In order to be able to do that you must be yourself present – not only wander absent through life

In order to be able to do that you must be yourself present – not only wander absent through life – but be present in that very moment, where there is a challenge, present with the whole of your being, as you listen passively with the heart and with the mind, so that you clearly see and feel what there is said – regardless of whether it is an abuse, or flattery, or an opinion about you.

You will then discover, that there not at all is any image.

Children´s nature is much more watchful, much more curious and eager to learn

Philosophy begins with, that human beings are wondering.

We all know, how curious children are.

Children want to know something and see much more, than the adults do, they catch sight of things, which the adults not even put notice to.

Children´s nature is much more watchful, much more curious and eager to learn.

They are lost in being.

It is therefore children have so easy learning maths, geography or whatever subject.

When we become older, our mind progressively becomes crystalized, it stiffens, becomes heavy and dull.

We stagnate.

We begin to have prejudices about everything and everybody.

The mind is no longer open, to any problem we have taken position in advance.

We are lost in becoming, or in the will to power.

There is only mutual connection with the observed when there isn´t any inner observer and calculator

Truth is coming when there is a non-linguistic presence, an observance and a love, which are without conclusions, without explanations, without words.

The inner spectator, theorist or doubter, are constructed by words, which again are manifestations of a self-image.

The Ego consists of explanations, conclusions, condemnations, justifications etc.

There is only mutual connection with the observed when there isn´t any inner observer and calculator, when you in self-forgetful way are open for, and engaged in, the observed.

Only then there is understanding, freedom from the problem.

Is there at all any conflict when you are yourself present, and understand what you are?

Can your mind stop dividing - by placing ifself outside, and being absent in ideals - and instead be yourself present, remain what you are?

Is there at all any conflict when you are yourself present, and understand what you are?

Both the denial, and the confirmation of the Ego, continues the Ego-process

The question for the Life Artist is whether you can neutralize this inner calculator, which is the Ego – not the inner center for a certain desire, a certain lust or longing - but the whole structure of the desire, of longings and of hopes, which always bring along the anxiety of becoming disappointed.

The more disappointed you are, the more you strengthen the Ego.

The Ego is the one who says: ”It is no use with me!”; or: ”Wonderful me!”

Both the denial, and the confirmation of the Ego, continues the Ego-process.

In order to discover the answer to a question, you must study the problem without formulating an answer

In order to discover the right answer to a question, you must in philosophical counseling study the problem without formulating an answer.

Life is here not seen as a line of conclusions, of one or the other explanation.

Life is seen dialogical as a line of challenges and reactions, or a line of questions and answers, and it is up to yourself, how you are answering.

This requires an immensely self-knowledge, which isn´t gained through tricks or gurus, but through yourself, in your own daily actions and thoughts.

If the mind can empty itself for the known, it is something completely new

Provided that the mind can empty itself for the known, for your perspective, your images of life, then it is something entirely else; then the mind is something new, and therefore, according to Taoism, immortal.

Passion is freedom from the Ego, the centre for all lack of fulfilment

In lust (which can´t be compared with philosophical refined pleasure) there always is an ingenious form of striving – there is seeked, hunted, requested, fighted – so that you can preserve it, achieve it.

In passion there is not the slightest lack of fulfilment, and therefore there can neither be disappointment nor pain.

Passion is freedom from the Ego, the centre for all lack of fulfilment.

Passion requires nothing, because it is.

When you are the situations present it is possible to reach beyond them

In order to be able to discover something, you must observe yourself, but not on the bases of a certain image of life, or a certain thought-system, nor from some certain political or religious viewpoint.

You must completely reject all this, so that the mind is free and is able to be aware of itself in relation with the society, in relation with ourselves, with our families, with our neighbour.

When you are the situations present it is possible to reach beyond them.

In order to see clearly there must be freedom from prejudices, conclusions, concepts, and ideals

In order to, that you in philosophical counseling can investigate something, there must be freedom so that you can see; that is to say: there must be freedom from prejudices, conclusions, concepts, ideals, preconceived opinions.

Only then you can really see, wherein your question, or problem, consists.

In creative emptiness reality and truth can be discovered, or received, it is one and same

Creative emptiness is the condition where the mind is completely released from your perspective, from images of any kind, and the ideas, symbols and conceptions, which are their manifestations.

The known has stepped aside for the benefit of the unknown, the beauty of creation.

Everything is new, unnamed, unformed, non-linguistic presence.

The mind is pure, fresh, young, innocent; completely open and receiving.

The mind is awake and the heart is open, awareness and love in one.

And in this creative emptiness reality and truth can be discovered, or received, it is one and same.

All opposites contain the seed to their own opposites

When we try to be something else than what we are, we cultivate the self-contradiction.

The anxiety of what you are grows the illusion about its opposition, and by striving after the opposite we hope to avoid anxiety, but this becoming something has no being, it is therefore the anxiety of nothing.

Synthesis is not, as Hegel claimed, the cultivation of an opposition; there arises no synthesis through resistance, because all opposites contain the seed to their own opposites.

Conflict arises because we cling to pleasant images and fight to avoid painful images

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: one image we want to keep, the other we want to reject.

All this brings along conflict.

But if you are all this present in passive listening, 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.

The task for the Life Artist is about discriminating between language and reality

The task for the Life Artist is about discriminating between language and reality.

The Dominican mystics call this steps discriminatio, the ability to discriminate between how the energy is used temporal or religious.

And despite what kinds of visions you may have, then it is still something temporal, or relatively.

The Orientals call it viveka, discrimination, the ability to use your will on that part of the energy, you can steer yourself, and steer it towards exercises, prayer, mantras, meditation, instead of towards career, worldliness, self-unfolding, as the self-help industry is teaching people to do.

The guest and the philosophical counselor must discover the answers together

The guest and the philosophical counselor must together try to find the answer to the guest´s question.

If the philosophical counselor gives an answer, it would not be the guest´s discovery; it would only be on the verbal plane, and therefore altogether useless.

The guest must be guided in how he himself can find it, and that will say that he must experience it; it is this, which is so important.

To discover is to experience, and the guest and the philosophical counselor must discover it together.

We know the memories about continuity, but the condition where there no continuity is, we don't know

Identity as some images of life, as experience, belief and knowledge, as a striving after becoming something, a will to power, a will to control, master, frame, no matter on what level, is hard to understand and bring up in the light.

We only know continuity, we have no knowledge about non-continuity.

We know the experiences, the memories about the continuity of the events, but the condition where there no continuity is, we don't know.

We call it death, the unknown, the secretiveness etc., and by giving it a name, we hope to be able to maintain it, which again is the desire after continuity, the permanent.

Meditative perception consists in, that you fully and totally exist; where you are what you are

Through the understanding of what it is to meditate, the Life Artist perhaps becomes able to obtain a complete perception of life, without any division and separation.

A perception which consists in, that you fully and totally exist; where you are what you are in progress with; where there are no inner spectator, theorist or doubter within you.