To Find Out What Freedom Is You Must Have Tremendous Energy

Freedom from authority is an extraordinary thing. It is called Spiritual Anarchism.

Merely to get information or knowledge is not to learn in philosophical sense

The function of the mind is to investigate and learn.

To learn in philosophical sense doesn´t only mean to cultivate the memory, or to accumulate knowledge, but to learn to think clearly and rational without illusions, to start with facts and not with beliefs and ideals.

When the thought originates from the conclusion, you learn nothing.

Merely to get information or knowledge is not to learn in philosophical sense.

To learn in philosophical sense includes love of understanding, and doing a thing for its own guilt.

The malfunction of the mind is ideology

All models of society have had terrible consequences because they, in the under evaluation of other influences than the historical, create an imbalance.

They confuse personal and collective images with reality.

The simplest expression of this malfunction of the human mind - which this bring about - is the concept of ideology.

We need a philosophical life-teaching and practice

We need that philosophical life-teaching and and pratice, which is offered in philosophical counseling.

There is a need of philosophers who partly are university educated, partly have a philosophical life-practice; that is to say: philosophers who - like Socrates, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the philosophers in the East - are and live what they think and teach, true teachers, whose thinking is made transparent in being, and who consequently live what they teach.

The quality of compassion and love must come to expression in different kinds of bodily activity

The quality of compassion and love must come to expression in different kinds of bodily activity.

Already from we are quite young we ought to work in the garden, learn to do carpentry, paint, write poems, weave, take care of an animal etc.

And through the senses – we must observe the trees, the mountains, the richness of the Earth, the poverty humans have created in the world.

And we must listen to classical music, bird song, the murmur from a stream.

That something is learned in philosophical sense presupposes a mind, which each time learns anew

The word philosophy means love of wisdom, or love of learning.

To learn in philosophical sense is a continual movement, a continual renewal. It is not ”to have learned”, and see on the bases of that.

Usually we see on the bases of a memory about what we have learned, and have experienced; memory is the starting point. This is therefore not to see, not to learn in philosophical sense.

That something is learned in philosophical sense presupposes a mind, which each time learns anew. There must be a creative emptiness. The mind must therefore always be new and ready to learn, just like a child.

For that reason it doesn´t interest the Life Artist to worship memory, but rather to observe, see and experience what really happens.

As a Life Artist you must try to be extremely aware, awake, so that the seen and learned don´t become a memory from which you see, and which in itself is a distortion.

You must see each time as if it was the first time!

We are satisfied with explanations, and to explain away everything we call knowledge

If we want to know, why there is wealth and poverty in the world, we can find an explanation. There is an explanation for everything, and explanations seem to satisfy most of us. The same is the case as regards religion. We are satisfied with explanations, and to explain away everything we call knowledge.

Is that what we understand about education? Do we learn to discover, or are we only coming to look for explanations, definitions, conclusions, in order to be able to dull the mind, and stop questioning?