The past or the future sucks life out of the present

You can either be absent in the bygone or the coming time.

The past or the future sucks life out of the present.

Memories, plans or projects are transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

The thought makes ifself independent in relation with your reality, and it becomes the whole of reality.

The unreality in this consists in, that you then only really exists in the hope about a richer future, or in the dream about a lost past.

The consciousness can´t be separated from a human´s actions

The consciousness can´t be separated from a human´s actions.

But often the consciousness keeps itself outside them, so that it can achieve a feeling of continuation and endurance.

And it is especially this isolating process - the Ego - which the Life Artist is seeking to understand.

Self-knowledge is the virtue of art of life.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life

When there no dreams are, then the consciousness can enter deeper and deeper down into itself; that is to say: into life itself.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life, that there is displacement between the thinker and life itself.

But when there no disturbances and displacement are, and the body during the sleep is very calm, when the mind is quiet, you will, when you wake up, find, that you haven´t dreamt, but that a renewal has taken place, a renewal, which constantly takes place, because there all the time is ending.

This renewal is the creation, the source of life, because you in the silence rest in the middle of life itself.

Far the most people confuse their perspective with reality

When the mind is quiet you begin to gain discrimination, the ability to discriminate between the known and the unknown.

The known is your perspective on yourself and the world, it is your self-image and world-image, which originate from the images of time.

The perspective distorts reality, because everything you see, is your own perspective, the known, the image.

You don´t see reality itself, truth or the unknown.

Far the most people confuse their perspective with reality, the description with the described, the word with the thing, the map with the landscape.

As a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking

As a Life Artist you must 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.

Any decision, which is defined by a choice, exposes a person, who is confused

Any decision, which is defined by a choice, exposes a person, who is confused, who is unreal and absent, who places himself outside and creates reflections, displacements and darkness.

A person who is in the middle of his own existence, experiences on the contrary a presence of something obvious, something the individual has a clear understanding of.

Such a person´s mind doesn´t choose, there is only the power of action and decisiveness.

The lack of clarity, and therefore reason, arises when there is a division between the observer and the observed, and there slide emptiness and loss in between.

To see and feel without dividing, choosing, ruling and controlling, is the act of love

This act, to see and feel without dividing, choosing, ruling and controlling, is the act of love.

The ethical life is this act, and all life is this act.

The real life is the being where you are one with yourself, with life and love.

You are in the middle of the stream of life.

When the thinker places himself outside the thought, the problem will continue

Most people think that the thinker is separate from the thought – and it is precisely this, that all the images in time, all the theories, ideas, religious persuasions, political ideologies, etc., are based on.

But when the thinker places himself outside the thought, the problem will continue.

However if the thinker is the thought present in passive listening, then this will be a presence of something, which not is hidden.

It is a presence of something obviously, something you have a clear understanding of.

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

And herein you will become released from the source of all problems.

In the unreal existence the actions of Man come to rest on ignorance; that is to say: prejudices

In the unreal existence the actions of Man come to rest on ignorance; that is to say: prejudices, inclinations and demands.

And it results in absence, and therefore suffering.

In this way the human existence becomes a friction, a conflict, and herein there is no reason.

The being of Man includes both the state of the mind and the conduct of life, logos and bios.

But the Ego is formed by an interaction between the activities of the mind (demands, prejudices, inclinations) – and the hindrances, which the challenges of life create, and therewith you have the unreality.

Is it possible to be death present in passive listening?

What is death?

How can you find out without that it only is a belief you adopt?

Is it possible to be death present in passive listening, not another's death, but your own death?

It demands that you don't identify yourself with something, what of course is very difficult.

Most of us identify ourselves with our furniture, with our house, with our wife or husband, with our government, with our country, with the image we have of ourselves, and we identify ourselves with something greater – the world-image, which perhaps is a tribal feeling that expands to embrace the nation; or you identify yourself with a special property, a special image.

A problem arises when the thinker distances himself from the Now by comparing and desiring

In the Now there are no problems, only facts, existential conditions.

A problem arises when the thinker distances himself from the Now by comparing, wishing etc.

The thinker slides off from the Now´s facts.

And the Now´s facts, seen from the thinker´s perspective, the past and the future, thereby become a problem.

Something of the most difficult is to communicate with another person

We must linguistically communicate to each other, that is obvious, but it is for instance Martin Buber´s intention to show, that we can communicate on a much deeper plane; that is: not only linguistically, but in solidarity, where two parts meet on the same plane with the same intensity, with the same passion; only then there is real solidarity, and that is much more important than sheer communication.

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 life Artist 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 Life Artist is a philosophical rebel.

The Life Artist is a philosophical rebel

The Life Artist can´t accept handed down truths.

You must begin to be critical, inquiring and discovering.

But you can nothing examine 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.

Can the old be awaiting, and in this way make it possible for the new to occur?

Can you, as a Life Artist, without interpreting the present reality on the bases of the past´s conditions, observe the reaction in a new way, with an open mind?

Can something else than the old react?

Can there be a space between the old and the new reality?

Can the old be awaiting, and in this way make it possible for the new to occur?

These are the questions of the Life Artist.

When things become a requirement for your psychological and existential wellbeing, they get an all-important meaning

When the things only are of physical necessity for you, you limit them reasonably; but when they become a requirement for your psychological and existential wellbeing, they get an all-important meaning.

Being aware of that is to understand the satisfaction of your senses and your desire for lust.

If you want to understand the true, you must break away from such bonds.

In order to be able to break away from this desire for lust, you must begin with observing the needs you are familiar with, and in this is lying the right basis for understanding.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something

The conscious effort, the will to understand and create, to accumulate, the will to become something, is a continuation of the past, perhaps modified, but still a continuation.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something.

When we conscious strain in order to understand and create, it is the noise of our own accumulations we hear, the noise of all the life we have sucked out of the present and into thinking and time.

And it is this noise that precisely hinders the understanding and the creation.

The goal of the Life Artist is to go into an investigation of the turbulence of the mind

We try incessantly to become this or that, to achieve a special condition, to get one kind of realization and avoid another, and in this way the mind is eternally occupied by something, namely the Ego.

Constantly the mind is in action: thoughts, feelings, sensations, arrangements.

Always the consciousness has something in mind.

Always the mind is in progress with changing, making plans, commenting, remembering, creating images, and throwing out projects.

Both the German Idealists, Nietzsche, the Existentialists and the Marxists, took this restless, or ”creative” turbulence of the mind, as a presumption they didn´t investigate further.

The goal of the Life Artist is - in opposition to them – to go into an investigation of this turbulence of the mind, and find out what happens if it stops.

That to be interested in something, is not the same as self-assertion

That to be interested in something, is not the same as self-assertion.

We can add to the word ”self-assertion” multifold meanings.

In art of life self-assertion is based on becoming something, and therefore anxiety.

But if a boy for instance is interested in becoming an engineer, because he is inclined towards raising beautiful buildings, to create wonderful bridges, to build excellent roads, then this is because he loves that act; and that is not self-assertion.

It is an expression of what he is, and therefore there is no anxiety.

In love there is no anxiety.

The thinking becomes, when it identifies itself with me and my, time-binding

What you as a Life Artist must study, understand and neutralize, is the Ego´s time-binding characteristic, which identify itself with the memories.

Strong demands, especially the lustful, is about achieving something for the Ego, and it is the memories, which gives ”me and my” an identified continuation.

The thinking, which always is in motion, always streaming, becomes, when it identifies itself with me and my, time-binding, and gives identified continuation to memory, to the Ego.

It is this memory - which always grows and increases - you must give up.

What you overlook in the process of analysing yourself, is the analyst

What is it you overlook in the process of analysing yourself?

What you overlook is the analyst.

The analyst is your perspective on the analysed, and the desire in this perspective is the desire after achieving something, being something, acquiring something, being something else than what you are.

Therefore you overlook, that the analysis becomes a means with the purpose of changing what you are to something else.

What you are, the fact, the existential condition, becomes in other words a problem.

You are not able to be one with yourself.

This is clearly enough what happens when you analyse yourself.