Synopsis of Teaching

You can live without purpose when you have an enriched environment. An enriched environment is one in which you observe, you watch, you see connection; you allow yourself to be a participant through cooperation and connection, not as an object or subject, not as a cause or effect, but as a real, embracing participant, not resisting Life, not holding back, not being fearful, but just seeing what Life has to offer.

It is so easy to become pigeonholed, or boxed in, by your concepts and beliefs that tell you who you are supposed to be, and what you are supposed to do. Liberation occurs when the walls vanish, and you begin to have the direct experience of Life as you.

I know it is difficult to look at Life without purpose, because purpose is so deeply ingrained in the fabric of being. One never thinks about living without purpose. Purpose is everywhere. Purpose has become like the air we breathe. We believe that if we live without purpose, we die; if we lose purpose, we lose Life.

But I say that if you lose purpose, you find Life, because purpose gets in the way. Purpose is like a whip that controls you, pushes you onward to some supposedly desired achievement. Whereas Life, who- you-are, is experiencing possibilities, and possibilities happen very naturally.

Purpose and intention are two different things. You can have intention without turning it into purpose. Your intention is to be all you can be, because you allow that you are Being, and moment by moment you are being all you can be. If you are free of beliefs and concepts, you are free to be who you are. That is not a purpose.

You can set up ways to facilitate being all you can be, but not for the purpose of being more than you are (you can't do that). You can have an intention of being all that you are, and that is an unknown. It is not something you can form a purpose around. Purpose is usually a vision or a goal, something to achieve, whereas the intention of being all you can be is embracing the unknown.

Intention requires certain elements of trust: trusting that you are, trusting what is in you as Life, and allowing that Life knows what it is doing moment by moment. That is not purpose.

We could look at the solar system and say that it has purpose. But does it? Does the solar system have purpose? Does the cosmos have purpose? Or is it just being what it can be, naturally?

There is a natural order, the order of the way things work, and it is cooperative and harmonious. You can imagine what would happen if Jupiter decided that it liked earth's orbit better, and that it would take over earth's orbit. That would be purpose.

The universe is without purpose. Humans, however, tend to assign purpose to the universe, and so the idea of "God" is created. God becomes the purpose of the universe, the purpose of life, the Creator. That is the beginning of purpose: believing that God has something in mind for you, something in mind for the universe. But what if that idea is just a human creation? What if the universe just Is? What if Life just Is? What if you just Are?

The intellect protests, "Well, that is dangerous. Who will control things? Who will take care of me? How will I survive?" Natural order. Harmony is a consequence of cooperation. The solar system cooperates with itself. These material bodies stay in their orbit, in their place. Of course, the universe is always in a state of change, so once in a while some remodeling takes place, but that again is not purpose. It happens because it can. Life on this planet has happened because it can. The ingredients were here for Life to happen. Intelligence recognized the possibilities for Life here, and proceeded to become Life.

There is always a risk to who you are; there is no assurance of your continuity. Part of the brain wants to assure its survival, so it has fabricated various beliefs, systems, and structures to pacify itself, sedate itself, because until now the thought of having to deal with one's mortality has been too difficult, too stressful. Part of the brain insisted that there must be some way to continue. But a deepening realization is that the very need for survival is the mechanism that causes you to not survive. The need for something, the grasping, causes it to flee from you.

Instead of spending all of that energy in survival, and worrying about what is next, you can move into now and be present, and see what happens. You miss so much of Life when you are thinking about the other, the outside, and worrying about what could happen that you miss what is happening.

You may not like what is happening, but the act of seeing what is going on in the world is an act of transcendence. As more of The Consciousness truly sees what is going on in the world, the world will change, because collectively humans will begin to agree that that is not the way to survival; it is not the way to continue this Life. Humans will begin to agree that we need to find the grounds for cooperation, a sustainable Life for all.

This involves living beyond separation and duality, and starting to live without purpose, but intensely, presently, as Life, bringing about the possibilities inherent within who you are. Every cell, every atom is connected, has means of realization. Each atom is knowing what the other atoms are doing.

You go through Life thinking that nobody else knows what you are doing. And almost everybody lives that way. People are forgetting that they know, so they do things to create false knowings, to amass information about the mystery of Life, while denying that they know already that they are that which Is.

So you begin to awaken. You awaken cell by cell, particle by particle. The cells communicate, the bodies communicate, and there is a degree of cooperation in which you resonate with the core. You begin to understand that there is Life without purpose, that there is Life beyond cause and effect, that Life is not dependent upon the other, that Life is dependent upon itself.

Life has the ability to become, to evolve; it is always evolving and becoming. Intelligence is developing. Awareness and connection are happening. Awareness sometimes takes place in the greatest of chaos and disharmony. That is the kind of awareness that says, "If we keep doing this, we are not going to last; if we keep living separately, selfishly and individually, without thought for the rest, we are doomed."

With awareness, you start living Life in connection, and cooperation, really caring about Life, watching how things work, recognizing the realm of cause and effect, and understanding moments when you can make a difference. Sometimes, just being able to see another possibility makes all the difference in the world. Any one individual can do that. That is what is so beautiful about Life: it is not dependent upon numbers; it is about quality and intensity.

So in this Space, one begins to resonate with this awareness, creating an ideal of connection, cooperation, balance. It is living in balance, but it is not having a purpose of balance. When you have a purpose, you hardly ever achieve it; you are always trying to get it, which is saying, "I am trying to find myself; my purpose is to find myself." Purpose says there is something to find, but you cannot find The Consciousness. The Consciousness is not lost. You Are. You always are. You may not realize that you are, but you always are.

You are Life, you are Being, you are becoming, you are experiencing. To allow for that possibility is to allow for connection, deepening in the realization to where you suddenly realize that you don't need God, you don't need the Absolute, you don't need the other. All you need is presence and being. Everything happens from the now, from the moment, from Being.

Purpose has nothing to do with the now. When you live without purpose, you recognize that you are, and that everything you need is here, moment by moment. Life is fulfilling itself as you, moment by moment. When there is resistance and attachment, you have problems. When you are just flowing, without purpose, there is connection.