Interpretation is to Have Your Identity in an Absence

A rock carving near Tintagel, Cornwall, and a 15th century illuminated manuscript

We don´t know how we unprejudiced can observe a problem. We want to deduce a result from the problem. We want an answer.

When we seek to solve the problem, we have set us a goal, and we try to interpret the problem from our joy or pain. Or we already have an answer to how the problem can be treated.

In this way we begin to tackle with the problem, which always is new, and treat it from an old pattern, our images of life. And in that way, we are the problem absent, we are outside it as theorists, and then you have the opposition between the observer and the observed.

And this is to have your identity in an absence.

Meditation as an Art of Life is in that degree to be present, without that it is something you have chosen and constructed. It is to have your identity in a presence, and this identity you have discovered, not constructed.

Then there is a freedom from your perspective, even when the perspective acts where it necessarily must act.

To have your identity in a presence is to be safe in existential sense. It is to feel at home in life, and in your relationships with the surrounding world.

Existential safety is the utterance of freedom, where you unfold yourself, or are resting; where you fill out, or are allowing yourself to be filled out, without basic restlessness, or fear.

You basically seen exist in confidence.

Safety is in the good, and is the safety of the good. It is trust and self-reliance in one.

At the same time safety is also space, width, both physical space and spiritual space.

In this space the problem is allowed to flower, expose itself, and wither away.