Question: The sage spoke a simple phrase, “A person must acquire both knowledge and wisdom.” And when asked what the difference was, he replied: “Knowledge is achieved by reading books, and wisdom is achieved by reading the book that you yourself are.”

What kind of book am I?

Answer: Life, the book of life, experience.

Question: Is this me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to read this book?

Answer: Do not forget, remember, understand how you live.

Question: So was this book written in myself?

Answer: It is written in you by your life. But only you can be imbued with it and understand it if you leaf through it.

Question: On one hand, it says “reading.” You just said, “It is being written.” What does it mean to write this book in myself?

Answer: Writing is my writing it myself. Every day, every minute, at every moment, I solve some problems or tasks set for me and take them into action. And here I just need to understand how all this happens, which decision is correct, and which is not.

Question: If this is a book that must be read, what is the correct solution?

Answer: I must think through what I am doing, what I need, why and how, make a decision, and act.

Question: How can one make the right decision?

Answer: I must make the right decisions as if each were the last, final decision, and I will not be given an opportunity to redo.

Comment: So you do not give any room for error at all. You seem to say: “This is your decision and that is it.”

My Response: How will you correct these errors? There is no error correction. Now I have made a decision and that is it.

Question: What is this book written with?

Answer: The book of life is written with doubts and blood.

Question: Does blood mean suffering?

Answer: Of course.

Question: So this whole book, it is scary to say, is in blood, that is, in my suffering, in what I went through, and what humanity went through? That is my book.

Answer: Yes, we have been living this way for thousands of years.

Question: Is this the correct scripture? Is that how it was supposed to be written?

Answer: Yes, there is no other way.

Comment: That is, I do not regret anything, nothing that happened, all the suffering that happened, including the most terrible. It turns out that all this was necessary to write a book.

My Response: Yes.

Question: What are the last lines in it? What does this book lead to?

Answer: It encourages us to open our eyes even wider and look at the world clearly. And we would see that it is only we who paint a picture of this world and ourselves in it. In reality there is nothing else.

Question: Except what?

Answer: Except that we determine all this.

Question: Do we determine the existence of this world? Just the way it is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is it really like?

Answer: There is no world.

Question: What is it there?

Answer: Whatever you define is what it is.

Question: But do I exist?

Answer: Whatever you define.

Question: That is, I determine that this is such a world, and I determine that it is me in it? And that’s all?

Answer: That is it!

Question: What is there?

Answer: There is nothing except your impression of how you draw it.

Question: Let us say that I come to this, although it is not easy to understand. I come to this, so what? And that is where this book takes me?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: They say that after all we are led to happiness.

My Response: What happiness?! Is someone telling you about sky-high happiness? About the fact that there will be some kind of happiness at the end of days?

Question: What do they lead to then? I want to believe…

Answer: Toward that you get to know the world in which you found yourself in.

Question: And is this how I am led by these sufferings and blows, just to get acquainted with this world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But they beat me for some reason. Not just for me to get to know the world. Is there something I should gain from all this?

Answer: You do not gain anything from this except a place in the cemetery. Nothing else.

Comment: I still want to hear something from you about some kind of plan.

My Response: You do not need anything! Thoughts like yours, they only drag a person into all sorts of impossible dreams, thoughts, and so on.

Question: Do you say, “We need to calm down”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: If possible, let us summarize. I read this book of life, write it, live my book of life in order to come to the point of…?

Answer: Do not ask for anything.

Question: Can we stop here?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I ask all the time, and it works. And you say: “I must come to the point that I am not asking for anything”?

Answer: Nothing! So this is the world, this is life, and I exist in it in order to calm down.

Question: Can we say that by this I accept everything that comes to me? Is this the result of this book?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do I just accept everything?

Answer: Everything.

Question: I still want to add. Is all this good? Is it something good? Or do you not want to answer this?

Answer: I do not want to tell you what does not exist. A person is very scared, and therefore he still hopes that he will get something good from this hard life at the end.

Question: Do you say: “All the good is that you accept everything”? Is this the result of my life and this book?

Answer: Yes, the result of your life is to understand the real nature in which there is a clear law. And if you fulfill it, then you fulfill it; if not, then no. And to this extent you agree.

Question: What law is this?

Answer: This is the law “to each according to his work on himself.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/9/23

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