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[Alexandr Korol]

History,” making a very good comparative analogy — an example that if we are living in a simulation, in virtual realities, I gave a whole bunch of film references, which were given to me by the Spirits to help me learn. They showed that when you immerse yourself in any reality, interacting with a person, it already generates a whole set of false thoughts and feelings within you. And you must realize that these are not your thoughts and feelings, and you must understand that the world you have entered is not you, it’s just a virtual reality. And as long as you remember that you’ve only stepped into a virtual reality as a guest, you remain aware. But the moment you forget — like in the movie “Inception,” about dreams — the moment you forget what is real and what is not, that’s it, you become a hostage of that virtual reality, and you can perish there, disappear. And bodhi — and in general nirvana — is precisely when you have no attachments at all, when you are so conscious that regardless of where you are and who you are with, wherever you may be, you remain here and now. That is, you remain as if in the “corridor,” you remain as if in the eighth corner. You observe the world from the outside, but you don’t drown in it, in that world, you don’t fall into those illusions, you don’t fall asleep there. On the contrary, you are awakened — you have woken up. And you are aware of the entire actual reality.
“So, it is more accurate to understand the term bodhi as “spiritual awakening” rather than “enlightenment.” The state of bodhi is attained after the destruction of the ten fetters that bind the human essence to the wheel of samsara; after the Four Noble Truths have been realized, all sensory influences on the person fade away (nirodha), giving way to supreme peace (nibbana). Within the person’s consciousness, such mental qualities are eradicated as greed (lobha), aversion (dosa), delusion (moha), ignorance (Sanskrit — avidya, Pali — avijja), craving (tanha), and egoism (Sanskrit — atma, Pali — atta, literally: “I”). Bodhi is the ultimate goal of every Buddhist’s life (dharmakarya). It is attained by following the Noble Eightfold Path (arya-ashtanga-marga), cultivating virtues (paramita), and penetrating the depth of wisdom into the nature of interdependent phenomena.” Well then, soon I will become a true Buddhist. Let’s read about what the Four Noble Truths are, and then move on to what the Eightfold Path is.