Your action was once inspired.

Before the mind, your action was inspired.

 

What does it mean it was inspired?

It means it happened naturally. It didn’t require any discipline. It didn’t require extra motivation. It didn’t even require a real reason! It just happened.

And you felt alive.

 

Your action was once inspired but then, one day, it wasn’t.

You remember the joy. You remembered the energy. You remembered the pleasure. You remembered the perfect sense of tranquillity. The feeling of being part of something larger.

Or, perhaps, it was just the feeling of not being so terribly petty! Of not reducing this infinite miracle of existence into one broken fragment, one broken-from-the-whole self.

 

Your action was once inspired and then it wasn’t.

You remembered the joy, the energy, the pleasure, and then you tried to replicate it.

Replication is the opposite of inspiration. Repetition is the antithesis of inspiration.

By trying to repeat it — you lost it.

You can’t repeat it.

The whole point of it is that it is new.

It’s inspiring only because it is new!

If it’s old – then it’s dead. Dead men don’t feel inspired.

 

Your repetition gave birth to habit.

Your repetition gave birth to routine.

Your repetition gave birth to “life purpose”.

What was once ACTION, has now became an IDEA.

What was once alive, has now became a dead shadow.

What was once real, is now but a conception of the mind.

 

You will find consolation for the loss of that forsaken, long forgotten perfection, in the drug of an idea – the idea of a purpose, the idea of becoming, the idea of accounting to something, idea of getting somewhere.

But perhaps, perhaps in some moment of clarity, you will no longer be able to NOT SEE though the meaninglessness of an outside purpose. Perhaps outside ideas of whatever glory will lose their ability to seduce you with it’s flickering. Perhaps this grand wheel of outside transforming will no longer be able to compel you into joining it’s mad movement…

In other words — perhaps you will no longer be able to convince yourself to the existence of purpose to your outside pursuits. Be it your accumulation of money, your accumulation of the memories, your accumulation of skills, or whatever form this movement-of-the-self takes.

Stuck amidst the epicentre of your life’s goals and resolutions, ever amidst certain activity, amids million things started and million things unfinished — how do you get out of this crazy stream…?

 

We are concerned with restoring the perfect state of inspired action.

The problem of life, which is action, and how to live it, which is how to act.

We are concerned with ending the strife, strife of taking on a meaningless goal, struggling with the meaningless goal, and failing/succeeding with the meaningless goal.

We are concerned with feeling INSPIRED, without harbouring the utter delusion of personal growth.

We are concerned with regaining this perfect joy, this lustful desire to live, this mad love for life.

 

Is nothing the opposite of something?

Doesn’t matter.

What matters it that the answer to the things in your life is in NOTHINGNESS.

The things in your life perpetuate themselves ad infinitum.

What was once alive is now dead perpetuation of memory. Memory finding ways to repeat itself.

Momory. I.e. things.

Things in your mind. Things in your life. It’s the same thing. It’s something.

Go nothing.

Do nothing

 

The way out is through nothingness.

To find inspiration — let go.

To find inspiration — do nothing.

Forget what you know. What you know is what causes you to be so uninspired and miserable.

 

You will find inspiration anytime you touch the new.

You may find some inspiration without touching the absolute nothing. You may find some inspiration without dropping everything and doing nothing whatsoever.

But you will likely find that inspiration to be insubstantial… and unsustainable. You will get inspired one moment, only for that inspiration to pervert itself into a routine, again.

You may never experience the cold abyss of meaninglessness, in your routines. Perhaps in your unconsciousness, and drugged with various kind of pleasure and validation, you will never recognise this lingering dissatisfaction.

But when you begin to learn about yourself, when you begin to see yourself… you will unlikely be able to put up with the untrue.

You will not be able to convince yourself that your action is genuine – unless it’s actually genuine.

And you will NOT ACT UNLESS YOU FEEL GENUINELY COMPELLED TO.

Which is why you will always return to nothingness.

Because only from the nothingness does a spontaneous, unpremeditated action arise.

 

“Spiritual consciousness” aside,

just

try doing nothing.

Do nothing.

More often.

And act out of inspiration,

more often.

TRUE inspiration. NOT repetition. Not compulsion.

Recognise the movement of routine,

recognise the movement of habit,

recognise the movement of ambition. Ideas of becoming better, of gaining value, personal or material…

be conscious and recognise these modes of behaviour, these patterns of action… and transcend them.

And I promise you – you will discover something profound.