To observe another human being with the past, is to observe your own perspective, and not the human being in itself

When you give something a name, you tighten it, through the name, to the past.

Therefore you observe it with eyes, which the past has affected, and that will say: not in a new way.

The past is your images of life, your perspective, and the only thing you see is your own perspective.

To observe another human being with the eyes of the past, means, that what you see, is your own perspective of this human being, and not the human being in itself.

The authentic person is a person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice

Philosophical counseling will be oriented towards an understanding of the images of life, which are lying under the person´s conception and way of living.

So, it is some images of life, a self-image and a world-image, which is based on time and its images as such - that is: both personal, collective and universal images - which are lying under, or which are a thought-created presumption for the person´s feelings and motivations, and which manifest themselves in a certain image of life and way of living.

To have his identity in an absence means that the person is identified with his perspective on himself and the world, and this is an expression of an un-authentic person; that is: the person who has some images of life, but no philosophical life-practice.

The authentic person is the person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice.

The thought can´t enter the unknown, and therefore it can never discover or experience reality

Kant was right, that the thought is forming, modifying, coloring in compliance with the pattern of experience.

The function of the thought is to communicate itself, not to be in the experiencing condition.

When the experience has gone, then the thought takes over, names it, and places it within the known´s categories and forms of experience. Therefore Kant discriminated between reality in itself – ”Das Ding an Sich” (the things in themselves) – and the reality as it appears for us – the world of experience or phenomena ”erscheinungen” (the things as sensed appearance); that is: our perspective.

So, the thought can´t enter the unknown, and therefore it can never discover or experience reality. The thought is a result of the known, of our perspective, which is time as such, and therefore it can´t embrace the unknown, the timeless, that, which can't be known.

Meditation, or art of life, is to empty out the mind completely

The content of the mind is a product of time, of that which usually is called development and cultivation; it is a product of thousand experiences, a gigantic accumulation of knowledge, of memories; therefore an aspect of Man as a historical being.

The mind is in that degree loaded with the past.

The past is based on the images in time, both the personal, collective and universal images; the reservoir, from where we get all our belief and knowledge.

All knowledge originates from the past, all experience is the past, and all memory is the accumulated result of thousand experiences – this is the known, your perspective.

Far the most people confuse their perspective with reality

When the mind is quiet you begin to gain discrimination, the ability to discriminate between the known and the unknown.

The known is your perspective on yourself and the world, it is your self-image and world-image, which originate from the images of time.

The perspective distorts reality, because everything you see, is your own perspective, the known, the image.

You don´t see reality itself, truth or the unknown.

Far the most people confuse their perspective with reality, the description with the described, the word with the thing, the map with the landscape.

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is truly an ethical life

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is truly an ethical life.

It means that you have discrimination, and don´t pull your perspective down over others.

But it doesn't mean, that the old is deleted, but that there is introduced a completely new dimension, where you are the old present in passive listening, where the old so to speak is made transparent in being and openness.

If your mind can empty ifself for your images of life, it is something entirely else

Provided that the mind can empty ifself for the known, for your perspective, your images of life, then it is something entirely else; then the mind is something new, and therefore, according to Taoism, immortal.

Only when the mind not is overloaded, it can be in the middle of life, and the new can reveal itself

If you allow the thinking to come into power, it sucks life out of the present, and there will no longer be anything new in life, because you make the known, your perspective, into reality, and the reality into emptiness.

It is the eternal recurrence of the same.

If you therefore as a Life Artist want to discover something new, then the past must be passive, the mind must not be filled up with thoughts, fear, lust and all kind of other things.

Only when the mind not is overloaded, it can be in the middle of life, or the Now, and the new can reveal itself.

Your world-image is inseparable connected with your self-image

The self-image manifests itself as a certain perspective, so that everything you are seeing, is your own perspective.

The world-image is a projection of yourself, only you divide yourself from it, in the formation of the Ego.

What Man identifies himself with, is always the self-projected, whether it is the highest, the state, or the family.

The identification is, regardless on what plane it takes place, a process of the Ego.

Identification with the greater is still a projection of the small, and reverse.

What you identify yourself with, when you identify yourself with the greater, is the idea. The idea is the Ego identified with for instance God or the state.

Such an identified action only creates more discord, larger confusion, distress and misery.

When we identify the description with the described we only see our own perspective

When we think that the description is the described, yes, then the thing we see is nothing else than our own perspective.

To cleanse the perspective consists in being aware of how the perspective is made dull, muddy, unclear.

And what makes it muddy is the lacking discrimination, the lack of ability to understand that the description not is the described, that language not is the reality, that the map not is the landscape.

It is the perspective, which is captured by words.

It is the perspective, which is the description, the language, the philosophical mapping.

But if you don´t understand this, then the only thing you see, is your own perspective, the eternal recurrence of the same and the known, and not the dawn of the new and unknown.

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is truly an ethical life

Can you, as a Life Artist, without interpreting the present reality on the bases of the past´s conditions, observe the reaction in a new way, with an open mind?

Can something else than the old react?

Can there be a space between the old and the new reality?

Can the old be awaiting, and in this way make it possible for the new to occur?

This is the problem of the Life Artist.

Freedom from your perspective, the old, is in this way truly an ethical life. It means that you have discrimination, and don´t pull your perspective down over others.

But it doesn't mean, that the old is deleted, but that there is introduced a completely new dimension, where you are the old present in passive listening, where the old so to speak is made transparent in being and openness.