A Brush from the Dawn of Creation

The mystical experience.

It doesn't come from your head. It unfolds from your heart like a flower. 

We must understand ourselves as we are momentarily, without collecting experiences

In order to create a fundamental philosophical revolution in yourself, you must understand the processes of the thoughts, and of the feelings, as they reflect themselves in the relationship with others.

This is the only solution to all our problems – not to subject us more kinds of discipline, more kinds of beliefs or ideologies, or to find more spiritual teachers.

If we understand ourselves as we are momentarily, without collecting experiences - that is to say: meditative-existential - then you can experience a peace, which is not a thought-product, a peace that neither is fantasy or a condition we grow; and only in the condition of peace there can be creation.

Reality is a being, which is middle, is fullness, is lying in light

In a condition of completely peace of mind you are in a condition of timeless being, where there can be created; that is to say: where the Ego is not present – or rather, where the ego has been made transparent in the objective source that created it, like a Lotus flower on quiet water mirroring the sun.

Then your being has become real.

Reality is a being, which is middle, is fullness, is lying in light.

The middle is the quality, which is lying in, that you not are decentralized, not are beside yourself, not away from the actual.

On the contrary you are in the middle of the actual, in the middle of the stream of life, where creation takes place.

[I wrote this post in the morning. When I at noon as usual took my hiking trip in Rold Forest, I discovered the first water lillies in lake Bregnesøen. Before choosing the above photo I had a look on Monet´s water lillies, and wondered if I should choose one of them. That´s what called the coincidence of progressive karma. You might say that it could be an experience followed by speculation. But progressive karma is experience followed by realization. It´s objective, not subjective.

Read about karma in my article What is Karma? 

Here is the photo I took in the forest:

On my Facebook profile you can follow my photos in the album called Pilgrim in Rold Forest.]

Self-forgetful thinking, this aware and understanding presence, is the richness of life

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking.

But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory.

It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation. And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

This self-forgetful thinking, this aware and understanding presence, where you have your being with you in your experience, where the experience constitutes the whole of your being´s fullness – it is this deep thought´s vibrant silence, this wordless realization, this creative spontaneity, which is the richness of life.

The will is the most destructive of all

Nietzsche believed that the will - that is to say: the defeating, the remodeling, the striving - is something creative.

No, the will is the most destructive of all, in spite of the fact that it constructs very many self-images and world-images.

The will rests on lust, on desire, and not on that joy in freedom that has to do with passion and creative emptiness.

The wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced

The nature of the mind is the emptiness in which the things of the mind can exist, but the things are not the mind.

Because of this emptiness time and space begin to exist.

The brain, and the brain´s things, can cover an entire field of life; it is occupied by multifold problems. But the brain can´t catch the nature of the mind, because it only functions in division; logical analyzing in the one as different from the other, emotional evaluating in sympathy and antipathy, ethical in good and evil, religious in holy and profane, sexually in gender, the reality in the observer and the observed.

None of these parts can produce the wholeness. And yet the brain is occupied by putting the many contradictory parts together in order to produce the wholeness. Just like the thoughts the brain functions philosophical.

But the wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced. The sacred circle would in that case be broken.

The movement of time consists of two movements, which we could call the outgoing movement and the backmovement

The movement of time consists of two universal movements, which we could call the outgoing movement and the backmovement: future and past, creation and destruction.

These two movements are reflected throughout the Universe in a multiplicity of different lifecycles: they are Samsara´s  wheel of up-cycles which are followed by down-cycles and vice versa (for instance life and death, success and fiasco, joy and sorrow) - all this which is lying behind the law of Karma and rebirth.

This Universe is for instance considered to be a reincarnation of a past Universe, in the same way as a human is being considered to be a reincarnation of a past existence.

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.

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.

The experience of the meeting in the unreal life is characterized by, that emptiness and loss slide in between

Where the experience of the meeting in the unreal life is characterized by, that emptiness and loss slide in between, and create reflections, displacement and darkness, then the experience of the meeting in the real life is characterised by fulfilment, middle and light.

Shortly said: by creation itself.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking.

But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory.

It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life

When there no dreams are, then the consciousness can enter deeper and deeper down into itself; that is to say: into life itself.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life, that there is displacement between the thinker and life itself.

But when there no disturbances and displacement are, and the body during the sleep is very calm, when the mind is quiet, you will, when you wake up, find, that you haven´t dreamt, but that a renewal has taken place, a renewal, which constantly takes place, because there all the time is ending.

This renewal is the creation, the source of life, because you in the silence rest in the middle of life itself.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something

The conscious effort, the will to understand and create, to accumulate, the will to become something, is a continuation of the past, perhaps modified, but still a continuation.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something.

When we conscious strain in order to understand and create, it is the noise of our own accumulations we hear, the noise of all the life we have sucked out of the present and into thinking and time.

And it is this noise that precisely hinders the understanding and the creation.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking.

But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory.

It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

If you understand what the known is, you will experience an unusual peace, which is not caused

If you understand what the known is - that is to say: your perspective on yourself and the world, your self-image and world-image, and all the symbols, ideas, opinions and conceptions which are manifestations of these images – if you understand this, you will experience this unusual peace, which is not caused, which is not forced, the creative emptiness in which only reality is able to enter.

The will is the eternal recurrence of the same and has nothing to do with creation

Clarity and reality doesn´t originate from isolation.

The act of the will can temporarely lighten the present foreground, which is a necessity in order for it to be active, but it can never clear the historical background; because the will is itself a result of this background.

The background grows and feeds the will, and the will can sharpen the background, increase its development-possibilitites, but it can never purify the background.

It is therefore always old, and never new.

The will is the eternal recurrence of the same. Therefore it has nothing to do with creation.

Our language is reflections of the universal images in the great vision of the creation

Our language, all our fictional productions, is reflections of the universal images in the great vision of the creation.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, then a library therefore is a magical room with a lot of bewitched spirits.

They wake up when we call them.

When we open a book an esthetic occurrence is happening.

Because we are parts of the movement of time - which with it´s images both flows through us, and around us in nature - then the same book changes, as we changes.

The text itself is after all also the River of Time, or Heraklit´s River.

Language is in that way an esthetical creation.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking. But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory. It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

The present intensity is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory

The present intensity, which the Buddhists speak about, is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory.

It is something, which flushes through the brain.

The brain is here only an instrument, and it is the mind, or the nature of the mind, which is this timeless expansion, this exploding intensity of creation, where everything is middle, fullness and is lying in light.

This light radiates both from the brain, and beyond the brain.

This seeing and feeling are not only in the brain, but also beyond the brain.

Only when the mind is new, creative empty, it can meet the new

The space between the old and the new is the same as the space between the thoughts, the passive listening presence.

In this space of silence there is renewal; here the new creation happens.

Only when the mind is new, creative empty, it can meet the new.

It is first when the mind no longer is tied to the old, to its images of life, that it can meet everything in a new way.

And therein is lying the joy of life, the source, which rises from life itself.