The will is the most destructive of all

Nietzsche believed that the will - that is to say: the defeating, the remodeling, the striving - is something creative.

No, the will is the most destructive of all, in spite of the fact that it constructs very many self-images and world-images.

The will rests on lust, on desire, and not on that joy in freedom that has to do with passion and creative emptiness.

It is will to power when things and sense impressions tie us

Our natural needs are not the will to power, but it is the will to power when things and sense impressions tie us, both in psychological and existential sense; that is to say: in the sense, that we can´t feel happy without them, that they have become our foundation of existence.

Will to Power is not psychological will, but perspectivism and nihilism

The Will to Power is a concept which comes from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

It is entirely an expression of the philosophical desire in the thinking, not an expression of reality or life itself.

It is an expression of the thinking´s desire after controlling truth, happiness and reality. It is therefore I call it a philosophical desire.

It it not enough to designate it as a psychological desire, but a perspectivism which ends in nihilism.

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.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something

The conscious effort, the will to understand and create, to accumulate, the will to become something, is a continuation of the past, perhaps modified, but still a continuation.

When we strain ourselves to become something, then we ourselves have projected this something.

When we conscious strain in order to understand and create, it is the noise of our own accumulations we hear, the noise of all the life we have sucked out of the present and into thinking and time.

And it is this noise that precisely hinders the understanding and the creation.

The will is the eternal recurrence of the same and has nothing to do with creation

Clarity and reality doesn´t originate from isolation.

The act of the will can temporarely lighten the present foreground, which is a necessity in order for it to be active, but it can never clear the historical background; because the will is itself a result of this background.

The background grows and feeds the will, and the will can sharpen the background, increase its development-possibilitites, but it can never purify the background.

It is therefore always old, and never new.

The will is the eternal recurrence of the same. Therefore it has nothing to do with creation.

The simple life is a life, which our consumer-society will sneer of

Every exertion of the will (ambition, project, concentration) is in the meditative art of life inappropriate.

It´s therefore the wisdomtraditions always have recommended the simple life.

It is in connection with this, that you probably will meet the first big obstacle in your meditative quest.

The simple life is namely a life, which our consumer-society will sneer of.

In a consumer-society the ideal life is a constant growing consume-capacity, and therefore a life where you all the time have to be future-oriented and in progress with new projects.

So if you seriously want to go in depth with the meditative art of life, but don´t feel you have the time for it, that your life don´t allow you to relax your will and your projects, yes, then it is necessary that you take your life up to consideration.

Either you begin to simplify your life – which can imply big changes – or else you continue as always.

Silence is not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will

The awakened silence in the mind is something, which the separated superficial mind never can see.

Silence is therefore not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will.

Silence comes when you understand the whole structure and beginning of life, and know what it is to be alive.

Silence has with life-feeling, spontaneity and self-forgetfulness to do.

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.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence

There is first freedom when the whole of the human nature, the obvious as well as the hidden, becomes refined from the past.

The will is desire; and as long as there is an act of the will, any striving after becoming free, or after laying bare the Ego, there can never be freedom; then this complete refinement and emptying of the whole of the person can never take place.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence and self-forgetfulness, and then the immense is there, the happiness that not is of time, the renewal of creation.