If you see the self-contradictory in an ideal, then the actual thing that you see it, is a rational action

If you see the self-contradictory in an ideal, then the actual thing that you see it, is a rational action.

To be the contradiction present is therefore to clean the mind for the contradiction, and this is to act.

Meditation, or art of life, is to empty out the mind completely

The content of the mind is a product of time, of that which usually is called development and cultivation; it is a product of thousand experiences, a gigantic accumulation of knowledge, of memories; therefore an aspect of Man as a historical being.

The mind is in that degree loaded with the past.

The past is based on the images in time, both the personal, collective and universal images; the reservoir, from where we get all our belief and knowledge.

All knowledge originates from the past, all experience is the past, and all memory is the accumulated result of thousand experiences – this is the known, your perspective.

When it is seen, that the mind must be silent, then the mind actually becomes silent

When it is seen, that the mind must be silent, then the mind actually becomes silent

When you realize the truth that it is only the silent mind, which can see clearly, yes, then your mind strangely enough becomes silent.

It is as seeing a danger and avoiding it.

Because when it is seen, that the mind must be completely silent, then the mind actually becomes silent.

And if it then can listen without interpretations, without that your prejudices intervene in order to distort – listens as you perhaps listen to a bird, which sings, without commenting and giving a name.

There is no being if there is a struggle for becoming something

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 fairly obvious, that there is conflict in the world because there is ruling discord in ourselves

It is fairly obvious, that there is conflict in the world because there is ruling discord in ourselves; a discord which shows itself outwards in society, in the Ego´s, and the other´s, activity.

Our images of life are filled with contradictions; that is to say: the Ego with its competitive lust and anxiety, and the other, which can be the ideal about living without conflict.

Herein there are a lot of mutual contradictory wishes, goals and initiatives.

If we are aware of this tension, we can in ourselves see how mutual contradictory desires, opposite assumptions, ideas and goals, move in separately directions.

When the thinking in philosophical sense projects itself as the past and the future, the mind is becoming absent

The thought is necessary on some levels, but when the thinking in philosophical sense projects itself as the past and the future, and produces anxiety as well as secureness, the mind is becoming absent, and the inevitable result hereof is unreality, emptiness, boredom and ennui.

So in philosophical sense the thought must rest, so that the anxiety in existential sense can stop.

The clarifying function in philosophical counseling is pointing towards a self-forgetful dimension

The clarifying function in philosophical counseling is pointing towards a self-forgetful dimension, the wholeness of the observer and the observed.

It goes beyond the intra-psychic, and claims that it is in the self-forgetful dimension that the real formation happens.

Rather than personal development, you here focus on human/spiritual growth as a wholeness.

The thought-activity is a process towards reaching conclusions, and therefore the thought is never free

The Ego is memory, the many conclusions; and the thought is the reaction of the memory.

The thought-activity is in this way always a line of conclusions, or the process towards reaching conclusions, and therefore the thought is never free, it isolates itself.

It might sound as a cognition-psychological exercise, but it is all based on time and its images.

That which is finished is subject for renewal, while that which continues is of time

Our common everyday thinking is a self-producing way of thinking, it is the whole of the mind´s stream of words, images, feelings, sensations, intuitions, inner monologues, comments, logical reasoning, memories, plans, etc. etc.,  - which all are about becoming something and achieving something, and which therefore is controlled by the will to power.

This way of thinking is not renewing itself, but is repeating the same themes again and again, because it is not completed, not finished.

It is the eternal recurrence of the same, where you preserve the thoughts in a linguistic form.

The experience of the meeting in the unreal life is characterized by, that emptiness and loss slide in between

Where the experience of the meeting in the unreal life is characterized by, that emptiness and loss slide in between, and create reflections, displacement and darkness, then the experience of the meeting in the real life is characterised by fulfilment, middle and light.

Shortly said: by creation itself.

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 whole of life is contained in each moment

As Kierkegaard said, then the moment is the atom of eternity.

Every moment is a challenge, something new, a unique presence, an eternal Thou, who speaks to us, and calls for us.

There is a crisis in the human life, when it meets the challenge in an incomplete way, when it doesn't listen.

It is absent in its historical background.

But we don´t want to see this as a crisis, and we close our eyes in order to escape from it.

That way we progressively become blind, and the crisis increases.

Why do we not commit suicide in a meaningless world devoid of both faith in reason and faith in God?

Why do we not commit suicide in a meaningless world devoid of both faith in reason and faith in God?

What will you as a Life Artist do when you ask this question?

It can´t be asked by people, who have arranged themselves comfortably with familiar ideals, with a bit of money, and which are extremely respectable and mediocre.

If people of that kind at all ask questions, then they interpret them from their personal need of satisfaction.

But because this is a highly human, common problem, which affects all of life, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, why do we then live in this monotonous, meaningless way, go to the office, work in a laboratory or in a factory in forty years, put a few children in the world, bring them up after absurd precepts, and then die?