Death is the unknown, the landscape that can't be mapped

When we speak about life we usually mean life as a continuation-process, where there happens an identification.

When we say life, we often mean I and my house, I and my wife, I and my bank account, I and the experiences I have collected.

To live is therefore a process whereby something is continued in memory, conscious as unconscious, with the multifold struggles of the process, all the quarrels, episodes, experiences.

It is all this we call life.

Opposite is standing death, which means, that all this is being brought to an end.

Therefore, we create an opposition, life and death. Life is the known, the perspective we have created on the background of the images of time. Death is the unknown, the landscape that can't be mapped.

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.

If you know where you are going, you will never enter the unknown

The journey to the Moon, or to Mars, is an objective journey, you know where you are going.

But in philosophical counseling, where the journey goes inwards, you don´t know where you are going.

Therefore there is uncertainty and fear.

If you know where you are going, you will never enter the unknown, and you will therefore never be the real human, who discovers what the timeless is.

Just like the solution to a problem is lying in the problem itself, thus reality is to find in what you are

Reality can´t come to that, which will become something, which strive after something, the will to power, the absent.

It is only able to come to that, which is being, that, which understand what you are, the present.

Then you will see that reality is not something afar, the unknown is not far away, it is in what you are.

Just like the solution to a problem is lying in the problem itself, thus is reality to find in what you are.

If you can understand this, you will know truth.

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.

Meditation is to enter into the unknown

In accordance with the Taoists, the actual thing to be present in passive listening (wu-wei), is the same as to act spontaneous (tzu-jen).

Any spontaneous action is an expression of, that there is a passive listening presence, a space between the thoughts.

When for instance the Taoist is seeing, that there is fear, he observes it neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no, and feels it deeply and incisively, without seeking to achieve anything with it.

The actual experience in this passive listening presence, makes the experience free from fear; and that is to act spontaneous.

In all this the unknown is at stake; reality or truth.

Meditation is in other words to enter into the unknown.