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Pleasure before business, my little buffoons. Who said the opposite? Your pain is my gain, or even my amusement, so!

• There is illusion of image, and there is illusion of action.

• Motion is not what you do but rather, what is happening.

• You are not living your life – life is happening to you.

• You are directed by a strict script, and for this reason —

• You are free to daydream but bound in your choice of fate.

What other insulting things can I say to you? I’ll remind you of the main point of the previous lesson. You might think that you are your own master and that you act consciously. In actual fact, you are only aware of yourself in the moment that you ask yourself this question. The remainder of the time, your awareness sleeps and surrenders to the outer script.

The ability to show self-awareness for a single moment won’t free you from the script. You are characters inside a film and this is simultaneously an illusion and a trap. Regardless of how much you might think of yourself, – that is where you are, and the trap has its hold on you.

What is stopping you from escaping? Mainly, three things:

1. Ignorance of the fact that you are a character.

2. A reflexive psyche – “snail horns”.

3. The mould, limited by notions of the possible and the impossible.

Look livelier-livelier, happier-happier, amphibians! Everything can be put right. You already have the first thing you need to escape. This is very important, because anyone who is ignorant of the illusion, remains in it forever. Nobody has told you about the illusion of action, and you never had an inkling because such a thing, in your opinion, ‘is impossible’.

Now you know. But this is not enough. Let’s say you’re a snail, and you have learned about the illusion. Would you then stop being a snail? If you cry, “Oh, what a misfortune, I don’t want to be a snail!”, will anything change?

No. You cannot just come to life in a motion picture and start doing whatever you want without following the script. Here a slightly different approach is needed. There are still two hurdles that must be overcome: habits and views. In actual fact, you don’t possess these things, they possess you. But that’s ok, we’ll drag you out of the coma yet.

You are made snails by the habit of waiting and hoping for something to happen rather than composing your own reality. Will it come off or not? Will it work out or not? This is a passive position. From this position, all you are capable of doing is giving reality a prod and pulling back your horns at the slightest little thing.

In order to stop being wet and snotty and become beautiful and happy, you need to shift into active gear. Not wait and hope, but compose your reality. Your mould is an obstacle, as it tells you that it is impossible to compose your own reality. This is your little house, but I’ll drag you out of it, nasty and slippery though you are!

New habits and views are developed just exactly as the old ones took root – through multiple repetitions. Only from now on, instead of staring at reality and following it, you will actively control the movement of the frame. Can you guess which frame?

Not the one in which you find yourself in the present moment but the one that is coming up. As you already know, you can’t change the reality of the current frame because it has already come into being. You can only specify the nature of the reality that is yet to come. So your attention should be focused several frames ahead.

Just like when you tracked your attention, now, you will need to track the forthcoming frame. For this, there are three triggers:

Expectation — something is going to happen; you are waiting, hoping for something.

Intention – you intend to set off somewhere or do something.

Problem – something happened that needs resolving.

Whenever you expect something, don’t wait or hope – compose reality. Whenever you intend to do something, don’t rush to get on with it. First, compose reality. Whenever a problem arises, again, don’t wait, don’t hope, don’t fuss; compose your reality.

Frame illumination method.

1. Catch yourself at one of the triggers.

2. Wake up: I can see myself and I can see reality.

3. Activate the plait, hold the feeling, compose reality.

1. Drop the feeling off the plait.

2. If the event is very important to you, repeat the illumination several times.

Try to remember and constantly think about the forthcoming frame. It won’t work for you every time. At first, you will keep forgetting. Old habits aren’t that easy to unstick. You have to see it out, and replace it with a new one. Don’t be lazy, be smart, get on with it or else I’ll see you out. You’re good for nothing. Nobody loves you except me.