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The Tao of Seduction

By Michael Chief

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Tao is the Eastern philosophy of emptying ones cup. It has a lot to teach about seduction Namely, about domination of seduction, vs. submission to it.
Editors Note: this is our rst post from Michael Chief, a long-time veteran of the seduction community. Michael kicks off today with an
inner game focus, about the Tao of seduction. Please let us know if you enjoy inner game oriented articles like this in the comments
below the article, and if so well try to do more of them. CA

Every seducer worth his mettle knows that great Casanova quote: I dont conquer, I submit.

Contents
1. Taoism and the Wu Wei
2. Courtship as Domination
3. Courtship as Submission
4. Playing It Cool, Cool Like Water
when we practice non-attachment and are genuinely not needy.
We know that the true power of seduction is to submit to the higher power of
nature within us as opposed to trying to control nature with our own will. But
that somehow paradoxically gives us greater seductive abilities, or so it seems.
Seduction is full of paradoxes like this, such as the ever-famous paradox of
desire: the more we want something, the more difcult it is to obtain, and the
less we want something, the easier it is to obtain. In pick-up, we translate this to
mean that neediness is unattractive and that women are more attracted to us

While such paradoxes can often prove to be challenging to understand, let alone understandable enough for us to use them to guide our
lives, there is an ancient philosophy that gives us a tool to help us in our quest to become the best seducers and lovers we can possibly
be.

That ancient philosophy is called Taoism, and the tool is called Wu Wei.

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We know about the philosophy of Taoism through its text, the Tao Te Ching, purportedly written by a man named Lao Tzu in ancient
China. In Taoist philosophy, the concept of Wu Wei tells us that we should act without acting, yet another paradox that might be difcult
to wrap our heads around, but completely applicable to our daily lives with practice.

An example of Wu Wei: Taoist poets describe how a drunk man riding a cart can fall off the cart without getting hurt. There have been
similar stories of drunk Russian men jumping off tall buildings without breaking a single bone after polishing off a bottle of vodka.

This phenomenon gets attributed to drunk people being more physically relaxed, and therefore do not get as injured when their bodies
suffer impacts as they would were their bodies tensed up.

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The not acting part of Wu Wei here is to simply remove your sense of control and rigidity from the equation and stay in a loose,
default state; the acting part is successfully getting to your destination while keeping yourself uninjured. Wu Wei is doing without
doing (see: sprezzatura).

Artists from this era who took the practice of Wu Wei to heart would not try to perfectly copy what nature looked like upon their canvas;
such an act would be a stiff and rigid attempt at control. Instead, they would seek to give in to the nature within themselves in order to
produce works of art freely guided by a power greater than their own will. Their ability to create great art was paradoxically dependent
not on their skillful ability to harness the stallion that is nature, directing its movement with their own will, but on their submission to the
inspired power they felt only from deep within.

A great work of art in the form of a seduction is no different.

We cannot expect to inspire women to feel all the greatest pleasures that nature designed us to feel if we only seek to control nature.
No, that is what narcissists and misogynists and insecure manchildren seek to do. A lover or a seducer seeks only to surrender himself
to a greater power. He is romantically religious, and therefore follows the true Tao of seduction.

COURTSHIP AS DOMINATION
Boy meets girl. Boy wants girl. He sees her as a prize to be won, an animal to be caged, a thing to be dominated or subjugated. He views
intersexual relations as inherently adversarial, like a chess match where there is a winner and a loser. He views the girl as his opponent,
and he wants to win. He tells her sweet things, perhaps by calculating the best lines he can come up with based on her body language,
and lures her into his trap.

What happens in this scenario? Perhaps the boy will fail in his attempted conquest. Perhaps the girl will see right through him and avoid
the situation entirely. Perhaps he will succeed and make her feel like a lesser creature dominated by a more powerful force. Perhaps she
will regret the experience and feel dehumanized by his objectication of her. Perhaps she will thoroughly enjoy the experience through a
healthy kink or an unhealthy, lifelong feedback loop of low self-esteem borne from early abuse and trauma.

Regardless of the outcome, this is no seduction; its a game full of power plays and misguided intentions. There is no harmony of
masculine and feminine energies like notes coming together in a song; there is only the dissonance of a single instrument seeking to
overpower a duet with its attention-seeking bellow.

This instrument seeks to be the winner, but a beautiful song has no winner.

Art has no winners or losers; it just has art.

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No winners in art, song, or seduction. They only are what they are.

The boy in the above scenario also makes the mistake of being full instead of empty. Hes got his own agenda and he has no space to
take in what comes, making him even more rigid and inexible.

Theusefulnessofapotcomesfromitsemptiness.
TaoTeChing

What does a real seduction following the Tao and its philosophical concept of Wu Wei look like?

COURTSHIP AS SUBMISSION
Boy meets girl. Boy wants girl. He sees himself as romantically powerless to his desires. He cannot help but feel how he feels. He could
attempt to control his feelings like every normal, anxious guy does, but he knows in his heart of hearts that every attempt to do so would
be a futile endeavor. He knows that resisting his feelings will only cause them to grow.

He has no choice but to accept this greater power controlling him, like blades of grass helplessly bending in the wind. He accepts his
position of powerlessness and only seeks to go with the ow of the direction this torrential river of desire is taking him. He tells her
sweet things, perhaps by expressing how she really makes him feel as only a woman could make a man feel, and invites her into his
world of endless exploration.

It is not necessarily the girl that has power over him, but the desire coming entirely from within. Sure, she is an inspiration a muse
that sparks this great power that he cannot control, but she is not the power, the desire. The power is greater than her. It is greater than
him. It is greater than all of us. Its something to be worshiped, revered, and ultimately something we must submit to.

So, what does this boy do? Well, what can he do aside from following what his desires tell him to do?

On the outside, it could look like hes following all of the same exact steps the misguided boy from our rst scenario has done. Perhaps
this works to entice her into sharing a bed with him, perhaps not. Perhaps this boy will fail in his attempted seduction, but would it even
be failure if he were only following the will of a greater power as opposed to his own? If you werent steering the boat, if you didnt seek
any specic destination, would it really matter to you whether you ended up in one place or another?

Perhaps she will incorrectly assume that his smooth lines, lowered voice, and seductive gaze are all indicators that he is a player who
manipulates and tries to dominate women, and so perhaps she will avoid the situation altogether. Perhaps she will understand his
sincerity and be completely aroused by his words and his touch, but have some hang-ups about not being the only woman in his life and
end up blocking herself off from this magical moment. But is it really a failure on the part of the boy if his intentions were never to
conquer in the rst place?
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Or perhaps she will feel that he is genuinely expressing how he feels in the moment without a hidden agenda and allow herself to submit
to the same great power of desire that he is already submitting to. Yes, she knows he is interested in her as only a man can be interested
in a woman, but perhaps she can feel that his ego is not trying to steer that boat.

Perhaps she can feel his sense of adventure, the part of him staying in the moment, being fully present with her and not expecting
anything while fully taking in whats already there with wonderful appreciation.

A practitioner of Wu Wei, a practitioner of the Tao, cares not for where he ends up. As an artist, he cares only that he has fullled his role
of carrying out the will of the desire that overwhelms him, which delivers a great sense of seductive satisfaction on its own. In a word, he
cares about the journey more than he cares about the destination.

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And, as the paradox of desire tells us, doing so will make it easier for us to arrive at any given destination. Not caring about achieving a
goal will apparently help us in achieving that goal.

My experiences, as well the experiences of every other competent seducer in the world will tell you that this is true that Casanova was
on the mark when he said that he submits; he does not conquer.

PLAYING IT COOL, COOL LIKE WATER

Another way to look at Wu Wei is to think of it as simply being calm, cool, and collected, like keeping a cool head under pressure. In the
words of the famous YouTube channel The School of Life: It means being at peace while engaged in the most frenetic tasks so that one
can carry these out with maximum skill and efciency.

Bruce Lee followed the same philosophy, saying we should be like water. He was obviously inspired by the Tao and Wu Wei. Water ows
where it goes, and it has no intention of its own. It, too, submits to a greater power: gravity. It is anything but rigid, taking the form of
whatever container it nds itself in, and it is the most resilient yet softest thing in existence.

Thebestpeoplearelikewater,whichbenefitsallthings[and]itstaysinlowlyplacesthatothersreject.Thatiswhyitissosimilartothe
Tao.

TaoTeChing

Those who take themselves too seriously, as with those who prioritize their intentions far too high above everything else in life, are rigid
and completely unlike water. They dont know how to let go, but water always lets go and is therefore always full of possibility and
potential.

WhenIletgoofwhoIam,IbecomewhatImightbe.
TaoTeChing

About the Author: Michael Chief

Michael Chief is a veteran of the seduction community. He trains men (especially introverted men) to play to their
own strengths with women. His book Attraction Arsenal teaches the seven (7) methods every "master pick up
artist" uses to attract women. If you're at all confused about attraction (or could just use an attractiveness boost),
pick up a copy of the book right here:

7 ATTRACTION METHODS (FOR INTROVERTS)

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