The description, the image, is not the reality

When we understand that the word not is the real, that the description not is the described, the explanation not the explained, then the mind has released you from the word.

If you have created an image of yourself, then the image is pieced together by words, by thought-activity – the thought is the word.

You think about yourself as large, small, skillful, or as a genious, or whatever – you have an image of yourself.

This image can be described, it is the result of a description.

And this image has the thought created.

But the description, the image, is not the reality.

We are the past, and there is no freedom in the past

We have our identity in an absence.

This is consequently the way of our lives; a constant struggle, the past which, modified by the present, moves into the future – and that will say that it still is the past, the self-image and the world-image, which is moving, though modified.

As long as this movement takes place, Man can never be free, he must always live in conflict, in sorrow and confusion, in wretchedness and misery.

The question becomes whether the past´s reaction can be delayed, so that there not immediately is formed an image?

When we understand that the word not is the real, then the mind has released you from the word

When we understand that the word not is the real, that the description not is the described, the explanation not the explained, then the mind has released you from the word.

If you have created an image of yourself, then the image is pieced together by words, by thought-activity – the thought is the word.

You think about yourself as large, small, skilful, or as a genius, or whatever – you have an image of yourself.

This image can be described, it is the result of a description. And this image has the thought created. But the description, the image, is not the reality.

There is only mutual connection with the observed when there isn´t any inner observer and calculator

Truth is coming when there is a non-linguistic presence, an observance and a love, which are without conclusions, without explanations, without words.

The inner spectator, theorist or doubter, are constructed by words, which again are manifestations of a self-image.

The Ego consists of explanations, conclusions, condemnations, justifications etc.

There is only mutual connection with the observed when there isn´t any inner observer and calculator, when you in self-forgetful way are open for, and engaged in, the observed.

Only then there is understanding, freedom from the problem.

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.

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.

Regardless how refined or how simple the thinking is, then it can´t break down itself, or reach beyond itself

It is the thinking, which produces the net in which Man becomes caught, the reality of the self-image and the world-image.

This dividing and self-producing way of thinking binds, it leads to the outstretched and fragmented space of time, where opinions, theories, viewpoints and conceptions are of absolute importance.

Regardless how refined or how simple the thinking is, then it can´t break down itself, or reach beyond itself.

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.

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.

You can´t be afraid of death, the unknown, because you don´t know what the unknown is

Death is the unknown, which always threatens the known, the patterns you have created.

The paradox is, that you can´t be afraid of the unknown, because you don´t know what the unknown is, and therefore there is nothing to be afraid of.

Death is a word, and it is the word, the image, which creates anxiety. The word is a manifestation of your self-image and world-image.

For as long as the image exists -  the image from where the thought origins - the thought must constantly create anxiety.

Then you rationalize your mortal dread and build a defence against the inevitable, or you invent countless faith-conceptions, which can protect you against the anxiety of death.

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.