Question: Is desire the foundation of nature?

Answer: Yes. There is only one substance called desire and nothing else.

Question: According to Kabbalah, there are different levels of desires. We are built so that we see the desires of the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels outside of ourselves. Therefore, as a result, we see inanimate and vegetative nature, animals, and people. If we were built differently, would we see a completely different picture of the world?

Answer: Yes, it depends on our desires. If we were at a lower level of desires, we would find ourselves chasing mammoths, etc. It all depends on the evolution of desires.

Question: How many levels of desires do animals have?

Answer: They operate according to the same system we do because these are our desires, only on lower levels.

Remark: But they sense us even though they do not have human desires.

My Comment: Here again we have a question: do they exist by themselves or only in our imagination? After all, everything exists only with respect to one person; there is nothing else beside him. Everything else is what exists inside of him and what he sees outside of himself.

Question: What is the reason that we do not feel this?

Answer: Kabbalists gradually discover the reality we are talking about now and they describe it. Other people do not feel it because they have not reached this level. The development of a person with the help of Kabbalah leads to the fact that he begins to see the true reality in which nothing except him exists in the general white Light.

Question: That means that no one is better or worse. There is just evolution, a program set by nature. There are people who began to attain this reality a few thousand years ago and explained that there is no world outside of us. Are there those who are still in this process and will attain this in another thousand years?

Answer: Yes. This indicates that there are desires in a person that have reached their correction and the correct revelation of reality and there are desires that have not been revealed yet and have not reached the correct sensation of reality, and therefore, they present themselves to a person in the form of external people who do not yet understand this and do not agree with this.

Remark: I understand that a desire operates according to two principles: the first is the preservation of the current form, the second is attaching to itself everything that is presented to it.

My Comment: Any desire is initially egoistic; it wants to preserve itself and as much as possible bring everything it considers useful closer to itself.

Remark: Therefore, as Kabbalah says, our whole life is a search for fulfillment. Nature created desires in us and we are searching for where their fulfillment is because we cannot really fill ourselves.

My Comment: We are filled and will be filled in the form of reason, in the form of impressions, and in the form of changes, until our impressions and changes lead us to the vision of the true reality where there is nothing but our desire in which all these fluctuations occur.

We will work only to expand this desire as much as possible and thus feel in it an absolutely complete filling called the world of infinity.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 11/26/18

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New Life #12 – The Key to Success
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi

Two forces manage the world, giving and receiving. We use more of the power of reception and this leads to an imbalance in all natural systems. In order to build a safer, healthier, cost-effective society, humanity needs to balance its use of the power of receiving with the power of bestowal. The goal of human development is that everyone will reach connection with all of nature and become like one, unified family. When we achieve balance and connection, we come to know nature and we gain purpose in life. We feel ourselves as an integral part of the whole and eternal system.
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From the KabTV’s “New Life #12 – The Key to Success,” 1/10/12

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Lesson on the Topic “Holding Onto The Goal Above The Ascents And Descents” 

Lesson on the Topic “Building The Future Society” 

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The descent of the worlds builds the steps of the ladder that carry the light and the desires from top to bottom, corresponding to one another on each level. That is, the right conditions are given for the connection of the light and the vessel in all the states from top to bottom.

When this descent reaches the bottom of the ladder, a shattering occurs and produces the inter-inclusion of these two forces: the desire to enjoy and the desire to give. This creates the possibility of the correct inclusion into one another no longer in a negative and egoistic form in which a spark of light breaks through the desire to receive.

Today, through one’s efforts and work in a group of ten, a person can draw the reforming light that will highlight the spark placed inside the egoistic desire and begin to develop both the desire and the spark inside oneself. Thus, the development takes place even at the corporeal level because we awaken the light precisely due to the shattering and we start working on the connection.

As a result of the descent downward, the light and the desire almost reach zero. And at the very end of the ladder the shattering occurs after which creation can begin to climb back up the same steps. Only due to the shattering, the light can penetrate into the desire, and then the desire begins to understand and feel what it means to be similar to the light, and consequently, requires the intention to bestow.

Adam HaRishon is considered to be the first man because the foundation of creation appears in him first, and it was not there before. Creation has to be independent. Before the shattering, Adam HaRishon was an angel and was called “a man” only for the future. But after the shattering, he is ready for correction, receiving the desire to enjoy and the desire to bestow mutually included in each other.

Then, with the help of the light, one can begin to clarify one’s desire to enjoy and the spark within gradually takes the form of a man, Adam, that is, similar to the Creator. Desiring to become like the Creator, the desire to enjoy restricts itself and builds a screen, the reflected light. Because of the spark, the desire attracts the reforming light and clothes in the intention to bestow. But before that, it should feel hatred, rejection, and only after it will come to unity and love.

Until the human level, at which creation becomes independent, it is not separated from the light. All other levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and even a person who has not yet reached awareness, only carry out the instructions of the light without any freewill. Therefore, there is no reward or punishment in corporeal life in this world for anything.

After the descent of the worlds from top to bottom down to this world and the shattering of Adam HaRishon, matter began to develop automatically, due to the reforming light, on the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels. But when creation reaches the last, fourth stage of the animate level, it is its turn to awaken the spark placed in it, and so, the “Homo loquens” (speaking man) appears in our world, that is, those in whom there is a point in the heart.

Such a person begins to feel that there is a certain force that controls him or her, and the person asks about the meaning of life. The person wants to become similar to the Creator, but finds only hatred and rejection in oneself instead of unity and love. Therefore, one realizes that one needs a ten and the reforming light and begins to act. Without the awareness of the evil, it is impossible to come to the good.¹
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/30/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam,“Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,”Items 12 –17
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Question: How can the right environment help in building a stable and strong family bond? And how can the family bond strengthen the environment?

Answer: We need to learn this. We have had many conversations that deal with this subject: how to behave in a family, how to balance family relationships. It is possible to find and study everything in our archive.

Question: You say that the future will be unbearable. How should we understand this?

Answer: That is incorrect! I am saying that it could be unbearable, but it could also be normal, if we understand the dynamics of our development and in what manner we can correct it.

Question: Which professions and experts will be in demand in the coming year?

Answer: This year, almost all professions will be in demand as before, but over time, there will be a very serious revision of professions.

Question: Legalization of drugs, sports, and smartphones—these satisfy the masses. How do we escape these traps? What will change this year?

Answer: I don’t know. It is impossible to change something in society, to turn it around to a particular point, without educating it as a whole. It will not work.

Question: Isn’t humanity playing with the Internet and computer technology too much? How much more do they need to be developed?

Answer: It is very good that humanity “sits” on the Internet; it is beginning to comprehend the opportunity of communicating between each other. I very much hope that in the future this system will begin to serve the general connection between us.

Question: Most people are convinced that they are in an excellent connection with others and that everyone else is at fault. How is it possible to explain what the right connection is?

Answer: You cannot do anything, you have to explain. So many people, practically all of us, justify ourselves and believe that we are right. We must think about how to explain that there is a greater truth.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/13/19

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New Life #11 – New Education
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi

In order to attain the next stage in our development, humanity must engage in an integral education process that will change our nature from mutual hatred and exploitation to love and consideration. The method of connection, that is, the integral system of education, not only is about to save us from all evil, but also brings us to goodness. It will allow us to be in touch with the engine that runs the whole developmental process, the greatest force found in nature: love. First we need to educate people to build a balanced society through thought, speech, and deed. By this we put an end to all suffering, reach a balance with the force of nature, and live in perfect harmony.
From KabTV’s “New Life #11 – New Education,” 1/9/12

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,”  Items 37 – 45

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#Trump is the first leader to defend his market, the US market, which caused a competitive battle. After all, with the global decline in demand, it is necessary to restore one’s own production.
When demand drops further, everyone will see this!
One cannot defy this verifiable trend!
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