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How can one learn not to fear death?

By contemplating it. Not by imagining how you will die, but by reflecting on what you will lose if you do. Detach yourself in advance, even before death, from everything you are attached to, everything you cannot let go of. That’s why there are so many practices where people renounce wealth, material possessions, sex, and pleasures. They retreat into solitude to reject external stimuli and delve deeply within themselves. All of this is aimed at parting with everything that holds you in your physical form – everything that prevents you from becoming pure fuel for ignition. So to speak, this is what does not «burn,» that is, the feelings and sensations that bind you to this part of the labyrinth of illusions with iron chains, which cannot ignite.

But people say that our thoughts create reality. And if I start contemplating death, won’t I attract it? I’ve been told that the main reason people die is because they allow thoughts of death. In old age or youth, they either call upon it in weakness or fear it in health, and thus it comes. I’ve been told that if you learn never to think about death, you can live a very long time in physical form.

That’s true. But your question indicates that you are afraid of death.

It’s not so much that I’m directly afraid, but I still don’t want to die yet. Isn’t there a way for a person to choose their time of death when they are ready for it?

Of course, there is. But that’s not the point. The question is not when you will die or how long you will live, or whether you will die at a time of your choosing. The real question is: how much are you striving for enlightenment in this life? If you choose to explore your life in all its details, pleasures, nuances, and possibilities, then you are simply wandering through the labyrinth of illusions. You are choosing to explore it consciously rather than stumbling through it blindly. Imagine the labyrinth as having walls lined with screens, each showing different lives and realities. You can step into each screen and experience the life or game behind it. If before, you stumbled upon these screens accidentally and entered different situations unconsciously, now you want to consciously explore them all.

That’s why you don’t want to leave the labyrinth of illusions, and that’s why you want to prolong your physical life or return to it again – because, metaphorically speaking, you haven’t traveled enough or played enough with these illusions. You can also imagine this as a tree you are climbing, moving along the branches of this wondrous tree and exploring them. Each branch bears different fruits, and you want to taste them all. But if you are only focused on reaching upward, uninterested in the branches or fruits, you aim directly for the sun along the trunk. This happens when you have tasted all the fruits, or you are no longer interested and don’t want to wait. Then you channel your consciousness straight toward enlightenment. In this case, thoughts of death become simply a readiness to rise, a readiness to abandon all the fruits with their tastes and aromas. This is the desire for ignition. You are like a candle with a wick inside. But all that wax surrounding the wick – your life’s wax – is very impure, and because of this, the wick either cannot ignite or burns very weakly.

Throughout your life, your life’s wax gradually burns away, and the candle smolders. But when the candle burns down completely, you become the fire – a brief flare where the body of the candle, its life wax, fully dissolves. And then you die. But if, while still alive, you manage to dissolve all the life’s excess wax, the body of the candle, and free the wick – your divine spirit embedded within you – you can ignite while still alive.

What happens to those who ignite while still alive? I mean their physical body and their further path.

Everything is individual; it happens differently for everyone. BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL DIFFERENT, AND YOUR PATHS VARY. THE DEGREE OF YOUR READINESS FOR THIS PROCESS DIFFERS. THAT IS, YOUR LEVEL OF PURITY VARIES, AND FOR EACH OF YOU, THE CONCEPTS OF POSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY COMBINE DIFFERENTLY. That’s why some ignite with the loss of their physical body, like some of your yogis, while others ignite while keeping their physical body.

We still haven’t talked about meditation.

We’ve been talking about it all along. Because meditation is not just sitting in silence. What you understand as meditation is a process. But true meditation is a result. More precisely, it is a state of consciousness, a way of life, a natural way of being. What you call meditation is simply the path to real meditation, which is a constant, natural state of consciousness. But we will talk about this another time, if you are interested.

Of course, I’m interested! That’s why I came to you. Thank you for your clarifications and help.

And I thank you for seeking your path and trying to help others find theirs. But do not despair. For your whole life is a movement toward enlightenment, for nothing else is given. The only question is how much you resist this process. So just learn to trust it, and everything will come naturally. The flow of life will carry you and direct you toward enlightenment.

Lesson 2. Awaken the Buddha Within

Hello, Buddha. Shall we continue?

Greetings, oh soul. We shall continue if that is your wish.

You are trying to tell us what enlightenment is and what must be done to attain it. The first condition is to accept your death as a natural and desirable part of the enlightenment process and to not fear it. This means not clinging to earthly existence or earthly illusion.

Yes, that is an essential condition. Changes within you are only possible when you allow them into your life. Not just allow, but throw the doors wide open to the flow of life and fully surrender to its currents.

When you say to fully surrender, do you mean our mind?

The mind itself is not the barrier. But the qualities of your mind keep you captive in illusions.

Does this mean, for example, that plants, which have no mind, can easily and freely become enlightened? Or are they already enlightened?

As you were told, enlightenment is the sense of unity with all that exists. The consciousness of the plant kingdom is not as separated from the planetary spirit’s consciousness as yours is; it is less individualized. Therefore, it could be said that the plant kingdom is partially enlightened. This is because plant consciousness is not fully detached from the consciousness of its realm, its unity. In this sense, plants are more enlightened than you. However, the functions of plants are limited compared to yours. Their capabilities are more restricted. They are mastering the tasks of the second density and will also need to continue evolving through the stages of spiritual evolution.

But this confuses me. There’s a theory that the soul goes through different stages of separation and return to unity. That it descends first to the first level, starting with the mineral kingdom, and gradually moves up the ladder of evolution, mastering new abilities of the Creative Spirit. After the plant kingdom, it ascends to the animal kingdom and undergoes its experience there. Then it rises to human consciousness and continues evolving. But if humans acquire a mind that hinders enlightenment, isn’t that a kind of degradation? If plants are more enlightened than animals and humans, then what’s the point of it all? Doesn’t this make the whole path seem wrong?

There are no right or wrong paths. At each level of development, there are ways to achieve enlightenment. Every essence, as it moves along its path of growth, always has the potential for enlightenment, meaning the restoration of its connection to unity. Among you, there are enlightened minerals, enlightened plants, and enlightened animals.

Are you referring to whales and dolphins? But aren’t they remnants of some alien race that originally came to Earth to help humanity, and that’s why they remain a sufficiently enlightened alien race?

They did come to this planet, and a similar form of existence was created for them, although their original appearance was slightly different. They are also in the realm of duality, at the third density transitioning into the fourth, yet they were able to achieve enlightenment by reconnecting with the elements of Earth’s spirit – thus becoming restored unity. What I mean is that each level has different directions for development: to follow the path of unity or to follow the path of separation. Each of you and every essence at every level of development constantly chooses between these two polar forces. Depending on the choice, each essence is more or less enlightened. Humanity was given the mind to realize the ability for knowledge and exploration. Humanity was also given emotions, which many races lack and which are absent in the plant and animal kingdoms. By combining this palette of emotions with the qualities of the mind, you are meant to find the most optimal balance between unity and separation.

Have you found it?

What I have found is my path. And the path of each individual cannot resemble the path of another because all essences are different. They have different radiances, different experiences that cannot be exactly repeated.

Help us find it. Maybe you could tell us about your path?

My path is simple. And you already have much information about it. But alright, I am willing to try again. If you learn to feel and realize unity with all that exists during life, then in the afterlife you will experience the same.

But isn’t it said that in the afterlife, everyone restores that unity, everyone returns to the Father, and then each is asked if they want to return to the consciousness of separation. And most choose to return.

Yes. But that is a slightly different quality, a different perspective. How can I explain it to you… Well, imagine that there is a maze in which you wander, a kind of game where you roam the maze looking for clues, prizes, or gifts. Or toys. Imagine you told a child that there is a maze filled with new toys, and they rushed to find them. Then, at a certain point, when you see that the child is tired and lost in the maze, needing a break and a reminder that there is an exit so they aren’t afraid of the maze, you bring them back, let them rest, and ask: Will you go again? And what child would refuse an exciting game of searching for toys? They will rush back in and begin to get lost again in the same passages, following the same routes. Less developed individuals will just chaotically dart around the maze, as humanity does. More developed ones will start drawing a map of the maze and trying to exit in groups, which is also happening with you. But in reality, something else needs to be done. You need to rise above the maze, look at it from a bird’s-eye view, broadening your perspective of the maze. And when your consciousness rises above the maze you’re wandering in, you’ll realize the maze is endless. Which means you can wander through it endlessly. You’ll see the layout of the maze. You’ll see where the toys are hidden. However, the desire to seek them will fade. Because you’ll understand that wandering through the maze forever is a futile and pointless task.

There is no exit?

If you are inside the maze, there is no exit. There are only winding passages created by your imagination and perception. Then you abandon the maze as a meaningless endeavor and leave it. You leave this density. That is my path.

But after leaving the maze of illusions, what did you gain? What came next?

Next was the Ocean of Consciousness, in which I remain to this day. When I choose to become the ocean, I become it and submerge into it, losing myself. When I choose to become the current of the ocean, I emerge from it and find myself.

And what is the purpose of this?

There is no purpose. There is awareness, and there is the discovery of your depth.

So, you are following the path of the Absolute of absolutes. The Absolute once told me that His path is separation into forms to know Himself in all details. And His Absolute’s path is deepening, the exploration of His own depth.

I follow my own path, and nothing else is possible. I chose the path of immersion, not separation.

Then can you tell us about the path of immersion, the exploration of one’s depth?

It is impossible to describe. It is beyond the possibilities of human words. Such concepts do not exist in your language or understanding of the world. But I will try nonetheless. Are you afraid of depth? Are you capable of diving into any ocean depth without fear?

Probably not. Or rather, let me put it this way: if I could breathe underwater, I wouldn’t be afraid to dive deep.

You are always setting conditions. If we were talking about boundless trust in the process of life, in the process of enlightenment… You are not ready for this complete, total trust. This complete and total trust is the process of full surrender, giving yourself over. Imagine you are in the flooded compartment of a sunken ship. And you need to get out. Before you is a tunnel filled with water. You don’t know how long it is or how much air you have left. Maybe you won’t reach the next compartment, or maybe you will. Can you dive into that tunnel without fear and simply trust the process, trust the paths of Spirit within you?

Without fear, probably not. But everything will depend on the level of motivation. If, let’s say, on the other side, in another section, there is someone close to me who needs help, for example, my child, THEN I WILL STILL DIVE IN.

That’s wonderful. But this is not about a heroic deed; it’s about complete and total trust. You can’t trust the process because you’re constantly afraid of losing something, without understanding that there’s nothing to lose. You are simply the energy of Spirit, which cannot be lost. No matter what form you take, you always remain. But this is a very difficult step for you to grasp. What do you need to do to fully trust the process of life?

I don’t know. You know that better than me.

You need to overcome your fear.

But how do I do that? After all, I’ve been told that fear is a disease of consciousness, a virus that needs to be cured. You can’t just get rid of it.

I got rid of it.

You came into incarnation with more complete consciousness.

But I also had to struggle through the labyrinth of illusions. Do you remember the story of how I was a prince, living with everything I wanted, but one day I saw the suffering of others and was shocked by the contrast to the life I had led? This is a symbolic comparison. That was the rising above the labyrinth of illusions and understanding the futility of wandering through it.

But what should we do? How do we get rid of the fear of losing?

Just lose.

So, give up everything? Go into a hermit’s life?

Or be ready to lose everything at any moment. Because only then can you truly gain everything. They are connected.

How do I do that?

Simply ask yourself: are you ready to lose everything?

I don’t know. Probably not. Rather, it depends on what for.

For gaining everything.

These are such general words. They seem theoretically understandable, but for us, it’s still an abstraction. It turns out we have to lose everything for something unknown.

Exactly.

Are you saying we need to learn not to fear the unknown?

Yes. Because the unknown doesn’t exist.

You’re talking about diving into the depth, meaning that if we dive into the depth of Spirit, we lose our personal aspects?

You lose your partiality and gain your depth. You gain everything. You no longer need to explore every flavor; you will acquire all possible flavors. You no longer need to explore every scent; you will encompass all scents. You no longer need to explore every shade of color individually; you will hold all possible shades of all colors. For example, you won’t isolate the red color for study but will dive into the properties of red light, gaining its depth, its richness. Here’s a similar analogy: you don’t examine the shades; you immerse yourself in the richness of red color.

You’re saying the unknown doesn’t exist. Does this mean that when my consciousness becomes whole, I will somehow know everything, and therefore, the unknown doesn’t exist?

You will simply become everything. Can «everything» not know something?

We’re all learning the art of creation. From the perspective of creation, what is the process of diving into depth? I mean, when we learn creation through separation, we choose different colors each time, deciding how to lay them on the canvas of the Tapestry of the Universe. But if we follow the path of immersion, how does creation happen then?

You still have to master the creation of form. But this is the creation of unity. Like comparing a flat picture to a three-dimensional one. Think of your cartoons or movies. You paint the plot of the picture by applying colors to the canvas. But that picture is two-dimensional. Then, if you follow the path of immersion, you give the painting depth, starting with three-dimensionality, and you immerse yourself in it. It’s like stepping into a television screen or entering a painting, passing through it as a portal into the depth of your creation. And there, too, you paint a profound picture and immerse yourself in it.

But this is the process of creating realities, right?

Yes. Exactly.

So, the process of creating realities with our minds, as a process of creation, is the combination of the path of separation into form and the path of immersion into depth?

All your actions, all your awareness, is such a combination in different proportions for each of you. This is precisely why each person’s path is so unique.

Will you teach us how to dive into the depth?

I will tell you about this path. The path into the depth of Spirit.

Did Jesus follow a different path?

You can ask Him that. He walked the path of Love.

What are the differences?

The difference lies in the way of joining, in the path of attaining one’s unity. He showed you the way of reunification of every external form with its unity. And this can be done through love, which is the feeling of connection with all forms. You love your child, and therefore you are ready to take on her suffering and pain. This is the path of compassion. This is the path of love. The path where you unite with your child and ease her suffering. You merge with her and for a moment become one with her. You are ready to give her everything you have, that is, to cease to exist for her sake. This is the path of love. The path where the form does not feel its unity and suffers in its separation. And therefore, you give it your strength and the feeling of unity with you. Because since you love her, you already feel unity with her. Jesus loved and loves all in this way. He feels, he is aware of his unity with everything and gives everyone the opportunity, through his channel of love, to reunite with their own unity. It’s like reunification from the outside. Like a process of hugging, where two people simply connect for a while, exchange energies, and feel their unity. In this sense, Jesus constantly embraces the whole world. All that exists.

I, however, walk the path of discovering my unity from within. I tell you: I am in you, and you are in me. We are one. You can find me within yourself. And I can find you within myself. For we are not divided. For all divisions are conditional. In me is all the detail of the world. And in you is all the detail of the world. The only difference is that these are different details.

Different? If we are one, how can these details be different?

Because you have your depth, and I have mine. We are different, and yet we are one, and we are the same.

Wait. You probably mean that there is some depth accessible to everyone, which connects all, that is, the Absolute. And each of us, in our own way, explores and discovers the same depth. But then it turns out that everyone has their own Buddha.

Exactly. Everyone has their own Buddha. And everyone discovers him in their own way. They discover their Buddha within themselves.

By Buddha, do we mean a certain level of consciousness, or directly you?

Directly me. Let’s not talk about me first, because it will be hard for you to understand. You smell a flower and feel its fragrance. The scent of a lily or a rose. But this is an external path. At the moment of perceiving the scent of the flower, you reunite with it. And this is the path of Love, the path of Jesus. You love the flower when you inhale its beautiful fragrance.

Sorry to interrupt. But if I smell something that has a really bad odor, does it also count as the path of love, even though I don’t like that smell?

Yes. Because you are separated from it. Do you love your own smells? Mostly, you don’t even distinguish them. But in a bad smell, you distinguish, you separate. But in reality, there is not a single smell outside of you that is not literally present within you.

Do you mean that I can reveal this smell within myself? Or that my body contains all smells, including bad ones, but I just don’t notice them because I’m used to them?

Not because you’re used to them, but because they are your smells, you are one with them, they are part of you. Therefore, it’s not a habit but actually a level of unity. When you perceive a being outside of you as separate, you perceive its smells as separate from you. And that’s why some become unacceptable to you.

Why some in particular? By this logic, the scent of a rose should also become unpleasant to me, because the rose is separate from me.

It’s about the rose.

The rose?

Yes. Because the rose has learned to reunite with you.

Has the rose learned, while I haven’t?

Exactly. The rose can unite with anyone who smells it. This is the level of a beautiful flower, a high level of development within the plant kingdom, and therefore a level of attaining unity. This is why anyone who smells a rose perceives its scent as delightful: they begin to feel a sense of unity with the rose because it knows how to become one with a person. On the other hand, plants or other entities that emit unpleasant smells have simply not learned how to achieve their unity outside of themselves, to give their unity, to restore it every time during interaction and communication.

So, does this mean that people have different scents? And if I think someone smells nice, does it mean I can find my unity with them?

No. It means that the person can find unity with you because the scent is theirs, and the perception is yours. If the process is mutual, you both perceive each other’s pleasant smells. As an example, the secretions of a baby almost have no odor.

But that’s because the baby’s food is milk.

No. That’s because the baby’s food is love. Love is passed through the mother’s milk to the child.

What about wet nurses or artificial milk?

You’ve sensed this correctly. In those cases, love is transmitted to a lesser extent, or not at all. However, there are many instances where wet nurses convey love through their milk, a love that simply resides in their hearts for all children. That’s why their milk is abundant, and they generously give it to other children without seeing them as strangers in that sense.

You’re opening up so many new topics for me that we’re constantly straying from the topic of enlightenment.

No, we aren’t straying. We’re diving deeper into it.

So, breastfeeding is not just about nourishing the baby’s physical body but about literally transmitting love through a flow of energy. Is that the connection between the mother and child?

You’re catching on quickly. Although the nourishment of the physical body is present, it’s not primary. The first part is more important.

So, if a person emits unpleasant smells, like a homeless person, does that mean they don’t see unity with me?

It also means that you don’t see or feel unity with them. It’s a mutual process, of course. When you smell a rose, it gives you its love and sense of unity with you. You, receiving this sincere and pure gesture, respond to it and open up to it, open up to this scent. You don’t reject it, and in doing so, you allow it to unite with you. For the rose only smells when it unites with you. Likewise, you only emit a scent when someone leans in to smell you. But when you see a homeless person, you’re already predisposed to separate yourself from them, and they do the same. Your scents mutually reject each other, and you don’t accept one another.

Are you saying that a homeless person’s smell should become pleasant to me?

There are different paths. If you don’t separate yourself from the homeless person and feel unity with them, their scent won’t bother you. It will be your scent, and one’s own scent doesn’t bother them.

So, does this mean that a person’s ability to reveal unity with others can be recognized through their smell?

Yes, but we’re talking about a natural scent, not perfumes or fragrances. The same goes for taste, or any other level of perception. When each level of perception recognizes everything as beautiful, that is the consciousness of unity.

So, you sense beauty in everything and everyone – in every smell and every taste?

Yes. Otherwise, you won’t be able to understand the depth. You just won’t immerse yourself in a stench, unaware that it’s unpleasant not because it’s inherently bad but because you are unable to open up your unity with it. Just as it cannot open its unity with you.

Speaking of fragrances, it’s no coincidence that there’s a tradition of burning incense in temples. How can this be explained?

It’s an attempt to create unity, to create an atmosphere of togetherness. If each person in the temple were given a fragrant rose, they would start to open up to its scent and its level of unity. Each person would then have a chance to open up their unity with those who are also inhaling the scent of the rose.

So, it’s better to go pray not in temples, but in a rose garden.

Exactly. In a rose garden, it’s easy to feel your unity, at least with the rose. But there are many places where you cannot feel unity. Therefore, the rose garden is excellent as a start and as a reference point. When you enter a place filled with foul odors, imagine a rose garden – literally. Then you bring the fragrance of the rose garden to that place, manifesting the unity of the rose in the space you have entered. This is how any scent can be used. But your mistake is that you light incense outside of yourselves and fail to find fragrances within you. You need to reveal the scent of the rose from within. You must remember the scent of the rose garden, fixate on it, and find it within yourself, and in any place, activate that scent of the rose garden, as if turning it on. This is not merely a psychological process of adjusting your sensory receptors. It goes deeper. It’s an energetic process, akin to pouring living water into stagnant water. It’s like airing out a room, bringing fresh air into a closed space. In a literal sense, closed, because most of your consciousness is locked.

We have shifted to the fragrance of a flower and its unfolding within ourselves to better understand how to awaken the Buddha within?

Yes. Essentially, it is the same process. You awaken me within yourself.

And in this sense, I am also the path. You can simply awaken the Buddhist consciousness within yourself. That means to reveal the characteristics of Buddhist consciousness within you. But still, it’s the same process. Because then you will follow my path, and in this way, you will awaken me within yourself. But you will awaken a different version of me. Because in each of you, I will manifest differently. And there won’t be a single identical Buddha in each of you. But you can also directly call upon my consciousness from outside, so that, like a rose, I can let you experience the fragrance of my consciousness, the fragrance of Buddhism, so that you can inhale it and try to reunite with me through yourself. Through your own depth. That is why I say: I reside within you, and you reside within me, and we are one.

I am trying to visualize this with my linear mind. I was told that we are all parts, cells of God’s body, and therefore, we literally reside within Him. But you also reside in Him. How then can we simultaneously reside in you? Only if we are also within you. But we are also in Jesus. So, in linear terms, you and Jesus must also be one, and that’s why we reside in each of you, and each of you resides in us. This thesis also seems to make sense. But still, you and Jesus are distinct beings, and you also interact with each other. How can this be understood?

You are intuitively sensing the answer. Try to formulate it yourself. After all, you must awaken the Buddha within yourself. And Jesus within yourself. If I tell you how to do it, you will be trying to follow my path, and that is impossible.

Alright, I’ll try, but correct me if I go wrong. You and Jesus are separate beings. But each of you feels your unity with the other, and therefore, when we speak of Jesus, we are speaking of the Buddha within Jesus, and when we speak of you, we are speaking of Jesus within you. And the Buddha within Jesus is not the Buddha. And Jesus within the Buddha is not Jesus, because in each case there is a certain distinction. Probably the perspective of awareness. But at the same time, it is one and the same, like interconnected vessels. Like two jars in the ocean of consciousness. And each of us, if we seek the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken the Buddha within ourselves. But if we awaken the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken Jesus in the Buddha. And vice versa. If one follows the path of Jesus and awakens Jesus within oneself, one also awakens the Buddha within Jesus. And that is why each resides within the other, and all is one. But I still can’t imagine this spatially. It’s like a nesting doll within a nesting doll, but where is the division between Jesus and the Buddha?