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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Your problem isn´t that you should believe this or that, but how to disentangle from the desire for safety
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If you as a Life Artist realizes - that is to say: if you are enough aware - that the process of the will to power forms you on the back...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The will is opposing, requiring, wanting. Altogether a kind of resistance, and resistance is violence
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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...
Monday, April 28, 2014
To empty out the mind is to give life back to the present
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In Taoism and Zen Buddhism you time after time hear the statement about emptying out the mind. To empty out the mind means, that yo...
Sunday, April 27, 2014
What we as Life Artists ask ourselves, is whether we can be free from the word with it´s illusions?
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Hope is born from despair. They are two sides of the same coin. Where there not is hope, there is hell, and because we are afraid of he...
Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Ego is formed by an interaction between the activities of the mind (evaluations) – and the challenges of life
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In the unreal existence the actions of Man come to rest on ignorance; that is to say: prejudices, inclinations and demands. And it ...
Friday, April 25, 2014
In meditation you discover how the Now´s facts, seen from the thinking´s past and future, can become a problem
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When you are sitting silent, but then suddenly are becoming absent in mind, you discover how the thinking sucks life and energy out of ...
Thursday, April 24, 2014
That something is learned in philosophical sense presupposes a mind, which each time learns anew
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The word philosophy means love of wisdom, or love of learning. To learn in philosophical sense is a continual movement, a contin...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
When giving something a name it becomes permanent, and then we have the whole of the thoughtprocess
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The feeling of the permanent consists in the condensed reactions; that is: the body, the feeling, the perception, the desires, and the...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
If you have the full understanding of one human problem, then you understand all human problems
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The Life Artist seeks to enter a problem without waiting for a result, a definition of what is the right to do. The right action wi...
Monday, April 21, 2014
Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence
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There is first freedom when the whole of the human nature, the obvious as well as the hidden, becomes refined from the past. The wi...
Sunday, April 20, 2014
A human being, who is searching truth, is not dependent on authority, neither in books, or in any person
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The Life Artist doesn´t engage in faith. Faith has no meaning at all for a human being, who is searching truth. Faith is only a ki...
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Can you act without anxiety when thought-activity is required, and when it is not, be silent?
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The thought must be active when you are doing something. The thought is a necessity so that we can do no matter what technological w...
Friday, April 18, 2014
We are satisfied with explanations, and to explain away everything we call knowledge
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If we want to know, why there is wealth and poverty in the world, we can find an explanation. There is an explanation for everything, a...
Thursday, April 17, 2014
In spiritual practice you must push aside the desire after identifying yourself with something
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As a Life Artist you must push the desire aside, the desire after identifying yourself with a person or an idea or a thing. This doesn´...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Authority leads to thoughtlessness, but because most of us find it painful to think we surrender to its control
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The philosophical counselor doesn´t try to influence the guest to act, to think something particular, to do one thing or the other –...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
If you study a problem philosophical, explore it, you will see, that the answer is lying in the problem
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When people ask questions, they are generally more engaged in finding the answer than understanding the problem. But if you study t...
Monday, April 14, 2014
Can the mind of Man - which in high degree is limited by its personal or collective images – change?
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When all this is seen – the wars, the unreasonable dividings, which the religions have created, the division which exists between th...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Meditation is to enter into the unknown
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In accordance with the Taoists, the actual thing to be present in passive listening (wu-wei), is the same as to act spontaneous (tzu-j...
Saturday, April 12, 2014
If there was no reaction the challenge would be new - a state of creation, middle and fulfilment
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The observer is a perspective, and the observed is his own perspective, otherwise he would not recognize the experience, and would not ...
Friday, April 11, 2014
The philosophical diary is not to keep a retrospective diary. It´s a spiritual practice
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You know how to keep an ordinary diary; in the evening you write down all the incidents of the day, at the same time as you make consid...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Thoughts suck life out of the present and transform knowledge and belief into reality, and reality into emptiness
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The structure of consciousness is time and its images, not only the personal images, but also the collective and universal images; alto...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
We tackle problems, which always are new, from an old pattern. This causes absence
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We don´t know how we unprejudiced can observe a problem. We want to deduce a result of the problem, we want an answer, we have s...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Contrary to religion and politics, philosophy doesn't give answers, but asks questions
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It is immensely important to ask questions; not only because you thereby expose your inner, but by questioning philosophical, by traini...
Monday, April 7, 2014
Dreams are a continuation in the sleep of the awake state´s thought-activity
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As a Life Artist, you need to have another approach to dreams. Here dreams are seen as a continuation in the sleep of the awake state´s...
Sunday, April 6, 2014
We pretend something, and there is in this way an unbelievable hypocrisy
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What is the actual core in disorder? Our existence is disorderly, split, we are absent, place ourselves outside, and are classif...
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Meditation has nothing to do with concentration. Meditation is itself the art of life.
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Meditation has nothing to do with concentration, all that which sort under the supporting exercises. Meditation is itself the ar...
Friday, April 4, 2014
Can the human being react free, and at once: This is what happens in meditation.
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When a person is aware of a danger, there happens an instant action; the instinctive, immediate reaction of the body and the memory. ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014
As a Life Artist you must find out what the mind is doing in relation to your problems.
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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? ...
When the Ego is not present, then Man, and the Otherness, can fill each other out.
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The reactions on the challenges of the world are an expression of Man as a natural being. On the other hand they are also an expre...
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