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Non-Intention And Being One With The Flow
People often talk of the flow. It has been called the Tao. Many who strive for awakening, or enlightenment, or Tao, or whatever u want to call it, work to remove false notions of self. There's one problem. They keep intentions. And, you may have no notions of self, but if you have intentions, you are serving the function of self, whether or not you believe in it. The flow, the Tao, the all, can have no intentions. Only a fragment, a self, can have intention. So it doesn't matter if you call it self. It's inherently a function of self. So, I say drop this intending that merely functions as an outlet for the self to continue functioning. Just do. I can't tell you what to do. Just do. Follow your instinct. Just do what it naturally feels like you should do. Just surrender to the flow. If you surrender to the flow, and lose intention, how can you lose? How can you go wrong? There is nothing you were intending to do anyways, and thus you can't miss out on anything.
Through losing intention, you are inherently one with what is, without asserting any self-created ideas about what it should be. And when you do this, you are inherently one with the flow, because the flow is what is, and if you are not asserting yourself, then that is what is left. It's such a subtle change from what comes before. Before, I said "By being nothing I am everything." Now, I say "By doing nothing I do everything." You see, those in search of this truth often speak of doing away with the doing, so that you can get to being. But once you get to being, you must begin doing again. This is the fullness of it all. Being is passive, doing is active. And yet, when you see the oneness, you see that doing is being. Thoughts, intentions, they merely take away from it. Simply be. And because you are, do. And because you do, you are. It's the flow of things.
Through losing intention, you are inherently one with what is, without asserting any self-created ideas about what it should be. And when you do this, you are inherently one with the flow, because the flow is what is, and if you are not asserting yourself, then that is what is left. It's such a subtle change from what comes before. Before, I said "By being nothing I am everything." Now, I say "By doing nothing I do everything." You see, those in search of this truth often speak of doing away with the doing, so that you can get to being. But once you get to being, you must begin doing again. This is the fullness of it all. Being is passive, doing is active. And yet, when you see the oneness, you see that doing is being. Thoughts, intentions, they merely take away from it. Simply be. And because you are, do. And because you do, you are. It's the flow of things.
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Therefore, dependent origination allows us not only to see "just manifestation" as in anatta, but also to see "manifestation" as the dynamic interdependent process of ungraspable, unlocatable, and empty (yet vivid, dynamically manifesting) activities. However, without anatta, without the utter and complete deconstruction and removal of the sense of self/Self, we will not be able to experience everything as the total exertion of all causal conditions. It is only when the sense of self/Self is totally relinquished that we can experience ourselves AS this causal process, without any sense of an agency or personality. Therefore, the insight and experience of dependent origination requires the full maturation of Anatta and No-Mind as a requisite.
Anatta and dependent origination are therefore linked, but not the same. You can realize anatta but not realize dependent origination, but you cannot truly experience and realize dependent origination without anatta (i.e. through dualistic and inherent thought or view). For example, normally we view ourselves as actors, and doers, of our bodily action and speech. We think we are a controller of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences. When we realize anatta, this doer, controller, perceiver, agent is seen to be false and illusory - there never was an agent. This makes it possible for us to penetrate deeper into 'how' manifestation occurs? At this point, an intuitive seeing happens - whatever manifests, manifests as an activity via causality, the sound of 'da da da' on the keyboard does not come from ME, they are not MINE, but the words formulating in the mind, leading almost instantly to a physical movement and action to press the buttons on the keyboard, leading instantly to a manifested auditory experience of the 'da da da' sound.... one seamless impersonal, interdependent and causal process of activities, manifesting upon the aggregation of causes and conditions, subsiding due to the fading away of causes and conditions. One cannot even say that the 'da da da' is the sound of the keyboard any more than it is the sound of the words formulating in my mind - it is just this single causal, impersonal process of activities happening without any agency or source (be it internal or external), happening entirely by causal aggregation."
http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2011/12/experience-realization-view-practice.html?m=1