Don't Fight the Current

Of all places, some of the best advice I ever received in this incarnation came from watching anime (Japanese cartoons). There's just something about Japanese philosophy that has always reverberated with me, and to be honest, sometimes I wonder if I was Japanese in a previous incarnation, but I digress!

One of the most significant gems of wisdom I ever came across can be found in none other than the legendary COWBOY BEBOP. Here's the clip, if you don't want to watch the video, the dialog is below:

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Rocco: How did you do that?

Spike: You're tense, I'm calm. You apply excessive force; I control that force through fluid motion. That means relaxing the whole body so it can react instantly without resistance—no, without thought. Do you see now? It means becoming like clear water.

Rocco: Water.

Spike: Right. Water can take any form. It drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the very next.

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At first, this may seem rather innocuous, but if given over to contemplation you will see this is very profound advice.

When anything triggers us, the worst thing that we can do is react instinctually because this . Although it is human nature to react instinctually like animals, we humans were given the power of reasoning and the knowledge of good and evil. When we react instinctually, we actually chip away at the godly power of reasoning that was bestowed upon us and we start to slowly devolve into nothing more or less than an animal, or a beast.

However, if we behave as if we are water: gentle, flowing and stable, we can literally handle anything that life can throw at us. Nothing in this universe is random, it is all a perfectly balanced masterwork of a symphony of harmonies and everyone gets exactly what they need to make soul-progress. Every situation that we face in life is custom made for us, to test our consciousness and vibration to see if we are ready to level up. When we refuse our instinctual nature, we move closer to becoming like gods and we reap the rewards of self mastery. But when we give in to the urge of the ego and react as opposed to thinking first, we slide back to being nothing more than animals.

So please, take my advice and try this whenever anything stands in your way. If you hold onto yourself and not give in to the ego, wonderous magic will happen for you and all of nature will rejoice.

So remember:
The forces of nature are at the disposal of those who are able to resist them.

Thanks for reading, I love you all!

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