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Truth Is Relative

507.03Comment: You once mentioned that truth is what is supported by a large number of people.

My Response: Any lie that is supported by a multitude of people becomes the truth for them even though it has no real connection to the actual truth or what may be factual. Humanity has many such misconceptions.

We are like small insects on a tiny planet in a small galaxy somewhere on the outskirts of the universe. We know nothing about anyone or anything. We just tamper with nature a little bit, and we have already ruined it. We have dug ourselves into a hole where we no longer desire anything. So there is no point in talking about any truths. What truths are there? Everything is relative to a person, as he imagines it.

If you talk to astrophysicists or specialists in quantum physics, i.e., people who deeply study matter, they will say things that the average person would not agree with. They are already considering that there is no time, no space, no movement, and that our universe is not what it seems, that it is folded, holographic, and that man is not how he feels and perceives himself at all.

In principle, we currently have a completely distorted transitional picture. We are in a phase transition, at a point of bifurcation where all sorts of inexplicable phenomena are happening to us, and we do not know what to do with them.

And what is the truth here? Every time we make mistakes, and again search for the truth, and again accept something as truth only to find that it is not accurate. Everything is relative, and it should be that way!

The main thing is for a person never to be deceived by the belief that they have caught the truth by the tail and now it is absolute. Nothing is absolute in the world because our understanding, our perception, is just a reflection of our internal changes: we feel ourselves and not the universe, not the cosmos.

By feeling ourselves, we constantly see a variety of completely different pictures because we ourselves are changing and are in the process of some kind of evolution that we do not understand.

Now we are also going through a very serious stage of evolution. How we will perceive ourselves after passing through this state is unknown, but it will be completely different. Many scientists are already talking about this. We will perceive the world not individually, but through a collective lens, in general. And it will feel completely different.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Where is the Truth?” 8/27/11

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The Desire to Bestow Will Connect All Times

928Egoistic desire divides the times into the past, present, and future. After all, the desire to enjoy is not content with what it had in the past or will have in the future. It is tied to the present time in which it feels what benefit it has from the light that is clothed in it now.

However, in the future, the desire to bestow will unite all times: past, present, and future.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, Writings of Rabash “Three Times in the Work”

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Our World Is a Persistent Hallucination

928Question: What is a hallucination in your understanding?

Answer: People have a lot of various brain disorders, including this one.

Kabbalah is pure materialism. From the point of view of Kabbalah, only what we perceive in our desire in an absolutely clear, sober form exists. Everything else are stray currents that can cause all sorts of states in our brain, in our desire, including hallucinations, but they do not have any reality.

Today, we do not know what “reality” means because we live in an unreal world. According to Kabbalah, our entire world is an illusion.

No wonder it is said that our world is made up by us, that it appears in our imagination. In fact, everything that exists in nature exists only in the property of bestowal, reciprocity, full regulation, and balance. And we, human beings, are in a state of imbalance.

That is, inanimate, vegetative, animate, and spiritual nature is in balance. Only we people, out of all this huge state, are in disequilibrium, and therefore, we feel ourselves and the surrounding world in the wrong state—distorted and ugly. In fact, we do not understand where we are and what is happening to us.

And when we truly attain the world in similarity to the property of bestowal, then we begin to understand that we have seen the world that has been imagined by us and has arisen in our incorrect, distorted imagination. But with regard to our state, when we perceive our world in a purely egoistic way, this distortion is permanent.

It looks like we have, for example, some kind of a problem in our computer, and it is permanent. You know that it exists, and you can somehow put up with it, keep working, and even take it into account. The same is true about us regarding all sorts of hallucinations, visions, and so on.

Therefore, our egoistic state is stable, because we perceive ourselves and the world in the desire to be filled and think only about ourselves. This state is concrete, dependent on matter, and real in relation to us.

And hallucinations are completely arbitrary currents wandering in the brain, and we cannot take them into account.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Hallucination” 8/20/11

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In the Darkness of the Material World

37Question: How do you draw the line between a hallucination that seems very real and not a hallucination?

Answer: In our world, we cannot accurately determine anything, since for this we need to have two parameters one relative to the other, and measure the difference between them.

I cannot see only one, for example, one color; I must see the light directed at it. Just as if I go out into the airless outer space, I see only blackness. Why? If I put some shutter, then the light hits it, and I see that it is there. And if there is no such barrier against the light, then everything is dark.

That is, we determine and feel everything by collisions, by the impact of something on our senses. Therefore, we must see something against our condition.

We do not see the spiritual world, and therefore we cannot clearly determine what state we are in.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Hallucination” 8/20/11

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A Feeling that Cannot Be Described

239Question: When you touch objects, do you get additional information directly from the contact? You said that when you enter the sea you receive information.

Answer: This is not information, these are sensations. These are feelings that cannot be described. They are not even related to Kabbalah.

Suppose a person living in the forest feels that something is happening there. I have met such people. They are completely different. They also talk about nature in a completely different way.

Question: Does this mean that the physical perception of some phenomena never helps you?

Answer: No, I try not to be in physical perception at all. What for? I exist in it because I have to live, teach, and explain. I have a mission. Actually every person has it. I seem to have found my mission, and I am trying to realize it.

On the other hand, a Kabbalist is limited by certain borders. He does not hang out with people at various gatherings and participate with them in all kinds of events. He does not care and does not need it. Why should I explore anything in this world when the whole point is to raise it higher?

And there is no one to talk about what I am researching except for the specialists who are next to me who also strive for this, that is, my students. When I give a lesson, explain, and they ask, these are the best hours of my life. We get included in the general system together, we climb some steps together, and I raise them.

By asking a question, they push me to new explanations and new research. And the solution comes at this very moment. All this is a wonderful symphony, the harmony of feelings, desires, thoughts, analysis, and synthesis of the entire universe!

Besides that, what else is there? What exists in our world is just an automatically operated machine. Therefore, it makes no sense to solve anything in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Feeling That Can’t Be Described” 8/20/11

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Questions about Spiritual Work—3

234Question: How can I ask the Creator correctly for Kelim (Vessels) of bestowal? Should I completely annul myself and want them only for my friends?

Answer: Desire that it will be good to all of you together and that from your connection you would be able to bestow to the Creator.

Question: What should I do if I feel great shame before the Creator and cannot ask Him for mercy because it seems that I am not worthy of Him?

Answer: Transfer these feelings toward your friends, and then everything will work out well.

Question: Is it possible to bestow to the Creator through the pleasures of the physical body?

Answer: I do not think so. At least, not in our condition because now this is absolutely impossible. So far, you cannot receive pleasure for the sake of the Creator and transmit this pleasure to Him. It will be self-deception.

Question: We usually remember our sufferings. How can these memories be used correctly in spiritual work?

Answer: Do not think about them, they will accumulate by themselves. You have to think about moving forward.

Question: If a person does not feel the suffering of his friends in the ten, can he imagine it in order to raise a true prayer for them?

Answer: Yes, he can. It is good that he imagines it, even if not in the correct way. Nevertheless, he will develop faster in this condition.

Question: When the Creator gives us rapidly changing states and feelings, what does it mean?

Answer: He is looking for a way to connect with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Inadequate People

560All people on Earth are divided into numerous different stages of attainment, development, and sensations.

First of all, they are divided into five parts according to the basic principles of creation, which is divided into five levels. Each level into another five, and another five, and so on.

This division occurs based on the intensity of desire and the possibility of its attainment, meaning in the heart (desire) and mind.

Question: It is believed that 20% of people on Earth are practically inadequate, with deviations from the norm. What is their role in the overall process?

Answer: They are carriers of information and, in turn, also participants in the general process, including even those people who are completely disconnected from the world, from life. They were born, let’s say, autistic or with other mental impairments that cannot be cured, and they are practically withdrawn into themselves, unresponsive to us.

But we must understand that we have no right to destroy them as it was done in ancient Greece, Nazi Germany, or India (where there was a law concerning widows who were burned along with their deceased husbands).

These people, regardless of their form of existence, ultimately serve as a buffer for all the problems of human society. Our problems are as if loaded unto them, and they carry with them certain information about humanity, being next to us. That is why we have no right to treat them badly but, on the contrary, we must treat them with compassion and help them to the best of our ability.

They carry a part of the human load, and even more—the heavy part.

Question: But it is like a suspended layer of information? How can we interact with it?

Answer: It is impossible to discuss these matters with people who do not see the whole nature from inside. They do not understand their own participation in nature, and especially those who are sick from our point of view.

Only when you see the true picture of creation do you begin to understand their role, that there is nothing in nature that is created in vain, and there is nothing bad in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Crazy people“ 8/20/11

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Adjust Your Focus!

263Comment: In principle, you always talk about one formula that can correct humanity.

My Response: What if there is nothing else besides it?! What if there is nothing more than ten Sefirot? I am only talking about how to connect them correctly, discover the entire universe inside you, and finally understand that everything you see happening outside is an illusion.

I am talking about a single world inside of you, so you can see it by reversing your focus. When you change focus, you suddenly begin to understand that you saw just an internal reflection in front of you, nothing else. Suddenly your eyes open and you see a completely different world.

This is what we must come to! To a world in which there is no life and death, no physical movement. These are all our inner sensations that create such an illusory volume in us.

I want to gradually bring you to this understanding so as not to confuse you. After all, you can say: “So he is a mystic, not of this world; he is spinning in some of his dimensions.”

Therefore, I do not talk about many things. I am explaining at the same pace nature does, and today it obliges us to move forward. I am helping you understand the evolution that you are obliged to make today, either in a good way or in a bad way if you do not obey.

Question: If I am not close in my feelings to the topic you are talking about, what then?

Answer: Then “Daddy” will give you a good smack with his belt. You will feel a little pain, and you will start to listen to what Mr. Laitman told you. You will suddenly remember what Kabbalah says: “Maybe I can somehow soften these blows, or at least receive fewer of them.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re Repeating the Same Thing!” 8/13/11

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Spiritual Photographs

216.03Question: You told us how your teacher Rabash used to open Shamati on any page and begin to read a paragraph. By doing this he was as if manifesting his connection with the Creator. Does it mean that this is already given to a person, one just needs to engage in this process?

Answer: Suppose I look at photographs and they evoke some memories, feelings, and knowledge.
I am in some world, and therefore, when I look at a photograph from this world, it immediately puts me in a certain state. I imagine what this photo evokes in me, and it brings back all sorts of memories.

How does this happen in spirituality? It is according to absolutely the same method. I have a huge number of spiritual photos. If you talk about something, then I immediately enter this system. You kind of remind me of it, tune me up.

You say: “Remember, we were once there in that place?”

“Yes, I remember.”

“So, you should know this and that.”

And I imagine what you are talking about, I am in this state.

There is no time in spirituality. I move from state to state according to my desires with internal informational genes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Connecting to the Creator” 8/24/11

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How Can I Direct Myself to Bestowal

504Question: You said that we implement our choice by transforming the desire to receive into a desire to bestow. How do we do this?

Answer: The most important thing is the intention: what I do and why I do it. I do it only because this is the will of the Creator.

Question: Is it possible to work in this way with any desire that is revealed in a person?

Answer: If you know exactly what the Creator wants in one of your desires, then you can do it.

Question: How can I know what the Creator wants? How can I figure this out?

Answer: To do this, you must be inside the ten and be connected with your friends in such a way that you can try to bestow to them, set your heart toward them, and then you will gradually learn to direct yourself to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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