Emptiness and loss have to do with, that you compare challenges with earlier, and desire or fear something else

In order to be able to get an image to disappear, you must first find out how it arises; and you see, that if you don't react sufficient to any challenge, it will leave an image.

This is because that emptiness and loss slide in between the challenge and the reaction.

The emptiness and the loss have to do with, that you are absent in past and future, and compare the challenge with earlier, and hope, desire or fear something else.

Therewith you have made the challenge into a problem. And it is the problem, which creates the image.

Propagandists are using an instrumental usage of language on human relations

Neither the religious, nor the temporal propaganda, speak about truth.

Propagandists are using, as Habermas expresses it, an instrumental usage of language on human relations, where it actual only should have been used on technical problems.

They relate to humans in a strategic and controlling way, rather than the understanding way, which characterizes a communicative usage of language.

Only in silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself

Awareness consists in, that you observe neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no.

Passion consists in feeling deeply and incisively, without seeking to achieve anything with it.

In the passive listening presence you are letting the thinking be in calmness in longer periods, you are letting the space between the thoughts expand more and more.

Only in this silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself, layers which have to do with the images of time - your perspective on yourself and the world – and which, through this voyage of discovery, open themselves from the personal, to the more collective and universal, and finally, to reality and truth.

An insider in society is an outsider in relation to life itself, while an outsider is an insider

Krishnamurti said, that it would be wise to retire in the age of 40 or 45, or even younger.

Not in order to enjoy the fruits of what the world can offer, or what you have gathered of wordly things, but retire in order to find yourself, to think and feel deeply, to meditate and discover reality; because then you would actually be able to help the world in quite another way, because you not are identified with it.

An insider in society is namely an outsider in relation to life itself, while an outsider in relation to society, is an insider in life itself.

Words have neurological as well as psychological meaning in accordance with your culture

The mind is pieced together by words and associations of thoughts, images and symbols, that are manifestations of the common human structure of belief and knowledge, which the images in time constitute.

The evaluations originate from this historical background.

Words such as God, love, Socialism, Communism, duty, necessity, etc. have an extremely important role in our life.

Words have neurological as well as psychological meaning in accordance with the culture in which you have been raised.

To a Christian some words and symbols have immensely meaning, and to a Moslem some other words have an equivalent vital meaning.

And the evaluations take place within this area.

Don´t just give answers to your images of life - go into an investigation of them

To leave out your images of life doesn´ t mean, that you throw them totally away, but that you see the relative in them.

This also means, that you not just shall give answers to them, but that you go into an investigation of these images themselves.

Language must be made transparent in presence and reality

That the mind must disentangle from language is not equivalent with that language must stop.

Language is necessary.

But in order to, that our usage of language can be precise, logical and clear, there must be a non-linguistical sensation, which carries it.

It must be made transparent in presence and reality.

When language is made transparent it works from the universal images, and therefore synthesizing and healing.

When the whole of consciousness is free from the self-producing becoming – the immensely can reveal itself

The mind can only be in peace when it doesn't experience anything; that is to say: when it doesn't determine and name, register and store anything in memory.

It is not only the upper layers of the mind, which all the time name and register, it is all the various layers of consciousness.

But when the superficial mind is silent, the deeper mind can send up signals.

And when the whole of the consciousness is silent and in peace, free from the eternal self-producing becoming - this shutting itself away from life - when there is spontaneous openness for, and self-forgetful being one with life itself, not until then will that, which cant be measured, reveal itself: the new and unknown.

In philosophical counseling you make a very profound and serious research

It is very important in philosophical counseling - unless you will be content with communicating linguistically - that you also make make use of another kind of communication.

This is first possible when the guest has realized the relative in his images of life, and is ready to go from having some images of life, to having a philosophical life-practice.

In the counseling you make a very profound and serious research, and therefore the guest and the counselor must be connected, both in and beyond the linguistic communication.

There must be solidarity, what implies that the topic of discussion is of great importance for both the guest and the counselor, that it concerns them both, and that they study it with love; that is to say: with a passion for understanding it.

What Man identifies himself with, is always the self-projected, whether it is the highest, the state, or the family

Your world-image is inseparable connected with your self-image. The self-image manifests itself as a certain perspective, so that everything you are seeing, is your own perspective.

The world-image is a projection of yourself, only you divide yourself from it, in the formation of the Ego.

What Man identifies himself with, is always the self-projected, whether it is the highest, the state, or the family.

The identification is, regardless on what plane it takes place, a process of the Ego. Identification with the greater is still a projection of the small, and reverse.

What you identify yourself with, when you identify yourself with the greater, is the idea.

The idea is the Ego identified with for instance God or the state.

But such an identified action only creates more discord, larger confusion, distress and misery.

You must become aware of how you react to the challenges of life

Relations can be seen as a philosophical sparring partner.

And this will be to use the communicative reason.

The relationship is namely a medium of self-exposure, because the relationship is to be. It is the actual life.

Without relationships we don´t live.

In order to be able to understand yourself you must therefore understand the relationship.

You must become aware of how you react to the challenges of life, and for instance write it down in the philosophical diary.

Human essence is an appearance-form of the Now. Why? Because the essence in the human life is meditation

Only meditative-existential you can be in the Now.

The passive listening presence is meditation.

Meditation is to see completely with the heart and the mind; that is to say: with the whole of your essence. The human essence is therefore meditation.

Meditation is the self-forgetful openness for, and absorption in life itself.

The meaning of life is therefore to express the human essence.

Human essence is therefore an appearance-form of the Now. Why? Because the essence in the human life is meditation.

Total existential presence in the Now is meditation.

The essence is therefore one and the same with the existence; and this realized oneness is precisely meditation, or the wholeness of the observer and the observed.

Usually there is displacement between sense stimulation, expression and action

You have for instance had a sexual feeling of lust; later you think about the lust in images - in the image language of the thought - and precisely because of this expression - the thought-activity in images – the lust increases.

At the same time you perhaps, surprised or offended, are observing your lust; the action then consists in, that on the one side you are seeking to endulge yourself in the lust, on the other hand you relate doubtful, astonished, offended to your own feeling.

When the lust is opposed there arises pain, anxiety, jealousy, annoyance, anger, brutality.

All this doesn´t mean, that you must not have lust, the problem is the displacements between sense stimulation, expression and action.

Can Man be so present in passive listening, that he can think when it is necessary, and when not, be silent?

The thought must be active when you are doing something. The thought is a necessity so that we can do no matter what technological work.

In order to, that our actions can be clear, we must think clearly, objectively, without letting us be carried away by moods; without prejudices and preconceived opinions.

It was this, the enlightenment philosophers understood by the reason.

But we also know, that the thought produces human problems, fear and anxiety, and that this anxiety will hinder us in acting effectively.

The question is then, whether you as a Life Artist can act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent?

Can you act with afterthought when it is necessary, and when it is not, let the thought rest?

In fact it is rather simple.

Can Man in that degree be so present in passive listening, that he in the awake condition will think and act when it is necessary, and remain awake whilst he acts, so that he neither falls asleep, or works pure mechanical?

The mind, which is silent, and not made silent, always experiences this silence

The mind, which is silent, and not made silent, always experiences this silence.

Then the thought, the word, is within the silence and not outside it.

The mind is in this silence completely in peace, and it is a silence, which isn´t shaped.

Since silence isn´t saleable, doesn´t have any value on the market, and isn´t saleable, it has a quality of purity and alonebeing.

This being alone is not the unhappy loneliness.

Time will not be able to solve human problems, because such precisely originate from time

The future is always a becoming. The present is therefore never seized, though the understanding exclusively is lying herein.

You can´t be present in the Now through the thinking´s past and future.

This you only can meditative-existential; that is: when you are yourself, and the surroundings, present in passive listening.

As long as there is a becoming something, there is conflict and anxiety, and becoming is always the past, which uses the present to become something, to control and form: an expression of the will to power.

In this process of becoming Man becomes caught in the net of time.

And time will not be able to solve human problems, because such precisely originate from time.

We want to deduce a result of a problem. In this way we begin to tackle with the problem

We dont know how we unprejudiced can observe a problem.

We want to deduce a result of the problem, we want an answer, we have set us a goal when we seek to solve it; and we try to interpret the problem from our joy or pain; or we already have an answer to how the problem can be treated.

In this way we begin to tackle with the problem, which always is new, and treat it from an old pattern, our images of life.

And in that way we are the problem absent, we are outside it as theorists, and then you have the opposition between the observer and the observed.

And this is to have your identity in an absence.

If you are your images present, you can observe them clearly without keeping them or pushing them away

Always the image originates from that, which has happened in the past.

If it is a pleasant image, we cling to it. If it is a painful image, we want to get rid of it.

In this way the desire arises, the will to power: the one image we want to keep, the other we want to reject.

All this brings along conflict.

But if you are all this present, you can observe it clearly without keeping it or pushing it away, without commenting, prioritising or sorting, only observing and feeling, and then you yourself can find out what it is all about, then you don't live as shown by some psychotherapist, priest or politician.

Everybody lives within his own web, my in mine, the others in theirs

Everybody lives within his own web, my in mine, the others in theirs.

But will there ever be a possibility for breaking through this web, just like the butterfly, which breaks out from its cocoon?

This web, this cloth, this case, is language, and it consists of your worries for your own person, and the others for theirs, your wishes contrary to theirs.

This capsule is language, and language is the past, which have with personal and collective images in time to do.

The web consists of all this.

It is not one defined thing, but a whole heap, which the mind is carrying.

I have my burden to drag on, the others have theirs, and in such a way we ramble through the world, alienated to each other.

Can these burdens ever be put away, so that the mind meets the mind, the heart meets the heart?

This is the actual question of the Life Artist.

  

Dreams are an exposure of anxiety, which has to do with the separation of the observer and the observed

How can you as a Life Artist understand the meaning of dreams?

If you are the dream present in passive listening it will uncover its meaning.

Dreams are an indication, an exposure of the deeper motives and intentions; the anxiety, which has to do with the separation of the observer and the observed, or different said: with your self-image and world-image, the discrepancy between idea and conduct of life.

Deeper than personal and collective images are the universal images lying, what Sri Aurobindo called vision-logic

Deeper than personal and collective images are the universal images lying, what Sri Aurobindo called vision-logic: language which no longer is verbal, but which is superior, visionary syntheses and wholes, that work more in synchronism with the Now, than in sequences in past and future.

From this plane originates the world-images, the superior universal systems and paradigms: philosophical, scientifical, religious-spiritual and cosmic world-images and mappings.

These are linguistical refined, highly abstract, stratospherical or ionospherical levels of language and systems of reference, but however still linguistic structures and interpretations.

However they are in their original form not human made, and there is in Indian philosophy many discussions about whether they are expressions of the actual divine unmanifested source, or whether they lie somewhere between the unmanifested and the manifested.

They probably correspond to what the Western philosophers have called unmoved matter.

They are the thoughts of God.

The feeling and the name happen almost at the same time

The dangerous in language is, that it also contains feelings.

When you describe something, then the feeling usually is not different from the description.

The name awakens the feeling.

The feeling arises where the mind´s description and the body meet.

The feeling is the reflection of the name in the body.

The name creates a build-up of energy in the body.

It is this energy, which is the feeling.

And most of us intensify feelings when we describe something.

The feeling and the name happen almost at the same time.

The Ego consists of many creatures with different masks and perspectives

To live in self-contradiction is to live in discord and despair.

In the Ego´s own structure there is contradiction.

The Ego consists of many creatures with different masks and perspectives, and they are all in opposition to each other.

The Ego´s whole build-up is a result of mutual contradictory interests and values, and of many widely different wills to power on multifold levels of its nature; and these wills to power grow separately their own opposition.

If you are your reactions present then this presence brings the inner contradiction to cessation

If you are your reactions present when you for instance are sitting in a bus, when you speak with your wife, your husband, when you are on the office, are writing, are alone – then this presence - this action of seeing and feeling with the whole of your being - brings the inner contradiction to cessation; then there no longer is any division between the observer and the observed, there is no inner spectator, doubter or calculator; likewise there isn´t any disproportion between challenge and reaction, between the action and its occasion.

If insight can change the brain, then insight must be beyond the brain

Some people say, that there nothing is beyond the brain. The materialists.

But if insight can change the brain, then this is implying, that insight somehow is beyond the brain.

This doesn´t have to be something mystical.

If an alcoholic is having the insight, that he must stop his abuse, and actually is stopping, then this insight is affecting his brain cells. And this insight must therefore be something different than the brain.

Please, go deep into this question.

The danger of wrong spiritual practice is that the past, or future, can suck life out of the present

What happens in, for example, a LSD-trip - which many people see as a gateway to spiritual dimensions - is, that the consciousness draws more and more energy, and more content, in from the collective images.

The danger is that the past, or future, can suck life out of the present. The memories can in higher and higher degree be transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

The same can happen in the so-called Kundalini Yoga, and through Pranayama breathing exercises.

Meditation is, as I understand it, with reference to art of life, the opposite movement.

And by the way I believe, that this is a fact concerning all spiritual practice, when practised correctly.

A Dream Master helps you to synthesize and interlock, what your inner thinker in the waking state has divided

When you have trained meditation and Dream Yoga in many years, a so-called Dream Master can visit you through a symbol.

Such a symbol is a telescopying, a representing quintessence of the informationquantities, which the wholeness in a universal image contains.

The Dream Master will in that way canalize information to you from the universal image, which, together with the whole of the universal vision, constitutes the dreaming tracks and songlines in the artwork of your life.

The Dream Master will in that way help you to compose, to synthesize and interlock, what your inner thinker in the waking state has divided.

This is truly Dream Yoga.

If you know where you are going, you will never enter the unknown

The journey to the Moon, or to Mars, is an objective journey, you know where you are going.

But in philosophical counseling, where the journey goes inwards, you don´t know where you are going.

Therefore there is uncertainty and fear.

If you know where you are going, you will never enter the unknown, and you will therefore never be the real human, who discovers what the timeless is.

You can only observe violence clearly when you become aware, that you tighten what you see together with images

As a Life Artist it is important to pay attention to, that when you for instance observe violence, then you often try to justify it, as you say that violence is a necessity if you shall live in this barbaric world, that violence is a part of nature.

Why do you do that?

You are used to observe in this way, to condemn, justify, or to make resistance.

But you can only observe violence with fresh eyes, and an open mind, when you become aware, that you tighten what you see, together with conceptions about what you already know, your own perspective, individual as cultural, and that you therefore not are observing it in a new way.

As a Life Artist you must start with freedom

Where shall you start as a Life Artist?

You must start with freedom.

When there is freedom there is love, devotion, where you in presence give yourself away with the whole of your identity, where you are self-forgetful engaged in the situation.

This freedom and love will show you when you shall co-operate and when you shall not co-operate.

It is not a choice you make, because the choice is a product of confusion and irrationality.

Love and freedom is therefore an expression of clarity and reason.

The prompting gets the mechanism of discovery to function

If your real interest not yet has become awakened, and if the prompting to find out is present, then you will find out, not by constantly seeking after an answer, but to be inquiring, clear and warm in your prompting.

Then you will see, that when you are awake, there is a sharpened attention in which you receive any hint from the hidden interest, and that dreams also play a part.

In other words: the prompting gets the mechanism of discovery to function.

To finish thoughts, so that they can end and renew themselves, is equivalent with meditation

The instance, which is using the past to preserve the thoughts in a linguistic form, is the inner thinker, who reacts to challenges by dividing, evaluating, comparing.

To finish thoughts, so that they can end and renew themselves, is therefore equivalent with ceasing to preserve them in a linguistic form, which again is equivalent with meditation: that, to let the thoughts rest in longer periods of time, to let the space between them expand in passive listening presence.

It is as simple as that.

When it only is images, which are facing each other, there is no human relationship between you and the others

As a Life Artist you could ask yourself, whether you ever have looked at other people without the images you have formed of them - images you have pieced together through many years.

You have formed an image of other people, and they have formed an image of you.

When it only is these images, which are facing each other, then there is no human relationship between you and the others.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking. But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory. It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen

Consciousness is the way in which we think. And also the way in which we feel. It is the way in which we look at the trees, the ocean, the way in which we observe other human beings.

And as Man develops from child to full grown, his mind gradually becomes warped, or it stiffens in a particular pattern.

It is this development, which do, that we gradually begin to place ourselves outside life itself.

As desirous beings we want something, we are burningly longing after it, we desire to become something, and this desire leaves a particular pattern; that is to say: our mind produces a pattern, and is thereafter being caught by it.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen. Herewith the reason, the clearness, is lost; life is sucked out of the present, past and future are transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

Our vitality, and urge to live, are reduced; they crumble, they dissolve.

Self-assertion and interest are two different things

If you really are interested in, for example, painting, then you love to paint, you don't compete with others in order to become the best, or the most famous, painter.

You simply love to paint.

Perhaps there is another person who is a better painter than you, but you don't compare yourself with this other.

When you paint, you love what you do, and in you this is enough.

You are one with what you are, you are fully and completely existing, and the important is present and real.

To be critical is equivalent with revolt in philosophical sense

As a Life Artist you can´t accept handed down truths.

You must begin to be critical, inquiring and discovering.

But you can´t examine anything if you inwards are afraid.

To be critical is equivalent with revolt in philosophical sense, and that will say to create a new world.

The Life Artist is a philosophical rebel.

What you are coming up against is the politicians, who don't want us to revolt, because they want to control us, they want to model and form us, so we can fit into their ideological patterns; and as long as that is happening, life will remain being a torment.

What you concentrate on, is accentuated by the expense of something else

Concentration is the nature of the will to power, and it is the thinking, which concentrates itself.

Something is accentuated by the mind, is being brought in focus, something else is excluded, steps in the background.

Concentration is a choice.

What you concentrate on, is accentuated by the expense of something else.

It is a kind of isolation and exclusiveness, reserve.

The only thing the pleasure of loafing requires is a creative emptiness, a life enjoyed as it is lived

The philosophical refined pleasure in the art of loafing is something, which costs much less than the lust of luxury.

The only thing the pleasure of loafing requires is a creative emptiness, a life enjoyed as it is lived. 

Play without reason; travel to see nothing; a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner – these are the kind of activities that redeem the art of living from the business of living, which also Henry David Thoreau has shown in his Walden, where he describes his life in the woods, retired from the world´s ups and downs.

Silence is not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will

The awakened silence in the mind is something, which the separated superficial mind never can see.

Silence is therefore not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will.

Silence comes when you understand the whole structure and beginning of life, and know what it is to be alive.

Silence has with life-feeling, spontaneity and self-forgetfulness to do.

No more than we can place ourselves outside life, no more can the thinker place himself outside the thought

When the thinking is seeing itself as something passing, in constant change, it produces the thinker as a constant entity, as separate from the thought, different from it.

Then the thinker works in on the thought, divides, accepts and denies, accentuates and excludes.

But all the time there is only the thinking.

No more than we can place ourselves outside life, no more can the thinker place himself outside the thought.

It is an illusion, a self-deceit.

The present intensity is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory

The present intensity, which the Buddhists speak about, is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory.

It is something, which flushes through the brain.

The brain is here only an instrument, and it is the mind, or the nature of the mind, which is this timeless expansion, this exploding intensity of creation, where everything is middle, fullness and is lying in light.

This light radiates both from the brain, and beyond the brain.

This seeing and feeling are not only in the brain, but also beyond the brain.