Life instructor: So, you’re about to launch yourself on Earth and enter this quest to start your own project called ‘Life’. Now, before we let you go, as one of the last steps, we’re going to entirely erase your memory so you won’t be any distracted from your life role and life purpose. Ready?
Life diver: Hold on. If you erase my memory completely, how, on earth, am I going to play my Earth character accurately, I mean, the way I should and not get misled by anything or anybody? Won’t I be just purposelessly wandering around without being aware of anything I must do there?
Life instructor: Well, it IS tricky, but it’s already settled. You’re going to have an in-built guide that’s going to help you on the way.
Life diver: What? The human brain? A logical device? Isn’t it limited to grasp metaphysical things..?
Life instructor: No, it’s not about the brain.
Life diver: Then what? The human heart? A sensitive device? Isn’t it limited to analyze? Is it not going to get in the way with me being a grounded and strategic gamer? Hardly will I go any far only relying on this kind of device…
Life instructor: Didn’t you get introduced to intuition in the course?
Life diver: Well, let’s see, intuition. Not sure there was a lecture on it, but it does sound familiar. Could you tell me, in brief, what sort of device it is? How does it function?
Life instructor: Actually, it combines both the brain and heart features, but much more advanced than those.
Life diver: Then it makes things much easier, I can merely rely on it…
Life instructor: Well, don’t underappreciate this game. It’s not going to be that easy. It will certainly direct you better than the brain and heart do, but it can also be misleading every once in a while. You know, sometimes things will be counter-intuitive. Sometimes you will have to figure out your way by trial and error. However, all the three; the brain, heart, and intuition will be more than enough to learn how to play this game well. Good players aren’t born such, they become such.
Life diver: How do I know that I have won the game?
Life instructor: it’s not the kind of game in which there are losers and winners. Everyone is a winner by default. Everyone is happy by default. Everyone is already born a happy person.
Life diver: Then what’s the point of all this if there’s no actual game whatsoever?
Life instructor: The point is in the game itself, the process of this game itself. You just enjoy the mere existence. And when you do you are a winner. If for some reason you don’t you lose the game. In fact, It’s as simple as that. And your essential task is quite simple: try to enjoy your existence for as long as possible. Try to enjoy it as profoundly as possible. But at the same time easy as it might seem it’s not gonna be as such because there’s going to be obstacles which will distract you from enjoying the existence itself and which will make you believe it’s boring like hell and isn’t worth it. Silly as it might seem you will be tempted to escape your happiness, escape being connected to your true nature, escape loneliness, escape boredom, escape silence which are all basically true happiness. You’re gonna chase after happiness wherever you can possibly go and delude yourself into thinking that you’re getting closer to it, whereas you will actually only drift apart from it. You will be like a man looking for his hat without the faintest idea that his hat might actually be on his head and there’s no real need to be so busy looking for it.
And one day you will be so tired, lost and disenchanted with all this after-happiness chasing like a piece of cheese in a hamster wheel that you will just intuitively stop somewhere surrounded by nature, like, besides a pond, on a pier, look around, look at the pond, look at the trees and bushes, look at the sky, just stand still for a minute in a complete silence… and realize that all this time you were heading the opposite direction, that you have intuitively known where you should be going, but you surrounded yourself with so much noise in your life that you just couldn’t hear what your intuition was saying, where it was leading you. You just got disconnected from it with time, as well as from your true values, as well as from your authentic self which is being which is existence which is nothingness, because there is no such thing as self. You can also call it everythingness, or oneness, or awareness, or mindfulness, or consciousness. It’s all, basically, the same. The challenge is to stay connected to it. No matter what. However, even if you get connected to this internet called intuition you will still get disconnected by various distractions.
Life diver: And how do I get connected back to it?
Life instructor: Use various intuition connectors like in the example above: be in nature, be in silence, be alone. And there are some other connectors to be encountered. And, lastly, there are 5 existential questions which will help you stay connected to your intuition. Here they are:
Where am I?
Who am I?
What am I doing here?
Where do I come from?
Where am I going to?
But be careful not to overthink those questions. You’re not going to work out direct answers to them in your mind, that’s a trap. You can only feel the answers, feel intuitively.
Life diver: But how will I go through life with directions that are hardly any clear?
Life instructor: In fact, you don’t need to have clear directions, or clear instructions, or clear roadmaps. Ultimately, it’s you who creates your own life, not some prescribed instruction or whatever. Just listen to your intuition and see where it leads you and do whatever feels right. If it doesn’t work, then do something else. Don’t think too much. You can’t really create your life in your head. You can only do it by doing it. If you’re not sure about the next action you should take, take whatever action that feels right to you. And then another one, and another one, and another one. At first, it’s gonna be quite a complicated mystery, but one of the things that makes a masterful life player is learning to be passionate about solving life mysteries. And if you put enough effort, if you’re perseverant enough, eventually you will notice that at some point the pieces in this puzzle start falling neatly into place. However, at some point, they might not, but it’s your task to figure it out for yourself and this is what actually makes life so fascinating – mystical puzzles.
Just do whatever feels right and see how puzzles connect.
Life diver: Fine, I’m ready.
Life instructor: Good. Now, It’s the final countdown. Dive deep and stay connected.
Life diver: Alright, I’m setting off.
The final countdown: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Enter.