Letting go of everything will lead you to having no purpose. The emotions wull be shut down and compassion will not exist as a result. The watcher is all thats left.
To let go of everything, to live with absolutely no attachments to life is possibly the most blissful and ecstatic life you could ever hope to achieve, for the reason that you will remove all the suffering you have in your life and most of the reasons to suffer. The purpose will simply be to see everything as it is, with total compassion, no judgements, no labels, no this is that way and that is this way, but simply seeing and experiencing the true essence, the true meaning of life, behind the clouds of your mind, behind the trance state that people seem to keep residing in.
Your emotions won't shut down, but you will experience the true meaning behind your emotions, you won't become your emotion, you will simply watch it, feel it, understand it, letting it flow in and out without attaching yourself to it. "Emotions are like waves, watch them dissapear in the distance."
If your purpose is to be unfettered then I'd suggest waiting for the physical experience to expire. There's no time once you pass this stage. Your purpose is to experience this physical world and learn its ways. I've been here for a long time and the Watcher state is a wasteful one. You can't undo that which is done, its true you can't do that which hasn't either.
Have a long hard think on this. Life is for living. It's so short too.
There's an age old saying that speaks volumes,
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Deep thoughts required.
I really don't think you get the true meaning behind my message, but if you haven't had the chance to experience the state of an absolutely silent and blissful state of mind I can understand you in a sense.
I've been here for a long time and the Watcher state is a wasteful one.
To dwell in the holy moment of now, is to dwell in a holy life. A thoughtless mind is the all-knowing mind, a silent mind is the most powerful mind, to be totally in the moment of now is to have total awareness, total compassion, laughter and tears for no reason, you're simply flowing with the universe in its true harmony, in one of the greatest possible states you could achieve in this life. To say that the watcher state is a wasteful state must be one of the craziest things I've ever heard in my life. Try saying that to someone who is trying to achieve enlightenment and look at the answers that you will receive. To achieve a totally silent mind is one of the most important things to learn and develop on your way to enlightenment. It's what Buddha and many great spiritual teachers was trying to teach. It's what meditation is all about, focusing on your breath and removing the clouds of your mind.
Have a long hard think on this. Life is for living. It's so short too.
There's an age old saying that speaks volumes,
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Deep thoughts required.
You're really confusing the state of a silent mind with something else, you can still experience those things, but you will experience them with TOTAL AWARENESS, tasting every bite that you take, smelling the air, hearing all the sounds, seeing every colour, every shape, totally conscious of all the actions that you make and not to keep operating by habit, not to keep dwelling in a trance, not to keep walking around in zombie like state, but being TOTALLY AWAKE!
I really suggest that you read those two books,
1. "BUDDHA, THE WORD" (The Eightfold Path)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/buddha2.htm2. "Be here now" By Ram Dass, an ex harvard psychology professor who became an spiritual teacher.
http://it.scribd.com/doc/6531720/Ram-Dassbe-Here-NowRead those, learn and experience their true message, their true meaning and hopefully you will understand my message.
"One thing and only one, philosophy.
But this consists in keeping the daemon within a man free from
violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing
nothing without purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not
feeling the need of another man's doing or not doing anything; and
besides, accepting all that happens, and all that is allotted, as
coming from thence, wherever it is, from whence he himself came;
and, finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing
else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is
compounded. But if there is no harm to the elements themselves in each
continually changing into another, why should a man have any
apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For
it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to
nature. This in Carnuntum." - THE MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS