intimacy and ecstasy.
In his comments on "The Art of the Bedchamber," Towler explains the Taoist view that women are energetically and sexually superior to men; they are the repositories of the inexhaustible yin. Taoists venerate the valley spirit, the primordial woman, whose pleasure is paramount in love-making. It is this understanding that enables those who practice to the watercourse way to see sexuality as being as much a part of spirituality as meditation.
