To live intensely, you need childlike energy and curiosity without beliefs or preconceived notions. For childlike energy you should be whole undivided by self-delineating labels and free from psychological burdens. For curiosity, you need no-mind of an original explorer of life as if just born.
Detached awareness free from self is your state of wholeness and no-mind of original explorer necessary for the childlike energy and curiosity.
Fully aware, your will supersedes your impulses. This helps you to become more self-disciplined, self-motivated and self-regulated which can help you to get what you want if your want the right thing.
Detached Awareness
You cannot live an authentic intense life by constantly engaging with it. You need to know how to disengage and be empty.
By being empty, you can accommodate what is important and great in order to perform the great maneuver of life. By disengaging from the known and unknown, you are in your own charge, and you are not controlled by effects of known and unknown.
Without associating or identifying with the know and unknown, you neither become the self divided on account of your association with ideas like name, age, gender, class, caste, religion, race, nationality, eternal spirit, etc. nor do you get subliminally stressed to become self-conscious.
Through a detached awareness without the self, you neither engage with life selectively nor arbitrarily according to the self. Through detached awareness, you disengage and know life correctly in the right context through a better perspective in greater context like a high-flying eagle.
Without Self, you are neither restricted by negativities nor positivity of the Self. Without the Self you are like water, harmoniously adapting with the reality of cause and conditions and using all the situations of life to your advantage resourcefully.
Without the Self, the whole world becomes resource at your disposal and you can use all situations advantageously. For a person without the Self, world is like a uncarved block full of possibilities if they have the awareness to know.
Life is Ultimate Value
The natural truth is that one day everyone will lose everything after they disintegrate and perish. Whether joy or suffering, success or failure, it will all end with the end of life.
When you know that the one-and-only life is ephemeral, you will value it over everything else and try to make most out of it in an authentically meaningful way.
Authentic life can be hard or easy, but it is correctly experienced and correctly known in the right context without any self-ignorance. To live authentically is to live without self-ignorance.
You are awareness, the natural phenomenon of knowing, arising due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions. You become your tangible and intangible actions and you continue in the impact of your intentional actions. However, due to self-ignorance, you may hold on to wrong ideas about yourself and life.
You may live and act believing “I am so and so, such and such, this or that based on ideas given to you by the society.
Due to fantastic imaginary artificial ideas about yourself, you may get misled, invite suffering into your life and waste your life restricted by self-delineating labels.
Identify Truth of Your Nature from The Imagined Self
Know the truth of your nature. Any word that succeeds “I am” is self but not you because you are not fixed and static due to your changing indispensable constituent cause and conditions. You are a flow and you exist in your functions or actions.
As evident through right meditation, you can survive without inner being or inner self, your self-image, your mind, your memories, identity, class, caste, race, religion, ideas, beliefs, unnecessary possessions, etc. Hence these are not your constituent conditions.
You cannot continue to survive without being aware, knowing what you experience. You also cannot continue to survive without the processes of life. You cannot continue to survive without taking necessary actions. You cannot continue to survive without necessary effects of your action and you cannot continue to survive without nature. You will Know that as part of nature, you are not limited to your skin.
When you understand this you will value life and live differently by improving constituent cause and conditions. By recognizing truth of your nature, you know why, when and what you need to value and in what priority.
Life lived rightly matures, outgrows, weans and gets detached from it’s source like ripened fruits and flowers.
True Natural Self Care First.
First and foremost, take care of yourself including everything without which you cannot continue to survive, grow and flourish, i.e. nurture your health, wellness, natural environment, etc. To take care of yourself, first ensure your security, safety, peace and order in life.
Then, give importance to your sustainable development through right living and right actions and producing right effect of actions. This includes developing your mind, emotions, intelligence without which you may survive but not develop, mature and outgrow.
Growth and development of life to a high degree of harmonious integrity gives rise to a detached clear seamless awareness, involuntary self-regulation, natural fulfilment, maturity, detachment, yearning for freedom and qualities like sensitivity, empathy, compassion etc.
Fully aware without mind and self, you live synchronously with the immense natural flow of life unaffected by impulses or personal likes and dislikes. Without self, actions become fluid and harmonious with the right cause and conditions without striving.
Going with the immense natural flow of life, important events of your life are harmoniously aligned and achieved synchronously with the greater scheme of existence. Actions are drawn harmoniously from the conditions rather than personal impulses or whims.
The fulfillment and happiness felt through effortless detached clear seamless awareness arising from right conditions of life is due to restoration of rich natural innocence as if it was never lost throughout the course of your growth, maturity and development since the beginning of your life.
Life is an ephemeral natural flowering due to right cause and conditions. Spark of life is a rare accident and death is for sure. So, celebrate life neither getting attached nor getting serious about anything because eventually nothing will remain as it is. Cherish the play of life and game of society.
Learning to Live Authentically From Nature
In nature all forms of life want to feel secure, relax, sleep, hibernate and be at peace. All forms of life seek pleasure and that is how they seek contact, reproduce, clean themself, and love their offsprings.
All forms of life which can move, seek freedom and avoid getting confined. All forms of life avoid death by staying away from predators. So also, humans basically need and seek security, peace, pleasure, freedom, order and long life.
Mature humans without self-ignorance or ignorance about life and society, seek to become wise, and eventually get detached after fully experiencing the life. Security, peace, pleasure, long life, maturity, wisdom, freedom and detachment. This is what we seek naturally through our objectives and goals in various forms.
Life in itself is a purpose, there is no need to go about seeking purpose in society. We, like silly with our body, processes of life and functions, want to know who am I? and what is the purpose of life?
Childlike curiosity with beginner’s mind of original explorer without beliefs or preconceived notions is the door and detached awareness is the way and meditation is the key.