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Posted on January 16th, 2021 at 9:55 pm
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Comment: Paris hotels are empty. There is a pandemic and no tourists. The Hotel Avenir Montmartre, which is in a good location with a view of the Eiffel Tower, let the homeless in.
The hotel management gave rooms to a homeless charity and provided shelter to people during the year so that they would not freeze on the streets in the cold; they were placed in these rooms. There, they have three meals a day, a warm shower, and a warm toilet.
This charity believes that, in this way, they will be able to make the homeless change their lives.
My Response: No. This is a lifestyle.
Question: To live on the streets?
Answer: Yes! I feel free. I do not owe anything to anyone and no one owes me anything. I do not need anything. I do not want any mutual obligations. I want to feel free.
Question: Is this not a misfortune as we all think?
Answer: This is not a misfortune. It is a feeling of such freedom, such an existence that no one else has.
Comment: I will carefully assume that the homeless are looking at us and saying, “Here are the unfortunate ones! With all their businesses and affairs.”
My Response: Yes. The main thing is that we live in the pursuit of time and they have no time; time has no control over them.
Comment: This is nice. We have a clock ticking all the time, all the time, everything is time, yes. I didn’t have time.
My Response: This is how we subconsciously think that I did not have time to do and what I managed to do.
And here, nothing! Do you understand what happiness is?! For the sake of this feeling of freedom, they are ready to live on the street. A person always chooses egoistically, there is nothing you can do about this. This is our nature. They choose this state. Therefore, they will come, of course, to the hotels, but I do not think there will be very many of them.
I do not think they will use hotels 100%. These are people who, in principle, do not care so much about whether or not they washed themselves and even whether they ate normally or not, as long as this would not affect the sense of their timelessness. We do not even feel how it is possible to exist outside of time, outside of movement. This is actually a spiritual feeling since time is the most important thing we have.
Comment: Yes. These are our fetters. If you go on a little longer, I will drop everything and go out on the street, just like that. There is even some romance in this.
My Response: This is the choice a person has, not because he couldn’t do anything else. This is his choice. I would even say that France has enough funds to look after these clochards [vagrants], not necessarily now, because of the pandemic, but in general, there were all sorts of opportunities.
Yet, they do not leave the streets. They believe that such an existence gives them a sense of freedom. You can say, “But they do not exist as homeless people, they exist as animals.” They live on the street, no matter where, how, or what. That’s right. But, this is their choice.
The most important thing is whether a person controls time or time controls a person, right up to the point of death.
Question: How can we, without going out onto the streets, begin to control time?
Answer: To do this, we must get out of all the restraints that our egoism imposes on us, rise above them, above egoism, and begin to act in a completely different way, not for ourselves, but for others. We have no other choice. Then, you will feel that you are coming out of one captivity and falling into another captivity, into caring for others, but there you will feel free from earthly fetters.
Comment: But, still, looking at the homeless.
My Response: Envy them! On the other hand, we can say that we are now getting closer to them in some ways. The virus makes us stay at home and not rush.
You cannot do anything anyway. Stay at home for a couple of months longer and then you will check to see if you can stick your nose out onto the street or not. If you are not yet above your destiny, then you will stay at home for a couple of months more and so on, until you start to feel that there is no time.
Now, you are still writing in your calendar, another couple of months, another three months, and more. When you stop doing that, you will lose your sense of time. Then, instead of a sense of time, you will have another sense.
You will begin to define this feeling as other space-time relationships and connection between everyone. The past, present, and future will become a movement toward universal connection. Then, you will measure in this way: if there is a connection and it becomes more and more explicit and desirable, then I go forward and I live. If this connection does not manifest in a larger and larger connection between us, then time begins to fly. This is exactly when it flies.
Question: Does this mean that time stops when I find a connection with others, as if I have passed into an almost eternal state?
Answer: Yes. If everything moves, not within me, but between me and others, then time slows down to a standstill.
Comment: Thoughts about others, living for others, I will live like this.
My Response: Yes. Circulation within a closed system will bring this system into a state of absolute rest.
This feeling is the attainment of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/21/20
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Question: How can one get rid of strong negative emotions when experiencing suffering; how can one overcome them and sincerely thank the Creator?
Answer: It is only through connecting with the group. The moment you feel a negative emotion and along with it you want to be alone, withdraw and shrink, you should immediately go to the group, devote yourself to it, and melt into it. This is the best method for getting rid of suffering.
Question: If so, is a person without a group condemned to suffering?
Answer: Without a group a person cannot develop. A person must find a group for oneself, either physical or virtual, because a person must be in connection with other people.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/18/18
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Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
We experience stress and anxiety due to our egoistic attitudes toward others and not because of any external factors at home or work. We think we are stressed due to issues related to money, health, work, and home, all of which have all been exacerbated by Covid in recent months. We resist what is happening and worry and want to control the future so that it will be less uncertain. The truth is that we are not in charge.
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that all of these issues come to us from Mother Nature so that we will learn to let go of our belief that we can control the future and instead will attribute the issues we are facing to the benevolent leadership of the upper force.
We need to actively change our approach to the people in our lives so that we will be more friendly with them, in the same way that all of nature’s actions toward us are friendly and good. We need to consciously choose to accept and flow with the providence of the upper force in the same way that the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature do. Like a baby being taken care of by its mother, we need to trust, learn, and grow in her loving arms. In this way we calm down and become partners in a mutual relationship based on love within an integral system.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1292 – How To Reduce Stress And Anxiety?” 27/12/20
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Question: The Book of Zohar says that you need to peer into the secrets of your master in order to know yourself. What are these secrets?
Answer: Secrets are what is hidden from me. It will become clear tomorrow. The secrets of nature or the secrets of the Creator are one and the same: that which has not yet been revealed to me.
Question: And what does “peer” mean?
Answer: The most important human sense is his sight. The light of wisdom personifies a look, a vision. This is the deepest degree of knowledge.
Even in court witnesses are asked: “Have you seen?” And if they answer that they only heard, it does not count as evidence.
That is, we understand that vision is our brightest, maximum sensation of the environment.
Question: Does sight mean corporeal sight?
Answer: This also implies inner vision—the vision of wisdom. That is why The Book of Zohar says “to peer.”
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #2
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Question: What is the exit from Egypt? What is “Egypt” from a spiritual point of view?
Answer: Exiting out of Egypt is coming out of egoism and entering the quality of bestowal, unity and love.
Question: Where does it start from?
Answer: A person begins to feel that he lives aimlessly, no “gods” or beliefs fill him, they do not give him a complete answer to what the meaning of life is, its purpose. He gradually outgrows what he was taught and what the environment teaches itself and holds on to.
He feels that he needs something more: to know why a person lives, for what, and how everything works. It is a question about his existence, which feels completely pointless to him.
Question: Are such desires that develop over the course of evolution called spiritual aspirations?
Answer: This is the initial aspiration.
Question: And then man reveals the only force of nature?
Answer: No. This does not happen immediately. The fact is that he does not even know where or how to look for this force of nature and how it controls a person.
His main task is to find the Creator, because this is the only force that controls everything. And for yourself, and as if against yourself, no matter how, but there is always only one force. To reveal it is the most important thing for a person.
However, a person doesn’t know how to find it. He comes to study in a group and is told that this force is the opposite of egoism. This is the spiritual force that exists now in him in which our whole world was created, and he must get closer to this force of the Creator, the quality of bestowal, love, and connection.
After all, our whole action is to unite us again into one single soul, which has broken into 600,000 parts, and we must unite these small private souls into one single soul.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19
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Conception, pregnancy. and birth are the main elements of any developmental process. Even in these material processes, there is much that is unknown, hidden, and beyond our control.
It is difficult to understand the subtleties of the mechanism of this work and even more so to control it and find out its internal engine. Of course, conception pertains to the power of the Creator.
The birth of the human body belongs to the animate stage, and the birth on the human level is spiritual birth. We are talking about a person of our world in whom, thanks to his own efforts and processes controlled from above by the Creator, the upper force, the upper system begins to be born. Thanks to this, he will be able to call himself human, Adam, that is, similar to this upper system developing in him, the Creator.
We feel that there is some mystery in how a new life suddenly begins to develop from one cell. This involves some unknown force that gives the cell a boost to develop. We also experience this in our ordinary, corporeal life, and therefore, we perceive pregnancy and the birth of a person as a miracle.
And even more so, it is a miracle in spirituality. The most difficult thing is the first entry into the spiritual world, that is, into the sensation of spiritual forces acting on a person. He feels his soul starting to develop from one point and connecting with the forces acting on it. This is the beginning of the soul, spiritual conception from a drop of spiritual semen.
It takes many years to reach this spiritual conception, to establish a connection between the upper force and the forces of man. When there is this sensory contact in a person for the first time, his first connection with the upper force, the Creator, it radically changes his whole attitude.
He begins to see himself and the Creator as partners and understands that only at the moment of readiness for full annulment will he be able to start a new life. His whole attitude to life, to himself, and to the Creator changes.
Before, everything came from his natural, egoistic desire. But now he feels that he is ready to break away from his egoism, that he has the necessary understanding and strength for this, and that he is ready to imagine himself existing outside of his egoism and to act for the sake of bestowal. That is, he wants to act for the sake of the Creator without having any personal benefit at that moment.
This detachment from the desire to receive is one of the components of the process of conception and then birth in the spiritual world.
All actions leading to spiritual birth a person can perform only in a group, receiving through it forces from above, from the Creator. The Creator is within the group. To the extent that a person is ready to submit himself to it, he receives the forces of bestowal that help him build himself into a man. Otherwise, he will remain a dead drop of semen that has not yet begun to develop.
All the forces for development come through the group, through the ten. Therefore, only if you know how to gather the ten, unite, and be included in it, you can start talking about spiritual birth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/21, “Ibur (Conception) and Preparation to Birth”
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If I want to advance in spirituality, then every second I must transfer all my feelings, attention, and love through the ten to the Creator. And even if I do not feel any desire for it, I still try to do it artificially.
It is like a family that has adopted a child and tries to give him as much attention as possible although they have not yet become attached to him with their heart and feel him as a stranger.
And yet, they put more and more energy into it until they begin to feel him as a true member of the family. The more heart and care they put into this strange child, worry and care for him day and night, the more they feel him as their own. They love the effort put into it because it is part of them.
This is how we must act in relation to the Creator. By putting more and more attention and efforts from my desire to receive pleasure to the desire to bestow to the Creator, I build Him. And therefore it is said, “You have made Me.” It turns out that the Creator becomes dear to me because I made Him dear myself.
The Creator becomes the good that does good because I want Him to be so. I do it all with my own hands and this is how I advance and build the Creator.
Therefore, the Creator is called “come and see” (Bo-Re) because you need to come to this revelation by putting a lot of effort into it. And then I will see what I have done and will enjoy what I have done. Otherwise, it is impossible to reveal the Creator.
We work in order to mold ourselves into a human being, but we also mold the Creator in the same way. We build the form of the highest out of our desire to receive pleasure, and the Creator fills it with the power of bestowal and love. The more I put in this effort, as in an adopted child, the more I build my image inside Him, my corrected form, which will be filled with the spirit of bestowal and love and will be called “come and see,” that is, the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/21, “Ibur (Conception)”
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When many groups approach the transition from the corporeal to the spiritual world and every ten wants to unite and realize it within them, this is already a huge event, the birth of the soul.
We know from corporeal life that the main thing is the beginning of the pregnancy, its retention so that there is no miscarriage, and then childbirth. This is a very complex process in which all sorts of complications are possible. But when all this passes and a person is born, he begins to grow.
The most difficult thing in spiritual work is the first grasp of spirituality: connection around the spiritual point, which is one for the whole ten. If we all grasp it, we begin to develop, receive more and more fulfillment from it.
The process of spiritual growth consists of ups and downs, the alternating growth of the quality of reception and the quality of bestowal. After all, we cannot receive the power of bestowal without feeling the lack of it. And so we must first descend into egoism, feel all of its evil and the necessity to correct it into bestowal.
So we keep swaying back and forth like a beating pulse or the processes taking place in an embryo. But this is already the work of the force of bestowal on our natural force of reception in accordance to our desire to move under the authority of the force of bestowal.
This is where the birth in the spiritual world begins; it starts with the desire to annul oneself in the ten so that the upper force will act on us and do with us whatever it wants. We are ready to completely separate ourselves from our egoism in order to become like the Creator.
If a person tries to implement it himself, he will certainly end up with a miscarriage, because he is alone. But if he is included in the ten, in the friends, then he will not drop out. If we unite and strive for the same goal, for the same power of mutual bestowal and support each other, then we begin to develop correctly.
And as soon as I separate from the ten, I become dead, like an organ cut off from the body, and there will certainly be a miscarriage. After all, spirituality, unlike corporeality, is perfect, and there can be nothing partial. If someone goes out, it creates a problem for everyone.
Therefore, it is necessary to protect the connection between us and the connection with the Creator in every possible way. To the extent that everyone annuls himself before others and everyone annuls before the Creator, we give the Creator the opportunity to take care of us, like a drop of seed in the mother’s womb giving itself to the authority of the mother.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/21, “Ibur (Conception) and Preparation to Birth”
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