Hi Durwin ..... Pattye
This is really a reply that encompases what each of you have brought to the table on this topic. First, I must say, to me this is a very exciting topic to see on this forum. It goes right to the heart of the matter and even touches on Ken's recent talk with i-u students concerning translation and transformation.
Pattye ... imo, you are on the money in seeing the relationship between this "Discipline without seeking" and "That which is always, already present". That is because any notion of "seeking" must come from a mental position of finding something that is missing and "That which is always, already present" cannot by definition be missing. So, to seek is to already miss the mark.
Durwin ..... What you intuit relates to the Discipline aspect of the formula. And wonderfully so I might add. To seek to take action in each moment from a place of maximum clarity (to paraphrase your description) is free from many of the trappings of more traditional instructions, but perhaps not available to most individuals caught up in the reactionary patterns of cultural conditioning. The form of discipline you describe, in my experience, arises naturally as an evolution of any spiritual discipline practiced and held with the attitude of "non-seeking". Therefore, even your proposed form of discipline would be subject to missing the mark if there is an element of discovering something new to be added to your way of being.
inmmho, it is a matter of subtraction not addition. Even to seek to find and bring into your practice an attitude of non-seeking is to seek. The most important instruction is to always start from where you are already; from where else could one start From this place simply turn the focus of awareness to all the ways in which you are seeking. Do not add anything else to that awareness, no condemnation, no affirmations to change ... nothing. Just see into it as thoroughly as awareness will penetrate and let the inherant (sp?) intelligence of true nature to do what it will.
That is all the time I have this morning .... I hope to find some time this Saturday to return to the topic of translation/transformation on the "frothy edge" forum and will relate what I am saying here to that question.