Question: Do people resist the spiritual flow with all their might and create tension in themselves that pushes it away?

Answer: They do not create tension. They simply do not retain the spiritual force within themselves.
Let’s say I have a green glass bottle. Why is it green? Because this glass traps green rays in the spectrum and thus looks green.

If we are similar to the quality of bestowal and love, the quality of the Creator, then we will as if retain this quality in ourselves, or vice versa, manifest it from ourselves, as in the example with the bottle, which, while retaining the green part of the spectrum, at the same time shines with green light. That is the way we act. That is, it is a clear physical law. There is nothing unnatural here.

All of Kabbalah gives a person only the opportunity to make himself a detector of the Creator, to reveal His single force within himself. But to do this, you need to correct yourself to become similar to it.

When a person reveals this force and becomes like it, he feels what it feels: eternity and perfection. Of course, there are gradations until you get to the state of complete correction. But on the way to it, there are 125 degrees of gradual approaching this absolute state.
[313118]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Manipulations of the Kabbalist” 4/22/11

Related Material:
Practicing Kabbalist
The Pain of a Kabbalist
Feelings Of The Kabbalist

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: What does it mean to feel through the desires of another? Let’s say I want ice cream now. Do you connect to me and feel that I want ice cream? How does this happen?

Answer: We are not talking about animalistic desires. I am included in you not at the material level but at the level of the conjugation of souls, spiritual needs.

At the earthly level, this exists to some extent, but no one is doing it because we have to provide each other with a reasonable, essential existence.

Question: I do not feel my part of the soul, but you do. How exactly does the connection process work?

Answer: You do not feel it because the level of our animal (material) existence is disconnected from the spiritual. These are completely different levels.

Animal existence is built only on the maintenance of the physical body, which in principle has nothing to do with the soul. And the soul is a filling for the sake of inclusion in each other.
[313351]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Feel the World through Others” 5/7/11

Related Material:
Filling The Desires Of Others As If They Were My Own
How Can We Fill The Desires Of Billions Of People?
Giving Means Filling The Desires Of Others

Filed under: Body and Soul, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the most important thing in life?“

This is indeed a question that everyone asks. Our lives are filled with myriad things, and at every moment different things appear more or less important to us.

For instance, if we get tired, then it becomes important to rest or to sleep. If we are hungry, then eating becomes important. If we get bored, then it becomes important to somehow entertain ourselves, and we could continue this list ad nauseam.

How, then, can we find the most important thing in life?

The most important thing in life is to feel something unconditional, eternal and perfect, that we can see through our world—and all the worlds—with no boundaries between life and death, and that we fulfill our every desire, including those that we are still unfamiliar with, namely the desire to acquire the same attitude of love and bestowal as the source force of nature.

There is nothing more important in life. It is the very peak of where everything in existence heads.

How, then, do we reach that state?

We do so by learning how nature—including human nature—works, how our process of development unfolds through the still, vegetative, animate and human levels of nature, what is the final destination to this developmental process, where is our free choice, and how we can realize our choice in order to impact a shift from our transient and limited perception to the eternal and perfect one.

If we gain the wisdom to access such knowledge and a method to implement our fateful transition to attain eternity and perfection, then that wisdom and method becomes more important than anything else.

Based on a Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman at the New York Kabbalah Convention in 2009. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

[318593]

Filed under: Q&A, Quora | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Now we are still developing in the plane of our world. But gradually we complete this development, even the development of science. It just seems to us that all sorts of nano-technologies or some other things are coming. Gradually everything will fold up. The entire world will fold up.

We see that not a single scientific achievement, not a single scientific discovery, has given us anything!

What if now we can talk at a distance?! A person did not become happier because of it. He began to stuff himself with all sorts of toys. There is nothing in the movies or on TV. We just think that these are great opportunities.

Previously, people did not have these opportunities because their egoism did not require it. Yet they were happy in their own way. Is it not so? No, only now we are happy because we have a TV and a computer. We connect to the Internet and see an infinite number of windows. And then what?! It does not bring happiness!

Only the attainment of one’s mission, eternity, perfection, and harmony gives a person happiness. This is how we are created.

We cannot replace the fulfillment of our natural desire to reach perfection and eternity with some kind of surrogate when we look at pictures on TV or on the Internet. All the same, we remain empty, we die like animals, and that is all.

I do not criticize anything because all this is specially developed by humanity in order to somehow distract themselves from problems. But in the end, it still leads to problems in a roundabout way.

Kabbalah, in principle, encourages the development of everything that a person invents, because the rapid development of these “toys” leads to disappointment.
[313158]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Travel in Time” 9/29/11

Related Material:
Where Is Happiness Hiding?
The Formula For Eternal Happiness
Patent For A Happy Life

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization, Kabbalah Study | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Preparation to the Lesson

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 27, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child, in the Work?”

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 85

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Selected Highlights

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3 Audio

Filed under: Audio Version of the Blog | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: How should you let a child move into life independently?

Answer: This is a problem. Be that as it may, I think you should not try to let him go until he feels that he can go on his own and do something.

Question: How can you determine that a child is already independent?

Answer: He himself will determine this by his actions, by his thoughts. You will see it on him. But there is no need to rush.
[313338]
From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

Related Material:
The Problem Of Fathers And Sons
Why Has It Become Difficult To Raise Children?
What Do Elderly People Have in Common with Children?

Filed under: Children, Education, Q&A | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: There are techniques quite close to Kabbalah that transform a person’s reality and he looks at all things differently. But these people have a big problem: they seem to go against society, believing that they can influence their reality and live in it.

How can a person not play Superman too much and not completely deviate?

Answer: This does not happen in Kabbalah! After all, the further a person progresses, the more modest, more hidden, withdrawn he becomes, he is not interested in being in full view of everyone.

Don’t you see it in me? I do not need television or fame! I would not leave my room. And not because I am like that by nature but because all this loses its value.

You go up on stage, there are several thousand people in front of you, they listen to you and even worship you. And you rejoice that they receive information and not that they idolize you. These are completely different things!

Meaning, Kabbalah in no way makes a person arrogant.

The further you advance, the closer you get to the Creator. That is, you realize how opposite you are to Him and, starting to compare yourself with Him or yourself with others, you feel that you are in a state where you are the lowest.

Those who are higher than you on the ladder of ascent, they are higher spiritually, they have already moved on. Those who are below you on this ladder, they are still above you because they do not yet know what you know, and therefore, all their mistakes are not mistakes—they cannot do otherwise, it has not been revealed to them. And you feel worse than these, and worse than those.

A true Kabbalist cannot be arrogant. On the contrary, he becomes simple, likes to joke. But can also be very serious, very sharp. In everything concerning correction of this world, he is burning.
[313122]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transformation of Reality” 4/6/11

Related Material:
Practicing Kabbalist
Who Is A Kabbalist?
A Kabbalist Is A Scientist Who Studies The Upper Nature

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: How can a person endure three hours of a lesson chained to one place?

Answer: He is constantly in a state of inner work. He is experiencing his life in this! The lesson gives him great fulfillment!

Question: Are you talking about a Kabbalist who understands what he is doing?

Answer: Even if he does not really understand, for him it is not just mental strain and work on some extraneous things. He is in constant emptying and filling, emptying and filling, as he feels generally in corporeal life, but he goes through this at a tremendous inner pace.

Let us say you are hungry, you go to a restaurant, and you are saturated with a wonderful meal exactly according to your desire. You walk out of there, walk ten steps, meet someone, talk to them for five minutes, and suddenly, boom, a great desire arises in you again.

Again you see a signboard, and again a table is before you, a duck stuffed with apples, good wine, and music. Again, in a pleasant conversation with your friends, you drink, have a snack, enjoy everything, and fill up again starting from the smells and music of light, food, and everything. This is the state a Kabbalist experiences all the time.
[313111]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Magic of the Kabbalah Lesson” 4/25/11

Related Material:
The Spiritual Source Of The Morning Lesson
Why Do I Get Up For A Lesson?
On A Spiritual Salary

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: How does a Kabbalist act? Does he try to find someone to subjugate to instead of subjugating others?

Answer: The Kabbalist is looking for an opportunity to connect with others as much as possible in order to reveal the only, single upper natural force, the basis of all nature, the Creator, in this connection.  This single force is an absolute good, a quality of bestowal.

The Kabbalist reveals it through his methodology when he becomes similar to it. Here he is kind of a detector, a receiver. He captures this force, gives it the opportunity to exist within him, and changes his qualities from reception to bestowal and all egoistic intentions from for his own sake to for the sake of others.

As a result, it turns out that this single quality, which is concealed from us but permeates the entire universe, begins to manifest itself in him. By annulling his egoism, he ceases to be an obstacle to this force. Then it begins to pass and manifest itself through him as in any detector, any device, that becomes similar to some physical phenomenon and it manifests in it.
[313085]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Manipulations of the Kabbalist” 4/22/11

Related Material:
Practicing Kabbalist
The Pain of a Kabbalist
Feelings Of The Kabbalist

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →