As the force flows without stopping, life never stops, the training never stops. The true meaning of the way is not in some certain goal but in endless following the force. To walk forward without ever stopping or looking back."
The main thing people learn from the moment they are born, the thing that is transferred to them by those who are around is the ability to see the world, to perceive things that are around us, as a human person would. Each of us receives this ability to adjust the perception of reality, and that allows us to see the things the way other people do. Thus the process of perception is comes to bringing things into order, it comes to the situation when our senses choose to perceive certain facts of life and not to perceive the others. The trouble is that along with the ability to control the normal state of your world, we learn to discard anything that can destroy the order of ordinary things without thinking. The power to see things from a different angle turns into the only possible way of perception, and the clear image of the world turns into the inability to imagine anything that is beyond it. After clearing a small part of land and having built a fortress, that is strong enough to protect us from chaos and madness we stop. We are reluctant to go forward and we want to have rest.
But Jedi have no attachments and they are freed from sorrow and anguish. This is the only way to find balance in life. Is it not worthy of renouncing mutual hopes? Things that people are afraid of are things that are not scary for a Jedi. Nobody can escape being lonely, and forgotten by everyone. And while people are happy and merry, as if making a great sacrifice or commemorating the return of the spring, only Jedi are silent and inconspicuous like someone who is not yet a part of this world, like a new-born who cannot yet laugh. So tired, so sad! They are like a wanderer, who is unable to come back. People guard carefully their possessions. The Jedi chose to renounce possession. All people try to get as much as they can but the Jedi cast aside whatever is not needed. For what use is that when rust destroys metal, moths eat cloth and time turns treasure into a heap of worthless crap. People can fill their homes with gold and jewelry, but they will never be able to keep their treasures. Craving for wealth, titles and glory for themselves they ruin their lives. The only true acquisition is to set yourself free from things that are common among the people. Jedi don't fill their souls with desire. Their hearts are serene and crystal clear, thus they are wise. The world of men is simple, the world of a Jedi is vague like twilight at dusk [+] it is an enigma. They are calm and peaceful as an endless ocean and unstoppable as a gulf of wind. [+] Jedi stand aside because they value the one thing all things stem from - the Force.
The best Jedi of the past, those who followed the will of the force, achieved amazing, inconceivable results, which are hard even to imagine. Only a Jedi who does not seem to comprehend will fully understand my meaning.
Here my words: be calm and balanced, as if you cross a frozen river in winter. Be cautious and mindful as if you are surrounded by traps and dangers. Be as dignified as a traveler who was only allowed to stay for a night. [+] Be simple and natural as the universe itself. Be empty and open as a dale in the mountains. Be unpredictable and remain under cover as if twilight surrounds you. Remain sober while being unpredictable, have a clear understanding of what is going on around you. Calm your thought and you will achieve the clarity of the soul. Remember your way, but be patient. Because change is something that takes time, and it comes is if all by itself.
The highest virtue is like water. Water does good to everything that lives, without looking at the merits. Live in peace, away from empty thoughts and actions. People run from such life, but this is the only way to live together with the Force. When at peace the Earth achieves splendor, hearts are able to envelope the whole universe, the true love for people reveals itself, and theories acquire precision and power.
When serene, you go by the main things in life. And whatever you do is successful, the changes are timely. Only he who has not given into strife, and is unwilling to fight or argue with others can do away with mistakes. The path of forging oneself is not walked to achieve some goal. It is about renouncing the notion of goals. Every step forward is made not for the sake of future rewards, but for the sake of the journey itself, for the meaning of it all is to walk forward without stopping.
A Jedi following this way does not strive towards some excesses. Only he, who does not want to have plenty, can become ignorant like a child and to desire great deeds no more. You cannot overestimate these words. This is the way of the Jedi, the one that leads to the Force.
May the force be with you!
From the Russian Jedi Academy
Translated by Mira Harth
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