Gustav Wik

Tao Te Ching's wisdom has existed for thousands of years, ever since we humans began to create communities. It is even more present-day than ever before. Please learn what Tao Te Ching tells us, use intuition to understand its message, and apply it in your life. After your reading, you will see life here on Earth differently. We all know that our life will expire and our world will perish. After that ensues, however, Tao is still there. Tao Te Ching tells us about Tao. Tao is eternal and infinite. Tao that we cannot describe. Tao that we can only reach through deep contact with our origin. When we follow Tao, the Earth will again become a paradise. After your reading, you will worry about life here on Earth. We all know that our life will expire and our world will perish. After that ensues, however, Tao is still there. Tao Te Ching tells us about Tao, which is eternal and infinite. Tao that we cannot describe. Tao that we can only reach through deep contact with our origin.When we have learned to follow Tao, the Earth will again become Paradise.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was a German philosopher. His most important work is The World as Will and Representation, in which he characterizes world phenomena as coming from a blind and insatiable inner drive of ours. The somewhat abstract philosophy of Schopenhauer soon became coined as philosophical pessimism and presented so to the 20th-century Western world. In some textbooks, though, he is also noted to be among the first thinkers to share and affirm essential tenets of Eastern philosophy. In "The World as Will and Representation," Schopenhauer presents the "Will" as a blind power that controls not only the actions of every individual but ultimately all observable phenomena of the world. He also sees human desire, "willing," and craving as the cause of our sufferings and pains. The person who can grasp that will stop perceiving the world's phenomenon as a mere presentation but can instead become one with these perceptions to "no longer separate the perceiver from the perception." After this merging with the world, she no longer views herself as an individual who suffers in the world, but instead, she becomes a "subject of cognition" to a view that is "pure, will-less, and timeless," and shows the world's essence. I would say that Schopenhauer understood the old texts derived from the Upanishads, Vedas, and the Buddha and that it was their message he wanted us to hear and grasp. Our scholars found many arguments against that view, and in lack of further avowals, they proclaimed his work as "philosophical pessimism." However, those who defined Schopenhauer as a pessimist only show their ignorance of the Indians and the Buddha's message that; freedom from clinging and grasping takes away our suffering. Schopenhauer was a man of many words. In this book, I have focused on the message from "The World as Will and Representation," and have condensed those words to a minuscule of what they once were. To illustrate them, I have used old pictures from a trip I once made through West Africa and Sahara. Events confronting me during the journey so many times forced me to accept the world around me as it was, with no chance to "perceive its phenomenon as a mere manifestation." It compelled me to become one with my perception of them.

Niccol Machiavelli's "The Prince" is half a millennium old but is more important now than ever before. The book is easy to understand and your heart knows that its suggestions are true. It describes our endless combat for power. It tells us how we may become princes and how we then keep that position. I have condensed The Prince into few words. Historical accounts are omitted and replaced by hand-dyed drawings of 60 flowers and one snake, to assist attention and contemplation. The illustrations also remind you that conflicts and politics relentlessly change, whereas the social mechanisms that create them remain the same. When you contemplate Machiavelli's words, you will see our current political world. You will see a new American prince who struggles like a lion to gain control of his land. You will understand why nobody can overthrow the president of Turkey and how Russia's president carefully consolidated and increased his powers with a fox's astuteness. On a personal level, you will see why or why you did not, strengthen and expand your mandate at home, among friends, or at your workplace. At a personal level, praiseworthy or not, these words of Machiavelli will turn this book into a practical guide for ensuring and advancing your dominion.

Niccol Machiavellis bok Fursten r ett halvt rtusende gammal men r nu viktigare n n gonsin tidigare. Boken r l tt att l sa och man f rst r intuitivt att det som st r d r r sant. Den beskriver psykologin bakom m nniskornas eviga stridigheter. Den f rklarar hur man handlar f r att bli furste och hur man sedan blir kvar vid makten. I boke har jag f rt tat Machiavellis text till f ord. Hans omfattande historiska redog relserna r ersatta med 60 handkolorerade bilder p blommor och en bild p en orm. Det har jag gjort det f r att sk rpa l sarens uppm rksamhet och meditationskraft. Det r ocks meningen att bilderna p minner oss ocks om att inneh llet i konflikter och politik f r ndras dagligen medan de m nskliga medf dda mekanismer som ligger bakom r f rblir desamma genom generation. Den som betraktar Machiavellis ord kommer se v r nuvarande politiska v rld i ett nytt ljus. Vi ser hur en nye amerikansk furste drastiskt f rs ker f rnya sitt land och hur han k mpar som ett lejon f r att f kontroll. Har han tillr ckligt med r vens listighet f r att kunna g ra det? Riskerar ett alltf r snabbt utvidgat EU att falla s nder? Kan Turkiets furste st rtas? Varf r har Ryssland blivit s starkt? P ett personligt plan kommer vi f rst varf r eller varf r vi inte kunnat konsolidera och expandera v ra positioner hemma, bland v nner, eller p v rt arbete. P den h r personliga niv n, lovv rt eller inte lovv rt, kommer Niccol Machiavellis Betraktelser omvandlas till en praktisk handbok i att hantera och ut ka v rt personliga utrymme.

Tao Te Ching's visdom har funnits sedan vi m nniskor b rjade skapa samh llen. Den r trots det mer aktuell nu n n gonsin tidigare. Ta del av den, f rst den med din intuition och och anv nd dig av den. T nk sedan ver om det g r s mycket att v rlden g r under. F r om v rlden g r under s finns nd Tao kvar. Det r om Tao som boken handlar. Detta Tao som b de r evig och o ndlig. Tao som inte kan beskrivas och som vi aldrig kan f rst p annat s tt n genom kontakt med v rt innersta, v rt ursprung. Skulle vi m nniskor f lja Tao s skulle jorden igen bli ett paradis. I v ntan p att det ska ske kan vi inte g ra s mycket annat n att se p medan m nniskornas st ndigt kande kunskaper h rjar runt i v rlden.

The book is about strange events. Tom gave me a vision. Carol took me to Scotland, where I found a dead little boy. Evil forces took control of me and forced me to seek acupuncture in China, where spirits from past lives took me deep into hell. I met Flora, who was so different, and Walter, who never came to understand. Professor M treated my sickness, JM applied Dragon Acupuncture to lethal unresolved conflicts, and Mai taught me Floating Tai Chi. Sheila and Ken had a baby girl.

How can we survive when we are under constant attack? How can we survive when they destroy our homes and kill our loved ones? The answer is True Meditation. It is about total surrender to reality, to what is in our minds, inside our bodies, and outside in the immense world around us. It is about letting you die, every day, to everything you ever wanted to have or never wanted to lose. True meditation is about observing objects or thoughts as they are, without interference from your disturbing cognitive mind.