Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he wants peace

In philosophy as an art of life an investigation of dualism will be an investigation of, whether there exists a way of life without any division between living and dying, conscious and subconscious, business and social life, individual life and family life.

The divisions between nations, religions, classes, etc., originate from the contradiction-filled limitations in yourself.

The question of the Philosophical Globetrotter is therefore, why human beings live in this way?

The inner conflicts grow confusion, division and war; they develop actual insecurity, inwards as well as outwards. We see this division in so many ways – in God and Devil, in good and evil, in what you are and what you ought to be.

Why has Man always created a conflict in himself, and in the relationship with others, and consequently violence, and the hope about achieving something through violence?

Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he at the same time wants peace and freedom; but it is peace and freedom exclusively as an idea, an ideology.

And at the same time Man is historical limited by everything he does.

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 will is violence

The will is violence.

The will is a result of the wish, the desire after becoming something; and the desire is of nature aggressive, dominating.

The will to achieve something, and the will to fight - is the cause of the conflict in our inner, to the dualism, that causes the struggle in our inner.

As long as Man lives in the corridor of opposites, he will inevitably waste his energy

If you, not as an abstraction, but actually, can push all ideals aside and only concern yourself with the facts – which is for example is violence – there happens no waste of energy.

As long as Man lives in the corridor of opposites, he will inevitably waste his energy, and in that way he can´t change.

You must therefore as a Life Artist sweep all ideals, all opposites, aside.

Why has Man always created a conflict in himself and in the relationship with the others?

Why has Man always created a conflict in himself and in the relationship with others  - and consequently violence, and the hope about achieving something through violence?

Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he at the same time wants peace and freedom; but it is peace and freedom exclusively as an idea, an ideology.

And at the same time Man is historical limited by everything he does.

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.

You can only observe violence clearly when you become aware, that you tighten what you see together with images

As a Life Artist it is important to pay attention to, that when you for instance observe violence, then you often try to justify it, as you say that violence is a necessity if you shall live in this barbaric world, that violence is a part of nature.

Why do you do that?

You are used to observe in this way, to condemn, justify, or to make resistance.

But you can only observe violence with fresh eyes, and an open mind, when you become aware, that you tighten what you see, together with conceptions about what you already know, your own perspective, individual as cultural, and that you therefore not are observing it in a new way.

You can only observe violence with an open mind, when you become aware of your justifications

As a Life Artist it is important to pay attention to, that when you for instance observe violence, then you often try to justify it, as you say that violence is a necessity if you shall live in this barbaric world, that violence is a part of nature.

Why do you do that?

You are used to observe in this way, to condemn, justify, or to make resistance.

But you can only observe violence with fresh eyes, and an open mind, when you become aware, that you tighten what you see, together with conceptions about what you already know, your own perspective, individual as cultural, and that you therefore not are observing it in a new way.

The will is opposing, requiring, wanting. Altogether a kind of resistance, and resistance is violence

The will has to do with the mind that says: ”I want to do this!” – ”I don´t want that!” – ”I will do this!”

The will has to do with that you are opposing, requiring, wanting. Altogether a kind of resistance, and resistance is violence.

The mind must be altogether aware, that it can´t escape this violence.

In that way there in art of life can´t be any unfolding of the will that says: ”I want to defeat violence!” because the will is essentially violence.

When there is used control there is always a will; that is: a compelling desire to control, form and lead. But this is destructive, and has nothing to do with creation.