Openness and aimlessness. Two words that point to the same quality of observation. Openness. Anything is possible.
Potentiality unfolds in the now, and in that, there cannot be any script, any map, any path, any preference, any choice. So, you can say that aimlessness is the byproduct or the sign of true openness—true meaning sincere, unbiased, authentic, real.
In the manifestation—the coming-to-be—of that openness, and in the reality of the encounter with aimlessness, with no direction, learning is alive. It is taking place not from a point of accumulation, not from any extension of understanding. It just reveals itself.
The true knowledge is learning. It’s not data. It’s not conclusions, or information, or description. Everything is a living knowledge. And as a living knowledge, it is constantly alive, new, fresh.
And that is learning—not learning about it, not learning from it. True openness sets the view—the view of observation—to absolute freedom from any aim.
Traditionally, culturally, aimlessness is related to negative concepts: laziness, waste of potentiality, and so on. But right there, the lie is exposed.
You realize that aimlessness is the highest purpose, but not as you understand it. As it guides you. And it only guides you now.
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