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Posted on June 6th, 2024
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject (A.A. Milne).
Question: Alan Alexander Milne wrote many things, but he is mostly remembered for Winnie the Pooh. In one of his writings he noted, “One never knows exactly when one person becomes bored with another. A stranger’s golf success story is intolerable, but how interesting one’s own seems. A person cannot view their own story with the impatience of an outsider.”
Can you please tell us how to see that we are boring?
Answer: I do not know if we need to see that. We just need to be silent. I am in favor of silence. It is normal for people to sit and be silent, or think about something in common, or even each something of their own. Why talk?
Comment: And they must agree: “Let’s sit quietly.” So, let’s sit quietly, think.
My Response: It should be clear without saying it.
Question: So we should not engage others?
Answer: We should not do anything! There is noise from all sides: information, music, who knows what and how. But, in principle, none of it is necessary.
Question: And we are not boring then? We just sit, silent.
Answer: Yes, we can sit and be silent.
Comment: But this is only if there are good or warm relationships between people.
My Response: Yes, understanding.
Question: So, is it necessary for us to have such relationships that we can sit quietly together?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: It is not that simple; it is already intimacy.
My Response: All conversations lead to arguments, to some troubles. Sit, be silent, and everything will be fine. When you start talking, inconsistencies arise.
Question: This principle definitely works among close people. But for this, we still need to be close.
Please tell us about being boring. There are directorial authors who said: “It does not matter to me how many people watch my film. Let them grow up to my film.” How do you feel about this: not “I am boring,” but simply “They have developed up to my level yet”?
Answer: It is indispensable. Every person who creates something has that pride of a creative person.
Question: And they cannot get rid of it?
Answer: Absolutely not!
Question: So this idea that people should mature to my work, do you accept it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But there is another approach—Hollywood style. What I feed them, I know they will consume. And I deliberately feed them in a way that is low-grade or follows a known formula. How do you feel about this? I am not boring, millions watch me.
Answer: I do not know. I also do not really understand a person who creates something for the masses. It does not leave an internal, moral impression, does not touch the heart, but people need it.
Question: So, are all these approaches correct in your opinion?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Then here is a question. We return to the Creator one way or another, we never leave Him in all our roles. We have nowhere to go.
So what kind of director should He be, in your opinion? A director who is understood or one you have to develop to? What does His direction do to us?
Answer: He wants us to think, find solutions, and try to implement them.
Comment: Still He regards us as thinking beings.
My Response: Yes absolutely!
Comment: That is a lofty position.
My Response: Otherwise, our lives would have no meaning. He sets a certain level of our development for each moment for every person.
Question: So, with all His directing—and He is a great director, a great scriptwriter—we already see this, where is He leading us?
Answer: Toward realizing the need to rise above our nature.
Question: And this whole movie we are watching, is this practically its end?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is that considered a good ending? After going through wars, suffering, catastrophes?
Answer: It is a good ending, of course! Because we agree with what we have achieved, and we hope for the final moment when I reveal Him in my nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/4/24
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Question: Toward what thought or feeling should we all strive simultaneously to move from a dead point? Can you give us some advice?
Answer: I constantly give you advice and hope you listen to it. You need to keep getting closer to each other, more and more. I do not see any problems. The fact is that it takes time.
You can read in the writings of Baal HaSulam or Rabash that this path takes ten, even twenty years. When I first heard this, I was ready to grab Rabash and demand he accelerate my spiritual progress.
But it is designed this way so that our efforts extend throughout the duration of our attempts, and in this way, we perform the complete work of connection.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”
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Having little faith means that he does not want only to bestow. “He who makes his voice heard during his prayer is of those of little faith” (Rabash, Notes 606, “Those of Little Faith”).
Question: Does this mean we must suppress the desire to receive so that it does not sound in our voice?
Answer: No, this is not required at all. You can shout or speak to yourself, the Creator will still understand, hear, and take note of everything.
Question: What is the difference between praying aloud and praying silently?
Answer: Whispered prayer can be more effective because a person formulates it inside himself and tries to connect with the Creator.
Question: When I ask for help from the Creator, this prayer comes from my lack of faith, meaning I lack belief and I ask the Creator to help me. What does my prayer consist of when I ask for the ability to bestow?
Answer: Bestowal is a property of the Creator. When you ask for the ability to bestow, you ask Him to give you that ability. In this way, you are trying to come closer to Him, to become like Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”
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Question: What is the state of death in spirituality?
Answer: It is parting with the Creator.
Question: Is spiritual death inevitable at every stage or can we avoid it?
Answer: At each stage of one’s spiritual ascent, a person must momentarily experience the state of death. Then, the next step opens before one, and one enters it. That is necessary for our development.
Question: What does it mean “in the state of death” to take upon oneself the work of faith above reason? How is it done?
Answer: In the state of death, we do not find ourselves. But what we consider disconnection from the path, from the Creator, we say that it is similar to death. We must accustom ourselves to such states and realize that our spiritual life is much higher than this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”
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Question: The spiritual development of the State of Israel and the connection of the country of Israel with the whole world can be divided into five stages.
One of them is the awareness of the evil of our selfish nature. Do you think this is the first stage for further development?
Answer: Yes selfishness is our primordial nature, and we we cannot get out of it by ourselves. The only thing we can realize is its depravity, its doom for us, but nothing more.
Question: Baal HaSulam writes that our natural selfishness is the essence of every human being and it gives us a sense of self. As each develops their abilities, they are ready to enslave others, take over the whole world, and control it. Why did the Creator create mankind like this?
Answer: The Creator specially created humans this way so that in the end we would reveal our egoistic essence, want to change it, and start developing from selfishness to altruism consciously.
Therefore, our egoistic essence is the foundation from which we begin to grow. Thanks to it, we see who we are and do everything only for ourselves in our narrow animal egoism. From this point, we begin to rise.
There are several means by which we can rise a little above selfishness, explore it, and then change it.
We have been given the worst foundation, the worst condition on purpose, and we must rise to the opposite.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24
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Question: Before clearly realizing that everything I see outside of myself is in me, can I feel something as part of myself?
Answer: Maybe in a movie. In The Matrix and in other movies, perhaps they tried to somewhat portray this. I do not watch such movies, they are very primitive.
But in order to somehow hint to people what the perception of reality is, we need to come up with something. The correct perception of reality is explained in the Introduction to The Book of Zohar and by many Kabbalists in general. They wrote about this long before Einstein and other scientists because they discovered from their own experience that everything we see from the outside is actually in us, and there is no world outside.
There is nothing outside at all—everything is inside! There is no such thing as “outside of me.” I am everything! And you? And you are in me!
Comment: But often people say that all this is a fantasy.
My Response: Of course, it is a fantasy! Until we have clearly revealed it, it is a fantasy.
I am telling you about this fantasy now so you can start to grope it a bit even though you do not have any properties for it yet. But with your mind, you can push yourself toward it. Once you have even tiny buds of new properties, then you will be able to develop them using your mind and thereby accelerate your development.
If we did not have a mind and only had feelings, I would not tell anyone anything, because it would be impossible to hasten the path of development: it will come in its due time. But since we have a mind through which we can strive to comprehend this picture, draw closer to feeling it, we can direct our sensors to somehow feel it and compare various fragments; that is why I am speaking about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12
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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that a primitive person uses his egoistic nature without being ashamed of anything. A more developed person already feels some kind of shame and tries to use others in a veiled way.
But he gradually begins to realize that and is ashamed of his nature. He is looking for where he can somehow correct it until sparks of altruism appear in him.
Do you think that in our country, in Israel, we are already at a stage when people recognize the evil of their nature and understand that it separates us?
Answer: No way! This recognition can be reached only through the study of Kabbalistic sources and with their help a person can expose himself to the influence of the upper light located in them, i.e., under the influence of a special quality—the quality of bestowal, love, and connection with all humanity.
If a person works in order to attain these changes within him, then they occur in him. Then he begins to see that he cannot bear his present nature and is ready to rush into the future.
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Question: Man’s main job is to come to a sense of the Creator’s reality. Achieving It can only be through prayer. How can a person keep the prayer that he must come to this feeling within oneself?
Answer: Strive for the Creator always and keep the desire to attain Him in your heart.
Question: Reason prevents us from going in faith above reason. How do we use reason correctly so that it helps us rise above ourselves?
Answer: To do this you need to unite with each other so that everyone can help a friend rise a little bit. If you work together to influence everyone in the ten in this way, you will be able to rise.
Question: When there is a great desire to get closer to the Creator, it is a good state. But what if a person feels the Creator a little bit, then is it not very good anymore?
Answer: It is okay to keep developing this feeling and try to increase it.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”
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