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Comment: A Sufi was asked: “Venerable, why are there no traces of sadness on your face?” “I do not have anything worth grieving about the loss of,” the Sufi replied.
We are in sorrow all the time. We wanted something, but did not get it. A scratch on the car, we were fooled, or we were not given the position we wanted. We are constantly sad, all the time.
My Response: What a disaster!
Question: Yes! Humanity is like that. You see what is happening! It is in sorrow all the time. And this chain of sadness becomes our life. Can you, please, explain how not to be sad? How can we not be sad?
Answer: First, accept everything as coming from nature—from the Creator. And there should be no objections. And ask for one thing all the time—rapprochement, connection, and adhesion. Then everything will be fine.
Comment: But man is desire. And I always have desires. This one did not come to pass, that one did not come to pass, and still another one did not come to pass. How can I work with this? I am not filled with what I wanted to be filled with.
My Response: What would you like to be filled with?
Comment: What would I like? You name it!
My Response: If you imagine that in the next minute you are gone, then everything is fine.
Comment: Yes, then you are happy with the moment you are in now. That is all.
My Response: You are happy not because you are alive and have continued to live for one more minute but because you simply exist in this moment that the Creator has given you. And you live in it and try to adhere to Him.
Of course, one must strive to the best of one’s ability to ensure one’s future, and so it is written in the Torah, but nothing more.
Question: But if it is not secured, should I accept it?
Answer: Of course.
Question: That is, I want something, but whatever happens, happens and that is it?
Answer: Yes, definitely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/12/23
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Question: What does it mean to come to one opinion during a workshop?
Answer: One opinion means that it is common, not personally mine, not personally yours, not personally someone else’s, but our common opinion. It is not the sum of our personal opinions. The common opinion is a consequence of the influence of the upper force between us.
There is no yours, mine, his, and others’ opinions! There is no addition of them! There is just a willingness for the upper opinion to come and become ours. It should in no way relate to us because by being at a certain degree, we want the upper opinion of the next degree to come, and we raise ourselves up to it.
Comment: I’m trying to do it, but as a result I realize that I can’t.
My Response: No, this is wrong!
If you try to do it well, normally, slowly, and calmly, then you will be able to feel at least a small result of your effort. After all, you are waiting for the upper force that will lift you up and give you a completely different thought, and a different desire–not your own, not others, but its own.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Lithuanian Experiment” 3/13/12
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Comment: The Kabbalistic group is constantly in a certain “brew.” Like it or not, you pay attention to what is happening to others, conduct an analysis, and make a conclusion for yourself. It is not for nothing that you see it.
My Response: Why do you need to know what is going on with them? You do not know yourself, you do not know them, and yet you want to conduct an analysis. This is an unreasonable approach. I have a crooked eye, a crooked level, and a crooked wall, and I want to do something even. How?!
Question: But then, how do we interact with these people?
Answer: In no way. You are given another way out. Attract an upper dimension upon yourself. It will change and align everything. You will not do it, but it will, and it will do it in you, as there is nothing outside of you.
Everything is in you! Do you want to have another world; do you want to see the relationship between people? Everything you want to see is done only by the change in yourself because everything exists in you and nowhere else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It Is Forbidden to Reveal the Soul” 3/31/12
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Question: Can the 400 years that the Jewish people spent in exile be considered a period of a dream?
Answer: The period of a dream is generally called the entire period before our common redemption from egoism because a dream is a minimal influence of light from above, which holds us only in a physical form.
This is the state we are in now. Therefore, it is called a dream: the illumination of VAK, that is, a small illumination of light that is not even felt by us.
Where does life come from and why do electrons spin? Where does all the energy come from and how did our universe appear?
Does it all come from an infinitely powerful explosion point, which is just one point, and all matter, energy, and information developed from it?
We do not feel where it comes from. It goes away, diffuses into the next dimension and comes from there again, but we do not feel these transitions.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A 400-year-long dream” 4/26/12
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Question: Why did the Nazis pursue a policy directed against Jews?
Answer: The fact is that after the Weimar National Assembly, which adopted a constitution that equalized the rights of all the peoples of Germany, in particular Jews with Germans, it suddenly became clear that Jews occupied high positions in industry, science, and culture for several decades. According to the studies of political scientists and psychologists, this caused great envy and increased anti-Semitism.
Before that, everything was relatively quiet, although everyday, anti-Semitism has always existed because it is in the blood of mankind. This is the realization by the peoples of the world that the Jews have something secret, and supposedly they rule the world, they know something, they hide something.
Indeed, these people have a method of correcting the world. And now, when he offers it to everyone, no one wants to hear about it, because it is an anti-egoistic technique. But the feeling that the Jews have something is true. This attitude has always been with them.
After all, the main thing is the struggle for whose God is either yours or mine; it cannot be both is what Christians believed.
The Jews did not have this at all. God is the general force of nature. He is one!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why Did the Nazis Hate the Jews?”
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Question: What is the difference between the beginning of the 21st century and the beginning of the 2oth century, which was marked by the First World War and the need for changes in society?
Answer: At the beginning of the 2oth century, there was a fight for division, governance, and influence in the world. And today, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is a struggle for survival.
It is clear to everyone that it is impossible to rule the world, as it was thought before.
The world is governed by other forces, not ours, and we must comprehend them and enter them. The 21st century is the century of comprehension of the upper collective governance, the upper mind, and our common “I.”
Until the 2oth century, we developed in the search for knowledge, science, literature, and culture. The 2oth century is the century of integration when we were obliged to communicate with each other through mutual trade, separation–connection, war, and peace. People began to move, relocate, and understand that the world is round. They lost the sense of the flatness on which they live and developed a feeling of a sphere. This is very important and is the result of the 2oth century.
And then we began to experience huge problems with integration. It happened very quickly and imperceptibly because we are entering a state where changes occur much faster than we can realize with our feelings and mind. It turns out that today we are in a state that we do not understand at all.
There was a time when rulers would say, “It will be so,” and it was so. Then they would look at the world around them, consult their advisors, and say, “It is better to do this or that.” Today neither they nor their advisers understand anything. The time of kings has passed because it is impossible to follow whatever pops into the king’s and his advisers’ heads. Besides, there are no wise advisers left. So, we don’t know what to rely on and what to do with ourselves. That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between the 2oth and 21st Centuries” 2/11/12
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New Life 257 – Interdependent Relationships In The Neighborhood
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
How do we elevate relations between neighbors to a higher level?
A person of today generally wants to close himself off in his apartment and not be disturbed, but this doesn’t happen. Instead of building more walls and further isolation, one must begin to build relationships and connections. The only remedy for any problem, neighborhood problems included, is to build good relationships and connections between us. If we hire someone else to address problems, it will not help. Nature is pushing us to connect and integrate with each other.
Neighbors should gather socially to get to know each other better. Then they can share their mutual concerns and think together about how to address problems through building good relationships between them.
Games and activities that connect children can be an effective approach to also begin to connect their mothers. Ask “What do we have in common? What don’t we have in common?” Such discussions can lead neighbors to explore how they can improve their situation together. Shared classes, a shared picnic, or a shared barbecue will fill everyone with good feelings.
But above all, we need to change our attitudes to each other. In a perfect neighborhood everyone feels like one family: close, connected and concerned about each other and the fulfillment of each individual’s needs and our common needs together.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 257 – Interdependent Relationships In The Neighborhood,” 11/19/13
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Tenth Commandment,” Item 237
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Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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Selected Highlights
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Are the Jewish people still in exile?“
Being Jewish means attaining the sensation of two contrasting forces in nature, the egoistic force, which is our human nature, and its opposite altruistic force, which is the force of nature itself.
The attainment of these two forces define the people who, first under Abraham, developed this feeling of reality. They became known as the people of Israel, and later, as the Jews.
At a certain point, around 2,000 years ago, they lost the sensation of the two forces and lived solely in the egoistic force. That is the meaning of being in exile.
Exile has no geographic connotations, i.e. leaving some geographic Land of Israel. It is rather a matter of an inner exile, that we lack the sensation of the altruistic nature—the quality of love, bestowal and connection—in our relations. When we departed from this sensation, we then entered our period of exile and ceased to exist as the people of Israel.
Based on the video “What Is the Exile of the Jews?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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