Question: There is a psychological attitude called “postponed or delayed life syndrome.” This is when a person perceives his life as a draft or a rehearsal before something big and meaningful, which will come later in the future, as if people are going to live forever.
There is an example of a senator who wakes up and suddenly prestige and political success no longer are important to him, despite the fact that he is a politician. He really wants to enjoy life: have breakfast with a friend, be in the company of his wife, and read a book or a magazine.
What happened? He was diagnosed with cancer. Is this really the only thing that can prompt a person to suddenly wake up and start living?
Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly! When he is certainly promised a close end, everything else just disappears from the horizon and loses its importance. Everything.
Question: Does everything that was the most important thing in life suddenly become vanity? Is this the kind of fear we should experience?
Answer: Of course! Precisely! It is like Woland said in The Master and Margarita. One cannot escape that.
Comment: Actually, this does not really say why the mind is given to us, to Homo sapiens (wise men).
My Response: It is only so that we realize that this is how we live. As soon as the end is clearly known to us, then everything other than the end can no longer interest us.
Question: Do we suddenly start looking for real values when we know the end is here?
Answer: But what can we find if the end is here?
Comment: This senator found some simple truth.
My Response: Go for a drink, have a meal with friends and with a woman, and so on. All this also happens after the reassessment of these events and values. Therefore everything loses its taste. There is nothing left here but to live every second that you have so that you feel less pain. That is all.
Question: And more enjoyment?
Answer: He just needs drugs and that is it. Switch off calmly, my friend.
Question: Then what do you call a true moment that was lived correctly, with dignity?
Answer: I am not in favor of living for just one moment at all. That is not my philosophy.
My philosophy is that life should consist of such moments constantly, from moment to moment, again and again. Then it will be possible to think that this cancer, or some other fatal disease, or the end in general, which everyone has by the way, are not important. And then a person will clearly understand what is given to him, why, for what, how he should live it, what to leave, and what to do with himself.
Question: What should we invest in these moments? Let’s say I agree with you: live every moment and prepare for the next moment.
Answer: Elevate yourself above your animalistic nature and as quickly and brightly as possible, more effectively achieve the quality of bestowal and love, which does not relate to our world. And thus, as they say, prepare yourself for the future world. That is all. It will be a very effective use of this world, this life, for the sake of the future world and the future life.
Question: Do you think that when a person is given such a limit, called an “incurable disease” or something, it is done precisely for this?
Answer: Yes, for this! It is necessary to prepare people who will serve these so-called unfortunate. I do not consider them unfortunate. I believe that they have been given a great opportunity to correct themselves, change themselves, and raise themselves to the level of the next world.
Question: To the level of this love?
Answer: Yes. May they enter it with no problems.
Question: Does it turn out that those who remain in this world that burn it with the pleasures of this world are the unfortunate ones?
Answer: Yes. The others can already rise to this in advance! Suddenly they see there is no disease. Then the question is: Why did I do all this? 🙂 Someone deceived me so meanly.
Question: Yes. The doctors will say, “My dear, everything is fine with you.” Is this such a trick that the Creator does with a person? Are you really for such tricks?
Answer: I am in favor of deceiving a person so that he solves the correct equation with his life and death. And in order for him to change his life based on this decision.
Question: Does the word “deceived” not bother you?
Answer: No, of course not. This is an egoist! He should be deceived big time! We should trick egoism all our lives, the way it tricks us now. This is already a serious, borderline deception.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/4/22
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