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Comment: In some countries governments officially take control of the Internet and block sites that promote, for example, pedophilia, etc.
My Response: Of course. If you have a family and small children, would you let them watch obscene programs on television or on the Internet? No. So we need to find some kind of regulator. The problem is how to find it.
Humanity is not inclined to look for something in common; it comes to something involuntarily, for example, an agreement on flights, on corridors for aircraft, and so on.
But in general, this is a big problem, especially with issues related to business. Some kind of moral basis is needed for this, and humanity does not have it.
Today’s parents, in principle, have other things to worry about. Our egoism has grown so much that the Internet does not correspond to what happens in schools. Therefore, I am in favor of reaching an international agreement, an international restriction.
Man is an animal, and the most terrible, ugly, and egoistic one on top of that! If we allow everything, it is not freedom, but a perversion that turns our life into such a swamp from which we would not get out! We would drown there. Therefore, we need to restrict ourselves so that we are at least in such a state from which we could initially go further, think of something, and choose some kind of middle line.
Our egoistic nature crushes us and pulls us to the very bottom. The popularity of porn sites is above everything else. This shows who we are!
I am not going to enforce anything, but it should be very limited and properly considered. I am not a hypocrite, but it must not be like that.
We will have to do something anyway. I am in favor of creating an international organization to control the Internet in which there would be representatives of all countries. This is the correct approach.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Control Over the World Internet” 11/3/12
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Question: Where is the line between justifying the Creator and disagreeing with Him?
Answer: You do not agree with Him in your egoism, but in your qualities of bestowal and love you are similar to Him.
There is a law of nature: to the extent that you are different from the Creator, you feel all kinds of concealments, fog, distance, misunderstanding, and rejection. You carry out the concealment yourself with your qualities.
Moreover, the concealment corresponds to the extent of your development. It is just like with a child, he is not given a more difficult task than one he can solve. For example, we buy a one-year-old child a toy that says: “Age: one year” on the package.
It is the same case here. Everything is perfectly clear, and in accordance with the mentality, development, and mood with what happens to everyone. This is a huge system that is constantly moving and adjusting all its parts to the final stage—to complete connection.
A person should understand that at every minute of time he is in the best condition to choose the right path. Not otherwise!
Question: Where should the disagreement be, with how I perceive it?
Answer: Of course! You have to change yourself a little. First of all, you must realize that everything comes from the Creator, from the absolute good, and that now you perceive it differently—in quantity, in quality, in any form—only because your personal uncorrected qualities distort everything. But these are the uncorrected qualities, which at the current moment, you can already correct.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. If I Do Not Agree With The Creator” 12/15/12
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Question: To what extent is it welcomed in Kabbalah for friends as a whole to discuss among themselves common actions that should be performed on the spiritual path?
Answer: We discuss these issues in workshops. Workshops are a laboratory in which we polish our mutual relations between us on the spiritual path of development. Here we think like researchers who experience everything through their own experiments.
Many scientists often tested all kinds of drugs and preparations, and recorded the results of their experiments. This is especially true in the study of human conditions. For example, in astronautics, various studies are conducted on thousands of people: overload, weightlessness, isolation, and so on. And we have the same thing.
But, we have another problem. We go through it on our own, and then we share our experience with each other. All Kabbalistic books are written based on the experience of those people who have traversed the spiritual path. And we draw this methodology from books that explains how Kabbalists go through everything themselves, what to do at that time, how to behave, and how to lead others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Can’t Share Your Grief with Others.” 11/24/12
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Question: We often listen to the teacher and think that the perception of his words occurs through the eardrum. How can we perceive it not through the vibration of the air? You said that in Kabbalah to listen to a teacher is a big job.
Answer: Of course. It is necessary to hear through the equivalence of qualities, through aspiration to the teacher, through the state when you try to “get into” him and fully adapt to him.
In our world, it is also desirable to understand and feel an ordinary school teacher, and to connect with him if he really wants to pass on his knowledge and his approach to you. After all, this is not just knowledge from a book; rather, he wants to convey his view to you, his philosophy. Then it is very important for you to be closer to him.
This is the difference between dead Western science and the sciences that were taught in the East, in Tibet and in China, no matter where. This is a completely different school. There, the attitude to the teacher was like to dervishes, Sufis, and rabbis, like to spiritual teachers.
In the West, you did not have to enter into a special internal contact with the teacher, everything there was aimed not at becoming closer, but at individualism. But in the East, on the contrary, the connection was the main thing, and students always coexisted with the teacher.
It was an entire system, although nowadays we have moved away from it and all this no longer has any original forms.
Where are all these correct relationships that Abraham once passed on to his disciples and sent them to the East? Then all these teachings passed from Ancient Babylon to the East, each in accordance with its tribes, its peoples, and gradually developed into Tibetan, Indian, Muslim, and so on. But today this no longer takes place on Earth.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Correct Contact between Student and Teacher” 1/11/13
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Question: During pregnancy, there are two periods that threaten miscarriage. As a rule, it is the initial stage, and the next one is closer to the birth itself.
Is there a similar situation in Kabbalah? One when a person comes, and after a while his initial desire, the fuel of which he used to run disappears? Is this similar to the first threat? Also, when a person is already approaching the entrance to spirituality and he suddenly just leaves?
Answer: Indeed, these stages on the spiritual path can be compared to periods of threatened miscarriage. At the beginning of the path when a person advances, there is of course such a threat. But I would not say that it really depends on him. And later, when he is already advancing toward spiritual birth, such a threat exists there as well.
But, in general, during all births, there is also a lot of tension from the entire nine months. The very first stage of spiritual development is very difficult because it is a period of self-annulment, of annulling one’s “I.”
Question: It turns out that the fetus has no options to stay inside the mother, right? Anyway, one way or another, he has to be born; he cannot stay inside her.
Answer: Definitely, there is no getting away from it.
There is no way we can avoid this path. Of course, there may be an injury or some kind of unfortunate incident, and then it can happen again and again. But a person has nowhere to go, and he will still be forced to enter his birthing journey and be born. All the same, he has to place himself under the influence of upper forces.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Threat During Pregnancy” 12/7/12
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Question: Why do we have to thank the Creator for obstacles?
Answer: Because if He does not renew His contact with you, then there is no way you will be able to renew it. It is either the Creator will renew it directly with the first thought from above or He will do it through someone.
Therefore, first of all, you should turn on our TV channel or our website—this should work automatically—and no other sources of reception!
In the evening I can listen to the news or even watch a documentary if it is really interesting, and that is it. After that, when I get up in the morning, only Kabbalah!
I get up 1.5 or 2 hours prior to the lesson, not a word from anyone, I only tune into the connection with the Creator! Then this entire world is clearly sensed as His conduit. How can it be different?!
Otherwise, the whole day is gone in vain. Not only in vain, but it goes into negative! And I will have to correct it because I strengthened my connection with the Creator through Klipot (impure forces)—through the incorrect system.
If I spend my day as if I do not have contact with the Creator and do not use this entire world in order to get connected with Him even more, to rise above all obstacles that He puts here for me, like on the theater stage, but rather perceive this world as truly existing, then I empower the so-called impure forces instead of connecting with that single force that determines, rules, and spins everything. Thus, I distance myself from contact with Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Practical Kabbalah” 11/4/12
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Punishment from God is among the many theories people have come up with for why we suffer, i.e. that God punishes us for certain actions we have (or have not) done either in our current life, or in past lives. However, aside from theories, nobody really knows why we suffer.
Especially in our current times, we can see that we are globally interdependent and interconnected. The more we develop, the more our global interdependence reveals to us.
We live in a single global system, and we each share a mutual responsibility for the well-being of the entire system.
Similarly to how our bodies work, we feel a wound in our pinky toe as a pain throughout our whole body, and if it is a major wound, then it demands our complete attention. That is how we increasingly reveal ourselves in our world today.
If we comprehended and felt the full extent of our interdependence, then we would quickly conclude that we need to fix our connections: to upgrade our attitudes to each other as to members of a single family—and even closer. If we do, then we will start sensing that we live in an absolutely perfect world, free from suffering.
Based on a Virtual Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on September 27, 2015. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Alexey Malakhov on Unsplash.
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