Alexandr Korol

Well, okay, let me give you a nice illusion so you understand. The bottom line may be there. But how you get kicked as you go through the path is up to you. And I want each of you to understand that many of you are now being tempted by the system to put your hands down. Some of you want to get drunk, some of you want to become evil, some of you want to become homeless, some of you want to go into a monastery and some of you just want to give it all up. Everybody feels like they can wake up now – the feeling of tiredness. It’s like you’re tired of everything, you want to let things go, you’re tired of being on guard and always on the lookout. That’s what mindfulness is. But for you, as you go through the path, and I have gone through it, I can tell you. And what I’m telling you is that this feeling of letting go is a trap. When you put your hands down you’re going to fall asleep and you’re going to go into autopilot. And you will lose your consciousness, your awareness, until the next bad situation in your life. Then you will have a disaster in your life, maybe, if someone else gets the chance. And you’ll come to your senses and you’ll wake up again. And you will see how you were in a fog for two years or one year, you will not understand how it happened, you will regret that you missed those years and you will realise that before you put your hands down you were so cool and aware, you saw everything, you felt everything. And now you’re going to hold on to it again, and you’re going to be afraid of losing it, like me.
And then at some point you’re going to give up again. You want to relax. And so many of you may want to relax. Mystic-Old-Man has just indicated that this is not a bad thing and that it is part of the path. Well, yes, that is the way. You can relax only to find out later that it’s not good and have to be on your guard again. But it’s cool to get to a level where you don’t relax and you realise that this is your place and you’re vigilant. But not everyone gets it the first time, so they make mistakes. And that’s what I’m saying. This path and this choice can be adjusted to make it softer, so that you have less stress, so it is better to be conscious and to go to realisation voluntarily than to go through a meat grinder. And those who are less responsible for their choices and for themselves, who put everything on their own, will more often have a meat grinder in their life, that’s all. And so, along the way, you will come to a certain destination, but why do you need this mincer? Metaphorically speaking, it’s better to realise that you should behave decently and quietly in a restaurant or bar; it’s better to realise it in theory than