Searchless Projects
Searchlessness might seem prima facie incompatible with both short- and long-term projects. It is not. It is only incompatible with final projects.
Every project starts either as a whim (“I would like a lavender-honey ice cream cone tonight”) or as a gift (“if I made more money, I could fund the homeless shelter’s breakfasts for a year”).
Both of these occur in the present, and may self-sustain with recurrence for seconds, hours, months, decades.
What makes a project a final project is that it is comprehended as The Answer to The Problem. In the absence of a final problem, there can be no final answer, and so no final project to create the final answer to the final problem.
Powerful Directionality
If there is a project, the fundamental task is to unleash its full potential power. Here is a contemplation you may find useful.
Relax into searchlessness
Envision the project as-if already complete, with vivid sensory clarity, in all the senses
With the in-breath, breathe the felt-sense of the vision of the already-complete project into the whole body and into the entire world.
With the out-breath, let go of any felt-sense of problem in accomplishing the vision.
When the absorption has culminated, relax again into searchlessness.
This contemplation aligns the whole body and perception with the patterning of successfully completing the project, removing subtle friction that hampers powerful directionality.
New Directions
Searchlessness is fluid. There may come a time when a project no longer self-sustains with recurrence. As with the orientation of a sail on a sailboat when the winds change, the prior orientation has lost relevance.
Notice if you are equally at rest with having no projects, having short-term projects, and having long-term projects. Projects, like the wind, arise and dissolve of their own accord.
The above exercise is in allowing your sails to best catch the wind. Enjoy the free, purposeless exploration of the open sea, and all islands you may encounter there.