Each experience leave marks, which are accumulating day by day, and they become the images of time

We constantly have many experiences. Either we are conscious about it, or we are not aware about it.

Each experience leaves a mark; these marks are accumulating day by day, and they become the images in time.

The images in time are weaved by the reactions. They are answers to the challenges and questions of existence. Someone offends you, and at that very moment you have created an image of this other person. He is evil. Or a person is flattering you, and again an image is created. He is good. In this way, any reaction inevitably creates an image.

The question of the Life Artist becomes whether it is possible to erase it, after it has been created?

When we understand that the word not is the real, then the mind has released you from the word

When we understand that the word not is the real, that the description not is the described, the explanation not the explained, then the mind has released you from the word.

If you have created an image of yourself, then the image is pieced together by words, by thought-activity – the thought is the word.

You think about yourself as large, small, skilful, or as a genius, or whatever – you have an image of yourself.

This image can be described, it is the result of a description. And this image has the thought created. But the description, the image, is not the reality.

Anxiety is anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat

Anxiety is to have your identity in an absence, in the constant becoming something.

In this self-production there is no being. Anxiety is therefore anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat. The uncertain threat paralyses the identity, precisely because it is uncertain. The inhibition in the anxiety is lying in the paralysation.

Because the identity is paralysed in the anxiety, it is suspended. The hold, the grip of the world, which the identity is, is suspended. Anxiety is therefore an experience of an identity crisis. The whole of the situation is paralysed, and the space narrows around you.

As a Philosophical Globetrotter, you must therefore 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.

Your ego creates the calculator, the dreamer, the doubter, which place itself outside yourself and your surroundings

Your personal history is the thinking´s past and future as a whole, your self-image and world-image moving from past towards future, as well as all the experiences, conclusions, values, norms, ideals, theories, speculative conceptions etc., which are manifestations of this history.

They are also symptoms of the will to power in this history, the desire after becoming something, to control and form happiness, truth and reality.

In other words, they are symptoms of the self-production, the production of your ego, the whole of this idea-complex, which creates the calculator, the dreamer, the doubter, which place itself outside yourself and your surroundings.

And they are symptoms of the consequences of this process: the disappointments, the guilt, the sorrow, the bitterness, the anger, the resistance, the anxiety, the hope, the despair, the unreality, the absence.

This process, the process of unreality, which so excellent has been described by various authors, for instance in Camus´ The Stranger, Baudelaire´s The Flowers of Evil, Dostojevskij´s Notes From an Underground, Kafka´s The Castle.

Also in the art of painting you can see it depicted, for instance by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso.

In philosophy as an art of life it is in the inner calculator the only revolution can take place

The question for the Idler is whether you can neutralize the inner calculator – 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. 

It´s The Roads of Longing. But it is also The Labyrinth with The Dragons of Dissapointment.

As long as there is hope and longing it is always on the background of anxiety, and the anxiety strengthens the inner calculator.

In philosophy as an art of life it is in the inner calculator the only revolution can take place, not on the surface, which only diverts the awareness from the actual.

A radical transformation only takes place in the present, in that to be in the Now

The present, the Now, is of greater meaning than tomorrow.

In the Now all time is present, and to understand the Now is to be free from time.

Time and sorrow is continued in becoming something. There is no being in becoming something. To be is always now, and to be is the highest form of transformation.

Becoming is nothing else than modified continuation of the past, it is the eternal recurrence of the old, and this recurrence is the absent.

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 not interesting for the Philosophical Globetrotter to know the peripheral conflicts in your nature

Philosophical seen it is therefore not interesting for the Philosophical Globetrotter to know who you are in a certain conflict, to know the peripheral conflicts in your nature; their content.

What you want to know is why there altogether is conflict.

When you ask yourself this question, you see a fundamental problem, which nothing has to do with the peripheral conflicts and their solutions. It is this central problem, which is important. 

And what you see is, that the actual nature of the desire, if not fully understood, inevitably must lead to conflict.

A mind which is silent can see the problems much more directly and simple

How can the mind be completely empty? 

The intellectual would probably claim, in order to defend his theories, that an empty mind is the same as being in a condition of apathy, idiocy, or what he might call it, and he would probably react instinctively by disclaiming this condition.

But a mind which is extraordinary silent, a mind which isn´t being distracted by its own thought, a mind which is open, can see the problems much more directly and simple. It is in other words immensely reasonable. And it is this ability to see our problems - without in any way letting yourself be distracted - which is the only solution for the Life Artist.

A silent mind, a mind in peace, is a requirement.

It is necessary that you as an Idler ask yourself the question about what you are interested in

We use ourselves over ability by doing things, which basically don´t interest us. And at the same time, we have still not found out, what we seriously are interested in. We haven't discovered what our real interest is, and we feel a fundamental disappointment, bitterness, or perhaps rather guilt: the feeling of not having accomplished our possibilities, the feeling of lack of life-unfolding and unlived life, and the annoyances over this.

It is necessary that you as an Idler ask yourself the question about what you are interested in. Not what you ought to be interested in, but what really absorbs you.

More and more people become interested in finding out. And it is really important that you, with yourself, find out, in which direction your interest goes.

Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being

Action as we know it, is in reality a reaction, it is an incessantly effort with the purpose of becoming something; that is to say: a denial of, an effort of avoiding what you are.

When you try to avoid what you are, then this is because you confuse the Now´s fact with that problem, which the thinking´s past and future thinks the fact is. This is an unreal condition, a feeling of loss and emptiness, of insufficiency. And that is precisely what you are, the lived despair.

But when you are the emptiness present without choosing, without condemning or justifying, then the understanding of what you are will imply action, and this action is the creative being.

To stop becoming something is to stop accumulating in philosophical sense. Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being. The mystics call it a kind of death. The Stoics trained themselves in being present in the Now by philosophizing over the meaning of death in their lives. To philosophize became in that way, in the Stoics, a way of learning how to die. An example of this is the Stoic Horace, the man behind the expression ”Carpe diem!” (Seize the day!).

All thought-activity is the historical limitation´s action and reaction

Man – the body, the nerves, the mind – is limited by the climate he lives in, by the whole of his social, religious and economical environment, by his experiences, the education he has got, by family influences and the demands, which have been given to him.

All these are factors, which limit Man historical. Our conscious and subconscious reactions to all the influences of the environment – intellectual, emotional, outside and inner – these reactions are, each and every one, actions, which emanate from our historical limitation.

Language is historical limitation; all thought-activity is the historical limitation´s action and reaction.

What happens if the thought is quiet?

Words are, for most people, the foundation of life, and therefore their existence is superficial and empty

Saint Paul writes in his second letter to the communion in Corinth, that: ”the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive”.

Through centuries mankind has got descriptions in with spoons by their teachers, their authorities, their books, their saints.

Mankind say: ”Tell us everything – what is there beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?”, and they are satisfied with their descriptions, what means that they live of words, the word is their foundation of life, and therefore their existence is superficial and empty. They are the living dead. They have lived in what has been told them, either guided to it by their inclinations and their desire, or forced to accept it by circumstances and environment.

They are a result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in them, nothing, which they themselves have discovered, nothing original, innocent, clear.

     

It is the eternal recurrence of the same.

Polar partners will, in their extremes, switch over in the opposite extreme

The more you, through the Ego´s evaluations, isolate the parts of wholeness from each other, the more the abandoned parts will work stronger and stronger on their polar partners.

Therefore, these polar partners in their extremes will finally switch over in the opposite extreme.

     

Another aspect of this lawfulness, or another way to describe this lawfulness is: energy returns to its starting point. This is also called compensatory karma, and the lawfulness works as wave movements and pendulum movements.

And since everything in this way only work correlative, yes, then, as the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna claimed, we actually can´t say anything about the wholeness, only about the parts.

Therefore, he called the wholeness the Emptiness (´sûnyatâ) – a teaching, which had one quite determinate purpose: the neutralization of all the dogmas, theories and viewpoints, which ignorance has created. 

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality.

Is it not the brain´s function to seek safety? Of course, it is the brain´s function to seek safety. This is something natural.

But there happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality; when it says: ”This is mine, that is yours”.

And then it is not at all safe, even though the movement is due to a quest for safety.

What is important for the Philosophical Globetrotter is not that which should be, or that which could be

What is important for the Philosophical Globetrotter is not that which should be, or that which could be, nor what principle you ought to follow, what kinds of ideals you ought to have, or to what religion, or what political party, you ought to belong to. It is clear, that all such reactions altogether are meaningless when you are facing the confusion, the need, misery and continual conflict, in which we live.

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent.

Identity, for example, you can have either in an absence or in a presence.

And if you have your identity in an absence, you can very well say, that you are a result of a line of challenges and reactions.

But the thought about challenge and reaction is, for the Idler, much more composite, and has a communicative character. You are not only challenged within a certain area, but from life as a wholeness.

And what you are is due to the way in which you relate to yourself.

We are not able to perceive directly and immediately without symbols

The mind seems to deny seeing things directly, to be them present without the word and the symbol.

     

You for instance say, that the sky is blue. The one who hears it, interprets it from the conception he has about blue and reproduces it to you in his own code.

In that way, we live in symbols, and dreams are a part of this symbolic process. We are not able to perceive directly and immediately without the symbols, the words, the prejudices and the conclusions.

The reason for this is clear enough: It is a part of the self-centred becoming something, the will to power with its defence, resistance, escape and anxiety, and where you shut yourself away from life, are getting absent in evaluations and analyses, and where emptiness and loss slide in between, create reflections, displacement and darkness.

In this unreal state, reality can only communicate itself symbolic.

The symbol is a telescopying, a representing quintessence of the wholeness, the informationquantities, and the greater clarity, which is connected with reality and presence, but which the absence can´t contain, because it splits, shuts itself inside, or shuts itself away from.

If your conscious mind is aware, the subconscious mind can find an answer

We can reach to clarity over the underlying conscious and subconscious activity, if we give the subconscious mind a chance, because it is much faster in reacting than the conscious mind.

If your conscious mind is aware, and in silence is thinking and observing, the subconscious mind is much more actively awake and much more receptive; therefore, it can find an answer.