How to Pick-up Girls

Getting rid of one’s ego is the last resort of invincible egoism! ... This is why I am not overly enthusiastic about the various “spiritual exercises” in meditation or yoga which some consider essential for release from the ego. For when practiced in order to “get” some kind of spiritual illumination or awakening, they strengthen the fallacy that the ego can toss itself away by a tug at its own bootstraps. But there is nothing wrong with meditation just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to “get culture” or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
The Book:
So What?
Alan Watts
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When I was a young man with surging hormones (as is true with most young men), my interest in the opposite sex had me thinking about or chasing the chimera of sexual “conquest” most of my waking hours. There were all kinds of books on the subject of “How to Pick-up Girls” and those books had pathetic pick-up lines and all sorts of techniques for getting a girl’s attention in Laundromats, markets and bars. But, I was soon to discover that most of the time these techniques merely accomplished further isolation and frustration because they made a man too eager for anything but the most eager or manipulative women. After all, what woman of any self-worth wants a man constantly on the prowl? Of course, I was no more interested in a woman of self-worth than my own belly-button lint… so that was the result of my hunting expeditions along those lines. This crass example mirrors the attempts to find spiritual enlightenment or to meditate in order to make conscious contact with God. Letting go of the results, and just doing it for the sake of doing it, brings laughter and a lightness of being that was probably there all along.

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