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.

Consciousness is a characteristic of Man, both as history, rationality, desires, nature and relationships

Is it possible for the mind altogether to empty itself for its historical limitation?

The mind has many layers of images, both personal, collective and universal.

The so-called consciousness consists of these many layers of images, and there is an intercommunication between these layers, all the layers are dependent of each other and influence each other.

The whole of the consciousness of Man is not only a process whereby something is experienced, but also whereby something gets name, is designated and stored as memories.

Consciousness is therefore not only a characteristic of Man as a rational being. It is also, on various levels, a characteristic of Man, both as history, desires, nature and relationships.

Self-knowledge is the virtue in answering the above question.