The Importance of Purposeless Practice

I asked the master whether I could ask him a question. He said yes but when I started there was this sudden flow of questions like water. They were all about the nature of vexations, life and death. After some hours it was past midnight and these questions became intolerable. The next day the whole world was fresh as if I were seeing it for the first time. Then he goes on to say in the practice of meditation it is not possible to see the nature that is to come to awakening. Through willing it or even intending it you have to let go into purposeless practice. If there is a purpose the discriminating mind is active and the ego is present. You just work hard on