How Liverpool Spent £400m & Got Worse

Liverpool spent over400 million to rebuild Slots team and yet he's just lost three games in a row for the first time in his career. So how has so much money led to a worse Liverpool? I'm going to be breaking down why the new signings have created problems in slot system. What's stopping their 100 million pound record signing from being effective? and how this is all leading to the best player in the league last year, Mouhammad Salah, now having his worst season at Liverpool so far. Why exactly have their signings created problems? And what must slot change to fix it? Liverpool brought in seven new faces in the summer and broke their transfer record twice.

And something that I think is really worth doing here is to establish why they were signed. And to do that, we need to have a look at who they've replaced. quite a few players from the first team left over the summer, meaning replacements were required. This was Liverpool's typical lineup last season. During buildup, the back four was initially quite flat, allowing for different options in that first phase of play. And this was really beneficial to Liverpool as you got someone like Trent who was extremely comfortable on the ball in these deep areas and threatening. And you can see exactly that from Trent's touch map here. Now, compare that to Frimong and you can see a big difference with the touches. very high in the final third. Now at left back Robertson was also asked to be on the ball in deep areas. Now look at the average positions this season against Bournemouth.

New left back Kirk is asked to stay deeper too resulting I can't believe I'm about to say this. He only touched the ball twice in the final third and this came as quite a surprise given how attack minded he was at Bournemouth. This touch map shows him not only receiving the ball in the final third but even in the opposition's box. And this is something that we need to come back to. Let's take a look at the huge change to Liverpool's forward line. Last season, slots settled on Lewis Diaz as his main striker through the middle, who was initially a left winger. Diaz frequently picked up these positions on the pitch and occasionally he was leaving Liverpool without an actual striker. But what Diaz did was he made sort of associative runs depending on the positioning of his teammates. You can see him running behind Sabosla here, allowing him to target the space once Salah gets the ball where he receives it and scores. Ekit has come in and his role has been somewhat similar on certain aspects, peeling to the left, but he's frequently in the middle, too. It started well for Ekit as well. You know, six goal involvements in all competitions since his Liverpool debut. And so the real issues become clear when we look at two of their biggest signings, Vertz and Issach, and how they tie into Liverpool's problems. So what begun as a simple question has now become a real problem. How do you fit all these players into one starting 11? Especially given the huge differences in their profiles. So far this season, Liverpool have conceded nine goals, ranking only 11th in the league. This is such a big drop off considering they had the second best defense in the league last season.

But this season, the first goal they conceded against Bournemouth. In hindsight, it should have been a big warning sign. This was their lineup against Bournemouth. And so without Gravenber in that one, the double pivot was formed of Soboslai and Mallister. Two kind of technically brilliant footballers. So played a more attacking role under slot last season, meaning he naturally took more risks. But here he's doing it in a deeper position with four Liverpool players ahead of him. So when he loses the ball after attempting a sort of risky flick, it forces seven Liverpool players to rush back from advanced positions. One pass to David Brooks allows Bournemouth to exploit a huge space in Liverpool's half. They conceded in the space of 8 seconds here after losing the ball. and at the time an avoidable goal to concede but possibly a sign of a wider problem. So with that idea of so many kind of technical first players on the pitch, it takes away from that natural defensive nouse of a team.

But of course, Gravenber has returned. So why is there still a structural issue for Liverpool? Well, this brings us to the big elephant in the room or the small German. There are a few key things I think we need to unpack to understand what's going on. So I'm going to be looking at why vert fried at leakusen the problem with his Liverpool role and how his arrival as well as Isach and Eatik's have affected Salah. Now first of all let's establish what made him a 100 million pound player at Bay Leverkusen. This is how Jabi Alonzo set up Leverkusen last season and there's some crucial ingredients here that Vertz doesn't have around him currently at Liverpool. Now this is the average positions against Hoffenheim last season. Vertz is spending most of his time in half spaces and touches the ball wide in the final third as well.

And although Grimmaldo was also on that left, he was extremely wide and he stayed out of the way in the final third. Their striker Bonyface wasn't really demanding of the ball, only touching it 15 times in the 45 minutes that he played in this one. And this structure led to Vert picking up the ball in these types of areas where nobody, this is crucial here, nobody is getting in his way. This zone is entirely his to dominate. All of these elements brought the best out of his talent, creating outrageous chances like this. And even when the spaces were tighter against low blocks, Vert still created chances because his teammates left this space vacant for him, allowing for interchanges and a shot at goal against a low block defense. This was Vert's heat map after coming on against Crystal Palace. Now instantly you can see that his touches are quite diverse in where he's getting on the ball which for me I think is a problem. Vertz initially does really well to win the ball high up the pitch. But look at the left side. It's taken up by Kirz and Gako leaving Vertz more central instead of playing wide.

Vert turns and shoots but it's blocked cuz he's in a crowded area. And because he's operating in areas different from those that he had at le sharp and he doesn't look as comfortable. Vertz may have had success in half spaces at Leverkusen, but his starting position was a crucial factor. He was allowed to start wide, then combined with teammates in central areas, allowing him to end up in these spaces, not start in them, and he was at his best doing exactly this. This points towards a wider problem in Liverpool structure, and it's affecting one player in particular. The Liverpool conundrum is fascinating and I was sort of nervous to put it out there. There is a problem there with Salah, isn't there? Like, no one wants to say it. No one wants to say it. I'm scared to say it, but >> this time next year, I don't think Salad will be at the club. >> I don't think Van Dijk trusts Kirk. Come and be a part of the JLA substack. Links in the description. So, during buildup, many players occupy the left side, creating congestion and drawing Palace players over. That forces Van Djk to pass to the right instead, even though Liverpool clearly want to play down the left whenever possible. So here Van Djk is in possession and Vertz drops deep to receive the ball. But Van Djk instead doesn't choose to pass the ball to him.

He goes long to find Ekitake making the opposite movement. So in theory this is fine as Vertz drags away a player to create space for Ekitique. But this is another example of how they don't really play to Vertz's strengths. And again Liverpool stretch the pitch and they bypass the midfield with this long pass to Gako. Vertz makes a move towards the ball just as Van Djk plays the pass. So when Gakpo receives it, it's actually Jones who is in the position Vertz would ideally take up. Van Dijk's pass map from the second half against Crystal Palace completely backs this up for me. All of his forward passes went to the left and all of the passes that he played to his right were lateral short passes. In the same game last season, there was so much more emphasis on playing forward and to the right. And these long beautiful raking passes to the right were often aimed towards Salah. And he's a point of concern to me this season. Firstly, let's address where he's getting the ball before we analyze why his dribbling has fallen off a cliff so far this season.

Now, initially, his heat map from last season looks similar to this. But there there's one key difference. Salah's touches in the box have drastically fallen from 9.49 last season to 4.71 this season. In fact, this is the lowest it's ever been by some distance since joining Liverpool. So, why is this happening? Well, have a look at this from last season. Diaz, who started as a striker, drop deep to the left. This is supported by Sabers's off the ball movement. His run creates the space for Salah to drift into from the right. And last season, he was always aware of where Salah is, even squaring it across to him for an easy goal. So plays a crucial part in this goal without even touching the ball. Carw Walker Peters is extremely aware of Soazlai's positioning and focuses on it, leading team losing concentration on Salah's positioning for just that split second. But from there, Salah attacks the space, receives the ball in his desired area and scores. Now have a look at this season against Chelsea. The nearest Liverpool player to Salah is Connor Bradley, the right back.

Now last season he would have had Trent and Saboslai there to form a triangle. Now without a gobetween player Salah drops deeper to open up the passing lane to receive the ball but now he has few options to play inside. He's able to play it to Isach who tries to play it back to him. It's an extremely difficult pass with Garnacho and Cookarea shutting off the angles. The pass it gets over hit and Salah is now moving away from the box. Here's another key difference. Issach makes the run in behind into the space Salah would have attacked last season and that movement pulls Solight over to the left. But with Issach focused on finishing rather than creating, it means his movements will be totally different to Dominic as a 10 or Lewis Diaz as well as a false nine. Now against Everton in the emergency side derby, Salah did have so in these positions and look how different it instantly is with the spaces Salah is able to move into. And that results in Liverpool having an overload in the box, generating space for Salah to receive the ball in. Subsoy has the ball here and is instantly looking for Salah as Connor Bradley makes the forward run.

Subs finding Salah so quickly, it then allows Salah to operate in space before being closed down. Meanwhile, Bradley's run drags Michael Keane away, creating space for Gravenber to receive and score, resulting in an assist for Muhammad Salah. So the problem is Soaslie has been moved around a lot this season, playing as a right back more than any other position. And with Sobasai playing right back more than anything else, his movement in the final third hasn't been a regular occurrence for Liverpool. And crucially for Salah, Salah has only made one successful dribble this season. One with an accuracy of 12.5%. Last season, he averaged 1.5 per game with a success rate of 45%. You had Trent finding him with passes in behind, letting him attack space with speed. This season, he's receiving it to feet so much more with less teammates around him, and he's open to being doubled up on far more frequently. Meaning that if he evades the initial challenge, he will eventually run into trouble. And you'll have seen it right now. Let's move on to Isach. It's still early to criticize. It really, really is. But his role up front does it affects things around him. So, let's go back a bit. Kenate has the ball here and Issach has drifted away from the center backs to become that option to feed. But look at Sosai. He's looking at where Salah is.

A good thing that he did a lot last season. Issach gets the ball, drags Ache out of position, displacing their back line. And Issach's movement is so good, but the lack of movement into this space by his teammates isn't. Isach plays it wide to Salah. And the way that Subazla's role changes because of this one pass is crazy. Instead of supporting Salah, he makes this forward run. It's because Liverpool want a player attacking the near post. So Isach can wait at the back post, but this means Chelsea double up on Salah and the ball gets played backwards. So what's the solution? And before we get into this, there's one thing I do want to say. Of course, this isn't just like play this team forever more, but like any great team, you move towards what your generally your best team is. And this for me feels like a possible solution to find some balance. There'll be games where you got to play different players, but I'd like to see this. So, first of all, the right back position is really interesting, but the most natural right back in this squad is Connor Bradley.

Fact, and it will reveal itself later on why I think this is needed. Now, the center backs stay the same for me. At left back is Kirz, who we've not seen the best of yet, but I think this setup could help Mallister and Grafenberg. have to be in here not only for their huge ability to cover huge spaces but also because of their ability to receive the ball from the defense and link the forwards into play. So next I've got one of two Rio or Frimple. Without so lie you simply don't get the best out of Salah on the right. But with one of these two you've got two explosive players who can receive the ball on their own, beat players 1 v one and drive to the by line and pull back crosses. Now on the left, Florian Vertz. This is the position he needs to be in. We spoke about it earlier about his starting position and how crucial that is for his output. Starting as the left midfielder would allow for that. And ultimately, it does allow Liverpool to get the best out of Kirk going forward attacking spaces like these.

Holding the width in the process up top, I think you have to play both Ecat and Issach. And here's why. Ekit is comfortable with his back to goal in these spaces. whilst also he's got that ability to spin in behind and that would allow for bounce passes with verts in his desired areas whilst also bringing in Kirk. Having those two strikers, it allows for counter movements. If Isach goes short, Echitique can easily attack the space in behind. Plus, it allows them to target the near and back posts when crossing the ball. And finally, it would allow Liverpool to have a better pressing structure with two forwards there and ready. If you drop into a 442 mid block, you're fine. If you want to go 424 and be far more aggressive, you've got players in positions ready to go. Currently, what's happening a lot of the time is Salah's kind of sort of half moving over to that side as part of that two, but it kind of looks like a three. It's been either Vert or So, and I think when you're starting from behind the two players, you're just giving a read to those center backs and it allows you to just go bump bomb and pop it around that press. Now leaving out Salah, it's a huge call for Slot and it's easy for me to say it just chatting to a camera, but with a new team and no like for like replacements, he can't revert to last season's tactics in my opinion. And I'm not doubting Slot for a second, but what he has to do is be brave and inventive with the solution and find a solution that suits everyone.

Kiban Liverpool Geubi £400m & Leubeh Brok
Kit ma Liverpool otiyo kwede ki £400m & odoko rac
Liverpool 400m baawunxi mannal yayyaaqeeh, lafet luk gacte
Hoe Liverpool £400 miljoen bestee het en slegter geword het
Si shpenzoi Liverpooli 400 milionë £ dhe u përkeqësua
Kite ma Liverpool utiyo kudu ku £400m man edoko rac uloyu
ሊቨርፑል 400 ሚሊዮን ፓውንድ አውጥቶ እንዴት የባሰ ሆነ
Ինչպես է Լիվերպուլը ծախսել 400 միլիոն ֆունտ և վատթարացել

Ankel tablem kobox liig digir kee Napoli- Milan

Konferensi Liigih digiritte kee Napoli – Milan Itaaliyak Supper Kaap Gexsitak Geytima

Kamiisih (18/12) Gexsitak Geytima Koqosoh Menu, Televiziyon Barnaamijih Addat, Konferensi Liigik Liigik Faazih Addat Gexsitele Digiritte Kee Tonnah Kaadu Itaaliyak Super Cup Semi-Final Gexsitele Milan-Napoli Digiritte Edde Anuk Geytimta. Addatino le tatrussoh uddur kee gita.

Ibi koqsoh abto kamiisih (18/12) fanah qimmoh addah gexsitak geytimtaah, televiichinil 6hayto kee ellecaboh ayro Konferensi Liigik Liigik Faxxiima Digiritteh Addat Gexsitele.

OPAP Arenal AEK kee Craiova fanat yakke digirik kalah, Giriik ispoortih fanteenaanih fayxi hirigtam, Crystal Palace kee Kuopio, Lausanne kee Fiorentina, kee Mainz kee Samsunspor fanat baxsale fayxi lem kee kalah kaadu Milan Saudippa kee Superfin fanat yakke digir geytima. Taaliyaan.

Where to watch the Conference League matches and Napoli – Milan

Where to watch the Conference League matches and Napoli – Milan for the Italian Super Cup

The football menu for Thursday (18/12) is rich, with the television program including matches for the last matchday of the League Phase of the Conference League as well as the Milan-Napoli match for the semi-finals of the Italian Super Cup. Detailed broadcast times and channels.

The football action continues with unabated intensity on Thursday (18/12), with the television schedule including important matches for the 6th and final matchday of the League Phase of the Conference League.

In addition to the AEK vs. Craiova match at the OPAP Arena, which attracts the interest of the Greek sports fan audience, Crystal Palace vs. Kuopio, Lausanne vs. Fiorentina, and Mainz vs. Samsunspor are of particular interest, while there is also the battle between Napoli and Milan in Saudi Arabia for the semifinals of the Supercoppa Italiana.

The day's television schedule in detail
21:00 Supercoppa Italiana: Napoli – Milan / Novasports 2HD
22:00 Conference League: Crystal Palace – Kuopio / COSMOTE SPORT 5 HD
22:00 Conference League: Lausanne – Fiorentina / COSMOTE SPORT 4 HD
22:00 Conference League: Shakhtar Donetsk – Rijeka / COSMOTE SPORT 9 HD
22:00 Conference League: Alkmaar – Jagiellonia / COSMOTE SPORT 8 HD
22:00 Conference League: AEK Larnaca – Skendiya / COSMOTE SPORT 7 HD
22:00 Conference League: Omonia – Rakov / COSMOTE SPORT 6 HD
22:00 Conference League: AEK – Universitatea – Craiova / COSMOTE SPORT 2 HD, ANT1
22:00 Conference League: Mainz – Samsunspor / COSMOTE SPORT 3 HD

Ekuwaador: Barseloona Sporting Dokonih Digir Abeena Gira Maysatakak Lakal Rabe

Mariyo Pineda Rabeh Yan Xaagi Baad Caddol Ibi Koqsoh Caddol Kaxxam Ruffa Edde Iyyem Kee 33 Karmat Geytima Ekuador Baaxoh Addah Difaaqah Yan Num Guyayakuil Magaalal Tekkeh Tan Maysattakak Lakal Rabeh Yanim Qaddoosen.

Ekuador Kee Inkih Tan Baad Caddol Koqoso Ayyunti Saaqoota Fanah Kaxxam Ruffa Edde Iyyem Kee 33 Karmat Yan Difaaqah Yan Mario Pineda Arbaqah Ayro (17/12) Gira Elle Rabe Innal Ufuy Ruubak Geytimam Yiysixxigen.

SPORT24 , xaagi warkat elle yascassennal, usuk rabe marih qadad, Barcelona Sporting Club, qimmoh addah oytitte elle tascassennal, tama qawwalayla Guayaquil magaalal namma num motorik gexak sugteeh, kaadu kay barra kee kay ina biyakteh sugtem warsan.

" Barsaloonah Dagar Diig Dokon, Kaxxam Rooka Luk, Ni Ibi Koqosoh Digir Mariyo Pinedah Rabi Maysaxxaga Hirigtem, Kaal Tekke Maysatakak Ugutak.

"Ta Qawwalaylah Xaagi Inkih Tan Buxah Maritteh Adoytit Kaxxam Ruffa Edde Iyye" Axcuk Barcelona Sporting Club Ayyuntiinô Retteemal Yeyyeqeh Yan Maybalaalaqal Qaddosse.

Pineda Agat Caddol 2014 Ilaa 2021 Fanah Sagla Addah Geytimeh Yanim Kee Barcelona Sporting Dokonuk Kalah Kaadu Independiente Del Valle, Fluminense Kee El National (Nammay Takke Kaadu Loan) Lih Geytimeh Yanim Qaddoosen.

Ecuador: Barcelona Sporting Club player dead after shooting attack

The news of the death of Mario Pineda caused shock in world football, with the 33-year-old Ecuadorian international defender being killed after a shooting attack that took place in the city of Guayaquil.

Ecuador and the entire global football community have been plunged into grief for hours, when it became known that 33-year-old defender Mario Pineda breathed his last on Wednesday (17/12) as a victim of gunfire.

As reported by SPORT24 , the tragic news of his death was announced by his team, Barcelona Sporting Club, with initial information indicating that the horrific incident took place in the city of Guayaquil when two people riding a motorcycle opened fire on him , also hitting his wife and injuring his mother.

" Barcelona Sporting Club informs, with deep sadness, that it has received official notification of the death of our footballer Mario Pineda, which occurred following an attack against him.

"This tragic news has shocked all members of the club's family, " Barcelona Sporting Club said in a post on social media.

It is noted that Pineda wore the national team jersey nine times from 2014 to 2021 , while in addition to Barcelona Sporting Club, he also played for Independiente del Valle, Fluminense and El Nacional (the latter two on loan).

The Matrix: You might just be a "program" in a computer.

The Matrix: You might just be a "program" in a computer. Imagine the familiar sounds, the clicking of keyboards in the darkness, the sound of digital raindrops falling as green coded lines on a pitch-black screen. Have you ever dreamt, Neo, a dream so real that you can't tell the difference between being awake and asleep? What if you couldn't wake from that dream? How would you distinguish between the dream world and reality? This question didn't come from me; it's a sentence Morpheus asks Neo during the moment he's about to reveal the most terrifying truth. To be honest, the first time I heard this sentence in a movie theater many decades ago, it gave me goosebumps. Not because of the excitement of the sci-fi action movie, but because of a deep feeling in my heart that screamed back that we might actually be asleep. Look around you now. The desk you're sitting at, the chair you're using, the phone screen you're touching, the headphones you're wearing—how can you be sure these things are real? How can you be sure that your senses—your eyes seeing, your ears hearing, your nose smelling, your tongue tasting, and your body touching—are not just electrical signals being fed into your brain like... Computers input data into your hard drive. What if I told you that what you call daily life—waking up, working, eating, loving, or even the suffering you're currently carrying—might just be a complex simulation, a set of code running on the vast server of the universe? Would you believe me? Or, to put it even more challengingly, I'm quite certain that most of us listening are no different from Neo at the beginning of the story. We are Mr. Salaryman, living our lives according to the rules dictated by society. We wake up, rush to work, and in the evening, we come back to sleep, repeating this cycle over and over like hamsters on a wheel. We follow a program that's been written for us, never realizing that the real cage isn't bars, but our own thoughts and beliefs. Today, we won't travel far; we will journey inward, to decode what's called The Matrix from a perspective you may never have heard before. We won't just talk about the movie; we'll talk about the reality of the cosmic mind system. In the present era, the toxic concept of the Simulation Hypothesis is being widely discussed in scientific and technological circles, by world-class individuals. As Eon Ma once said in an interview, there's only a one in a million chance that the reality we live in is fundamentally true. In other words, he's almost 100% certain we're in a simulated world created by a highly intelligent civilization or some kind of supercomputer. A philosopher from Oxford University proposed an interesting theory: if human civilization could develop to the point of creating computers with immense processing power, we could create ancestral simulations so realistic that the inhabitants would have feelings, thoughts, consciousness, and wouldn't even realize they were just data within the system. Speaking of this, I can't help but wonder: if we were truly in a simulated world and we were just AI or an avatar in a game, who would be holding the controller? Who would control our destiny? Or is the algorithm simply written to randomly determine our fate, sometimes good, sometimes bad, without reason? There are many perspectives on this, but I haven't found a clear scientific answer for myself yet: is it predetermined reality or do we have the freedom to choose? What's fascinating, however, is that this concept of a virtual world isn't new. It's not something that was just invented in the Silicon Valley era. It's a truth discovered over 2,600 years ago by a great man we know as the Buddha. In Buddhism, we have the terms "maya" (illusion) and "samsara" (cycle of rebirth). Samsara isn't just the cycle of birth and death in a mythical sense; if we look at it through the lens of The Matrix, samsara is a colossal server that traps the souls of sentient beings. This system has iron rules and mechanisms more complex and rigorous than any computer program in the world. It's driven by an operating system called karma, with millions of variables affecting our lives. Importantly, it has vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered and hacked. We often hear the word "Buddho" when we chant or meditate. Many may understand it as just a mantra, a sacred word to calm the mind. But if we decode "Buddho" down to its root, to its true nature, "Buddho" isn't a person's name, nor is it a statue. "Buddho" is a codename for a state of mind that has escaped the system. "Buddho" means the enlightened one, the awakened one, the blissful one. "Knowing" means knowing the truth of the system, knowing that this world is an illusion, knowing that what the eyes see and the ears hear are merely mental constructs, not absolute reality. It's like Neo beginning to see numbers and green codes flowing down instead of images of a wall or his enemy. "Awakening" means awakening from slumber, from the long dream of samsara, awakening from ignorance that has blinded our minds for countless lifetimes, like when Neo woke up in the capsule and discovered he was just a battery having his energy drained. "Blissful" means freedom; once one knows and awakens, the mind is free from bondage, no longer controlled by the programs of defilements. It's a state beyond the system, completely transcending the Matrix—this is the goal of this journey. We're not just here for entertainment; we're exploring the possibilities of whether we all have the potential to be Neo. Do we all have the right to awaken from this capsule of delusion, or will we choose to take the blue pill and remain asleep in our sweet dreams? I have personal experience from when I first seriously started studying this. I walked to work, looked at the tall buildings, the bustling people, and suddenly, a fleeting feeling arose that everything seemed fake, like a theatrical scene, like a hologram. It was a feeling of both emptiness and excitement at the same time. I wonder if anyone else has ever experienced a similar moment, suddenly feeling alienated from the world that's spinning around them? I've designed a meticulous and step-by-step structure to help you gradually understand the mechanisms of the universe and the mind. I will use the greatest foundation for unlocking the secrets of life—the Four Noble Truths—as a roadmap to decoding The Matrix. Why the Four Noble Truths? Because this is the perfect algorithm for solving problems. In this first installment, we'll delve into suffering and its origins, but within the context of The Matrix and The Trap. We'll examine how the world's operating system is designed, why we suffer, why we age, get sick, and die, and why we don't always achieve our desires. This isn't a coincidence; it's the design of the architect or creator of the system. We'll explore the structure of the 31 realms of the universe, not just the human world, but also heaven and hell, all operating under the same server: the realm of desire, the realm of form, and the formless realm. We'll examine how the algorithm of karma works, why some are born rich and others poor. Is it randomization, or is there a fixed logic hidden within? If you were to think of one word to describe the reason you're still stuck in the same problems in life, for me, it's ignorance (avidya). It's interesting to see what word each of you thinks of. Think of that word and let's see if it aligns with the system's design. In the second installment, we'll enter the state of "Glitches in the Matrix," or ultimate truth. Here, we'll delve even deeper. Going deeper than what the naked eye can see, we'll discuss Quantum Physics, the double-sliding exponent experiment that proves the observer influences the observed, which aligns with the Abhidhamma principle of mind, that the world revolves around the mind. We'll unlock the secrets of the bald child with the bent spoon scene—why the spoon isn't real—and why our bodies, our selves, at the atomic level, at the level of form, are merely digital raindrops that arise and cease so rapidly that we can't even see them. I'm quite confident that the concept of the arising and ceasing of mind is the most important key to truly understanding The Matrix. If we don't understand that reality is a series of still images projected at high speed, we'll continue to mistakenly believe that this movie is real. But then again, that might just be my opinion, because this topic is very delicate and requires a high level of contemplation. In the third part, we'll talk about the Path, or the path of the chosen ones, which in reality, no one chooses us; we must choose ourselves. This is the process of taking the red pill. We'll discuss how to hack our own mental system, the practice of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana 4), observing the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena... It's like practicing Kung Fu in a training program. When Neo starts to see Gen's movements slowing down, that's the state where the mind begins to gain concentration and mindfulness, seeing form and name separate, seeing impermanence, seeing non-self. Honestly, I've never understood why people like to think that spiritual practice is for old people or boring, when spiritual practice is the coolest and most exciting way to hack the reality system that humans can do. And finally, in the fourth stage, we will reach Nirodha, or the exit, the true way out. The final scene where Neo explodes with a light, or the state where the mind is completely freed from desire and attachment, a state called Nirvana. Nirvana is not a place, not the city of Zion, but a state where the system can no longer control us. We will conclude that we are all Neo, waiting for the day of awakening, or we will allow ourselves to be batteries for the system to drain our energy until the day we die. This is our journey map today. All this information is not my own speculation, but I have compiled it from evidence in the Buddhist scriptures, the Visuddha Pitaka, the Abhidhamma Pitaka, and compared it with scientific and philosophical theories, and film to give you the clearest picture possible. Today, I have prepared... The information is very extensive, but I believe many of you here likely have experiences, insights, or interpretations of The Matrix from a Buddhist perspective that I myself may not know or have overlooked. If you have an interesting perspective, keep it in mind or write it down, because the story will become increasingly intense. Whispers from the universe are calling you, just as Trinil whispered in Neo's ear that the answer is out there, Neo, and it is searching for you. Are you ready to take the red pill and awaken from this illusory world? If you are, please put everything down, temporarily shut off your awareness of the outside world, turn off all notifications and distractions, and open your heart as wide as possible, because what you are about to hear may change the way you see this world forever. Let's start with the simplest question, yet the most difficult question at this moment: Who are you? The name you use to call yourself, the profession you practice, the body sitting and listening—or perhaps, you are the knowing observer, watching these things from afar. In the movie The Matrix, there's a character named Cypher who chooses to betray his friends in exchange for returning to the Matrix to eat delicious, tender steak and forget the harsh reality. Cypher says a painful line: "Ignorance is bliss." This sentence reflects the reality of the cycle of rebirth most poignantly, because as long as we have ignorance, we will continue to indulge in false pleasures, enjoying the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that the system feeds us. We choose to be an element of pleasure rather than a being who must face reality. But the question is, how real is that pleasure? If that steak is just a code sending electrical signals to the brain that it's delicious, does that deliciousness actually exist? This is the most terrifying trap in the real-life version of The Matrix. We are not imprisoned by an iron cage, but we are imprisoned by our satisfaction, by our desires, by our cravings that bind us to the system. Imagine your mind as pure and powerful software. It's immense, but the moment this software starts working, it gets infected with a virus called ignorance (avidya). This virus has only one function: to distort processing. It makes us see impermanent things as permanent, suffering as happiness, and the nonexistent as our self. This is the beginning of disaster. All of this is the beginning of the birth of Mr. [the ego] within each of us. I want you to examine yourself: how many times in your life have you made decisions based on greed, desire, or anger, hatred, or fear? And did the results truly bring you happiness, or did they lead to a new, even greater wave of suffering? I believe that if we are honest with ourselves enough, we will find a shocking answer: we hardly control our own lives at all. It is this virus of ignorance and desire that controls us like puppets. And the saddest thing is that we are infatuated with our puppet masters. We protect them, we cherish them. No one can touch our ego; we are ready to fight to the death for it, even though this very ego is the program that creates the most suffering for us. In the Abhidhamma, the mind is explained in such detail and depth that... Western psychology lags far behind. The Buddha classified the mind into moments, saying that thoughts arise and cease much faster than a blink of an eye or a flash of lightning. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of thoughts arise and cease. Imagine anger; if the Matrix were a computer screen, the smoothly moving images you see are actually created by firing pixels one by one at such high speed that your eye can't keep up. Our minds work similarly; they receive information through the eyes, then it disappears, then they receive information through the ears, and so on, at the speed of light, leading us to mistakenly believe we see and hear simultaneously. This is the secret of magic. If Neo can stop a bullet, it's because he sees the gaps between those digital pixels. If a spiritual practitioner can relinquish defilements, it's because they see the gaps between the arising and ceasing of thoughts. They see that anger isn't theirs, but merely a cluster of energy or code sent for processing and then disappearing. They see that love and infatuation are just sets of data passing by. When this is seen, the state of knowing awakens—a state where one doesn't get involved in the drama, doesn't play the game, but steps back to become an observer who sees the whole truth. This is the key. Today, we won't just be discussing theory, but how to truly step back and become an observer in our daily lives. I used to wonder why the Buddha attained enlightenment on a full moon night, why he sat under the Bodhi tree, what he did that night. He wasn't just praying and asking for blessings from God; he was acting as a cosmic-level hacker. He was retracing the lines of life's processes, going back countless lifetimes, until he found the root cause of the system: dependent origination. He saw the chain of causes and effects, from ignorance to mental formations to consciousness to name and form, a never-ending cycle. And the moment he destroyed this cycle was the moment the matrix crumbled for him. The world trembled, a bright light appeared. That wasn't a magic spell, but the greatest miracle of awakening. And the good news is, he didn't take the blueprint or manual for hacking this system with him. He left it for all of us in the form of the Dharma. The question is, will we pick it up and read it, or will we let it gather dust and continue playing the game of Monopoly in this illusory world? Today, I'm not... I'm not trying to persuade you to believe me. You don't need to believe me at all. The Buddha always said, "Don't believe yet," or "Come and see," but "Come and prove it for yourself." I just want to nudge you to be suspicious, like Morpheus nudged Neo. I just want to throw a stone into your still water to create ripples, so that you begin to question the reality before you. Because the moment you begin to question, the cage will start to shake, and that's a sign that you're about to wake up. We'll take a short break to catch our breath before we fully delve into the first act. In the next act, we'll get to know the architect who created the system. We'll see with our own eyes what the traps that have been set for us look like and why we've been trapped here for so long. Get ready. Turn your chair around and face me. Pay close attention to my voice because we're about to delve deep down the rabbit hole, and I guarantee you'll never see the world the same way again. Have you noticed that every morning when you wake up, the blaring alarm clock at 7:00 AM doesn't just wake your body; it's signaling a reset of your operating system, sending you back to the same old routine? You wake up, wash your face, brush your teeth, put on the same clothes, travel the same routes, squeeze in with the same people, all with the same blank expression, to sit in a cubicle at a job you may not love, waiting for quitting time to go home, watch TV, and sleep. All only to wake up and repeat the same thing tomorrow. This is the life of Thomas Anderson before he became Neo, before he could fly or stop bullets. He was you, he was me. He was an ordinary young man, a programmer at a giant software company, a good citizen who pays taxes on time and helps take out the trash. But in another world, he was a hacker trying to find the answer to what the Matrix is. But what we're about to talk about... This isn't his adventure story, but his state of being—a state called slumber. In Buddhism, we call this repetitive cycle of life samsara, or samsara-rupa. Many understand samsara to mean the cycle of birth and death across lifetimes, which is correct. But if we look deeper, down to the second, samsara is working constantly, with every breath. Imagine your life as a skipping record or a song playing on repeat. You're happy, then you fear losing it. When it's gone, you suffer. When you suffer, you struggle to find new happiness. When you get it, you get bored, and the cycle repeats. The interesting question is, why don't we break free from this cycle? Why does Thomas Anderson continue to wake up and go to work every day, even though deep down he feels this world is abnormal? Why do we surrender to the system, becoming batteries for society, draining our life energy until we die quietly? The answer is hidden in one word, a word that's like the source code, the very first line of the samsara program: ignorance (avijjā). Avijjā doesn't mean stupidity or lack of knowledge. Yes, we may have PhDs, we may be world-class CEOs, we may be brilliant scientists, but we can still be filled with ignorance. Because in the Dharma, ignorance is the lack of understanding of the truth; it's the most powerful barrier. It works like VR glasses, tightly covering our minds without us even realizing we're wearing them. Ignorance makes us see impermanent things as permanent, it deceives us into believing suffering is happiness, and worst of all, it tricks us into seeing the intangible as "me" and "mine." This is from my own direct experience. When I lived life to the fullest, I thought owning luxury items and receiving acceptance from others was the ultimate happiness. I chased after them like a hamster on a wheel, exhausted to obtain them. But once I had them, that happiness lasted only a fleeting moment before fading away, leaving only emptiness and ever-increasing desire. I don't know if anyone else has experienced a similar moment, where the more you try to fill it, the more it feels incomplete, like an invisible leak in your heart. That leak is the work of ignorance. Buddhist scriptures have a theory that explains the mechanism of ignorance in detail... It's amazing, like laying out an electrical circuit diagram or a computer flowchart. The theory is called Dependent Origination (Pratītyasamutpāda). The name might sound difficult and ancient, but its meaning is very modern. It translates to "principles that arise in dependence on others," or in computer terms, if there's input A, process B occurs. This is because the Buddha discovered that ignorance (Avidya) is the cause, therefore mental formations (Saṅkhāra) arise. This is very important; I want you to listen carefully. Ignorance (Avidya) is like the first line of code that errors. When the first line of code is wrong, the next line, called Sankhara, will also malfunction. Sankhara here doesn't mean body or coffin, but rather "fabrication" or "conditioning." It's the process by which our mind creates a illusory world. Ignorance instructs the mind to fabricate the information it receives. The eyes see forms, ignorance instructs the mind to fabricate them as beautiful or ugly. The ears hear sounds, ignorance instructs the mind to fabricate them as pleasant or unpleasant. And this fabrication system, or Sankhara, is the true creator of the Matrix. The world we see now isn't the world as it is; it's a world rendered through the fabrications in our own minds. It's like Thomas seeing a computer screen as text, but Neo sees something else entirely. It's a green code; we're all Thomas Daerson, blinded by ignorance. We see the world as ours, the problems as ours, the suffering as ours. We mistakenly think we are players controlling the game of life. But the painful truth is, we are merely characters written by ignorance and mental constructs. If I had to make a prediction, I'd say most of us aren't living in reality. We live on beliefs and memories fed to us since childhood. We're programmed to believe that success is money, love is possession, and security is the only real thing.