On Wandering

Wandering feels good for a while; keep wandering, and it keeps feeling good.
Over the years, I have often written that people cannot give others advice. I have also often said that the only advice I can give is to keep a diary and wander: simple and effective. These are now the only two things I “prescribe” to paying clients.
Over the past two years, I have also realized that neither is actually so simple. Both require mental energy and the right conditions.
Wandering embodies the essence of meditation and “spiritual practice,” and the essence of innate wholeness and connection with the unity of humanity and nature in Zhuangzi’s philosophy.
Wandering means following your inclinations. There is no striving, spiritual practice, or deliberate effort.
Wandering means allowing. Allowing all negative emotions. Allowing all positive connections. Allowing everything around you to happen.
Wandering means drawing your energy inward. There is little you can do, little you need to do, and little energy to spare, so you gather that energy into caring for yourself. Discipline, concentration, wisdom.
Wandering means letting the horse go where it will, being an unmoored boat. Zhuangzi speaks of horses: by nature, they run freely and without restraint, but Bole bridles and whips them, depriving them of their freedom.
Wandering is the usefulness of the useless. With nothing to attend to, you are an immortal; to be free of worries and cares is the greatest joy.
Wandering is the capacity of incapacity. Wandering often begins with a deep sense of powerlessness, yet leads toward free and easy wandering.
Wandering means letting things happen naturally. Our own nature will heal itself naturally. Big Brother Libido will naturally form connections with positive energy: ourselves, nature, society, the universe. Order through non-action.
Wandering means expansive connection. Connection is a natural thing; exert effort, and you go astray.
Wandering means connection with the body: its fatigue, its aches, its exuberance, what the body wants to tell us.
Wandering means connection with libido. Following your inclinations means following libido’s interests: where to go, how it feels, what song to hum—it all depends on him. Recognizing the confusion and uselessness of conscious thought, and recognizing the power of the deeper mind’s intuition and awareness.
Wandering means connection with your past self. Your past self wandered like this too, wandering along the river of time.
Wandering means loving yourself and taking good care of yourself. You never needed very much to begin with.
Wandering means connection with innate wholeness, with no cultivation and no attainment.
Wandering means connection with your own nature. A moment of awareness tears through the dark clouds like lightning, and the light of your own nature illuminates the whole world. Sitting in forgetfulness, fasting of the mind, emptiness in the world giving rise to light.
Wandering means connection with the present. The world as it is now, your actual surroundings, the land and the people around you.
Wandering means living in the present, doing small things, drawing your energy inward, and expansive connection: the whole essence of living in the present.
Wandering means connection with the other shore. The other shore is right here, right now: the unity of humanity and nature.
Proletarians have neither the time nor the space to wander, burdened by the karmic obstructions of capital. Those with small or tiny amounts of capital wander more, but their karmic obstructions run deep and their connections are weak. Human alienation is the cause of broken connections and existential crises. This is also why many young people choose to deliver food on electric scooters rather than work in factories: a moment of freedom for the workers of this era.
Nine parts helplessness, but still one part freedom and ease within a tiny space. This is also the Daoist understanding of fate and freedom.
The above: Marx + Zhuangzi + psychology.