Now after decades of such a life, it's obvious that this life brings only efforts, toil, misery, fear, and anxiety, and some occasional moments of joy. Yet, we all do it despite the insanity and misery of such ambition.  We continue on this path.  Because we don't see what this path really is. And perhaps because, we do not see that action without ambition is possible. 

Ambition is always comparative. We seek to achieve more than others have achieved. Our ambition is a point on the horizon defined by what others have done. Ambition is competitiveness. Ambition is to dominate others by way of achievements, skills, or money. So ambition always exists in relation to others. And it is a cause for great sorrow. Ambition is comparison. Ambition is domination. Ambition is imitation. In the process of ambition, we become second-hand individuals. For ambition, we have become copies with nothing we can claim our own. 

In the process, we have renounced our own path. Our own understanding. Our own discovery. Our life is known in advance. For what? Why do we all live such a life? 

To look. To be uncertain.  

We don't look at our lives. We are desperate to be certain. To be certain, we copy the ways of the world. To be certain we desire what others desire. We fear to be uncertain. We fear to stand alone on our path. We give away our humanity to be certain. We choose conformity over uncertainty, imitation over truth. 

Unless we have a complete understanding of the ways of the self and the mind, we fail to see that a completely different path is available. Self-accomplishment is the holy grail in our culture. Maybe it is the shackles of mankind? As long as we live to accomplish the self, we live in fear, effort and pain. Fear, effort, pain have dulled our mind and heart. And our lives are so empty. 

But along the way of ambition, some of us are forced to reconsider our life. Some of us, do see that achievements bear so little compared to the pain and misery of the journey. The end is never worth the means. We pay a too heavy price. Anyone that has worked and achieved knows that for a 5-minute joy, we pay in years of efforts. Isn't something wrong with this picture? So why does not man reroute his life?

Man does not see the life he has. Man does not see another route is possible. He asks "Without ambition, what am I to do?". Man is not interested in facts. He desires to jump to action so that he can enjoy the reward. And we do not get anywhere. Because without reward, without profit, without benefit, there is no reason to do anything. Everything is a transaction. We do nothing unless it leads to profit. When in fact profit is never really profit. Our currencies have never really amounted to anything. And our lives are empty. The currencies we seek have never filled the hole we have within ourselves. And so maybe if a man could be exposed to the vision that action is possible without ambition, without effort, he would not have to continue to pay such a price with his life.

Action without ambition 

This alternative path comes when we understand the whole nature and structure of ambition and ideas. Energy of action is possible without desire. Action without idea is real, direct and pure. Our whole life is lived in the opposite way. We have an idea and then we act. And so action is always short of the idea. And it leads to endless discontentment. All our problems are with ideas. Not with actions. Ideas make us immobile. For one action that an idea has brought to life, we have millions of actions we did not take because of ideas. Ideas don't know necessity. The mind do not know necessity. 
Because ideas are ideas. They are from the mind. Actions are never the exact realization of an idea. There is always a gap. This gap is the source of an immense dissatisfaction in our lives. Many will never reconsider their ambition because the alternative route is a route that ignores the world's currencies - money, fame, status. It is a path where love, interest and energy are unbridled by our mind. Because the nature and structure of the world's currencies are understood for what they are. A passion without a motive and a complete understanding of the mind gives man a different vision. And in this new understanding, perception is action. Man does not need to be convinced, he simply sees where he stands. He acts out of this new vision that he has formed. He acts from this new understanding that becomes a place within him from which he does everything in his life. This understand is unfolding at every instant. The more he explores his own vision, the more energy and passion without motive he find in his life.