After their encounters at "The Intersection of Reaching Out," Sandra continued to play her flute and Red held his lamp, and the light led Aulden to an alley where three nightclubs were located. The alley was crowded with people who were socializing and wandering from one nightclub to another.

Two of the nightclubs were being raided by the police. Aulden approached a police officer and asked why they were conducting a raid. The officer answered, "There's some troublemaker - always a troublemaker."

Aulden asked the officer's name. The cop answered, "Officer O'Malley."

"I'd like to meet this troublemaker. Would you take me to him?" Aulden asked. Officer O'Malley led him into one of the nightclubs, to a table where a man with dark hair and a black leather jacket was sitting. The nightclub was familiar to Aulden. It looked like a bar in West Seattle, T.R. Garrity's, where Aulden performed comedy when he was younger.

He asked the man in the leather jacket, "What's your name?" The man answered, "T.R."

Aulden then asked, "Why do they call you the troublemaker?"

T.R. answered, "You might as well ask why they call me T.R."

So, Aulden responded, "Okay, why"

T.R. said, "Because I hang out here."

This was a familiar internal conflict: the cop and the troublemaker; the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other; conscience and sin, law and transgression. Aulden had always been the type of person who favored following the law and obeying the inner-cop. Sometimes Aulden felt that he would have had greater success in his career as a comic if he'd have favored his inner-troublemaker.

He asked, "Please tell me, T.R., what does a proper troublemaker do? What do you advise? What would you do - that's it: What would you do if the cop wouldn't stop you?"

T.R. spoke but Aulden couldn't hear him. Aulden leaned closer and T.R. spoke loudly, "I'm trying to answer your question but you can't hear because you're not able to listen!"

Aulden shouted back, "I'm trying to hear!"

T.R. answered, "You're too afraid to hear me!"

Aulden begged, "Tell me again until I can hear you!"

T.R. answered, "Never mind about them!" That's what he'd been trying to say: "Never mind about what other's think."

Aulden asked, "How do I be such a troublemaker that other people look at me and go, 'whoa'?"

T.R. laughed and answered, "Not all trouble does that."

Aulden reviewed, "Okay, never mind about the others. What next?"

T.R. answered, "Never mind about The Man."

"And…?" Aulden asked, adding, "The Cop is always looking over my shoulder." Of course he meant in an internal sense involving conscience.

T.R. replied, "But he's not looking over my shoulder because I do what I will."

"You do what you want?" Aulden asked, and T.R. answered, "I do what I will."

Aulden agreed and asked, "Tell me about troublemaking?"

T.R. answered, "You settle into a nice community and let yourself bloom."

"How do you do that?" Aulden asked him.

T.R. explained, "Purposelessness. That's why the cop doesn't like me. I'm not doing anything like he expects people to do."

"That sounds like the essence of troublemaking," Aulden speculated. "It is," T.R. agreed.

"I was expecting some kind of action like protest and violence," Aulden continued.

"It's all there," T.R. shrugged. "Doing nothing is the best kind of protest."

Then Aulden turned to his usual format, saying, "T.R., I have three more questions. The first one is, what is your function in my life?"

T.R. answered, "My name is T.R. I'm juxtaposed with the Cop," and he added, "Sh, stillness, relax. I'm Dummling."

Dummling: This was a person in fairytales who Marie-Louise von Franz wrote about. Dummling wasn't really dumb, but appeared to be dumb because he didn't behave as society would expect a man to behave. Dummling followed his instincts and the path of a person who trusted the Universe.

Aulden asked his standard question again, "What is your function?" T.R. answered, "I'm the troublemaker, but I resolve all your trouble. I'm the new path."

"The Wizard Herman told me to take a new path," Aulden remembered.

"I'm it," T.R. proclaimed, "But it's just a path of purposelessness and doing nothing."

Aulden continued, "So if you were to sum up your function…?"

T.R. summed it, "To point to that new path of doing nothing, you do-nothing. The Cop hates that."

"What do you need from me?" Aulden asked him.

"Follow that path and make all kinds of trouble," T.R. answered.

Aulden continued to the third question, "What do you have for me?"

T.R. handed a quartz figurine to Aulden: a figurine of a horse.

Aulden whispered, "I see. I think I understand. Let the spirit of doing nothing carry me on this path. I'm not even doing the walking."

"That's it," T.R. replied, "You've got it."

"Thank you, T.R.," Aulden concluded. "I'm going to talk to that Cop now. We might be back." Aulden searched the crowded nightclub until he found Officer O'Malley, and asked, "Could I talk to you, Officer?" The Officer was willing to talk, but Aulden's attention drifted as he remembered experiences in this place from when he was a young comedian. Officer O'Malley brought Aulden back to the present by saying, "Focus on me, son."

Aulden composed himself and asked, "Officer O'Malley, what is your function in my life?"

The Officer answered, "To preserve law and order."

Aulden observed, "I've always been on your side with that, but I see a problem now. What about the law and order of a Taoist kind of purposelessness?"

The Officer said, "I'm fine with that. I'm opposed to disharmony."

Aulden asked, "Why did you call T.R. a troublemaker?"

"We don't always see eye-to-eye," Officer O'Malley explained. "He does things to disturb the peace."

Aulden replied, "But if it's in the path of doing nothing, doesn't even the wildest idea promote harmony?"

"As long as he minds his manners," Officer O'Malley insisted.

Aulden pointed out, "He won't always mind his manners if the way of purposelessness goes outside of social norms. Do you insist on social norms?" The Officer stepped back, but Aulden stepped forward and continued, "It's important for us to agree - to come to an understanding."

Officer O'Malley said, "I can't just stand back and watch if he goes wild."

Aulden answered, "Officer O'Malley, sometimes you go wild with law enforcement, but sometimes T.R. goes wild with doing and trying and exerting effort instead of living in the spirit of doing nothing. How can I get you two to work together in harmony?"

Officer O'Malley suggested, "Let's sit down with T.R. and work this out."

The three of them sat at a table: Officer O'Malley, T.R. and Aulden. Joining them was Sandra, Red and The Wind. In fact, quite a crowd gathered at the table as nightclub patrons stood around them, listening.

Aulden began, "T.R., Officer O'Malley, the two of you need to work together."

Officer O'Malley stated, "If you know yourself, you won't need me to enforce the law."

T.R. added, "You'll do what you're called to do if you know yourself, and then I won't need to strive."

Aulden asked, "And then you two will work together?"

T.R. nodded and promised, "I'll even do a photo op with him."

Aulden was feeling as if the paradox was being resolved. He answered them, "Okay, I get it now," and he said to Red, "Are you getting this, rattlesnake man? We need your lamp for one more place." Aulden was ready to continue on to the next problem: the protesters versus management.

"Goodbye T.R., and goodbye Officer O'Malley. Do you have anything else to say before I go?"

Officer O'Malley told him, "Obey the law of what's inside you."

T.R. said, "Doing nothing means doing what's inside you."