“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.”

—Sonia Ricotti

Introduction

You are not your thoughts, intentions, feelings, emotions, or beliefs that you experience.

You are the cosmic consciousness that experiences, observes, and is aware of those thoughts and feelings.

Even the cognitive and psychological aspects of yourself are not the actual reality.

Your physical body is the product of billions of years of evolution, perfectly adapted to life on this planet and in this universe.

Its limited faculties of being able to imagine three dimensions, see three primary colors of light, experience one dimension of time, or reason in human logic are adapted to simply this plane of existence.

If you had been a dolphin, your brain would perceive more octaves and frequencies of sound and less of light. You would be more emotionally than intellectually driven.

Suppose you had been on another planet as another intelligent being. In that case, your brain may have evolved to reason beyond binary logic or think in ways unimaginable to humans.

Suppose you are incarnate in another physical or mental universe. In that case, you may take on forms that humans may not even consider sentient or sapient.

Hence, your intellectual and emotional faculties are mere biological and psychological constructs.

The same goes for your ideas and theories about the world or physics. They are the finger pointing at the moon, but they are not the moon herself.

The same is true of all your ascribed social and cultural conditioning given to you since birth. You are not your rank, career, salary, status, job, race, caste, grades, looks, class, gender, or any other artificial distinctions.

An even greater illusion is that of the ego. That which you currently embody in this limited physical life is just a temporary personality, not the cosmic consciousness.

You are just you, forgetting your original oneness to take on a Mayavic veil to experience duality and limitation. You have taken a vow to experience yourself as you are in this life to manifest your choices of yourself.

Spirit is eternal, and nothing can ever harm the spirit. The physical form may be damaged or destroyed, but never the light that radiates from within.

When you realize that all ideas, feelings, and ego are mere constructs, you can more easily detach yourself from your difficulties, attachments, and identifications.

With that, you realize that you are just the looker, the homunculus, looking through the windows of your physical vessel to experience the world.

Observe what passes, but do not stubbornly cling to them when their merit to you has passed.

And when you realize that the cosmos has had everything all planned and that all beings are loved, can you truly surrender.

Surrender all attachments and assume the role of the cosmic creator gazing through you in this life to manifest a finite aspect of its infiniteness.

Tetris as an Analogy

My advice, as a high-level Tetris guidebook series author, to all Tetris players is not to worry or question the process of learning Tetris too much.

If you question Tetris too much, you will not flow with Tetris. If you over-identify with or over-attach to it, you will be stuck in Tetris. Let go of all attachments and surrender to the process. Become Tetris. Enjoy the ride.

When one is young and developing in Tetris, one aspires to merely master its basic rules and survive.

The following diagram shows what a person first learns in Tetris: simple, concrete finger inputs to move pieces to the right places:

Diagram Set 27-1
1	2

3

The player holds “move left” to activate DAS, causing J to quickly move to the left wall in step 2. He then presses “move right” to tap off the left wall in step 3.

When one has gained independence and security, one now aspires to control and dominate, mastering the game.

The following shows the concept of field harmony, one of the most crucial Tetris fundamentals:

Diagram Set 27-2
A	B

This is a field-harmonized pattern, as the L placement makes the field flat.

This is not field-harmonized, as the Z placement makes the field jagged.

Excellent players who master this can create field-harmonized shapes, which are flatter and more stable. These indirectly improve all aspects of Tetris.

It makes downstacking, stacking, T-spins, perfect clears, survival, and defenses smoother.

Players at this level subscribe to tested ways of playing, rarely venturing out of the orthodox.

When one has matured and is old, one merely plays the game in one’s way, not becoming attached to the outcomes.

The mature player takes pride in playing Tetris in one’s own way, such as the following:

Diagram Set 27-3
A	B

This is a simple, compact, and efficient Fractal setup. Hence, one should typically use it often.

This is a dirty and loosely packed T-spin setup. This can be dangerous.

A is what many high-level younger Tetris players strive for. However, those who have experienced the full breadth of Tetris no longer care about tradition.

They break the rules, playing Tetris in their own way by making complex, fancy setups like B if it makes them happy.

When one has retired from the game, one uses one’s experiences to reflect upon life and pass on one’s teachings to others.

The cycle is complete, and one surrenders to the natural flow and rhythm of the cosmos.

In the end, Tetris is not a puzzle to be studied. It is a game that can only be played and experienced.

It is also true with life. Sometimes, people take life way too seriously. They over-identify with Maya, forget our unitary and timeless roots. Then they become attached to outcomes and get angry about them.

However, like Tetris, life is a game and should not be taken too seriously. When you take it too seriously and mainly aim for external achievements, the latter becomes a proxy for life itself.

However, achievements and material possessions are not life itself. They are distractions.

Avid video gamers often realize that games are just games. When they play games, they dissolve into and surrender to the game, immersing themselves in it, forgetting themselves.

This is like how one forgets one’s ego in a state of flow while performing something one enjoys in life.

Now, that is true enjoyment.

Personal, Social, and Global Applications

In life, you can only flow with experience, surrendering to its currents. To pause and analyze life is to stop the natural flow.

To become life, you must surrender your ego and flow with life.

Be attached to as few things as possible. Do not identify with the pain that comes after an initial pain. Be the witness of the One gazing at the cosmos to experience and realize itself.

I invite you to immerse yourself in life, flowing with it, but never resisting it. Be life, instead of becoming life.

Only when you surrender yourself to the flow of existence can you fully manifest the One.

That is my final lesson.