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We must build a system of active connection between all people in the world. However, this is not the Internet, virtual or physical system, rather it’s an internal system. We must yearn to create a feeling between us like a mother regarding her infant whom she can feel, even across great distances.
They say that with animals, this instinct is even stronger. This is demonstrated in the movie about the little dinosaur that was taken far from its parents by humans. The adult dinosaurs went wild looking for the baby, crossed an ocean, and found him through instinct.
Specifically, a connection like this has to be among us. At a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other, despite the distance, we have to feel ourselves as existing in a single spiritual force field. All kinds of changes in each must necessarily be felt by all the rest. We must try to attain contact like this and feel inner changes at every moment, which then becomes our inner life.
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From lesson 4 of the Convention In Sochi “Day Two” 7/14/14
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Question: Suppose that I understand that in order to add the feeling of the importance of unity in a group, it is necessary to make additional efforts, but I don’t have the strength for this. Where can I find it?
Answer: It’s only with the friends! It is possible to receive strength only if you bow your head before your friends, see them as more important, stronger, and more understanding, as connected more strongly with each other than you with them. Then you can receive something from them.
The group has to help a person so that he will feel its sympathetic and good attitude toward him, the love.
It only seems to us that it is impossible to get strength from the group. So from their side, there has to be methodical work directed toward this, only it shouldn’t become routine for routine eats all emotions. In the spiritual world, there is no habit. It disappears because there, only changes are considered, only consequences and not speed. Therefore, one has to be in constant movement.
Question: But can a person take the first step? He understands that now the group is in such a state that he can exert effort. However, he has no strength to do something to elevate the group, to integrate himself into it, and rise. The understanding is there, but not the strength.
Answer: There is no energy. This means that there is no true need. Some kind of detachment, apathy, is holding us: I could help, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
How should one act in a case like this? I would conduct a workshop, sit everyone in a circle, give a subject, and gradually try to introduce special questions that bring people back to their senses a little bit, awaken them.
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From the Convention In Sochi “Day Two” 7/14/14, Lesson 4
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Question: When differences of opinion appear in a group, this extends over everyone all at once. To resolve the problem of confrontation, representatives of both sides gather into a small group and reach agreement and unification. How is it possible to extend this unity to everyone?
Answer: I think that it is necessary to organize a shared circle in which everyone sits together, and the initiator group appears as the force of peace that tries to unite them all.
Even with different people, among large family clans, it is customary to gather together with former foes who understand that it is necessary to unite. They reconcile, reach agreement, and after that, invite everyone to a large circle, where they discuss all of this and prove the necessity to rise above all the previous differences in opinion. This is the right position.
We said that the Creator wants to establish connection with us. He places between us and Him this whole world and portrays in our emotions and thoughts all kinds of symbols and images so that we begin to understand His language. We shouldn’t forget this!
The group has to perceive everything that is outside the framework of the common connection, the shared love, the common agreement, the unity, all that from the side of the Light could be called spirituality, we can relate to all of that, to all lack of focus that He gives us, as to the signs of the Creator given to us so that we will come again to the single whole in which we dissolve completely: emotionally, mentally, and intellectually, complementing each other all the time.
In this manner, ultimately, we will find a common language with Him, and impressions and understandings will constantly accumulate in us.
Imagine how a child perceives the world that is totally unfamiliar to him: without knowing anything, without understanding, without having any feelings and emotions! He grasps it, grasps it, and gradually the world accumulates within him: ground, mixed, and constantly renewed all the time, and the child begins to understand it. This means that his mind formats itself in the right way.
The heart and the mind begin to understand how to work with the reality in which he finds himself. After all, he can find himself in a reality that was two or three thousand years ago, or the reality of today, or it can be the reality that will exist in another one or two hundred years.
So, the child only has to yearn to perceive the real world in a form like this: with an open mouth! We also need to do the same thing in regard to the spiritual world, according to the laws that the Kabbalists described for us. In other words, we discover ourselves in it, and that’s it!
I have to be in unity and mutual love all the time. This means that I discover my spiritual senses. However, if my senses are not like these, this means that they are not spiritual. I don’t perceive this world. I have to change myself so that I relate creatively to all the problems that arise.
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From the Convention In Sochi “Day Two” 7/14/14, Lesson 4
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Question: How can one feel love toward the friends all the time? Should this be apparent to them?
Answer: I have to be in a constant dialogue with the Creator and the whole group. All of the friends, all of humanity, the entire world is the basis given for my contact with the Creator that I have to gradually arrange.
This is because the world is what exists between Him and me. If I correct all of my attributes, this world will disappear from my senses. It will not exist. It will dissolve, and only the Creator and I will be left in adhesion between us. So, our world is used as a means for our mutual understanding. With its help, we come to adhesion, to unity.
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From the Convention In Sochi “Day Two” 7/14/14, Lesson 4
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Where Are We Going?
How is our development expressed and where are we going? In fact, these are the main issues that humanity faces. Kabbalists offer a detailed and rather intelligible description of the process of development.
The law of stage-by-stage development consists of going through many of intermediate stages until the completion of the process. This process is difficult, very slow, and unusually extended, stretching for a very long time.
The fact that this process is long and painful is no secret and requires no proof since everyone experiences the results of this process. The question is what the essence of this process is.
The force, inbuilt in these stages and forcing a person to rise from a lower to a higher state, is nothing but the force of pain and sufferings. They accumulate in the lower level to such an extent that it becomes impossible to tolerate them. As a result, suffering forces people the leave the level at which they are it and ascend to the higher one.
This description is similar the law of dialectics, isn’t it?
Engels defines dialectics as “the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society and thought.” In Anti-Dühring and The Dialectics of Nature, Engels gives an account of the laws of dialectics, beginning with the three most fundamental ones:
1) The law of the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa;
2) The law of the interpenetration of opposites, and
3) The law of the negation of the negation.”
Well, we are in a certain step-by-step painful process; however, we have not yet received the answers to the questions, “where humanity is going” and “how to manage this process.” At the same time, the development trends can be “estimated” if we put the human being and society next to each other.
“But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.” (Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach)
The founder of materialism simply insists that the essence of man lies in social relations. Kabbalists say almost the same thing.
“In addition, being a social creature, the individual development is not enough. Rather, one’s ultimate perfection depends on the development of all the members of society.” (Baal HaSulam, “The Solution”)
Let’s try to summarize the facts. The human being, or rather, people are initially created social. With each new generation, humanity is growing, and correspondingly, ties between people are becoming tighter. Along with this there is a paradox: The more humanity is trying to unite, the less it succeeds. Nonetheless, we do not abandon the attempts to unite, although we do not realize this. But this is in the next chapter.
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History tells us that our people gathered around the Idea. Not around the river, not around some area, but around the Idea. We can resent, resist, and scream that we want to be like everyone else. Nothing will come of it. We will not be like everyone else because precisely the Idea determines what we should be.
This Idea was put forward by Abraham 3,800 years ago, in a fragmented, riven by discord Babylon. This was not some philosophizing or guessing. The Law that governs the world was revealed to Abraham.
Then, everything was “ruled” by idols. Every natural phenomenon had its god. And Abraham said: “We worship them in vain. It is not the idols what rules the world. There is a Single Law. The Law of Nature. The Law of Equilibrium. The Law of Unity. The Law of infinite Love. We exist within it. It covers us like a mother covers a child. If we correspond to it, we will prosper. If we don’t correspond to it, we’ll suffer.”
From the entire Babylon, only a few thousand people listened to Abraham. They followed him in search of happiness.
Thus a people of Israel was born. “Love thy neighbor as thyself” was the foundation of this nation. Unity became its root.
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