Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

Thousands Of Hours Of Unity

laitman_938.03Question: How do we work with the greatness of the Creator that we received at the gathering of friends so that it will keep us until the next meeting?

Answer: I doubt that this meeting once a week is enough.

Rabash wrote articles about the order of the gatherings for those who gather at the lesson every day, and discuss the material before and after the lesson. Here and there, they have all sorts of “five minute catch ups”: in the morning classes, in the evening classes, and sometimes in the middle of the day. Today, everyone has mobile phones so everyone can call each other.

The actual tens meetings should be almost daily. If people use this time correctly, they get thousands of hours over the course of a year. With this amount of collective work, you can succeed very quickly. The main thing is to properly fill in this time, properly use and realize it.
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From TV program “The Last Generation” 6/27/18

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Help In Spiritual Work

laitman_962.2Question: Virtual means of communication are very well developed now. Are they revealed at this time because the ego erupted so intensely that we wouldn’t be able to do without them?

Answer: Naturally. Currently we have all kinds of devices that let us be in constant communication with each other. We can correspond, send pictures, talk—anything we want! It erases the distance.

We can see our friends, our Ten, on a phone or a computer screen, and at them same time talk to them as if we are in a constant physical connection. In reality, this connection is physical because we feel it as normal connection.
Therefore, a lot of attention is paid now to the quality of communication. Distance does not matter, it all depends on us.

Of course, the most important thing is internal communication, but it is insufficient. It must be supported by physical connection. Without this, we will not be able to continuously produce internal efforts.

We must listen, see, and understand our friends, admire and  envy them, and feel it all. Otherwise, how are we going to work?
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From the TV Program “The Last Generation”, 6/27/18

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Following Sound Logic

laitman_947Rabash, Writings of Rabash, Article “The Agenda of the Assembly 2”: Therefore, first one must praise the importance of the gathering, and then see what to acquire from that activity. It is as our sages said, “One should always praise the Creator, and then pray.” In other words, the beginning of the assembly, meaning the beginning of the discussions, which is the beginning of the assembly, should be about praising the society. Each and every one must try to provide reasons and explanations for their merit and importance. They should speak of nothing but the praise of society.

Question: Should there first be a word game about the importance of the group?

Answer: This is not a game! Each time you need to start all over again. Why do I exist in this world? For what purpose? How should and can I achieve it? Why in the group? In what kind of group exactly? What kind of work must the friends do to achieve the goal of creation? And so on.

Question: When I am going to an assembly of friends, should this chain always be in front of me?

Answer: If I begin to awaken in the middle of this chain, then it is not a serious foundation for spiritual work. A serious foundation is renewed from the very beginning: “Why did I appear in this world?” Otherwise, how will I continue? From what?

I exist in this world in order to attain the Creator. I can attain the Creator only if I gather the right ten—broken desires that should make it possible to catch Him like a radio receiver picks up a wave.

To do this, we are given guidance and advice about how to set ourselves up like an oscillating circuit in a receiver in order to detect the Creator.

Question: Do you suggest making such preparations both for the gathering of friends and for the lessons, as well as in regular life?

Answer: Of course. This is how I set myself up.

I need a ten. Why am I going to the meeting? It is because in this ten I must reveal the Creator. Otherwise, I cannot attain Him. But for me, revealing the Creator means achieving the goal of life. Therefore, I already have a reason to hurry to the meeting of friends and do something.

Proceeding from this goal, I must reveal the conditions for attaining the Creator in the ten.

Question: That is, everything should be on the level of feelings?

Answer: Even on the logical level. If I have no feelings now, then I am absolutely frozen; there are such periods of time. Therefore, I start to scroll through everything and go by logic again. Logic is like iron; I have nothing else. And so I bring myself to a state when I go and use this opportunity. The assembly of friends is given to me once a week and I must attend it.

I know that I must receive from it how to behave in order to absorb impressions from all my friends that enable me to continue my spiritual elevation.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 6/27/18

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How Can You Communicate Correctly With The Creator?

Laitman_049.03Question: How does one properly communicate with the Creator throughout the day?

Answer: As you wish, the main thing is to not forget.

You can communicate with Him from completely different states: from love, dislike, scolding, or blessing. Do what you want! Try to find Him hiding behind all events; the main thing is to grasp and not lose hold. Try to find such a state inside yourself when you, grasping Him, live with it all the time.

You have no idea how suddenly you will begin to understand that life, like a tangle, begins to unwind in a completely predictable, understandable, and cause-and-effect manner. You will have a connection with the root, with the source of everything that happens to you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/2/18

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Look For The Middle Line

laitman_944Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2,” Article No. 17, 1986: Then they should say, “Now we are through with Stage One of the assembly of friends, and Stage Two begins.” Then each will state his mind about the actions we can take so that each and every one will be able to acquire the love of friends, what each person can do to acquire love in his heart for each and every one in the society.

And once Stage Two is completed—suggestions regarding what can be done in favor of society—begins Stage Three. This concerns carrying out of the friends’ decisions about what should be done.

To the extent that I am committed to the goal, I should also be committed to the means for achieving this goal. The love of friends can be no less that my aspiration to the goal, to the love of the Creator. It must be at least the same.

Remark: Rabash writes nothing about the fact that at the second stage some kind of hostility must arise between us.

My Comment: We never speak about the cultivation of negative feelings, qualities, or actions. We are talking only about the positive. The negative always arises only so that we would strengthen the positive.

Question: Yet, one can attain the Creator only between the point of love and the point of hatred. Is the Creator in the middle between these two points?

Answer: The Creator is in the correct combination between them.

Question: Is there no second point?

Answer: Of course not. We need to look for the middle line because we do not have it and it does not exist in nature. Since it constantly slips away, we need to search for it and find it again and again.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 6/27/18

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Facing The Heavenly Court

laitman_537Question: For me, making money means to prey on other people. Marketing and advertising is built on this: selling something unnecessary to a person, using any means to convince him to spend money.

Listening to you, I sometimes admit that we all are one, and by preying on others we are probably harming ourselves. So how can we make money?

Answer: Now you can earn money with a clear conscience because you already understand that you are actually cheating yourself.

In principle, if a person really appeared before the heavenly court, he would have nothing to say and the court would have nothing to answer. No one would have a claim—neither the Creator to a person, nor a person to the Creator—because in our world nobody does anything. We blame everything on ourselves and on others. In fact, these are not our actions.

From our side there can be only one action: a serious orientation toward a group in order to attain the Creator. It is then that we really apply group forces in spite of our egoism in order to accelerate the revelation of the Creator. This is our addition.

Question: Is there a heavenly court?

Answer: Of course. This is an integral system of connections in which we exist. It is this system that judges what you contribute to it, or on the contrary, take from it. You yourself are your own judge and lawyer.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/2/18

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How Does The Middle Line Appear?

laitman_232.06Question: What should a person do if he is overwhelmed with feelings but wants to remain in a practical neutral point and continue to work scrupulously with the group and with the Creator?

Answer: He should collect all his positive and negative thoughts, qualities, and actions and understand that the middle line is built on their correct combination. In fact, it does not exist. It appears only if a person builds and supports it, otherwise, it immediately disappears.

There are only plus and minus in the creation. Between them you must create such a resistance, a pressure, a motor that would work from these two poles.

Question: The group is a tool leading to the Creator. There also is the quality of bestowal that we call “the Creator.” It is clear how to work with a group. But how should we work with the Creator? Is there some kind of interconnection, relationship system?

Answer: If friends in the group correctly connect with each other, then in its inner strength, in the correct combinations, there will be that place where the quality of the Creator is revealed.

The quality of the Creator is interesting in the fact that relative to us, He is revealed as perfection, consisting simultaneously of both plus and minus. We will be able to understand this only when He is revealed.

Question: Is this the reason you say that there is the nature of a person, on which we should not apply pressure, but just build bridges of love above it and these states exist together? Is this the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: This is the middle line since both forces emanate from Him.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 6/27/18

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What Does It Mean To Do Something Against The Creator?

Laitman_507.05Question: To do something against the Creator, does this mean against His desire to please the created beings?

Answer: You could say this, or you could say that you disagree with His oneness. He exists, and you exist. This is where a split occurs into absolute atheists who assert that no one exists except man and people who say that there is no one but the highest power, and between them is everything else. Man himself does not really comprehend where he is in it. All religions and beliefs are concentrated between these two points.

Kabbalah says that we exist unconsciously.

As humankind developed, it was considered that only we exist, and the Creator is a purely psychological picture. But now we are gradually coming to the need to reveal the Creator, to comprehend and reach Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/2/18

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Is Adam A Person Or A Spiritual Degree?

742.03Question: Is Adam the first Kabbalist or a degree in spiritual attainment?

Answer: Adam is the spiritual system that we have to master, correct, and join.

In addition, 5,779 years ago there lived a man who was the first to attain this system. His name was also Adam. It is not a coincidence that his parents gave him this name; there are no coincidences in nature. He wrote the book The Secret Angel (Raziel HaMalach), which can be bought in the stores even today.

Question: Was 5,779 years ago the year of his physical birth or the year of his spiritual birth?

Answer: It is the year he attained the upper world and became a man (Adam).

Question: Do all Kabbalists agree with that?

Answer: There is no reason to argue. One who attains the upper world sees and feels it. We must acquire only those properties that make it possible to discover that this is so.

Question: Can people who attain the spiritual world feel not only the system of Adam HaRishon, but also that there was such a man as well.

Answer: By revealing the spiritual system, along the way, one becomes a part of all Kabbalists before him; somehow you get included in them and even understand and feel what they said, how they studied, and how they understood the system. One comprehends not the person himself, but his inner essence, qualities, his degree.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/16/18

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By Changing Ourselves, We Change Our World

Laitman_715Question: If everything is just inside of me, is there any other force that can affect me?

Answer: From the outside, the Creator affects you with His even Light, and in this Light, as if on a white screen, you depict your world with your own qualities.

This world that you depict involuntarily, you can now correct with your will and depict it in a different way. Therefore, all sorts of problems are presented to you on this screen so that you would correct yourself and see the world as good.

Question: If the Creator is also inside of me, does this mean that there is somebody else who is outside of me?

Answer: No, you imagine it this way. We need to find a very simple relationship: as much as we change ourselves, we change our world.

Each of us feels this world in his own way. There are some points in it that we can compare to each other, but there are those that we cannot even express.

Therefore, our task is by connecting with each other to create a complete picture of the world that is composed of many billions of people. Then in our connection, we will see the world of infinity.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/26/18

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