Something I've never thought was possible: you can act without motive, without plan, without goals, without a desire to acquire, to gain, to satisfy the self, to accomplish what we think is the meaning of life (our self-aggrandizement). Everything we do is to acquire, to gain, to profit the self.
For just a moment, drop all your motives, desires, and goals. Just drop your beliefs. Play with this idea as an experiment. What is left? Nothing. We have nothing left because everything we do is to gain. We live in fear and anxiety and misery and this strife and fear make us so empty and dull. Strife and fear makes us oblivious to such a large dimension of life because we have blinders. Nothing matters but profit the self. It is obvious to see how miserable a life of constant strife and fear is. It is a life of a slave.
Why is it that after decades of personal acquisitiveness we continue on this path? Man does not desire peace, man does not look, and man does not even imagine another path is possible. What is this path?
Most of us recognize the idiocy, the shallowness, and the wastefulness of a life spent chasing acquisition—ideas, properties, wealth, accolades, status. We know from decades of experience that the smallest success does not solve anything that we hoped. And instead of reconsidering our ways, we endlessly demand to achieve more of the same vacuity. More is the self.
Most of us never leave such a path despite seeing the vacuity of our life. We do not leave such acquisitive chase that is completely uncreative because when we consider how we live, we think "If I don't thrive, or put in the hard work, what am I meant to do with my life? How should I occupy the decades I am left to live? What reason is there to do anything if personal profit and betterment are not the end goal and the center of my life?".
Although we have had many moments of realisation that this life of acquisition is vain, we remain stuck for decades, because we can't begin to see the alternative path. If this alternative path was better understood, men will not remain stuck with a life they don't know how to transform.
I wasted years in these dead-ends, and I could not see that men could act without motive with an intensity of action, sincerity, and purity that goals, motives, and desire could not match. I thought "If one has peace, then he has no reason to do anything because he has peace". I didn't see that with freedom, men have pure energy. He acts and never imitates because he doesn't seek others' man accolades or achievements. He walks his own path. This path is refined at every instant. This path is an exploration. It is constantly unfolding. Actions are not a projection of motives to gain or ideas but a constant experimentation. This man can now learn because he love his path. He does not work. He plays. The consideration of goals, setting plans for future achievement is no longer central to his approach. He walks his path from a place of understanding. He understand the nature of goals and motives. He understands the fear that organized his life. He understands that no matter his actions, his skills or achievement, he will remain nothing. This is what is, regardless of his former hopes and dreams. He does what he does from his heart. He understand how ideas, goals, plans, and motives are a source of infinite waste of energy. He sees the ways of the world for what they are. So they no longer influence him. He is free so each instant is an acute presence. And on his new path, his old fears and ideas visit him. But he knows what they are. He sees what he could not see before. For the total misery he felt before could never be preferable to not accepting what is. And so this path is personal. Effortless because sincere. Pure because selfless. Free because mindless. This is a path of pure energy.
There is a vast path without horizon when a man acts effortlessly with a free heart. Energy is abundant, for his heart is no longer occupied with shallow and empty goals. He understand what is. And this man can be utterly unknown to the world yet he probably is the best in the world because he is on a path of never ending exploration of his own heart. It doesn't matter where he places in the world, for each moment is a sincere exploration of truth of whatever is doing. For freedom is at the beginning, not at the end. For energy is endless for a heart that is free. For peace is not a reward but a side effect of understanding. Your heart is in prison, see the prison.