As a Life Artist you must push desire aside; the desire after identification with a person or an idea or a thing

As a Life Artist you must push desire aside; the desire after identifying yourself with a person or an idea or a thing.

This doesn´t lead to harmony, unity or love.

The question then becomes: can you break out of this frame?

How this shall take place in philosophy as an art of life, can´t be answered with a method, the answer rather consists in a voyage of discovery, which perhaps can open the door; just like Faust, who unwraps himself from Mefistoteles´ word-web, by making a journey through it, without knowing where it brings him.

When things are connected with existential necessity they take unnatural forms

The natural needs of our senses have their place, and when you understand them, they don't take the unnatural forms, which they get when they are connected with existential necessity; that is to say: a self-made necessity in order to be able to be alive, to exist, and to have an identity.

As long as Man lives in the corridor of opposites, he will inevitably waste his energy

If you, not as an abstraction, but actually, can push all ideals aside and only concern yourself with the facts – which is for example is violence – there happens no waste of energy.

As long as Man lives in the corridor of opposites, he will inevitably waste his energy, and in that way he can´t change.

You must therefore as a Life Artist sweep all ideals, all opposites, aside.

The mind, as we know it, has belief and knowledge as historical background. Could it change?

The question for the Life Artist is whether the mind can disengage itself from its own structure.

Can the mind empty itself for its own structure?

That is the problem.

The mind, as we know it, has belief and knowledge as historical background, is feeded by desires, wants, the desire after safety.

In this way the thinking sucks life out of the present and transforms knowledge and belief into reality, and reality into emptiness.

And in this way the Ego is made independent in relation to the individual´s reality.

In the one who is alone, life is timeless; in the one who is alone, there is no death

That which is alone is flexible and therefore persistent.

Only those who are alone can co-operate with that which is without cause, the immense.

In the one who is alone, life is timeless; in the one who is alone, there is no death.

The one who is alone can never cease with being, because alonebeing is life itself, the eternal flowing alonebeing of life.

The thinker´s destiny consists in being a result of his thinking

The thinker consists of his thoughts.

The self-deception is lying in believing, that there is a separate being, a thinker, which is of another kind than the thoughts he is thinking.

It is the thinking that has produced the thinker, given him continuance in the middle of the thinking´s inconstancy.

The thinker is the thinking´s refuge, and the thinker places himself on different planes of continuance. 

Thinking never belongs in the Now

To think is to remove the mind from the Now, the present.

The thinking is therefore the absent.

Only meditative-existential you can be in the Now.

You can say, that meditation is a quality of the Now.

In meditation - the passive listening presence - there therefore doesn´t exist any problems, only facts.

You only understand in the Now – not tomorrow and not yesterday – always in the Now.

In this way understanding is timeless.

You can't understand the next life and next year.

To think is to remove the mind from the Now.

To have your identity in an absence is to have your identity in your country

To have your identity in an absence is to have your identity in your country, your furniture, your images, your ambitions, your respectability, your race, your peculiarities and prejudices, your obsessions.

Through all this Man wants to discover truth, God, reality.

And because Man doesn´t know how he shall disentangle from all this, he invents something, an outside power, or he gives life a special meaning.

But this is precisely unreality and falsehood.

As a Life Artist can you ask the next question: whether Man ever can change radically?

As Life Artist can you ask the next question: whether Man ever can change radically, essentially, existential, so that he can observe the world anew, with other eyes, with another heart, a completely other mind, no longer filled with hatred, resistance, racism, but a mind, which is extraordinary clear and which possesses a mighty energy, that gives life back to the present, opens the heart and fills the existence with vitality, urge to live and joy of life?

It is not self-assertion when you do something, because you love to do it

It is not self-assertion when you do something, because you love to do it.

When you write and paint – not because you want prestige, but because you love to write and paint – it is assuredly not self-assertion.

Self-assertion occurs when you compare yourself with other writers or artists, when you want to distance them.

This would be the will to power, and the will to power is self-assertion.

But it is not self-assertion, when you do something, because you really love to do it.

This is passion. And passion is love.

The essence in being outside time is eternal present and is not able to be thought

If you choose to be in the thoughts you either are ahead in the future or behind in the past.

You either think about the past in memories, sorrows, traumatic bindings, bad conscience, associations etc., or you think about the future in plans, hopes, longings, wishes, conjectures, worries.

Totally seen then the thinking´s past and future produces the images in time, a perspective on yourself and the world, the source of unreality and absence.

The essence in being outside time is eternal present and is not able to be thought.

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

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.

Why do humans assume so many things?

Why do humans assume so many things?

In philosophical counseling you seek to make a voyage of discovery, and investigate without knowing anything; a voyage of discovery into yourself without knowing what is good or evil, right or wrong, what there ought to be, or what there should be, only making this journey without any pack.