As I have no other choice but to hurdle myself towards the universe, I ponder if is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? I myself have been guilty of investing enormous time and energy and serious efforts to know someone, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? Because even as a young man, I quickly realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves, and can therefore never be known or understood by another.
His advice is quite simple - be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, and try to break everything you see. Instead try to adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friends, and you shall go far.
