that intention is different from "Lets go pick up some chicks" or "I just want to get her number to hook up later." The more positive your intent, the less

positive intent (PPI) as a noble stance and a way to be good. But that is not necessarily the way of the Tao: the Tao finds all enforced nobility and goodness suspect:\r\nThe Master doesn't try to be powerful; Thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; Thus he never has enough.   The Master does nothing, Yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, Yet many more are left to be done.   The kind man does something, Yet something remains undone. The just man does something, And leaves many things to be done. The moral man does something, And when no one responds He rolls up his sleeves and uses force.   When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is morality. When morality is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith, The beginning of chaos. -- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 38\r\nRather, think of the PPI as another manifestation of enlightened self-interest: this is