Question: Disciples asked the sage, “What happens after death?” The teacher did not answer. The disciples insisted, “Is there life after death or not?” The Sage replied: “Is there life before death, that is the question.”

What do you think about the sage’s answer?

Answer: This is a usual response. How do we perceive our current state, our existence—is it life or death?

Question: So then, what is life?

Answer: Life, by corporeal definition, is the existence of protein matter.

Question: If I pinch myself and feel something, is this life? If I eat something delicious and enjoy it, am I living? Is this life?

Answer: Yes, the life of protein matter.

Question: What about the life you are talking about?

Answer: This is a completely different level that needs to be achieved.

To do this, we need to rise above our nature and enter into the scope of spiritual, highest nature, when we feel life in which our non-corporeal matter exists. If the corporeal exists in the property of receiving, the non-corporeal exists in the property of giving. If we reach this state, we will feel what that life is all about.

Question: So I am a receiver now. This is called “protein existence.” And if I become a giver, is this above the corporeal?

Answer: Sure.

Question: Is that what you call life?

Answer: There is a different definition of life there, a way of giving to everyone and everything, and ultimately to the Creator.

Comment: As I understand it, the sage meant that you have to rise above this world in some way.

My Response: Yes.

Question: So why is it that even the disciples of the sage are interested in this question of what is beyond death?

Answer: Everyone is interested in it. The students have not reached this point yet, they strive for it, they have not revealed it to themselves, they also exist in this world. That is why they are asking. Naturally.

Question: Have you asked yourself this question, what is in that world?

Answer: I had a purely scientific interest in it. But I realized that science does not deal with this and never will. Today, they are talking about it openly. But in the days of my youth, they did not talk about it so openly, although I understood it anyway.

Question: When you were searching, did you seek what was there? Or what is here?

Answer: No, I was not looking inside myself.

Question: What did you long for?

Answer: I longed to reveal the secret of life.

Question: The secret of this life?

Answer: Yes, of course. I knew of no other.

Question: Whether I live or not, right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Did you have a feeling you were not living?

Answer: I felt there is something more, beyond.

Question: When a person has this question of what lies beyond, does it mean he is pulled by this life? That is, when a person has such a sign, suddenly such a feeling arises in him, should it be seized?

Answer: Yes, we need to develop it.

Question: Not to run from it?

Answer: No, of course not.

Comment: But it gets to you, it hurts.

Answer: If it gets to you, good. It means you will get to it, too.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/23/23

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Question: There is a wise saying for the difference between like and love. When you like a flower, you pick it. If you love a flower, you water it daily.

What does it mean to love, to water a flower?

Answer: It is very simple. It is to understand what the one you love needs and to provide it for him or her, to fill them, to “water” them.

Question: So do I first need to find out what this person needs and give it to him? Is this called love?

Answer: This is indeed called love.

Question: So when I see a withering flower, for example, it is easier for me to water it, see it start to lift its head, and suddenly come to life. And when love withers away completely and the flower dies, do we then lose hope or do we still water it?

Answer: What else is left?

Comment: Leave it. Look for another flower. Or should I still water it?

My Response: I think you should still water it.

Comment: That is, this hope should be.

My Response: You can revive it with your feelings and by giving it water.

Comment: We are talking about love, which is believed to not be there. However, you feel that there is no such thing as no love there. You say we can revive it.

My Response: Yes, absolutely nothing disappears.

Question: Is something still alive there? It is so beyond reason after all. How can we believe it?

Answer: It is beyond reason, but we can see it in nature, too.

Question: As when something suddenly sprouts from a completely barren land?

Answer: Yes. We can overcome even the state of death.

Question: Can we overcome a dead, withered state?

Answer: At any state, at the vegetative level, at the animal and human levels.

Question: How can I convince myself of this? This is the most important thing.

Answer: It all depends solely on the expansion of your inner feelings. If you want, even the Pharaoh’s mummy will come to life. Let us say he was buried two or three thousand years ago, and your attitude toward him reorients itself so he begins to come to life.

Question: When you say “come to life,” what do you mean?

Answer: To live at our level.

Question: Meaning, will all the vital forces come back to him? This is not fiction?

Answer: It will not be fiction.

Comment: But in our current state, the way we understand things now, this is just pure fantasy.

Answer: Of course. This is decomposition into natural elements.

Question: Can we put them back together with our efforts?

Answer: We can bring them back together; we can do it.

Question: Where can I get the patience to work in this way?

Answer: No one has the patience. But there is an understanding of the process you are talking about. Let us say love has died in you now. And then what?

Question: Where to get the patience, as you say, to even raise the dead?

Answer: Let us say you have realized you are able to revive it with your efforts during, say, fifty years.

Question: Do I have to invest fifty years into this?

Answer: No, you are not thinking of investing fifty years into this. You are thinking of what you are reviving. The years become unimportant; you are already living the outcome.

Question: This is beautiful! Is this the way to live?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then all my efforts matter less, everything I invest into it fades in the face of this goal, this revival. And then I will revive it?

Answer: Yes, of course. Your spirit will penetrate this dead state, and it will sprout.

Question: When can I give up, raise my hands because I am unable to revive it? Is there such a thing?

Answer: That is weakness.

Question: Is it really a weakness? And does it come to the person all the time? How do I work with it?

Answer: I once had a neighbor in the next apartment whose little son was ill with brain inflammation. I remember how, at about two or three in the morning, as I was going to the lesson, she knocked on my door and brought me this child, a little bundle, handed him over, and said hopelessly: “Take him.” That was it. That is the kind of state we cannot get to. Fight it!

Question: So, no surrender, neither with what I see nor with what I hear? Is that all?

Answer: Keep going!

Question: Is this what we call coming to real prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: It is not easy!

Answer: But in my story, it was already too late. The child was already… the body was still reacting somehow, but everything inside was already nearly dead.

Question: And yet you say we cannot give up? Should that never happen?

Answer: Never.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Natalia writes:

Dear Michael Laitman, tell me what to do when the heart closes, when sensitivity goes away, and I see that I can no longer respond to the pain and suffering of others, even the closest people? I stop being sensitive to their suffering. I’m scared of this! I don’t want to become indifferent. What should I do in this case?

Answer: What to do? In this case, you just have to bestow to people. And then you will find meaning in it, you will see meaning in it.

Question: When you say “to bestow,” what do you mean?

Answer: To help, to react to other people in some way, to see what they need, if you do this, you will justify your existence and get closer to the revelation of the Creator not just at the gate of tears, but at the closest gate.

Question: So, you’re saying: “Don’t dig into yourself, don’t look for what I am?

Answer: No, think less about yourself.

Question: Only from oneself outward?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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Comment: There is a story by Alan Mayer called “Bad Luck.”

I awoke to searing pain all over my body. I opened my eyes and saw a nurse standing by my bed.
“Mr. Fujima,” she said. “You were lucky to have survived the bombing of Hiroshima two days ago. But you’re safe now here in this hospital.”
Weakly, I asked, “Where am I?”
“Nagasaki,” she said.

My Response: Nagasaki was bombed a few days later.

Question: Yes. Today there is a feeling in the world that you cannot be safe anywhere. Will it happen that I was, for example, in Hiroshima, but woke up in Nagasaki?

Answer: Yes. We will calmly experience every day with the realization that every moment may be the last.

Question: Is the world being brought to such a state now?

Answer: What is wrong with that?

Question: What is good about it?

Answer: It is very good! Because it drives us to properly evaluate ourselves and our lives.

Question: So you are saying that if I live with this, then I will live every minute as the last?

Answer: Yes. It is going to be good.

Comment: Mankind has never lived like this.

My Response: Of course not.

Question: And is it being brought to this point now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to live this minute, this moment as it should be, as the last?

Answer: Give yourself to the flow of life, to the Creator. In general, give away all of yourself.

Question: And then, will I feel safe?

Answer: What safety? It is the exact opposite of what you want.

Question: So I am living this moment for others, every moment? Is this what life is called?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And I do not think about the next minute, about the next moment, about tomorrow, about anything?

Answer: Life is a moment between the past and the future.

Question: Yes, exactly. We sing it.

Is that good, do you think?

Answer: This is very good! Then a person feels above this existence.

Question: Is it possible to learn this?

Answer: It is possible. It depends on how deep a person can go into himself, how far he can break away from corporeality. He can.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/16/23

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The eagle was sitting on a tree, resting, doing nothing. The little rabbit saw the eagle and asked: “Can I sit like you and do nothing?” “Of course, why not?” he answered. The rabbit sat down under a tree and began to rest. Suddenly a fox appeared, grabbed him and ate him. Moral: To sit and do nothing, you have to sit very, very high (Fable, source unknown).

My Response: Yes, but I don’t think this is the solution to the issue. And the eagle has problems; it has enemies, and it also must defend itself and imagine other conditions.

Question: So it still needs to keep an eye out?

Answer: Definitely. No living being can exist like this, without caring about anything.

Question: When can I allow myself to be at peace?

Answer: Only if, heaven forbid, you are dead.

Question: Is this peace?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: But you always say that the Creator is at rest. And we must move toward peace one way or another.

My Response: For us, this state is death, because we must kill ourselves, our egoism.

Question: Is this state what you mean?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I have to kill my egoism? And my whole path is to kill it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But we are all “rabbits”? We can’t be at rest. There is danger everywhere: on the right, on the left, everywhere?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, you say that danger exists precisely because we are, as it were, attached to this egoism. How can we not be a rabbit?

Answer: To do this, we need to know exactly what awaits us, what we must sacrifice, and how to be free. That is, we must study the nature of our world, the nature of the higher world, and the paths of transition from one state to another.

Question: This, in principle, is education?

Answer: Yes. It is not simple. I must remake myself, become a person of the upper world.

Question: How does this peace begin?

Answer: With love your neighbor as yourself. And this is already the height of an eagle.

Question: That is, we can allow ourselves some initial, minimal repose if we come to this rule: love our neighbor as ourselves?

Answer: If we accept it at least theoretically.

Question: Do you think we do not even accept it theoretically?

Answer: No, of course not!

Comment: We talk about it all the time.

My Response: We are talking.

Question: Then what does it mean to accept it, at least theoretically?

Answer: Accept it, that is, begin to look for ways to master this law, this condition, look for how to get out of your egoism, and how to rise above your nature.

Question: To love and not to hate? Peace instead of war, good relationships instead of evil. Although you always say that human nature is different.

Answer: You can’t do anything. Especially in our time, we are already approaching this. We still have to somehow prepare ourselves to move to the next level.

Question: In your opinion, is humanity already at this stage and has lingered on the previous one, or not yet?

Answer: No! We are not at any stage yet!

Question: Have we not realized it, but maybe we are there?

Answer: No, on the contrary, we are beginning to realize what stage we are at and that it is far from ideal.

Question: So since our nature is different do we need to take a step into the abyss?

Answer: This is not a step into the abyss. These are rash actions; they are not welcomed by anyone. On the contrary, we must clearly understand what is in front of us and take an absolutely rational step forward.

Comment: So I know that in front of me is “love your neighbor as yourself,” and that is the only way I am going.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: There will be a lot of interference from all sides, naturally.

My Response: We can overcome them all if it is we.

Question: If it is not me, but we?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Could humanity make this decision at some point from great suffering or from what?

Answer: I have no idea.

Question: Then a small group can?

Answer: A small group can. And I cannot imagine that humanity can.

Question: Is it contagious if a small group comes to this?

Answer: This is the mission of the Jewish people: to become such a group and show all humanity that this is possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/30/23

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Question: “A traveler asked a shepherd, ‘What will the weather be like today?’ The shepherd replied, ‘It will be as I like it.’ ‘How do you know you will like it?’ ‘I have learned to love what will be. Therefore, the weather will be as I like it,’ replied the shepherd.”

How can we learn to love what will be?

Answer: You simply accept with an open heart what nature, the Creator, is preparing for you. And it doesn’t matter what.

Question: So whatever it is?

Answer: Whatever it is. And what can happen?

Comment: Many things can happen that I won’t like.

My Response: Won’t like, I don’t talk about that at all. Whatever I don’t like, I accept.

Question: So you’re talking about acceptance? Whatever happens, I accept it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: If only we could tune into that, if we could learn to live like that.

My Response: Calmly.

Comment: That is beyond one’s dreams!

My Response: But one has to die every day and that’s it.

Question: What does that mean?

Answer: What is happening now, what will disappear, and what will be all equally come from above in my eyes. And that is why I accept it in advance with submission.

Question: Without resistance?

Answer: Why resist? What kind of resistance can there be?!

Question: So what is called life?

Answer: Life is the property of the existence of protein matter. It is interesting how a person could come up with that!

Comment: There is not even a conversation about the soul or the heart. Protein matter exists, and that’s all. And you say: “Learn to go with the flow, completely. Surrender and that’s it. Accept everything that comes to you.” Just as he says, “There will be weather that I like.”

My Response: Of course. I agree in advance with what will be.

Comment: Wars, suffering, everything that is prepared for me, and so on, I accept it all.

My Response: Yes.

Question: It is really hard work. It sounds very appealing to surrender and annul oneself like that. But it’s very hard work! Very!

What experience should I have to come to this?

Answer: Anyway, both this way and that way, and what needs to happen will happen. What comes from above will be with you.

Question: Does it come with age, with wisdom; how exactly?

Answer: Both this way and that way.

Question: But do I still need to gain experience to come to this?

Answer: Yes. Well, another five years, another ten years, and then? All the same, we will have to undergo such a transformation with ourselves, with our body, and so on.

Question: So we might as well agree with this now?

Answer: Of course. And what’s next? We will grow into a new form, a new life. Without hope, without any grandiose plans. We will try to be even more in agreement with the Creator.

Question: From everything you say, it turns out that this is exactly what we are being led to and only to this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what life is, to come to such a state?

Answer: To complete agreement with the upper force, complete surrender to it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Question: Scientists have established and confirmed the following through many experiments: “When you are close to someone you care about, your breathing and heartbeat can synchronize. This is how connection is established between a baby and his or her relatives, and between those who sing in a choir. When someone you care about is not feeling well, you can just hold their hand, and it will alleviate their suffering.”

Do you believe it?

Answer: There is nothing to believe; it is so.

Question: Is that how it works?

Answer: Yes, that is how it works.

Question: What is the basis of such miracles?

Answer: Why are they miracles?

Comment: Medicine would not work, but I take a man by the hand, and suddenly he begins to synchronize.

My Response: Your inner energies begin to flow into him through tactile contact and regulate him.

Question: How does this work? Does he tune into me? The same heartbeat?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: There is a very important point here, mentioned twice: it is a “loved one.”

My Response: A loved one can be in spirit, in temperament, or in inner connection.

Question: But if he is not close to me, can I work this way with a person?

Answer: No, it is unlikely.

Question: So, closeness really matters?

Answer: Right.

Question: So, if we want to help a person who is ill, do I first need to tune myself to seeing him as someone close to me? Is it possible to tune yourself to feel close to another in order to help him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How does this system work? How do I tune myself?

Answer: You have to feel his inner world, where he is out of balance, and try to influence him to come back to a state of balance.

Question: So are you putting the main responsibility on me now?

Answer: You are the healthy one. Well then, it is on you to do this. He can only do one thing—comply. This is not easy. But the rest of it is dictated by you.

Comment: That is, if a person asks for help, my job is to feel close to him.

My Response: To support him!

Question: Is this my job? He has to do nothing but ask.

Answer: I would say so.

Question: These are tough times for humanity, difficult. It is hard on the masses. In order to help them and bring them out of this state somehow, what should we do?

Answer: This is a problem. What can we do? To bring them out of this state is hardly for the best.

If they were put into this state, it is for a reason. We need to think how to bring them to the best state, and getting out of the descent they are in may not be the best course of action.

Question: So it is not about giving a warm hug or making someone feel good; rather, it can even be an affront?

Answer: It can be. We cannot understand this yet.

Comment: Both you and the science of Kabbalah keep saying the world is suffering. The science of Kabbalah came to help people in some way.

My Response: Precisely.

Question: To help us get out of suffering or to rise above it?

Answer: It is to rise out of suffering. Kabbalah offers us the possibility to rise by reaching out to each other and supporting each other. We do not need anything else. Only by mutual help can we lift each other up and rise together.

Question: Is this the whole science? What is hard about it?

Answer: Loving your neighbor as yourself.

Question: That is it?

Answer: That is it. Here is where we close the curtain and turn off the lights.

Comment: A person still thinks he can somehow come to this in some way.

My Response: I think not. The more I live, the more I am sure a person cannot come to this on his own.

Question: What should one do to come to “love your neighbor as yourself?”

Answer: A person must at least realize that if not for rapprochement with others, not to mention voluntarily, with one’s eyes closed, and moving toward each other as in the dark—if we do not act this way, we are all doomed.

Question: Should one suppress all resistance to such an attitude toward others? All his ego, everything he lives by?

Answer: Absolutely! That is the only way.

Comment: And the science of Kabbalah seems to say that is when the moment will come, when you rise above suffering.

My Response: Yes.

Question: But will we ever reach this?

Answer: It depends on what kind of suffering we go through. We can do it sooner or later.

Question: Is suffering the main thing here?

Answer: Suffering will force us.

Comment: That is not very optimistic.

My Response: I have never been particularly optimistic.

Comment: You have been even less optimistic about humanity lately.

My Response: I am not optimistic about humanity at all.

Comment: But you always say: “Through suffering.”

My Response: Only!

Comment: So we only understand pain.

My Response: By the stick to happiness

Question: Can we not act before then, before the bullet, before the stick?

Answer: No.

Question: Then what does this science offer?

Answer: It explains the natural laws of nature and man’s role in it. Therefore, we cannot blame nature. Blame yourself.

Question: If I learn it, will it let me act ahead of the stick or a bullet?

Answer: In the measure you want it, it will let you.

Question: So it depends on me now? I have been given a tool and it depends on me. Is it still possible to act before suffering?

Answer: Even right now!

Comment: You have just changed your angle. You said that suffering basically pushes a person.

My Response: Well, if today’s suffering is enough for you already, you can run from it toward correction and achieve the best state.

Question: So the measure is important, to be able to say: “That is enough, I have had it,” right?

Answer: Right.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Comment: Recently an incident occurred in Israel that shocked the whole country. As you know, we have a sacred attitude toward hostages. We want to free them with all our might; the whole nation is behind it. When three hostages managed to escape from captivity, reached our positions and were almost free, they were mistaken for terrorists and killed. Huge shock was felt all over Israel.

The press started digging, discussing, and looking for who to blame. And the mother of one of those murdered boys sent an audio message to the soldiers.

“I am Yotam’s mom. I love you, I want to hug you even from afar. My son’s death is not your fault. Please take care of yourselves! You are doing the right thing in the world. Do not blame yourselves for my son’s death. You must protect yourselves in order to protect all of us. Come visit us at the first opportunity, whenever you want. We want to look you in the eye, hug you, and tell to your face, no matter how hard it is, that at that moment you made the right decision, you did the right thing. No one in our family condemns you or holds a grudge against you.”

My Response: Yes, it is hard!

Question: I cannot imagine where a mother can get such strength. The most precious thing has been taken away, and she is rising above it. Tell me, where does such strength come from?

Answer: From above! There is no other way… It is revealed from above.

Comment: And this happens right when the search for those to blame is underway, when everything is being discussed. Suddenly, this voice sounds. What is going on here? A mother is the only one who unites the people. Can you imagine? Suddenly everyone feels what they are and what she is!

My Response: Yes, it is a great breakthrough.

Question: When you talk about the role of the Jewish people, that we should come to show an example of good connections by rising above hatred, can we say this mother is an example?

Answer: Yes, what she did was great.

Question: Can we call this a call for the unity of the people?

Answer: Sure.

Question: Can it influence us?

Answer: I do not know. We have already been through so much! And you see that after all this, there are demonstrations again, there is a search for whom to blame again.

What has been killing us for thousands of years continues to kill. It is our inability to unite above all our accusations and problems. I do not know how to achieve it.

Question: Still, can we say this is a call for it?

Answer: It is the call. It has to simply be on everyone’s lips all the time. Even if people do not feel it, to just say it. Then they will hear themselves.

Question: What should be said? That we should rise above everything, above all differences…?

Answer: Rise above all the differences and unite, embrace, connect, just stick together.

Comment: No matter what happens between us.

My Response: Yes! Above all!

Comment: This woman, this mother, Iris, could have shut down and blamed everyone.

My Response: You see, in this state there are people who rise above themselves. There are no words to describe her condition and her actions. It is just beyond human strength.

Question: What would you say to her if you met her?

Answer: I do not know. I would bow to her and that is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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Comment: New York is said to be going through an immigration crisis. People from Venezuela and Africa now live on the streets. They set up tents in Manhattan and sleep on the sidewalks; that’s what they say.

The mayor of New York is seriously proposing placing migrants on cruise ships. There is a demand from the population to close the borders and send migrants back to their countries.

It seems this is what the world has been preparing for. After all, look, millions are being resettled now.

My Response: It depends on where they resettle. They don’t want to resettle in Siberia. They want to move to Manhattan.

Question: Well. A person seeks a better life, naturally. He has heard and seen things and wants to be there. But the trend itself, is it going to stay that way?

Answer: The trend is toward a better place. It will.

Question: Even more so in the future. After all, Americans themselves are immigrants.

Answer: It was back when America was vacant.

Question: So, they feel like the landlords now. They want to live comfortably.

Answer: Yes, they don’t agree to host everyone. They are the owners; how can I force them?

Question: Is it right for a country to close itself off to illegals?

Answer: Yes. And to generally dictate what is and isn’t legal. This is the right of every country.

Question: Please tell me, over time, this state—”my place, my homeland, my anthem, my flag”—where will it go? If I don’t feel good there, will I call it my homeland, or will I look for another homeland?

Answer: It depends on everyone’s judgment, what feelings and values do I base it on.

Question: Whether one feels good or bad?

Answer: Right.

Question: What is the future going to be like? You once said a very interesting thing. You said man has nothing of his own in this world. Will man come to this?

Answer: I don’t know. Today, looking at humanity, I am no longer so optimistic.

Question: Is this an optimistic hope for you when a person comes to the conclusion there is nothing of his?

Answer: Yes. That would be good. But today, everyone thinks the whole world belongs to them. And they are tearing up the world with this.

Question: If we think this world is for me and is all mine, I tear it up, right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, you’re saying the feeling of “this is my home, this is my country” is not quite right from the point of view of a spiritual height?

Answer: Of course not.

Question: What should it be, what should a person come to?

Answer: It should be the re-education of all mankind, to make us feel our whole planet is our home, our common home, for everyone. So, we would make a good common home here.

Question: So, it’s not my specific place, but the whole planet?

Answer: The whole planet.

Question: Because I am a guest on this planet, should I come to this or not—that I am a guest?

Answer: You may not be a guest. But you have to make sure this place is suited for all. And so should everyone.

Comment: You didn’t say “for me,” you said “for everyone.”

My Response: For everyone of course.

Question: So, my thought should be “from myself to others?” While so far, it’s been “from me to me?”

Answer: That’s the problem!
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Question: From a letter: “You have been saying lately that one should not ask anything from the Creator but only agree with everything that happens because everything is from Him. You say: ‘This is life, this is the world, and I exist in this world to be at peace.’ It turns out that I do not need to ask for anything: not for health, not for peace. Then what is the point of all prayers?”

Answer: Asking the Creator is of course necessary, but first, one must decide. It must relate to my request to Him after I have tried everything, done everything, and have not achieved all that I should have achieved for His sake, then I turn to Him with a request and ask for help.

Question: So my first action is to try anyway?

Answer: Try to give to the Creator. If I can’t do that anymore, then ask Him.

Comment: But this “giving to the Creator” is the whole difficulty here. After all, people are actually asking. They are asking, not what to give Him, but what they ask for.

My Response: And what do they give? They give a prayer, they give nothing. They do not give; they ask!

Question: Is the most important thing to ask the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the Creator exists for the purpose of asking Him.

Question: Very important, very good. And where is your inner awareness that you too can give something?

Answer: There is no such awareness. None. Giving to the Creator is generally against any logic. He created everything, He does everything.

Comment: Then let Him give! This is the logic.

My Response: Well said! “Come on! Where are You?”

Question: Should I ask for those who are close to me, for those who are far away, or for oneself?

Answer: It does not matter for whom to ask, but ask.

Comment: But ask, yes. I have such a relationship with the Creator.

My Response: I ask, He gives, not bad.

Question: Do you agree that this is such a condition?

Answer: I agree that a person is built that way.

Question: You say it yourself that such is nature. And what is wrong here? If this has been embedded in us, what is wrong?

Answer: And what is from me?

Question: What is from me? Some good behavior, the fulfillment of some laws? And it is written in the Torah, in the Bible.

Answer: Very well. So do it.

Comment: I do it, but I do it with the thought that it should be good for me.

My Response: And that is no longer good. This is where the problem lies, that you do what you have to do against your will. Part of it is how much you can reduce this involuntarily list.

Question: So, I would want to reduce it?

Answer: You would want to destroy it. And what you want is that you will have no obligations before the Creator but that the Creator feels you and is ready to fulfill your wishes at every moment.

Comment: Yes. There is a thought. The question is this: “You say you have to agree, it started with this, agreeing with everything that happens.”

My Response: Correct, continue.

Question: To agree with everything that happens and that this world exists to be at peace. These are her main theses. You are not giving up on this?

Answer: No. But what does it mean to balance for it to be at peace?

Question: In other words, what does it mean to balance myself?

Answer: Yes. It is all measured relative to me.

Question: That is, this phrase “at peace”—is there some big secret in it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what is peace then?

Answer: Peace is a complete harmony, mutual understanding between man and the Creator.

Question: So I have to come to this? It is not just peace as I understand it in this world.

Answer: No. A complete understanding of each other.

Question: And what does it mean?

Answer: That you are completely at peace.

Question: What do I have to understand?

Answer: What the Creator wants from you and what you want from the Creator and that at the same time you are similar to each other and are ready to do anything for each other.

Question: How do I know what He wants from me in order to come to peace?

Answer: The Creator wants only one thing from you: that you understand Him and what He needs.

Question: What? Please tell me.

Answer: But you have to understand this, you have to reveal it.

Question: Meaning that my life comes down to searching for what He needs?

Answer: Yes, This is the direction in life.

Question: How should I aim myself? “I want to understand what You want” or “I want peace”—these are two directions; which one is correct?

Answer: No. “I want peace,” this is you—an egoist. But “I want the right direction for my thoughts, my actions,” this is already a question.

Question: That is, I want to please You somehow, I want to be in dialogue with You?

Answer: I want to do something nice for You.

Question: And my whole life is to find out what I can do that is pleasing Him? And this is called coming to peace that you are talking about?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/23/23

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