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Manipulation or Explanation?

177.13Question: How is it that a Kabbalist who has many students can so competently and so masterfully introduce everyone to the material? I have heard a person say: “I have met with various people who can manipulate, but a Kabbalist is a person who can manipulate in such a way! And you will also ask him to manipulate you again.”

Where did you get such abilities, such techniques that you use?

Answer: These are not moves but simply a deeper knowledge of human nature and society. There are no moves here. I do not manipulate people. On the contrary, I explain everything to them and like a child with a pacifier, with a spoon, I try to give my knowledge little by little so that they have their own tools, their own abilities.

Kabbalah tries to make an independent person out of man so that he is independent from anyone. Everyone should become like the integral nature, call it the Creator, no matter how. It is just the name that confuses people.

And manipulate, you do not manipulate anyone here! You explain how everything works. And he wonders: “How can you know all this? Really, look how you tricked me!”

Did I trick you? I explained to you!

At the same time, I led you to another opinion. Right! You can make a completely different decision now. Right! But isn’t it logical? Is it forced? Did I force you, did I twist you? Did I manipulate you in some way? Or did I give you some thoughts, waves?

No! I am telling you everything realistically and very slowly so that you slowly adapt to the new knowledge and you yourself would begin to understand that this is truly a real picture of the world and you live in some kind of bubble.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fraud #1 in the World!” 5/28/11

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Is this Playing Prophets?

961.1Comment: People who study Kabbalah seem to be playing like they are prophets all the time.

My Response: What today is prophetic, tomorrow is reality. After all, we are not predicting thousands of years ahead. We are talking about a crisis, about the fact that we are on the verge of depleting all natural resources, especially energy, and that we have polluted the earth so much that we are ruining all of nature and ourselves. Is this called a prophecy?

A prophet is a person who talks about what will happen tomorrow. But if we base this tomorrow on science—and not only on the wisdom of Kabbalah, but also on other sciences—then we are not prophets, we simply know the system of the world.

Of course, humanity will not disappear as a species on Earth and in the universe because we have a different purpose. Our world is just a small part of the entire universe from which we must rise.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Wooden arm… Bony Leg” 7/9/11

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With Love for Others

519Comment: Very often people do not want to listen to Kabbalah students, who it would seem have answers to everything.

My Response: Whether we do have all the answers is a question. But if we do, then of course a person does not like to listen to us because allegedly the other is smarter than him. However, this does not mean anything.

In the media, in science, in art, in anything, everyone wants to express their opinion, especially people who see and feel in advance. Naturally, they have something to say to others.

So what if it annoys others? Egoism does not want to listen to anyone and allow them to be smarter.
When I talk to others, on the contrary, I try to be a little lower than them, I never push, but hint that it may be this way or that. Let them ponder whether they agree or disagree, let them debate and find out the truth.

We need to approach this as scientists, as researchers. We are all in the same world. We all have the same problem; we do not know where we are going and what is happening to us.

Therefore, a person should first come to you and ask: “Give us knowledge about where we are and how we should live.” You, for your part, will go down to them and give them what you can with love for them. It will not work any other way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Wooden arm… Bony Leg” 7/9/11

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Spiritual Growth

576.02Comment: When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he enthusiastically takes up dissemination and thinks that this is how it should be. Then he stumbles upon a barrier that breaks him and shows that he needs to be careful not to run to everyone and not “wave the flag.” He begins to realize that the fanaticism that was driving him previously is stupid.

My Response: This is the fanaticism of the crowd that was imposed on you. But now nothing is imposed on you, but gradually you are given additional intelligence, additional facts, an additional scheme of creation and the world so that you would act. Previously, on the contrary, you were manipulated.

Comment: I understand the reaction of people who encounter Kabbalah for the first time. When I began to study Kabbalah, I had a standard reaction of fear from the normal world that I had seemingly gotten somewhere wrong. There has always been such an attitude on the part of people.

My Response: No, now you can safely tell them what Kabbalah is talking about because you have some kind of conceptual apparatus and an appropriate vocabulary.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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Everybody Changes

600.02Question: You have students who have been studying for more than 15 years. Do you see how they change? Maybe some change and some do not?

Answer: No, everybody changes. The fact is that the changes that we have to go through take a very long time. First, they are passed through by a group that moves due to a point in the heart and advances not because it is pressed by a crisis or some kind of suffering, but because it rushes forward on its own.

Therefore, our world group moves at its own pace, learns, and creates a huge spiritual academy out of itself. However, the masses who will come will begin to study just global nature a little: what kind of interconnected world we find ourselves in, what a closed integral system means, and so on. It will be easy for them.

They do not have to know much. It is enough for them to study such simple things as why we should be interconnected, why nature forces us to do this, and why we used to develop in a certain way, but today we develop in a different way, and why egoism used to force us to compete, to be in a consumer society, and now is destroying itself, becoming its own gravedigger, and forcing us to make it integral and global, to enter an analog system in which everything is interconnected so that we build a new society.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Internal Coup!” 5/28/11

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Spiritual Injection

032.01Comment: In the practice of Kabbalah, at some point a person goes through an interesting turning point where he begins to look at people outside of Kabbalah correctly. He seems to change and does not impose his views and interests on them.

My Response: What for? The fact is that each of us must become an integral element with his own mind, with his own feelings, with his own understandings, with adaptation. I can’t do this job for you and I can’t force you. Nature requires your personal reasonable participation.

The problem is that all eight billion inhabitants of the planet need to be trained so that they become smarter, more sensitive, so that they understand, realize, see each in their own measure the whole system, their participation in it.

You can’t come to anyone and show them: do this, be silent, and that’s it. Therefore, all the previous egoistic approaches with instructions, orders, and violence are not suitable here. As it is said: “There is no coercion in spirituality.”

There’s nothing you can do. Only indirectly, you will explain to a person twenty thousand times, show ten thousand times, hug him five thousand times, invite him to observe, watch, and so on. And what will sink into his heart after that, that’s what you’ll get, and there is no other way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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Coming to Harmony with Nature

002Comment: You say that it is very important that the method of correction be revealed to the world as widely as possible.

My Response: I believe there is no other solution! We must put everyone behind the school desk. Everyone must study! Those who society needs to work should work a little; that is all!

We need to stop the predatory emptying of the bowels of the earth. Stop making toys that no one needs, all these jewels, all this nonsense. We need to produce only what is necessary for existence. Stop the consumer society! Just shake it off from ourselves! It only bogs us down deeper into the predatory squandering of everything we have.

All researchers say that the earth is being depleted. Oil, gas, various metals, and other materials will last only for the next few years. Where will we go next?!

The economy should not be built on developing itself, not in producing more; it should be built in order to give everyone a good minimum standard of living. If at the same time we adapt ourselves to nature, we will suddenly find huge reserves for eternal existence in it; we will have enough of everything. We just need to come to harmony with nature.

Question: But the more we develop, the more we suffer. Does it make a person change somehow?

Answer: The more you move, the more you suffer because you think that as a result of the movement you will gain something.

Just like the phrase from Faust, “Stop, moment, you are wonderful,” I want to stay in this moment, not because it is beautiful, but because if I stop, I will find that it is beautiful.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Saving the World” 5/28/11

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There Is Nothing Outside of a Person

424.01Question: I have to give the world a method of correction, meaning, spread the knowledge that there is an alternative perception of reality. What will it give them? How does the process of their external correction occur?

Answer: By correcting others, I correct myself because they are parts of me. I simply perceive them as uncorrected because I am still like that, and so I have to make efforts to correct them outside of myself.

But the world is in me, the Creator is in me, and everything is in me. There is nothing outside of me. How can you say that something exists outside of you if you do not perceive it in your senses and do not imagine it inside yourself.

You see some kind of holographic picture in which your brain depicts to you as if something exists outside of yourself. Your brain is like a projector that projects everything outside to you, constructs various images within you: here is the sun, the stars, the clouds, this room, this is what I see through the window.

Question: Then why do elements like a lowlife exist? I do not like this quality.

Answer: This lowlife is in you! Therefore, correct yourself, and there will be no lowlife. It is intentionally given to you so vividly outside of you. When you see it from the outside, you have to realize that it is inside. This way you will treat it with even stronger hatred. Baal HaSulam writes this in the Introduction to The Book of Zohar.

However, it is useless to talk about it. It comes gradually.

Comment: But nonetheless, it is very interesting.

My Response: There is nothing interesting in this. Kabbalah is not concerned with satisfying curiosity, but with clearly instructing a person who wants to be corrected, and only in the state he is in, so he can do it practically.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I am Surrounded by Freaks” 5/30/11

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The Paradox of Interest in Kabbalah

546.03Comment: The ancient philosophers who studied with Kabbalists took some knowledge from Kabbalah and brought it out. From this, certain philosophies and teachings were born.

My Response: Yes, philosophers themselves state it. This was in the time of the prophets 600-700 BC and later.

Question: How can we avoid repeating the same movement among your students?

Answer: If people were interested in this earlier, today no one needs it.

I have published so many books! So what? Are they snapped up, read, researched? Everyone is only interested in mechanical toys, in how you can pick up this world in order to get out of it as much momentary benefit for yourself as possible, and that’s it. More people are not interested in anything.

Therefore, you can talk about Kabbalah as much as you want, no one needs it.

Previously, it was not possible to spread it, because there was a danger that people who began to study Kabbalah would begin to err.

It turns out that when those who could become interested in Kabbalah lived, it was hidden. And at the present time when people are generally not interested in anything except the material, Kabbalah is open.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Separate from Laitman” 5/14/11

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Listening to Kabbalists

265Question: What measure of unity should people achieve? After all there are Kabbalists who study Kabbalah, and there are those not interested in it. How can they unite?

Answer: Listen to Kabbalists. Try to see with your mind that there is nothing else in the world.

If nature’s net gradually descends upon us, leading to a format where we must be completely united, integrally connected, in full interaction with each other like cogwheels in a mechanism, we need to learn to understand each other and rotate together harmoniously. You have to bring all your thoughts and desires in sync with me and with one more, and one more, etc.

There is nothing you can do. This is inherent in nature. This program is what it is, and it is being implemented. How you play your part, however, depends on you.

If you are a smart child, you will learn, seek, and try to be taught. Then you will realize that Kabbalists have something to offer you. You will feel they have some idea and will learn from them.

But if you don’t want to, you will be forced anyway; that is, you will get a good beating, maybe several deaths or even worse, torment, and then will be given the same opportunity. But you will already be wiser because suffering develops our minds.

Desire is our matter, and the mind develops to achieve the filling of this matter. The more matter feels suffering and emptiness, the more the mind develops to avoid this suffering and somehow be filled.

Therefore, one who has suffered is worth two who have not. That is all. If you beat him, he’ll get smarter: “I had enough, I’m ready now.” Because then your eyes open, your ears open.

But how to start hearing without suffering? Join a group and get the importance of correction from others. Then, instead of suffering, you will be more sensitive and advance in a more reasonable, kinder way. This is the purpose of creating a group.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Enjoying Fascism” 5/19/11

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