Alright, after you've eliminated your desire, and after you've been excellent in her presence, then you must retreat. Be desireless. Be excellent. Be gone. Tao isn't about picking up lots of women. It's about being the best person you can be, and I'm not. Children can understand philosophical concepts more fully than adults much in the same way they better understand languages at an early age. Why else was the original author Lao Tzu called, "Old Boy"? Time to get into the "flow." Athletes call it "the zone." How do you know when you're there? You become an observer of yourself. You shift away from the first person. You watch yourself creating art. You can see the picture already in front of you. You're just tracing it. You no longer care about the outcome, about the cost of the materials, screwing up, deadlines, schedules, and the rest of the world. Everything else fades away and all you see is what's in front of you. Your hand moves with confidence. The lines are sure and smooth. There is no doubt. Later, when you look at what you've created, you get the feeling it was done by someone else. It was. It was done by the creative spirit inside you. When you 'flow,' you're in touch with this spirit. How do you make contact? Music, meditation, environment, exercise, practice, rehearsal. Poor is the student who does not surpass his teacher. It's nice to believe that you can do anything you want, say anything you want, or show anything you want on your web site. After all, you have freedom of speech. Well, sort of. A part of our society sees this unrestricted freedom as a growing problem, one that requires the passage of laws. So laws will be passed, because the number of people who favour some form of censorship outweighs those who believe in total, unrestrained freedom of speech. And so there'll be laws, but not the sort that will please you, or anybody, actually, because these sorts of laws are always born out of the worst kinds of compromise. But protest isn't going to help. What's needed is a solution where everyone feels they've won. What a golden opportunity to channel some of your creative energy into benefiting mankind. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. To start the ball rolling, here's one suggestion -- self control. Eastern Philosophy speaks of the Superior man and the Inferior man. The difference is this: The Superior man is governed from within. The Inferior man is governed by law. The choice is yours.