Fundamentals Of Kabbalah – 02.24.13
Posted on February 24th, 2013
A Virtual Lesson on Fundamentals of Kabbalah
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A Virtual Lesson on Fundamentals of Kabbalah
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Question: Why does a person have to openly say: “The world was created for me?”
Answer: A person has to discover that the world was created for him, that everything in him and around him, and that all the attributes and the actions he sees are aimed at and lead to the correction of his soul, but it’s only if he uses all this correctly and there is nothing else.
Everyone is facing the world of Ein Sof (Infinity), but he perceives this Ein Sof as the picture of this world. If he attributes all the states to the world of Ein Sof according to the principle of “There is none else besides Him,” “the good and the benevolent,” and if he gathers all the times into one point, realizing that they all refer to one idea and that they all lead to one root that returns us to one goal, then he will be able to say openly that the whole world was created only for him.
Everyone should do that: Everyone has his own world since he discovers the world in his desire; he discovers that everything else is his own mental strength and he is the only one who has freewill. Now it seems that there are other forces in the world beside him, but this is only because he hasn’t reached the recognition and the decision that the whole world is inside him, depicted in him and is meant for him, so that he will be able to reveal the general unity.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam
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Question: Can a manager reveal inside a company an integral connection within it?
Answer: Of course! Integral education assumes interaction and development of people in small groups.
Can you imagine what connection will be at the workplace, what energy it will release, what perspective it will show, and everyone will understand what they do that is right and wrong? It will be a company aimed at the future, and no matter what it produces, its products will get to people like fresh pies from the oven.
Question: But for the time being, will the owner pay employees as it is customary in modern society?
Answer: He will have to pay what employees require. And they will not demand more. Relationships with each other and collective interaction will give them such a sense of inner fulfillment, such a reward, that they will not have the desires above normal physical needs.
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From KabTV’s “Professional Secrets” 2/6/13
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Question: Can a criterion of reward for employees at the workplace be not the result, but a person’s personal qualities of being able to connect people together in a team? Perhaps, they do not give visible results that could be reflected in a chart, but nonetheless, the mood of a team depends on them.
Answer: The general atmosphere and the general health of a team, which is felt as fulfillment, depends on those who can bind the team together. “Not by bread alone shall man live.” These people, graduates of training at our centers, are much needed at workplaces. A person needs emotional fulfillment.
The other day, I was talking to our representatives from Italy. Currently there is a huge rate of unemployment. What are people doing? They are gathering together, buying houses, remodeling them into apartment houses, and converting them into communes. It turns out that in this way it is much easier to survive the crisis, problems, and everything else. In addition, they experience an emotional comfort because they are together: husbands, wives, and children.
A feeling of mutual help suddenly gives a person such fulfillment that he does not need luxury items, holidays in exotic locations, etc. It turns out that in this way nature brings us to another form of contentment.
Today, workers in Spain and Italy already agree to work for half a salary, but they are more united among themselves; they have elements of the commune there.
We see that by this means, nature pushes people to unite. Integration is ahead. Either we come to it along the good path, understanding what awaits us in the future, and then we do not need problems and crises, or we will still get there through suffering, problems, unemployment, deprivation.
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Question: From the perspective of the integral approach, what is considered punishment?
Answer: Only a reprimand. Anger results with punishments and dismissals. With a reprimand from society, a person feels the lack of one’s lack of perfection that a person must correct in some way.
Together with this, condemnation from colleagues doesn’t have to be arrogant, but gentle, as if indirectly.
Besides that, it is possible to influence a person through the family, through the wife, not directly, but through a third party. It is a very effective “lever.” You will see how much it will encourage a worker. Such a system is much more effective than punishments or other actions of the society.
In any case, one needs to match himself to people! We can’t always place them in frames that are not suitable for them. If you see that they are not able to execute something, then it is preferable to do something that would be effective both for them and you.
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From KabTV’s “Professional Secrets” 2/7/13
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Question: What does it mean for an entrepreneur to “keep up with nature“?
Answer: It means to recognize new needs in a person, to see how they develop differently in different layers of society because society is divided into parts, and these parts gradually evolve towards greater emotional contentment, and material fulfillment remains at the level of necessities and no more is desired.
You already have a package to meet new human needs, and you give it to people as a carrot to a rabbit, “Look, what I have!”
The solution is directed towards emotional needs, but the material needs are also taken into account, which are focused more on what is closer to a person. In the past, humanity chased both necessities and what was above necessities.
Now, a person’s inner demands gradually change, but not because I have ten fur coats in the closet, but because values suddenly changed in me.
My desire becomes more selective. The level of necessities, which is required to support my physical, animal state, remains. But the upper level, the so-called “fat,” is becoming narrower, is cut and turns to a new area: virtual, abstract, astral. A person needs fulfillment because he has a void within. But if you provide him with virtual fulfillment together with the basic necessities, he will follow you and demand like a small child, “Give me more!”
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Question: What are actually the mutual concessions in the family that have to be established above our inner resistance? Is it something unusual?
Answer: We establish concessions on the basis of our understanding that we cannot change our character and that I don’t intend to correct or to break my partner. I don’t ask her to change in any way. We only base our relationship on mutual agreement and on mutual concessions.
I check to what extent I can concede and accept my partner’s opinion, although basically, according to my ego, I would not agree to that. But I understand that without concessions I will never be able to make any connections in the family or anywhere else. So I concede to some extent in order to create the “shared space” between us.
But I don’t annul myself or my partner, I concede but it doesn’t mean that I surrender. I have ascended above myself, but I did not erase myself. I understand that I don’t agree with my partner and at the same time I know that I have to accept her wishes, habits, and opinions above my desires, habits, and opinions.
It turns out that I keep my opinion and she keeps hers. But I consciously allow her to control me. On her part she does the same. It isn’t easy, but at the same time each of us doubles himself and we connect into one whole. I include everything that is in my wife, both the positive and the negative sides, and she also includes everything there is in me, both the positive and the negative sides.
Each one is ready to give up his own claims in order to accept his partner as superior, as the dearest friend. Thus each of us includes the other and this leads to a connection between us and even adhesion, which means a total incorporation of desires.
It is about gradual learning when a couple understands that they have reached a new era in their family relations, a new dimension of the perception of a relationship, of the other, of society, and of the world. A person begins to look at the world differently. He sees life and the secret of their existence.
Without this mutual incorporation, not a single living cell, a plant, an animal, or man will be able to evolve; life can go on only if each one allows the other to enter his space.
Here a person discovers the secret of life! He begins to feel how everything loves and breathes, how everything develops. He begins to develop only thanks to his concessions to others.
By himself he was a dead cell, but now he begins to absorb the whole world and becomes everything, at the same time everyone keeps his own boundaries without breaking or annulling them. It is a very important moment since people often regard concessions in the opposite sense, as giving up their desire and taking the risk of being immediately swallowed by someone else like a snake that swallows its prey.
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From a Talk About a New Life 7/25/13
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Question: How can I check if my work is real?
Answer: Real work is when I use the environment, the group, as much as I can, wanting to discover our strong mutual connection. I have to discover a good honest attitude on the part of the group towards me and to accept it as the Creator’s attitude towards me, who dressed in the group. On my part, I have to express the same attitude towards the group: honest, warm, and good in perfect connection according to my level.
There is no other place we can meet and fulfill the relations among us except for the group. A group does not mean establishing personal connections with everyone, but treating everyone equally, by wanting to discover the Creator in the connection among us.
In the minus I achieve my independence and remain my own self, the “self” is not erased. In our plus we reach a “void” since it is there that a person wants to dissolve and disappear in the group. Thus we go through a complete change: from one end to another and include the two forces within us. What we have is called “reason,” but above that there is “faith,” which is “above reason.” This means that we constantly prefer bestowal by placing it above receiving.
This is all of our work that can only be fulfilled in the group. The gap (∆) between the “self” and the “void” always determines the height of my level in which I feel my Light of NRNHY.
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From the 1st Part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam
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Question: In terms of business, does everything depend on the leaders or is it initially predetermined?
Answer: We have to approach this realistically. I have to act according to the notion that everything depends on me. If I imagine our next state correctly, then I will have an opportunity to connect all this with the general development of nature, and then I will benefit from it.
If we are heading toward the situation whereby a person is increasingly motivated by virtual/emotional fulfillment and loses the taste for material excess, then in addition to a financial reward, we can create appropriate emotional, virtual, spiritual fulfillment and balance one with the other.
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Question: Does a person in an integral society take responsibility for any offenses?
Answer: Of course, because this society is not completely corrected yet, there are egoists in it, not angels.
A person is judged by his actions and if the deeds are bad, then one must activate a new system in order to correct him.
By recognizing the integral approach, there is an even greater responsibility towards others, and through implementation and observation, one feels that he gains morally and maybe even materially. But it is a duty!
I would like to say only one thing: One must constantly find the correct combination between the introduction of new laws and education, raising awareness. We constantly need to examine to what extent people become more conscious of their mutual dependence, the mutual connection to completeness, and how to use the systems effectively so that they will give more seriousness to this. One needs to use more serious educational systems but without pressure.
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