A Mind Without Thoughts Will Show You a Fathomless Deep

How deep can the mind travel?

Most of our lives are very superficial and is it possible to live at great depth and also function superficially? Is it possible for the mind to dwell or live at great depth?

A Religious Mind Must Know the Extraordinary Sense of Beauty

You go to the secret valley to sit in peace and ask the philosophical question: What is a religious mind?

On Beauty and the Art of Growing Wings

Bouquet of Sunflowers, by Monet

The mind that is whole has a quality of passive listening presence. It cares, and has this quality of a deep abiding sense of love of wisdom.  Such a mind is the whole that you come upon when you begin to inquire into what meditation is. Then we can proceed to find out what is sacred.

On the Nature of Sensitivity and Beauty

Look at all the birds, the trees, and at the dirty streets. Look at people. Look at your parents and teachers; notice how they talk to you, what kind of words they use.

The mind, which is passively aware, allows life and energy to flow into presence and reality

In order to be able to see truth you must be able to feel, you must be endowed by passion after discovering, and having a great energy.

When you observe a cloud and the light in this cloud, then there is beauty. Beauty is passion. In order to, that you can see the beauty in a cloud, or the beauty in the light on a tree, there must be passion, there must be intensity.

In this intensity - this passion - there is no sympathy or antipathy at all, and therefore not the feelings, which follow these.

The intensity is not personal, not yours or mine.

When there is lust there is yours or mine.

But the mind, which is passively aware, allows life and energy to flow back from the past and the future, into presence and reality.

The energy and the life, which are invested in sorrows and bindings, plans and problems, are flowing in, filling the Now, increasing the intensity and the consciousness in the Now.

Is life not all the time something new?

What is, after all, life?

Is it not all the time something new?

It is something, which constantly is changed and is creating a new feeling.

Today is never the same as yesterday, and that is the beauty of life.

This new is the unique in life, a unique presence, which the Jewish philosopher and mystic Martin Buber called The Eternal Thou.

Beauty is reason and feeling as a wholeness

In order to be able to see truth you must use reason, but you must also be able to feel.

You must be endowed by passion after discovering, and having a great energy.

When you observe a cloud, or the beauty in the light on a tree, there must be passion, there must be intensity.

In this intensity - this passion - there is no sympathy or antipathy at all, and therefore not the feelings that follow these.

The intensity is not personal, not yours or mine.

As long as the mind is distorted it can´t listen and observe

The Life Artist must seek to understand the nature of experience, the beauty in observing, in seeing neutral as in a mirror, and in feeling deeply and incisively without seeking to achieve anything.

As long as the mind of Man in any way is distorted – by neurotical impulses and feelings, by fear, despair, by self-assertion, snobbery and striving after power – it can´t possibly listen, observe, see neutral.

But this art of seeing, of listening, of observing, is nothing you just can choose to do, and nor is it a question of thinking, which develops towards something else.

The mind, which is passively aware, allows life and energy to flow into presence and reality

In order to be able to see the truth you must also be able to feel, you must be endowed by passion after discovering, and having a great energy.

When you observe a tree and the moonlight on this tree, then there is beauty. Beauty is passion. In order to, that you can see the beauty in a tree, or the beauty in the moonlight on a tree, there must be passion, there must be intensity. In this intensity - this passion - there is no sympathy or antipathy at all, and therefore not the feelings, which follow these. The intensity is not personal, not yours or mine.

When there is lust there is yours or mine. But the mind, which is passively aware, allows life and energy to flow back from the past and the future, into presence and reality. The energy and the life, which are invested in sorrows and bindings, plans and problems, are flowing in, filling the Now, increasing the intensity and the consciousness in the Now.