How does one purge low vibration desires?

[anagogy]

How do you train yourself to see perfection in a lower state, then? For example, on that low vibration night, there was a moment when I was out taking a walk to try to jimmy myself out of the lowness (<- here's probably what caused the following, I was trying to avoid it). A heavy truck barreled through our quiet neighborhood, which never happens. In its trail was the overwhelming stench of exhaust. It was suffocating, I felt like the exhaust fumes were penetrating down my lungs and reaching into my metaphysical self. Like negative tendrils of decay.

How might I have treated that situation differently, viewing it as part of the infinite love? As it was, I tried not breathe and lamented the fact that the situation existed.

Allow me to regale you with a tale, my friend.

Once upon a time I was frustrated because I got cut off in traffic. Man was I steamed! I really stewed on it over the course of the day. I let it ruin my day.

Fast forward a couple days later, it happens again. And then again, and again, and again. It starts happening ridiculously frequently. It was like I had a sign on my vehicle that said, "please sir/ma'am, won't you cut me off again?" I couldn't understand why I was so unlucky -- why I was so cursed.

Well, I eventually pulled my head out of my ass and realized it was a manifestation of my own resistance. So how did I transmute this into a positive experience?

Simply, I forgave the people who were cutting me off. Every time it happened, I would imagine that they were doing it for a good reason. I put myself in their shoes, and thought about how they were probably in a rush, or had some kind of emergency that necessitated the behavior. I reasoned that if I inadvertently cut someone off in traffic, I would want to be forgiven as well. Slowly I began to feel more positively towards these other drivers, and less angry and frustrated about the situation. Truly, in the most important sense, all was well.

And wouldn't you know it?  It gradually, but not instantaneously, disappeared from my experience. Long story short, it almost never happens anymore.

So the moral of the story is: you have reinterpret things to transmute them. You have to shift your vibrational set point about the 'things', rather than steer away from the 'things' themselves, which is what your original post seemed more oriented towards. It is a subtle difference, but an important one to my way of understanding.

It is true that you can simply move your attention away from the things that you perceive as lower vibrational, and unpleasant, towards things you perceive as higher vibrational, and therefore pleasant, and thereby experience a relatively resistance free state. But when you inevitably reencounter the the other things you bypassed (which you will -- because ultimately everything, even the mundane, must eventually be transmuted into the 'sacramental'), you will experience them on the same level you left them at, because no vibrational progress was made on that particular subject. If you instead, work to shift the vibration, through your practiced interpretation, that symbol with be then altered and exalted to a higher and more pure vibrational place. You would be teaching yourself to see all aspects of reality through the creators eyes.

And let me tell you a secret: the creator loves ALL. It doesn't just pretend to do it, because it thinks it is supposed to -- it really really truly loves all, unconditionally. Even the stuff we can't, because we see it as crude and lower vibrational. You want to know what unconditional love really is? Well let me tell you what it isn't first. It isn't "tolerance". A LOT of people are under the delusion that if they look at something they truly despise, and outwardly pretend to not hate it, that that constitutes some sort of expression of unconditional love. HAHA, no, WRONG, not even close, thanks for playing though. That is just a cheap and inauthentic posturing to conform to social expectations (egoic expression in otherwords). A "societal circle jerk" if you will. Please pardon my crude but expressive euphemisms, for I am no poet.

REAL unconditional love is about looking at things and seeing them through the eyes of god. It is about looking at things, and learning to see them in such a light that does not separate yourself from the REAL feeling of appreciation. To do that, you have to learn to see and genuinely find something to appreciate about them. It isn't easy at first, but my friend, that is the real spiritual work -- the transmutation of the ordinary into the supra-ordinary.

Unfortunately there are far more subtleties to this process than I can possibly convey to you. But perhaps this meager offering will help light a few candles on this shadowy and moonlit path we walk together as brothers upon.