Ship In The Desert Convention 2019
Posted on February 17th, 2019
The path to the Creator lies through the love of friends. Love is achieved by “buying” a friend, fulfilling him, until you enter his heart and fill it with your love. And then, in the heart of the friend, you reveal the Creator.
If all are engaged only in fulfilling the desires of others, as in the commandment “Love others as yourself,” then no one will have to worry about himself. And it will be easy to fulfill the commandment of love, for everyone around takes care of each person …
…. and the Creator’s upper light shines on them.
If people with a small power to exit egoism get together, the forces of bestowal are not present; individually, one cannot cancel himself before others. Despite the potential love for the Creator, they can’t have it actualized—unless they focus only on the love of friends …
… and by doing so receive the light as the love for the Creator.
A group wishing to find the Creator must consist of 10 people engaged in the common work for a single connection between them (minyan), as unified as the body parts. This occurs when everyone cancels himself in relation to the group.
Thus, a single organism/”Desire to bestow” is created, the Creator’s equivalent.
The correction of the soul of Adam occurs in the efforts to unite with the friends in the group. In the measure of their rapprochement and unity they unite with Creator—the light. Unity is called “by way of bestowal.” It is against our egoistic nature.
But only through the unity with friends can one achieve adhesion with the Creator.
All souls come from one soul, Adam, its fall into egoism and breaking into 600,000 souls. The eternal, infinite light that fills it divided, and a temporary little light of earthly life shines in each broken part. We need to collect the broken parts, and the Creator will fill them
….with the full eternal light.
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In the News (Bloomberg): “The World’s Richest People Lost $511 Billion in 2018,” “The richest people on Earth lost $511 billion this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs.”
My Comment: The fact is that they must understand whether they have an opportunity to hinder the progress of people. The more you present people with new toys for mutual connection, for their fulfillment, for any information, etc., the more they become picky and selective.
They are no longer interested in Facebook as it is. They simply cannot look at ads. People are so fed up with it that they even cannot be thrust on children.
That is, everything that the rich have made during the past 20 years is starting to work less and less. Despite all their sophistication, it passes. The period of egoistic accumulation will have to rot itself.
Humanity is still developing. Therefore, I see that the time will come, and very quickly, when these dollars they accumulated will have no value and there will no longer be an opportunity to earn money.
I think people will generally strive for greater simplicity. They will want to sit on the grass, drink a little, have a snack, listen to normal music, the chirping of birds, and the laughter of children running around. They will want something very close and pleasant to the heart, and not to bother their heads, brains, soul, and feelings with something very artificial.
I hope it will be this way.
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/25/18
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Question: What is the difference between the desire to receive and egoism?
Answer: The desire to receive is a natural desire, and egoism refers to enjoyment at another’s expense. For example, if a hungry lion attacks a sheep and kills it to have breakfast, this is called desire.
A person wants to humiliate others, to profit from them, to gain at their expense. He does not enjoy the process of receiving itself, but the fact that through it, he towers over others. This is egoism.
In other words, there is a natural desire for satiation, for being filled, and there is an egoistic desire. If I want to simply receive pleasure, then it is a basic necessity for my existence. If, however, I desire to receive something specifically at the expense of others, against them, in order to rise higher than them, then this is egoism.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/16/18
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Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
Summary
There is no greater pleasure than human connection. When I perceive strangers within me, I begin to feel a sense of freedom, security, and pleasure. A bit of this new spirit is tasted in the connection between friends in the army. In the army everyone is equal and dependent on each other. There is a spirit of friendship and respect for those who help and concede. The wounded are not abandoned in the field because friends in the army are closer than family. The power and spirit of the Israeli Defense Force is derived from the fact that there is a unique point, a spark of self-sacrifice in every Jew. The modest and the wise have always been respected among the people of Israel. There are no masters or slaves. When there will be enough people in Israeli society who make room in their hearts for others, we will feel like a single family. External conditions will compel Israeli society to connect and reach the peak of human development. It is up to us to build a society with a spirit of friendship and provide an example to all of humanity.
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Know that the Creator yearns for you exactly as much as you yearn for Him. And do not forget this, even during the greatest despair. Know that the Creator is longing and yearning to be one with you. He creates in you a yearning for Him, until you attain full adhesion with Him.
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Question: When I feel suffering or unpleasant sensations in my physical condition, should I perceive this as a manifestation of insufficient connection with the ten and as a beacon for investing greater effort in strengthening the connection with it?
When I feel some kind of pleasure and even just a good mood in my physical state, should I also relate this to the fact that the Creator is giving me pleasure for a proper integration in a ten?
What is the best way to do this? Should one thank the Creator or simply surrender to the state with the thought of giving Him pleasure if I succeed in connecting my state with Him, as the giver?
Answer: Feelings do not determine anything, because they are egoistic. Therefore, we can only be guided in our actions according to the advice of Kabbalists.
Question: I read on your website that “there is no such thing as a situation in which the Creator is pleased or not pleased. There is nobody above who is not satisfied or indeed satisfied. We are talking about a law of nature, there is no pleasure or satisfaction about it.
“When I say that we need to give the Creator pleasure, what I mean is bestowal to others. ‘Above’ means to the rest of the souls, to the rest of humanity. There is no Creator and there is no upper force; rather there is humanity.”
I have a question about this: If the Creator is everything that has been created combined together, and when all of us are together this is Him, how can it be that the Creator can suffer more than we do? How can one understand this correctly?
Answer: Read all of our material, and the understanding will come gradually.
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New Life #144 – From a Melting Pot into One Family
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
Summary
How can we build one family above the differences that we find in the melting pot of Israeli society? The strengthening of the national ego has led to the strengthening of the personal ego. The lack of connection between us affects our lives at home, at work, in the economy, and in the country at large. The rapprochement between us is a preparation to help us emerge from the global crisis and repair the entire world. We are to become representatives after the exile and help the whole world to become one global family. The soul of Israeli society is based on the principle: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Connection and love result in us being like different flowers in a bouquet. The heart of nature is accessed when we feel each other and live within one another. Integral education develops a sensation of new life in the connection between us.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #144 – From a Melting Pot into One Family,” 2/19/13
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