To live a life characterized by reason, requires that mind and the body are awake and sensitive

It is important that we look the facts in the eyes, meet what you are momentarily without theorizing over it.

Above all it is important to live reasonable.

To live a life which is characterized by the utmost reason, requires that the mind and the body are extraordinary awake and sensitive.

But we have destroyed the body´s awakenness with unnatural lifeforms.

We also destroy the mind, the reason and the clearness, through conflict, through continuous suppressions, and hereupon following explosions and acts of violence.

The being of Man includes both the state of the mind and the conduct of life

In the unreal existence, the actions of Man come to rest on ignorance; that is to say: prejudices, inclinations and demands.

And it results in absence, and therefore suffering.

In this way, the human existence becomes a friction, a conflict, and herein there is no reason.

The being of Man includes both the state of the mind and the conduct of life, logos and bios.

But the Ego is formed by an interaction between the activities of the mind (demands, prejudices, inclinations) – and the hindrances, which the challenges of life create, and therewith you have the unreality.

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 a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking

As a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking, and see what place the thoughts has in your life, see where they aren´t a nesessity,

Then you might discover, that the mind can function in a reasonable way, both when the mind isn´t active, and when the thought has to be active.

As a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking

As a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking, and see what place the thought has, see where it isn´t a necessity, and only then you will discover, that the mind functions in a reasonable way, both when the thought isn´t active, and when the thought has to be active.

Any decision, which is defined by a choice, exposes a person, who is confused

Any decision, which is defined by a choice, exposes a person, who is confused, who is unreal and absent, who places himself outside and creates reflections, displacements and darkness.

A person who is in the middle of his own existence, experiences on the contrary a presence of something obvious, something the individual has a clear understanding of.

Such a person´s mind doesn´t choose, there is only the power of action and decisiveness.

The lack of clarity, and therefore reason, arises when there is a division between the observer and the observed, and there slide emptiness and loss in between.

Can you act with afterthought when it is necessary, and when it is not, let the thought rest?

The thought must be active when you are doing something.

The thought is a necessity so that we can do no matter what technological work.

In order to, that our actions can be clear, we must think clearly, objectively, without letting us be carried away by moods; without prejudices and preconceived opinions. It was this, the Enligthenment Philosophers understood by the reason.

But we also know, that the thought produces human problems, fear and anxiety, and that this anxiety will hinder us in acting effectively.

The question is then, whether you as a Life Artist can act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent?

Can you act with afterthought when it is necessary, and when it is not, let the thought rest?

In fact it is rather simple. Can Man in that degree be so present in passive listening, that he in the awake condition will think and act when it is necessary, and remain awake whilst he acts, so that he neither falls asleep, or works pure mechanical?

When you clearly are seeing everything violence means, then you are free from it

If you see a thing very clear, without distortions, is there then any use of choosing?

There are no alternatives; alternatives only exist when you shall choose between two physical roads – you can walk the one road or the other.

But alternatives exist as well in the mind, which is confused and irrational; therefore it is in discord with itself, and its actions are violent.

Shakespeare´s play Hamlet is an illustration of such a mind. It is the mind, which practises violence, which says that it wants to live peacefully, but when it, as nature, reacts to challenges, then it practises violence (physical or psychological).

But when you quite clearly are seeing everything violence means, from the most raw, to the most refined, forms of violence, then you are free from violence. And that is the culmination of reason.

The thinking is always in a duality-conflict between self-image and world-image

The thinking is always in a duality-conflict between self-image and world-image, between my and mine, as opposition to what not is my and mine; what causes division.

These oppositional conflicts will always exist if you as a Life Artist not are the separation of the thinker and the thought present in passive listening.

Art of life is implying a complete understanding. It is a kind of communicative reason.

There must be harmony between the living function in the thought and freedom from the thought

In the higher degree that the thought is logical, sensible, healthy, objective, unsentimental, impersonally, the more effective and capable it is.

Here the Enlightenment Philosophers were right in their view of the reason.

In the sense the thought is necessary, in that sense you must use the thought in order to be able to function in life.

And still the mind must have the ability to be completely free from all kinds of distortions, so that it can find out what is true.

There must be harmony between the living function in the thought and freedom from the thought.

You must become aware of how you react to the challenges of life

Relations can be seen as a philosophical sparring partner.

And this will be to use the communicative reason.

The relationship is namely a medium of self-exposure, because the relationship is to be. It is the actual life.

Without relationships we don´t live.

In order to be able to understand yourself you must therefore understand the relationship.

You must become aware of how you react to the challenges of life, and for instance write it down in the philosophical diary.

Can Man be so present in passive listening, that he can think when it is necessary, and when not, be silent?

The thought must be active when you are doing something. The thought is a necessity so that we can do no matter what technological work.

In order to, that our actions can be clear, we must think clearly, objectively, without letting us be carried away by moods; without prejudices and preconceived opinions.

It was this, the enlightenment philosophers understood by the reason.

But we also know, that the thought produces human problems, fear and anxiety, and that this anxiety will hinder us in acting effectively.

The question is then, whether you as a Life Artist can act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent?

Can you act with afterthought when it is necessary, and when it is not, let the thought rest?

In fact it is rather simple.

Can Man in that degree be so present in passive listening, that he in the awake condition will think and act when it is necessary, and remain awake whilst he acts, so that he neither falls asleep, or works pure mechanical?

As a Life Artist you must start with freedom

Where shall you start as a Life Artist?

You must start with freedom.

When there is freedom there is love, devotion, where you in presence give yourself away with the whole of your identity, where you are self-forgetful engaged in the situation.

This freedom and love will show you when you shall co-operate and when you shall not co-operate.

It is not a choice you make, because the choice is a product of confusion and irrationality.

Love and freedom is therefore an expression of clarity and reason.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen

Consciousness is the way in which we think. And also the way in which we feel. It is the way in which we look at the trees, the ocean, the way in which we observe other human beings.

And as Man develops from child to full grown, his mind gradually becomes warped, or it stiffens in a particular pattern.

It is this development, which do, that we gradually begin to place ourselves outside life itself.

As desirous beings we want something, we are burningly longing after it, we desire to become something, and this desire leaves a particular pattern; that is to say: our mind produces a pattern, and is thereafter being caught by it.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen. Herewith the reason, the clearness, is lost; life is sucked out of the present, past and future are transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

Our vitality, and urge to live, are reduced; they crumble, they dissolve.

The ability to see our problems - without in any way being distracted - is the only solution

How can the mind be completely empty?

The intellectual would probably claim, in order to defend his theories, that an empty mind is the same as being in a condition of apathy, idiocy, or what he might call it, and he would probably react instinctively by disclaiming this condition.

But a mind which is extraordinary silent, a mind which isn´t being distracted by its own thought, a mind which is open, can see the problems much more directly and simple.

It is in other words immensely reasonable.

And it is this ability to see our problems - without in any way letting yourself be distracted - which is the only solution for the Life Artist.

A silent mind, a mind in peace, is a requirement.

To empty out the mind is to give life back to the present

In Taoism and Zen Buddhism you time after time hear the statement about emptying out the mind.

To empty out the mind means, that you are emptying it for its content.

The content of the mind is the known, your perspective of life, your historical limitation, the past which projects ifself into the future, the past and the future which sucks life out of the present and transforms memories and plans into reality, and reality into emptiness.

In this way the mind, or the Ego, makes ifself independent in relation to your reality, and the reason is lost.

To empty out the mind is the opposite movement. You give life back to the present, you are emptying the mind and are filling reality with vitality and urge to live.

In this way the mind becomes one with your reality, and the reason is won.

Can you act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent?

The thought must be active when you are doing something. The thought is a necessity so that we can do no matter what technological work.

In order to, that our actions can be clear, we must think clearly, objectively, without letting us be carried away by moods; without prejudices and preconceived opinions. It was this, the enligthenment philosophers understood by the reason.

But we also know, that the thought produces human problems, fear and anxiety, and that this anxiety will hinder us in acting effectively. The question is then, whether you as a Life Artist can act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent? Can you act with afterthought when it is necessary, and when it is not, let the thought rest?

In fact it is rather simple. Can Man in that degree be so present in passive listening, that he in the awake condition will think and act when it is necessary, and remain awake whilst he acts, so that he neither falls asleep, or works pure mechanical?

As a Life Artist you must find out what the mind is doing in relation to your problems.

What is the function of the mind? Is the function of the mind reason? And in that case: does it then function reasonable and clearly?

In order to find out you must, as a Life Artist, know what the mind in fact is doing. What is it that engages your mind? As we have seen it is usually the thoughtprocess. If the thoughtprocess is quiet, the mind is no longer present as we know it. When the mind is not engaged by thinking, conscious or unconscious, the mind shortly said is something else than what we usually understand by it.

As a Life Artist you must therefore find out what the mind – the mind, which you daily make use of, and also the mind about which existence most of us know nothing – is doing in relation to your problems. You must observe the mind as it is, and not as you think it ought to be.

As a Life Artist you must find out what the mind is doing in relation to your problems.