Some kind of will to power is always the cause of conflict

You must try to become clarified about your thought-process.

Therewith is meant that you in your daily life must seek to be your will to power - and its miserable consequences and results - present.

When you realize the difference between the natural need and the will to power, then the right basis for your thinking is formed.

Some kind of will to power is always the cause of conflict, to unscrupulously national hate and masked brutality.

Unless you understand and get grip of your will to power, you will never be able to understand the reality, which is transcending all struggles and sorrows.

You must begin with yourself as a communicative being; that is to say: with your relationship with things and to your fellow men.

Self-assertion is a kind of self-interest which makes the mind mediocre

Self-assertion is a vice.

Self-assertion is a kind of self-interest, where everything turns around the Ego, and therefore makes the mind mediocre.

To live in a world, which is controlled by self-assertion, without being self-assertive, means, truly, to love something for its own sake, without seeking a reward, a result; but this is very difficult, because the whole world, all your friends, your relatives, struggle to achieve something, to accomplish something, to become something.

The thought can´t enter the unknown, and therefore it can never discover or experience reality

Kant was right, that the thought is forming, modifying, coloring in compliance with the pattern of experience.

The function of the thought is to communicate itself, not to be in the experiencing condition.

When the experience has gone, then the thought takes over, names it, and places it within the known´s categories and forms of experience. Therefore Kant discriminated between reality in itself – ”Das Ding an Sich” (the things in themselves) – and the reality as it appears for us – the world of experience or phenomena ”erscheinungen” (the things as sensed appearance); that is: our perspective.

So, the thought can´t enter the unknown, and therefore it can never discover or experience reality. The thought is a result of the known, of our perspective, which is time as such, and therefore it can´t embrace the unknown, the timeless, that, which can't be known.

It is the desire after more which gets you to accept or believe something, and it leads to illusion

In accordance with the Buddhists it is immensely easy to lead yourself behind the light, to convince yourself about anything. The feeling of, that you shall become something is the beginning of the deception, and this idealistic attitude leads to multifold forms of hypocrisy.

What does the illusion consist in?

Yes, one of the factors is the eternal comparison between what you are and what you believe you ought to be, or could be – (you are evaluating the good and the evil and the distance between them) – the thought that is trying to improve, the memory about a lust, which is trying to achieve more of this lust, etc.

It is this desire after more, this dissatisfaction, which gets you to accept, or believe, something, and it must inevitably lead to any kind of deception and illusion.

It is the anxiety and the desire, the despair and the hope, that are projecting the goal, the conclusion you want to experience. Therefore, this experience has no presence and therefore no reality.

When you have become what you desire, there immediately comes a new desire

The philosophical becoming is the factor that makes the daily life a torment, a competition, an extensive conflict: the philosophical striving after becoming something more, which we find in the priest, who wants to be bishop, the disciple, who wants to be master, etc.

In this becoming there is a positive or negative striving; and that is the fight for changing what you are to something else; the fight in order to control and form truth, happiness and reality; the fight that makes one or the other thing into a foundation of life.

You say: ”This is what I am, and that I would like to become!” But this becoming generates a series of conflicts. When you then have become what you desire, there immediately comes a new desire, and that way it goes on indefinitely.

That is due to, that you still are in a state of becoming, and don´t know how to go into being; the problem of Marcel in Proust´s In search of Lost Time.

You must go from just having some images of life, to having a philosophical way of life

The question about whether Man can be changed from the ground, is a question which affects the whole of your being; it includes observation, truth, beauty, love.

And these are in philosophy as an art of life something else than words, they are something you directly experience and are in.

The Philosophical Globetrotter must find a way in which you can live so that they become reality.

You must go from just having some images of life, personal or collective, to having a philosophical way of life.

It is herein the philosophical revolution is lying. In that sense the Philosophical Globetrotter is a philosophical rebel.

The vast majority think, that it is unavoidably that you become historical limited

The vast majority think, that it is unavoidably that you become historical limited.

Against this you can put the question about, whether there at all are anything, which is unavoidably – except death, perhaps; whether the inevitable process not is a thought-process.

In philosophical counseling there is neither answered yes or no.

On the contrary, the guest is being encouraged to be this inevitable process present in passive listening. And this presence is not mechanical.

But if the mind on the contrary is the thought-process absent, either conscious distancing ifself from it, or unconscious being absent in it, yes, then it becomes mechanical.

There is a difference between the individual person and Man himself

What am I, as a human being?

Is there nothing else but this ego, which most of us consider as the most important in Man?

If you look philosophical at it, there is a difference between the individual person and Man himself. The individual person is a located being, who lives in a particular country, belongs to a particular culture, a particular religion.

Man, on the other hand, is not a located being. Man is everywhere.

To be in the Now can´t be something mechanical

What will it say to be in the Now?

It can´t be something mechanical. It can´t be weighed down by the whole of this weight of knowledge, of tradition - that is to say: it is a mind and a being which really from the ground are free – free and without anxiety.

It has with life-feeling, spontaneity and self-forgetfulness to do, an openness for own and therewith also all others´ being, a being where being and reality fall together, where you live with, are included in something which happens, where the other fills you out, where you become drawn into, and are melting into in a unified wholeness.

As long as we don´t understand the will to power, there will necessarily rule conflict

The images in time, both the personal and collective images (therefore the whole of mankind´s storeroom of belief and knowledge - the Akashic Records) are the common human structure of consciousness, the recognition-processes which form the inner calculator, the Ego, which is driven by the will to power.

And as long as we don´t understand the process of the will to power, where it works from our belief and knowledge, there will necessarily rule quarrel, conflict, sorrow, and humans will be turned against humans – and this is after all what we every day are witnesses to.

If you therefore as an Idler realize - that is to say: if you are enough aware - that this process forms yourself from a belief, as an expression of the desire for inner safety, then your problem isn´t that you should believe this or that, but that you should disentangle yourself from the desire after safety.

Can the mind then disentangle from the wish for safety?

This is the problem, and not what you should believe, or how much you should believe. That would only be an expression of the urge for philosophical safety; that is: being convinced about something, when you don´t have any philosophical life-teaching and practice, and everything else in world is uncertain.

Memory isn´t able to maintain the light-wealth of eternity

When you see the thought-process, the process it is to become something, the will to power, when you really are it present, without feeling tempted, without making resistance, without justifying or condemning it, then you discover that the presence is able to receive the new, and that the new never is a sense impression; therefore, it can never be recognized or re-experienced.

When Dante - after his laborious journey through Hell and the Purgatory finally has reached Paradise, and is looking into the light-wealth of eternity - then his sight is rising so high that language can´t contain it, nor is the memory able to maintain the observed.

Dante compares it with the one who has a sight in his dreams and later doesn´t remember anything: only an imprint of the feeling in the dream is left, a dripping of the sight´s sweetness in the heart.

It is not only on the conscious plane you shall listen, but also on the hidden plane

To be present in passive listening without that there is any inner calculator, will say, that you look at your partner, your children, without having any conceptions about them.

A conception is perhaps of superficial kind, or it is lying dwelling, deep down in the subconscious. And in the Life Artist it is not enough to listen to the conception you have pieced together outwards. Also the conceptions you have innermost you must be aware of – your conceptions about the race, about the culture, the historical perspective in the conception you have about yourself.

So, it is not only on the conscious plane you shall listen, but also on the hidden plane, deep in yourself. In all the most distant corners of the mind, there must be created a listening presence.

Love can only arise when the Ego is not present

The main character in In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust  - the main character, Marcel, is seeing the things around him in the light of his projects; that will first of all say his love affairs. When his being in love has faded away, the things appear meaningless and ordinary. It is a nihilistic moment in the same way as in Albert Camus´ novels. It is the entrance of the labyrinth.

On the one hand these reactions are an expression of Man as a natural being, on the other hand they are also an expression of the historical limitation of Man, and therefore the instance, which under various forms makes it possible for the Ego to continue. The historical limitation is time and its images, the perspective you have on yourself and the world. The Ego is this historical limitation. The Ego is therefore a philosophical ego.

In such a process, there can´t be any openness, devotion and love.

Love can only arise when the Ego is not present.  

When the Ego is not present, then Man, and the Otherness, can fill each other out. This happens in the devotion. True love is devotion, where you in self-forgetful openness give yourself away with the whole of your being.

That is the reason why the Philosophical Globetrotter must understand the whole of the process of mind, which is the thinking´s process: the labyrinth.

Understanding the labyrinth is the guiding force which will lead you to follow the thread back.

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is truly an ethical life

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is truly an ethical life. It means that you have discrimination, and don´t pull your perspective down over others. But it doesn't mean, that the old is deleted, but that there is introduced a completely new dimension, where you are the old present in passive listening, where the old so to speak is made transparent in being and openness.

This is the necessity of  ruins, showing a traveling universal image in time:  the way of the ancestors.

You can also say, that where the old before was characterized by personal and collective images, which worked in sequences in past and future, then the old now is characterized by universal images, which work in synchronism with the Now.

It was this Karen Blixen described as the ancient, the original, and which she always was seeking as authenticity, autonomy, possibility, freedom and adventure. It is a return to the Now, to the timeless eternity.

It is the end, the beginning; following the thread back, back to the beginning.

As Rabindranath Tagore said: ”The light is young, the eternal ancient light; the shadows are a brief moment´s matter, they are born aged.”

What it is about for the Idler, is to look destiny in the eyes

Man, as a natural being, lives in a challenge-reaction relationship.

What it is about for the Idler, is to look destiny in the eyes; that is to say: to become your reactions present in passive listening; to observe and feel them completely with the heart and the mind; to observe them neutral as in a mirror without saying yes and no; to feel them deeply and incisively without seeking to achieve anything with it.

Shortly said: to omit dividing your reactions in likes and dislikes, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant.

That´s the call of destiny.

At the very moment you divide them, you become the reactions absent, you relate doubtful, evaluating or offended to them. And then you don´t understand them.

All our relationships largely build on image-formation

It is clear that a human relationship, which rests on various fate-weaved images of life, never can be peaceful, because these images of life is fictional and you can't live in an abstraction.

And yet this is what we all do: we live in ideas, in theories, in symbols, in conceptions we have created about ourselves and others, and which haven´t anything with reality to do at all.

All our relationships, in respect to property, ideas or people, largely build on this image formation, and therefore there is always conflict. 

That´s the labyrinth with the tortuous path and the shadowside.

Without passion, there can´t be created, and everything goes in dissolution

Passion is the strict simplicity of self-forgetfulness, in which there is no ego, that places itself outside life. 

That´s the secret of soulful travel, the glorious journey, the splendid prism of love, and the traveler´s lamp.

Therefore, passion is the innermost essence of life. It is that which is moving, creating and living. But when the thought introduces all the problems – to acquire, have and preserve – then passion ceases.

Without passion, there can´t be created, and everything goes in dissolution. Precisely what happens in society today.

The wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced

The nature of the mind is the emptiness in which the things of the mind can exist, but the things are not the mind.

Because of this emptiness time and space begin to exist.

The brain, and the brain´s things, can cover an entire field of life; it is occupied by multifold problems. But the brain can´t catch the nature of the mind, because it only functions in division; logical analyzing in the one as different from the other, emotional evaluating in sympathy and antipathy, ethical in good and evil, religious in holy and profane, sexually in gender, the reality in the observer and the observed.

None of these parts can produce the wholeness. And yet the brain is occupied by putting the many contradictory parts together in order to produce the wholeness. Just like the thoughts the brain functions philosophical.

But the wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced. The sacred circle would in that case be broken.

Unreality can both consist in being absent in, on the one hand, possibilities, on the other hand, in necessities

If you say, that it is impossible to change human beings, who have been as they are through thousands of years, you have already blocked for yourself, you will not go ahead, you will not ask and investigate. But of course, it can also be problematic purely and simply to say, that it is possible, so that you only live in the world of possibilities, and not in the world of facts.

Unreality can both consist in being absent in, on the one hand, possibilities, on the other hand, in necessities.

In relation to possibilities, and what you are, unreality consists in absence from the given, for instance that you deny, or expel, the conditions of existence, wrapping yourself in illusions, in idealizing or romanticizing life.

In relation to necessities unreality consists in absence from that which could be different, for instance a denial of potentials.

Possibility without necessity leads out in the world of fantasy. Necessity without possibility, or necessity, which spoils possibilities, leads to, for instance, fatalism, philistine narrow-mindedness. 

All this leads the reluctant pilgrim to the labyrinth and the tortuous path with the shadowside and the dragons of dissapointment.

Each experience leave marks, which are accumulating day by day, and they become the images of time

We constantly have many experiences. Either we are conscious about it, or we are not aware about it.

Each experience leaves a mark; these marks are accumulating day by day, and they become the images in time.

The images in time are weaved by the reactions. They are answers to the challenges and questions of existence. Someone offends you, and at that very moment you have created an image of this other person. He is evil. Or a person is flattering you, and again an image is created. He is good. In this way, any reaction inevitably creates an image.

The question of the Life Artist becomes whether it is possible to erase it, after it has been created?

When we understand that the word not is the real, then the mind has released you from the word

When we understand that the word not is the real, that the description not is the described, the explanation not the explained, then the mind has released you from the word.

If you have created an image of yourself, then the image is pieced together by words, by thought-activity – the thought is the word.

You think about yourself as large, small, skilful, or as a genius, or whatever – you have an image of yourself.

This image can be described, it is the result of a description. And this image has the thought created. But the description, the image, is not the reality.

Anxiety is anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat

Anxiety is to have your identity in an absence, in the constant becoming something.

In this self-production there is no being. Anxiety is therefore anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat. The uncertain threat paralyses the identity, precisely because it is uncertain. The inhibition in the anxiety is lying in the paralysation.

Because the identity is paralysed in the anxiety, it is suspended. The hold, the grip of the world, which the identity is, is suspended. Anxiety is therefore an experience of an identity crisis. The whole of the situation is paralysed, and the space narrows around you.

As a Philosophical Globetrotter, you must therefore study the whole structure of the thinking, and see what place the thought has, see where it isn´t a necessity, and only then you will discover, that the mind functions in a reasonable way, both when the thought isn´t active, and when the thought has to be active.

Your ego creates the calculator, the dreamer, the doubter, which place itself outside yourself and your surroundings

Your personal history is the thinking´s past and future as a whole, your self-image and world-image moving from past towards future, as well as all the experiences, conclusions, values, norms, ideals, theories, speculative conceptions etc., which are manifestations of this history.

They are also symptoms of the will to power in this history, the desire after becoming something, to control and form happiness, truth and reality.

In other words, they are symptoms of the self-production, the production of your ego, the whole of this idea-complex, which creates the calculator, the dreamer, the doubter, which place itself outside yourself and your surroundings.

And they are symptoms of the consequences of this process: the disappointments, the guilt, the sorrow, the bitterness, the anger, the resistance, the anxiety, the hope, the despair, the unreality, the absence.

This process, the process of unreality, which so excellent has been described by various authors, for instance in Camus´ The Stranger, Baudelaire´s The Flowers of Evil, Dostojevskij´s Notes From an Underground, Kafka´s The Castle.

Also in the art of painting you can see it depicted, for instance by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso.

In philosophy as an art of life it is in the inner calculator the only revolution can take place

The question for the Idler is whether you can neutralize the inner calculator – not the inner center for a certain desire, a certain lust or longing, but the whole structure of the desire, of longings and of hopes, which always bring along the anxiety of becoming disappointed. The more disappointed you are, the more you strengthen the Ego. The Ego is the one who says: ”It is no use with me!”; or: ”Wonderful me!” Both the denial, and the confirmation of the Ego, continues the Ego-process. 

It´s The Roads of Longing. But it is also The Labyrinth with The Dragons of Dissapointment.

As long as there is hope and longing it is always on the background of anxiety, and the anxiety strengthens the inner calculator.

In philosophy as an art of life it is in the inner calculator the only revolution can take place, not on the surface, which only diverts the awareness from the actual.

A radical transformation only takes place in the present, in that to be in the Now

The present, the Now, is of greater meaning than tomorrow.

In the Now all time is present, and to understand the Now is to be free from time.

Time and sorrow is continued in becoming something. There is no being in becoming something. To be is always now, and to be is the highest form of transformation.

Becoming is nothing else than modified continuation of the past, it is the eternal recurrence of the old, and this recurrence is the absent.

A radical transformation only takes place in the present, in that to be in the Now. But there is no being if there is a struggle for becoming something. The struggle for becoming something, the will to power, is the absent, and herein there is resistance and denial, desire and resignation.

It is not interesting for the Philosophical Globetrotter to know the peripheral conflicts in your nature

Philosophical seen it is therefore not interesting for the Philosophical Globetrotter to know who you are in a certain conflict, to know the peripheral conflicts in your nature; their content.

What you want to know is why there altogether is conflict.

When you ask yourself this question, you see a fundamental problem, which nothing has to do with the peripheral conflicts and their solutions. It is this central problem, which is important. 

And what you see is, that the actual nature of the desire, if not fully understood, inevitably must lead to conflict.

A mind which is silent can see the problems much more directly and simple

How can the mind be completely empty? 

The intellectual would probably claim, in order to defend his theories, that an empty mind is the same as being in a condition of apathy, idiocy, or what he might call it, and he would probably react instinctively by disclaiming this condition.

But a mind which is extraordinary silent, a mind which isn´t being distracted by its own thought, a mind which is open, can see the problems much more directly and simple. It is in other words immensely reasonable. And it is this ability to see our problems - without in any way letting yourself be distracted - which is the only solution for the Life Artist.

A silent mind, a mind in peace, is a requirement.

It is necessary that you as an Idler ask yourself the question about what you are interested in

We use ourselves over ability by doing things, which basically don´t interest us. And at the same time, we have still not found out, what we seriously are interested in. We haven't discovered what our real interest is, and we feel a fundamental disappointment, bitterness, or perhaps rather guilt: the feeling of not having accomplished our possibilities, the feeling of lack of life-unfolding and unlived life, and the annoyances over this.

It is necessary that you as an Idler ask yourself the question about what you are interested in. Not what you ought to be interested in, but what really absorbs you.

More and more people become interested in finding out. And it is really important that you, with yourself, find out, in which direction your interest goes.

Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being

Action as we know it, is in reality a reaction, it is an incessantly effort with the purpose of becoming something; that is to say: a denial of, an effort of avoiding what you are.

When you try to avoid what you are, then this is because you confuse the Now´s fact with that problem, which the thinking´s past and future thinks the fact is. This is an unreal condition, a feeling of loss and emptiness, of insufficiency. And that is precisely what you are, the lived despair.

But when you are the emptiness present without choosing, without condemning or justifying, then the understanding of what you are will imply action, and this action is the creative being.

To stop becoming something is to stop accumulating in philosophical sense. Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being. The mystics call it a kind of death. The Stoics trained themselves in being present in the Now by philosophizing over the meaning of death in their lives. To philosophize became in that way, in the Stoics, a way of learning how to die. An example of this is the Stoic Horace, the man behind the expression ”Carpe diem!” (Seize the day!).

All thought-activity is the historical limitation´s action and reaction

Man – the body, the nerves, the mind – is limited by the climate he lives in, by the whole of his social, religious and economical environment, by his experiences, the education he has got, by family influences and the demands, which have been given to him.

All these are factors, which limit Man historical. Our conscious and subconscious reactions to all the influences of the environment – intellectual, emotional, outside and inner – these reactions are, each and every one, actions, which emanate from our historical limitation.

Language is historical limitation; all thought-activity is the historical limitation´s action and reaction.

What happens if the thought is quiet?

Words are, for most people, the foundation of life, and therefore their existence is superficial and empty

Saint Paul writes in his second letter to the communion in Corinth, that: ”the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive”.

Through centuries mankind has got descriptions in with spoons by their teachers, their authorities, their books, their saints.

Mankind say: ”Tell us everything – what is there beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?”, and they are satisfied with their descriptions, what means that they live of words, the word is their foundation of life, and therefore their existence is superficial and empty. They are the living dead. They have lived in what has been told them, either guided to it by their inclinations and their desire, or forced to accept it by circumstances and environment.

They are a result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in them, nothing, which they themselves have discovered, nothing original, innocent, clear.

     

It is the eternal recurrence of the same.

Polar partners will, in their extremes, switch over in the opposite extreme

The more you, through the Ego´s evaluations, isolate the parts of wholeness from each other, the more the abandoned parts will work stronger and stronger on their polar partners.

Therefore, these polar partners in their extremes will finally switch over in the opposite extreme.

     

Another aspect of this lawfulness, or another way to describe this lawfulness is: energy returns to its starting point. This is also called compensatory karma, and the lawfulness works as wave movements and pendulum movements.

And since everything in this way only work correlative, yes, then, as the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna claimed, we actually can´t say anything about the wholeness, only about the parts.

Therefore, he called the wholeness the Emptiness (´sûnyatâ) – a teaching, which had one quite determinate purpose: the neutralization of all the dogmas, theories and viewpoints, which ignorance has created. 

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality.

Is it not the brain´s function to seek safety? Of course, it is the brain´s function to seek safety. This is something natural.

But there happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality; when it says: ”This is mine, that is yours”.

And then it is not at all safe, even though the movement is due to a quest for safety.

What is important for the Philosophical Globetrotter is not that which should be, or that which could be

What is important for the Philosophical Globetrotter is not that which should be, or that which could be, nor what principle you ought to follow, what kinds of ideals you ought to have, or to what religion, or what political party, you ought to belong to. It is clear, that all such reactions altogether are meaningless when you are facing the confusion, the need, misery and continual conflict, in which we live.

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent.

Identity, for example, you can have either in an absence or in a presence.

And if you have your identity in an absence, you can very well say, that you are a result of a line of challenges and reactions.

But the thought about challenge and reaction is, for the Idler, much more composite, and has a communicative character. You are not only challenged within a certain area, but from life as a wholeness.

And what you are is due to the way in which you relate to yourself.

We are not able to perceive directly and immediately without symbols

The mind seems to deny seeing things directly, to be them present without the word and the symbol.

     

You for instance say, that the sky is blue. The one who hears it, interprets it from the conception he has about blue and reproduces it to you in his own code.

In that way, we live in symbols, and dreams are a part of this symbolic process. We are not able to perceive directly and immediately without the symbols, the words, the prejudices and the conclusions.

The reason for this is clear enough: It is a part of the self-centred becoming something, the will to power with its defence, resistance, escape and anxiety, and where you shut yourself away from life, are getting absent in evaluations and analyses, and where emptiness and loss slide in between, create reflections, displacement and darkness.

In this unreal state, reality can only communicate itself symbolic.

The symbol is a telescopying, a representing quintessence of the wholeness, the informationquantities, and the greater clarity, which is connected with reality and presence, but which the absence can´t contain, because it splits, shuts itself inside, or shuts itself away from.

If your conscious mind is aware, the subconscious mind can find an answer

We can reach to clarity over the underlying conscious and subconscious activity, if we give the subconscious mind a chance, because it is much faster in reacting than the conscious mind.

If your conscious mind is aware, and in silence is thinking and observing, the subconscious mind is much more actively awake and much more receptive; therefore, it can find an answer.

Is there any problem when you are the problem present in passive listening?

A central theme in the philosophical life-practice is whether there at all is any problem when you are the problem present in passive listening; that is to say: when you observe it incisively, very closely.

That will say: you can only observe the problem closely, incisively see wherein it consists, when you in self-forgetful way are one with the problem, when the observer is one with the observed.

And then there no longer is any problem, because then there is no reflections, displacements and darkness between the observer and the observed, but on the contrary a presence of something, which not is hidden, a presence of something apparently, something the individual has a clear understanding of.

It is a presence of something straightforward, a presence in naturalness.

To understand consciousness, means philosophical, that you speak about the perspective of Man as such

To understand consciousness, desires and thinking, means psychological, that you speak about the contents of the observed, and the contents of the thoughts in the individual person, and that you take a psychological perspective on the observed and the thought.

To understand consciousness, desires and thinking, means philosophical, that you speak about the perspective and self-production of Man as such.

You direct the awareness towards the observer and the thinker, rather than towards the observed and the thought, towards the form of consciousness and thinking, rather than towards its content.

And the subconscious has here to do with absence and unreality; that is: the separation of the observer and the observed.

The ideology of needs distorts the human nature

We always want something else than what is necessary in order to cover our daily needs.

It would perhaps be enough for a human being to get a bit of food, a few clothes and a small room to stay in; but we want something else. We want to become a famous person, have a position in the society, have power, prestige, to be God´s chosen, to experience that our friends think high thoughts about us, etc. The whole of the modern management and coaching industry is based on, that all people ought to think in that way.

The problem is difficult, because the inner desire after being the richest and most influential human being, the desire after becoming something, only can be fulfilled through the possession of things, food, clothes and shelter included.

You cling to these things in order to become rich inwards; what will say: to be free and independent in psychological and existential sense. Therefore, you become unhappy when you can´t get what you want, or when you lose it.

Most of us are so eager after solving a problem without investigating it deeply

Most of us are so eager after solving a problem without investigating it deeply.

In order to be able to investigate deeply, you must have energy, intensity, passion; but most of us are indolent and lazy – we want another to solve the problem for us.

But none other than ourselves will in depth be able to solve a single human problem, whether it is of conceptual, political, religious, ethical or existential character.

You must have more than a little vitality, passion and intensity, in order to be able to be the problem present in passive listening, and then, while you observe and feel passively, the answer is there, quite clearly.

It is completely central for the Life Artist to investigate the nature of experience

It is completely central for the Life Artist to investigate the nature of experience, the way in which you can observe, listen, see.

As a Life Artist you must try to find out, whether it at all is possible to see with more than just one side of your being: sight, intellect or feelings.

Is it at all possible to observe very closely, without that there happens a distortion?

For the Life Artist it is worth the effort to investigate this.

What will it say to see? Can you observe yourself, observe what you in reality are: desirous, envious, worried, fearful, hypocritical, deceitful, self-assertive – can you quite simply observe this without distorting it?

Merely to get information or knowledge is not to learn in philosophical sense

The function of the mind is to investigate and learn.

To learn in philosophical sense doesn´t only mean to cultivate the memory, or to accumulate knowledge, but to learn to think clearly and rational without illusions, to start with facts and not with beliefs and ideals.

When the thought originates from the conclusion, you learn nothing.

Merely to get information or knowledge is not to learn in philosophical sense.

To learn in philosophical sense includes love of understanding, and doing a thing for its own guilt.

The movement of time consists of two movements, which we could call the outgoing movement and the backmovement

The movement of time consists of two universal movements, which we could call the outgoing movement and the backmovement: future and past, creation and destruction.

These two movements are reflected throughout the Universe in a multiplicity of different lifecycles: they are Samsara´s  wheel of up-cycles which are followed by down-cycles and vice versa (for instance life and death, success and fiasco, joy and sorrow) - all this which is lying behind the law of Karma and rebirth.

This Universe is for instance considered to be a reincarnation of a past Universe, in the same way as a human is being considered to be a reincarnation of a past existence.

Existential movement gives life colour, or it is life in its colour-richness

The happy movement is characterized by that awareness and being go together.

Existential movement gives life colour, or it is life in its colour-richness.

It is life-giving, or it is the identity in its life-giving form.

Movement creates light in the identity, gets it to light up.

There is in it an energy, which is spreading as liveliness in the identity.

It is the flowering of the essence of Man.

The movement is so to speak a radiance of life.

It is the thinking, which has been transparent in being: self-forgetful thinking