Comment: From time to time there are reports in the press that thousands of birds, fish, or other animals are dying all over the world.

My Response: Such reports appear only when it is clearly happening in front of people’s eyes, but in fact, we are in the state of a huge, terrible catastrophe!

This is not just an ecological disaster, but a natural one where we will have nothing to eat. Not only will there be no money to buy something, printing it is not a problem, you will not be able to feed anyone! There will be food riots, epidemics, a kind of ten Egyptian plagues, if we do not start to change ourselves.

Mankind, with its persistent unwillingness to pay attention to what nature requires of us, causes increasingly harsh, severe forces, like a child who does not want to listen to what he is told. Eventually, he will be forced. But with what methods?!

As long as they don’t give him a slap, it doesn’t matter. “Let’s live somehow without it! You can’t do anything.” And when the time comes that we are no longer able to do anything, airports will stop, communication will disappear, there will be no normal water.

We see what is happening. I don’t want to scare anyone. I’m just stating that all this suggests that we are out of complete balance with nature.
[311639]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mass Death” 1/9/11

Related Material:
Imbalance with Nature
Bound by Mutual Connection
Delicate Balance of Nature

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

Question: Nastya writes: “One day the lights went off and I called a neighbor who had two children and invited her to visit me. We were sitting and talking at the table with candles burning with the children were nearby. As soon as the lights came back on, the children ran and turned on the TV, and we became silent.

What do you think about this feeling of happiness that was there and then was suddenly gone?“

Answer: Yes, it is gone because it presses. But it has always been so. Recall past times, even centuries ago.

Question: How can we feel such happiness now? Is it possible in the light, with modern technology, progress, and all this or not?

Answer: No. With present life, the way of life, its pace, and everything else that exists, we cannot make ourselves happy. We give in to what we have created, and it is killing us.

Question: I would say that we are bought. Do you think it is not necessary to create or still move toward the goal, toward what I want to be?

Answer: To move toward the goal, you just need to live in a much simpler way, not to wait until nature, society, or the Creator crush us, but do it, perhaps reasonably and gradually, somehow by yourself.

Question: Do you have an idea of how a person should do it?

Answer: It will not work to turn off the lights. It will not work to diminish anything. There are too many interested egoists who will still produce all sorts of rubbish and make all sorts of dull productions on screens—anything possible. All this needs a very strong push and revelation of evil in order to correct it.

How can we uncover this evil? By a serious war?

Question: In whom will it reveal itself, in consumers or in those who push everything into a consumer?

Answer: It is required from both sides. Both from producers and consumers.

Question: So that it is suddenly revealed that this is all evil?

Answer: That this is the end! You cannot go any further; that is it! There must be an uprising. Let us make the world simpler, more understandable, more comfortable, and most importantly, calmer. In such a world we will be able to clarify in ourselves what we are for, why, and what we should come to.

Question: And the last question, what will we understand in this case, as you said? What will we understand then?

Answer: We will understand that the main thing is what a person desires in this world. So that he clarifies it, but very seriously, not halfway. And then he will achieve this goal.

Question: So do you put it this way: “I need to get rid of all this ‘noise’ and very, very quietly focus on what I want.”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that all? And what will he understand? What he wants?

Answer: He will understand the meaning of life—the most important thing that he has.

Question: What is it in?

Answer: The meaning of life is in attaining the meaning of life.

Question: It is like a wheel: the meaning of life is attaining the meaning of life. Is there some kind of eternity in this, in what you are saying?

Answer: Of course. It is absoluteness, eternity, perfection, and infinity.
[311211]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

Related Material:
Expand The Meaning Of Life
Is Food the Meaning of Life?
“What Is The Meaning Of Life And Why Are We Here?” (Quora)

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization, Laitman Unplugged, Meaning Of Life | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: What is happiness?

Answer: Happiness is the feeling one has at the moment of achieving a dream; it is a contact with a dream or at least with something one desires.

In corporeal life, a person comes into contact with various pleasures, but he is still unhappy because these contacts bring death. They instantly disappear. They are temporary because everything ends.

At the end of everything there is death, hopelessness, and disappearance. Therefore, as the saying goes, there is no happiness in life. And indeed it is so because life has its limits.

Happiness is when you come in contact with a dream; it is with you, and it is eternal. There can be no happiness if it is transient. Therefore our world is inherently flawed.

Question: Is the attainment of the first degree of the spiritual world already attainment of happiness?

Answer: It is the attainment of eternity and perfection. Even if it is not yet complete, you understand that you are entering this degree. Then you already know where you are going, and you already have different ideas about the world, the universe, and existence.

You understand that you are dealing with eternity, perfection, infinite fulfillment, infinite knowledge, and that whatever you want, you will be able to obtain.
[311506]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Happiness” 1/18/11

Related Material:
What Is Happiness?
My Economics Of Happiness
The UN Observes The International Day Of Happiness

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

p

New Life 159 – The Ten Commandments, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The Ten Commandments instruct us to maintain certain norms in order to reach connection, reciprocity, mutual responsibility, and harmony among us as a new type of society. They were placed before us at Mount Sinai as a symbol of our transcendence above hatred and separation. We discover the ten laws of the single system on our way toward complete, mutual connection. We need to re-establish all of the Ten Commandments with a new quality. For example, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13) actually means that I should not cut myself off from anyone, even when it seems as though the other person hates me. We begin to connect according to the principle, “love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) and the spiritual meaning of the Ten Commandments will be revealed to us along the way.
[138355]
From KabTV’s “New Life 159 – The Ten Commandments, Part 2,” 3/17/13
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: New Life | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Comment: There is a state when a student speaks against a teacher.

My Response: Then he is not a student! By doing this he completely cuts himself off from spiritual advancement. Much has been written about this. The most important thing in our movement is simply to idolize the friends, the group, the teacher, and the Creator, and to do it more and more at that. How will you advance without this?

If someone speaks badly about the teacher, then that is it, he cuts himself off! After all, in spirituality there are no conditions that someone heard something, and someone did not. You have such thoughts, that is it! Nothing else matters.

There are many so-called students who attend classes, hang out in different groups, and think badly or speak badly of others. I am very sorry that such events take place because it is useless to deal with them, in the end they will not advance.

Question: But can a person get through this state and become aware of it? Or do you think that if he went into such a stupor, he would not come out?

Answer: For everything, so to speak, there is forgiveness, but a person must work on himself. It happens to everyone! I am completely calm about this. But he should be aware of what he is controlled by.

Comment: You said that it is necessary to remain silent and not interfere with those states of a friend that seem bad to us.

My Response: You can sometimes point at it in jest or in between words. But in general no! What is the benefit of that? He must experience all this internally and rethink it.
[311548]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Hate the Teacher and Friends” 12/29/12

Related Material:
Rise Above Speaking Critically
The Spiritual Root Of Gossip
A Gossip Or A Friend?

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

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is true freedom in a nutshell?“

True freedom is freedom from our egoistic nature, where we are enslaved to the desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone in every one of our intentions.

When we become freed from our egoistic intention for self-benefit, we attain true freedom: we enter a state of positive connection where we then enjoy benefiting, supporting and caring for each other.

Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on April 26, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

Filed under: Q&A, Quora | 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 →

Comment: Earlier you emphasized that only men can be engaged in connection. And now it is becoming the same for both men and women.

My Response: Yes, women are coming forward and starting to take an increasingly active part in all spheres of life.

Previously, a woman gave birth, cooked, cleaned, and served everyone and everything. And although she was treated with great respect, there was no question of any spiritual work. Even in prayer houses there was no place for them. This was introduced only 100 to 200 years ago.

And today everything is on equal footing. The world is moving toward the fact that women in all societies are becoming equal. And it is not just because we are so good but because this is the movement toward a global correction. There is no doubt that the female part is becoming more and more effective and necessary in our common work.

Therefore, I pay a lot of attention to them. These are serious desires, serious forces, and pressure on all men and the whole world.

Was it possible 200 years ago that a woman would become involved in politics? And today there are a lot of women in top positions in countries.

So, this is a global trend, because the world is growing. Egoism comes forward. A woman represents egoism, the desire to receive. Therefore, she is becoming more demanding and more independent.

There is a lot to respect women for. They are very consistent, very serious, and very meticulous. There is a certain limitation in their corrections, but this is not their limitation but the distribution of nature into two parts.

Therefore I regard women’s connection as a very big and serious matter.
[311556]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Women’s Congress” 1/9/13

Related Material:
A Woman of the 21st Century, Part 3
Success Depends On The Woman
Woman – A Mystery Of Nature

Filed under: Man and Woman, Spiritual Work, Women's Spirituality | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: Do you draw whatever you explain to the students from the next degree?

Answer: For me, it is not the next degree. I am in it, and if necessary, I will give you a part of it.

Question: Since you are on much higher than your students, you have to descend to a degree that is slightly higher than them. How does your incorporation in the common mind happen?

Answer: I work with a higher degree. That is my teacher.

Question: So you still have the student–teacher system?

Answer: Naturally! It does not change! And the fact that his body died, what does the body have to do with it? Even before it was not the transmitter of information.

Question: But before everything was passed from mouth to mouth, from teacher to student. And in the current period it is all with the group.

Answer: It used to be with a group before too. All Kabbalists have written about this for thousands of years. There had to be a group anyway because a teacher is just a means. In fact, we have to connect to each other in one unified system.

Question: It turns out that your teacher is the next degree for you. And for each of us is it the group?

Answer: Yes, and this group connects to me.

Question: So, there are three degrees from the individual to the teacher?

Answer: No. You find me within the group. As soon as you can somehow unite, you will immediately see me there.
[311537]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Higher Intelligence” 1/2/11

Related Material:
The Pioneers
Make Yourself A Teacher And A Group
Learning “From Mouth To Mouth”

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

Comment: When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he moves the corporeal world away from himself because it seems completely meaningless to him. But eventually, it turns out that he must unite with this world and love it.

My Response: To love the whole world?! For what reason?! There is nothing to love in it!

People in this world are not the others whom I must love as myself. I do not have to go to them and make their life better. I cannot do this! The Creator makes their life worse, but I will make it better?!

To love them means to go to them and explain a little about the possibility of rising above our world, and then it will be better for them.

I am not in the business of feeding the world when the Creator makes it starve. No! This world will suffer greatly. My task is to tell humanity how to make sure that there is no suffering, but not to destroy suffering! I just cannot do that.

I must bring into this world the method of ascent and not destroy all kinds of suffering on the corporeal level. This is not my mission!

My mission is to teach, to tell, and to help master the ascent to the upper world, then there will be no suffering. It is not to engage in all sorts of noble actions in this world. This completely contradicts the general movement of the world, the program of the Creator.

The world must feel its conformance or non-conformance with the forward movement. It must feel whether it is following the right program or not. If not, then why.

Today the world is in confusion. What to do? Let us say I have billions or anything I want. If I give the world what it lacks and please absolutely everyone, then the world will freeze in this place, and it will not need to develop.

What should I do as a Kabbalist? I should just bring the world the knowledge of why sufferings do not end and how you can rise above them and ascend to the next degree.

These sufferings are needed only to push us to the next degree! These are labor pains. We need to help ourselves be born. This is why I exist.
[311268]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What to Expect from Kabbalah?” 12/22/12

Related Material:
When Light Is Activated
To Pull Everyone Along
The Mission Of A Kabbalist

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