We usually live in a projected world.
This habit to project concerns also happiness, fullness or any meaningful purpose we give to life.
If this habit to project stops, what happens?
There is the immediate understanding that we are fundamentally what we are looking for, that we cannot reach anything because we are the object of our quest.
This way of living is so unusual, that it needs an effort to experience what means to live without purpose.
It can be easier to experience it at a body level.
For instance, if you do a very slow movement of yoga, you can discover what means to move without intention, without goal, to live the sensation from moment to moment, without the interference of memory.
You experience at this moment what means passivity in action.
We can observe that when we move, we are usually fixed to the goal, we don't really live the movement, we are in a constant state of anticipation, trying to grasp the next moment and to control what happens.
By simply observing this habit, we can understand that it is only a defence based on fear, the fear of the unknown.
At this right moment, we experience ourselves as out of this process, Like if we would be a witness of this process, but we are not it.
The end of the identification with these patterns gives the opportunity to taste the perfume of your timeless presence.
In this direct experience of our nature, the question of waiting for does not anymore arise.
What can we wait for, and who is waiting for?
The inquiry of these questions brings maturity.
What we are waiting for and the I who is waiting for are both projections.
If the I who is waiting for vanishes, what remains is what you are.
By affirming your presence free from time, free from a future, you experience yourself as a free being, not free on a personal level - the personality is only a set of patterns - but free from the personality.
A subtle separation with this timeless presence can however remain.
The habit to function on a dualistic mode maintains the habit to consider the formless presence as an object, separated from what we are.
It means that the mind continues its role of conceptualizing, and has transformed the pure presence into an object of observation.
But with maturity, this gap vanishes, and we discover ourselves free.
Free from the I, free from the noise, free from the silence.
From the Spiramed Internet Forum , September 1996