while you say you are "local to San Diego..." Calling you a "man about town" would require defining TOWN as everything between Sweden and South America!!!

I wrote some blog posts about Doctors Without Borders, then connected with Danny Brown and his 12for12k.org campaign. We put our heads together and...

of all the NPO and causes out there... why Doctors Without Borders for You Personally???

Can't say why it struck me so strongly, but I knew in that moment that I had to go

Life is 99% serendipity, or fate, or karma, or whatever

Holistic is the key word - if they are burning down rain forest so that they can produce beef that goes into fast food and causes us health problems

I don't think of it in terms of a dream life, but rather pursuing passion. Seek that which speaks to you, drives you,

About @journik: @Journik is Bob Wan-Qi Kim. He has been an internet entrepreneur since his first BBS on the "Information," "Super," "Highway." He founded http://journik.com -- a community like facebook but only for philosophers and their bull-shit.

His passion is exposing to the masses the power of Ancient Daoist (Origin of Acupuncture) Herbal Medicine when fused with Western Modern Genomic and Proteomic Sciences: His Client: http://jbni.us

See @journik's health blog: http://herbholist.posterous.com

If you want to read my blog, or follow me on Twitter, that's very cool, but the real answer lies in the decisions we make on a daily basis.

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So here I am, in a supposedly 50,000 year old Martial Medical Daoist Clan right? And I'm called in to Temp CEO one of the clan's holding companies. If this all sounds way cloak and dagger, it's not. Just replace the word "clan" for "family." Oh, and "dagger" with "sword."

In the middle of my restructuring and ramping up for international marketing and distribution capacity, We call in a Quickbooks consultant to integrate quickbooks with paypal with fedex. Entering data in trippplicate is just assinine. Hell, it qualifies as assiten!

She makes it into the office at about 1AM (yes, we work 24/7) and sure enough, as soon as she sits down, my boss, my teacher, and Paternal Head of the Clan walks in and my DSL goes out.

Out.

Mind you, the DSL goes out in this office about 2x a day. The modem is likely on the "fritz" (ancient Chinese expression). So I walk into the server room. As soon as I get in there, I hear my boss say, "WAN! (that's me. pronounced 'one')" What did you do?! Our accounting effiency expert is here and you ruined the DSL connection!

I have this fantastic full body massage chair that's perfect for deep meditation. I use it. On full blast.

Context: When my Boss gets disturbed, Pai Mei AND Chuck Norris tremble in each other's arms.

So I explain, "No Sir, I'm in the server room BECAUSE the DSL went out. It does so a few times a day."

"No. You broke it!" He clarifies.

"I'm working on fixing it Sir," I explained as I power cycled the switch, router, and modem.

"Don't do anything! How can I trust the one who broke it to fix it!?" He says in a soft voice that makes the building rattle and made one #FordFiesta in an adjacent parking lot flip over.

So I do what any sys admin would do and call the DSL service provider. They tell me that Seattle has had service issues recently. They say they will run a diagnostic and send out a field tech if needed.

Within minutes, all of you friends from facebook and twitter come back to me. I run over to the newly forbidden server room zone and the DSL WWAN light is back on green!

I asked my boss and Grand Master Swordsman of the Mu Gai Ryu Samurai Clan what he did. He tells me I crossed a voice line with the DSL line. I agree, "Yes Sir!"

I sit back down at my desk and find a Google Voice Transcribed email from the telco, "We've reset your local DSL gateway a few minutes ago. You should be back online shortly."

Context: When my Boss gets disturbed, Pai Mei AND Chuck Norris tremble in each other's arms.

Funny thing is that I didn't touch a thing. My boss didn't either. But when I was in the server room, all hell broke loose. When he walked in, angels started to sing. So I get back to my office and reflect.

I have this fantastic full body massage chair that's perfect for deep meditation. I use it. On full blast.

When I woke up this morning, I remembered a couple of dreams. I saw an innocent man with poor timing get shot. I saw another innocent man picking up the smoking gun as the police arrived. And I remembered an old lesson about the I Ching Trigram . Fire is two external yang or projecting power lines with an internal broken line yin soft core. The true nature of a thing is it's internal power.

"Without a passive wick the fire cannot of itself stand and intimidate. But in the 3 dimensional material word, the external is what will burn you," said my teacher.

He continued, "He who takes full responsibility for the external, no matter what the internal truth, gains mastery over this plane of the five senses."

About the Client Company: JBNI

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Please see http://journik.posterous.com/sunday-siesta-philosophy-the-universe-is-insi Part One.

The universe is inverted and so are your problems - Ancient Master #2 from Wan Qi on Vimeo.

For part 3, You must be a registered member of the Journik.com Community. We share all the tastiest brilliance there.

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The universe is inverted and so are your problems - From: "The Ancient Master of the Obvious -- An Alchemist's Book of Secrets"

Part Two: The Universe is inside-out and so are your problems. Taken with a glass of wine.

Civil Engineers add lanes to freeways making them even slower.

Washing machines were invented to save women time and now women spend 300% more time doing laundry.

Vaccines made all diseases disappear until they reappeared as super strains.

Electric cars reduced air polution to create sea polution from battery mercury.

The "War to End All Wars" Just created more and deadlier wars.

You try and save your marriage and your mate cheats on you.

You try and get a promotion and you get fired.

You try to get to your meeting early and you end up late.

Why?

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If you count even one failure, you count the grains of sand while you seek your pearl

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Part one

Part two

Have a nice day.

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Many religious people know all about God. Ask them to define God in ten words, they will give you a 1,000.

Atheists simply say there is no "God." Atheists make it impossible to define God.

A definition, by definition, is rigid.

Greek (pneuma), Hebrew (ruach), Aramaic, Latin (spiritu), Chinese (chi), Korean (qi), Hindi (prana), Mayan, or any other culture you can think of relates "spirit" to "breath" or "wind."

If you capture wind in a box, it is no longer. Could the act of trying to capture God be an act of deicidal arrogance?

Athiests carry no box.

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The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao. The name that can be named is not...

There is no real mystical or esoteric meaning to this Daoist koan. Speach is a medium. When a reality is interpreted through a medium, this is not the reality. This is only an idolized image of the reality.

An expression of your love is not your love. A photo of the Mona Lisa is not worth a billion dollars. I could tell you all about sex but until you experience it, well, you know.

The Dao is indeed knowable. But that which is known of the Dao is not the Dao.

(inspired by @creolesugar)

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