I come back from Mexico City with just as many lessons as I had collected before, because I have experienced the Tao of friendship. The weeklong visit from Moy, an extroverted sensual partygoer, and then four days with my best friend, David. And then I met up with Victor David

I have come to understand that one should vibrate with whatever is presented upon the soul, and these vibrations manifest in lessons and experiences which are reflected upon after their fact. One should not always choose to vibrate with the present moment if the engagement of the senses withdraw within ourselves in a strange introversion, and one gains the senses needed for inner exploration.

It is unnecessary to pass any ideology. The purpose is to look into the eye and vibrate with whatever is in front of us. Any attempt at controlling the situation is our ego in action. Flow, vibrate with the people whom cross your path. Offer no resistance, it is futile for both parties. I have never changed anyone’s mind. The only times I’ve said anything wise is when it is not me speaking.

In discovering this itself, it seems that the ego fragments, because it realizes: anything that I have really created is not mine, since most of what I do comes from when I forget about myself. I can only create when I don’t get in the way.

Often times I have a sense of dread at work. The emotional relationship to work is soured, and my response to dread is avoidance. I will do many productive things in the name of avoidance, because I feel bad about avoiding work, and so I engage in less dreadful work, so that I least I can think about myself as an avoidant productive person rather than a lazy bum.

It is only when there is an alignment with work and intention when flow can be accomplished, and the big question seems to be: it is possible to put work into alignment with intention? It is the ego who desires to work, but the intention comes from spirit. It is the ego who avoids work too. “Just do what needs to be done”, calls the Tao.

I try to concentrate deeply, but I waste time. I take ingrained paths. At first, ingrained paths feel tao-like: effortless, soothing, non-violent. But the clear stream of consciousness becomes tainted through contaminated ingrained paths, and to make the flow take a new path, one must not only obstruct the flow, but allow the flow to take a different course.

That is: the blockage of vice is temporary. You are able to withhold it for a time, but then it spills over the blockage and soon it will wash away the barrier. Energy needs to flow, once you set up the blockage you direct the current into a new stream. Make sure you know where the current will flow, you will miscalculate, but persist. A better way of living is possible.

Let us collect the lessons written down so far, and attempt to boil them down into actionable tasks for the purpose of personal growth.

  1. Vibrate with the energy that people present to you.
  2. Offer no resistance, put yourself in the heart of the other person.
  3. Align work with intention.
  4. Block vice, have a reflow plan.