Choosing is a part of the movement from the past, to divide, to say yes and no, to accept and deny

To be the movement of time present in passive listening - the thinking, which projects itself in philosophical sense - is not an option.

Choosing is a part of the movement from the past, to divide, to say yes and no, to accept and deny, accentuate and exclude, to remember and throw out projects, to produce self-images and world-images - the whole of the historical being of Man, the thinking´s philosophical activity.

To Man himself there isn´t a special Western or Eastern way of thinking, but the individual creates these divisions

The division of human beings, in for instance Westerners and Orientals, is only geographical determined and entirely random.

It has no essential importance. Whether we live east or west for a certain border, whether we are brown, dark, white or yellow, then we all still are human beings who are suffering and hoping, fearing and believing: there is unhappiness and happiness here as well as there.

There is not a special Western or Eastern way of thinking when it comes to Man, but the individual person creates these divisions on the basis of his background, which is limited by the images of time.

An openness-variant of meditation implies, that you omit judging yourself or others as good or bad

A so-called openness-variant of meditation implies, that you omit judging yourself or others as good or bad.

You don’t judge.

You wait forming yourself a certain opinion and instead you direct the awareness towards the consequences of what is happening.

You have for example made a mistake, but instead of branding yourself because of what you have made, you examine the consequences of the mistake, and what can be done to reduce the adverse effects.

Don´t think about, what you ”ought” or ”not ought” to do, what is ”right” or ”wrong”, ”just” or ”unjust”.

You rather ought, as well as you can, to concentrate about doing what the situation actual requires, use the existent possibilities and act in a way, which feels natural.

Suicide is an irrational action

Suicide is an irrational action; it is an action which clearly shows that you have reached a point where you are so isolated, where your identity is so fragmented and without wholeness, that you no longer feel that you belong here, where you are shut away from, or shut inside, without belongings, place and living space, and where there seems to be no way out.

But does there actually occur anything in life, in any human relationship, which you can´t find a way out of?

Meditation as an Art of Life is a downward movement, a foundation of ground connection

In Meditation as an Art of Life you first release yourself from the personal images in time, secondly from the collective images in time.

Herewith you give energy and life back to reality and presence.

You can also say that it is a downward movement, a foundation of ground connection, a being with weightiness and grounding.

When you have lost the Now´s unmoveable being, you are absent in time and opposites

The images of time (both universal, collective and personal) are form-formations of energy, a kind of matter, and they occur both in your body and around you in the movement of nature.

Matter is energy and energy is the movement in nature, an outgoing movement and a back-movement.

This double movement implies some universal laws of energy, which primary purpose fundamentally are to create balance in the Wholeness.

When you have lost the Now´s unmoveable being, and are absent in time and opposites, your energy will build ifself up in wavecrests, which therefore must break in troughs of the waves.

It will swing out in extremes, which will be balanced through contra-balances.

It will invest the life-challenges in past reaction-patterns, and leave behind situations unfinished.

It will build ifself up in inappropriate pulse beats, move outwards, circulate and return to its starting point.

In the consciousness´ identification with thinking and time, the Ego is created

In the consciousness´ identification with thinking and time, the Ego is created.

And the Ego uses the negationpower of time to make resistance.

The resistance consists in problematizing life itself by comparing with earlier and hoping, desiring or fearing something else.

And in this evaluation-process the Ego splits up the universal images.

It identifies ifself with one pole in a pair of opposites, for which reason the polar partner is expelled.

In this dividing process the collective and personal images arise, and herewith all the disagreements.

Our language is reflections of the universal images in the great vision of the creation

Our language, all our fictional productions, is reflections of the universal images in the great vision of the creation.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, then a library therefore is a magical room with a lot of bewitched spirits.

They wake up when we call them.

When we open a book an esthetic occurrence is happening.

Because we are parts of the movement of time - which with it´s images both flows through us, and around us in nature - then the same book changes, as we changes.

The text itself is after all also the River of Time, or Heraklit´s River.

Language is in that way an esthetical creation.

When you have negative feelings for other people, then try to think about people, who really have shown you love

When you have negative feelings for other people (or life itself), then try to think about people, who really have shown you love, your mother and father, your grandmother or grandfather.

Then let the heartfeeling arise in your heart, so that you are being filled with gratitude.

Open your heart and let the love flow out and expand towards people whom you have negative feelings for, or towards life itself.

The simple life is a life, which our consumer-society will sneer of

Every exertion of the will (ambition, project, concentration) is in the meditative art of life inappropriate.

It´s therefore the wisdomtraditions always have recommended the simple life.

It is in connection with this, that you probably will meet the first big obstacle in your meditative quest.

The simple life is namely a life, which our consumer-society will sneer of.

In a consumer-society the ideal life is a constant growing consume-capacity, and therefore a life where you all the time have to be future-oriented and in progress with new projects.

So if you seriously want to go in depth with the meditative art of life, but don´t feel you have the time for it, that your life don´t allow you to relax your will and your projects, yes, then it is necessary that you take your life up to consideration.

Either you begin to simplify your life – which can imply big changes – or else you continue as always.

What we mean about consciousness, is, on a superficial level of the mind, the thinking´s process

All motives, intensions, desires, pleasures, misgivings, inspirations, longings, expectations, sorrows, joys, are within the area of consciousness, but all this is a movement in the thinking.

What we mean about consciousness, is in this way, on a superficial level of the mind, clearly enough the thinking´s process.

Problems continue exactly as long as we from an idea from the past, are hoping to solve it in the future

Problems only exist in time; that will say: when we meet a challenge in an incomplete way.

This incomplete meeting with the challenge creates the problem.

When we meet a challenge partly, fragmented, or try to escape it – that will say: when we meet it without being present – then we create a problem.

And the problem continues exactly as long as we are the problem absent in past or future, as long as we, on the background of an idea from the past, are hoping to solve it in the future.

Whatever the philosophical counselor says, is not a doctrine, a creed, a therapy, or an attempt of persuasion

Whatever the philosophical counselor says, is not a doctrine, a creed, a therapy, or an attempt of persuasion.

Either the guest and the philosopher meet in an understanding of this, or they don´t meet at all.

And if the guest doesn´t wish to put questions to his images of life, to his preconceived conclusions, yes, then the person neither is suitable for philosophical counseling.

Don´t just give answers to your images of life – investigate 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.

Without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content

The mind, in which is the brain, the thoughts, the feelings, and any subtle emotion or fantasy, is, according to the Buddhists, an extraordinary thing.

All its content doesn´t create the mind, and yet without them the mind is not.

The mind is more than what it contains.

Without the mind the contents would not be; without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content, just like that it is the emptiness in a pot, which makes possible, that it can contain water.

The contents exist because of the emptiness.

The intellect - the thoughts, the feelings, all consciousness - have their existence in the total emptiness of the mind.

A tree is not the word, nor a leaf, branches or roots; the wholeness of them is the tree and yet the tree is none of these things.

Love is not geographical determined, it is not hold in honour on one continent, while it is denied on the other

Love is not geographical determined, it is not hold in honour on one continent, while it is denied on the other.

When individual persons in this way divide mankind, it is often because of economical reasons or ideological beliefs, and it happens with the purpose of exploitation.