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No Shortage Of Practical Advice

laitman_961.2Question: When you studied with Rabash, did you feel a lack of practice in the methodology itself?

Answer: I felt it because, in general, it was not yet developed. I did not know exactly how to apply myself, how to realize it, where to lower myself, and where to help.

This methodology is not comprehended immediately. It takes months and years. Therefore, we have been given our whole lives to realize it. For example, when studying math, you learn it with your mind and you do not change at all. And here, in order to turn the page in the book and understand the next one, you have to change, and then read the previous one. If a person is unable to change, then even by turning ten pages, he will not understand what is written there.

The practice is carried out only in a group. It is all clearly described in the articles of Rabash about the group. Take them all and implement them. There is no shortage of practical advice. Only the implementation.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/5/18

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Can We Influence The Upper World From This World?

laitman_933Question: Are parallel worlds connected to each other? Can they affect each other?

Answer: The only one capable of influencing the upper world is a person who is in a group and in connection with friends. By gradually awakening this connection and making it stronger, he influences the upper world.

Only the good connection between us, when we try to emulate the upper world while remaining in this world, can affect us, because this connection, in fact, is already spiritual.

Everything else in our world is completely material and has no connection to spirituality. In fact, our world does not exist but only appears to us this way in our organs of perception. In this regard, it is absolutely imaginary, illusory.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/19/18

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Jumping To The Past And The Future

Laitman_177.06Question: If time and this world do not exist, except within the boundaries of the egoistic perception of the ocean of the upper Light, is it possible to leap in time with the help of Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course you can. If I can integrate into a group, that is, by annulling myself and enter some Kli (spiritual vessel) that exists on a particular level, then I can make a leap in time as if in a spaceship. At the same time, I can alter my own states many times faster.

As well, I can make leaps in space because I rise along with this group to its level and have them elevate me with their AHP. That is quite an interplanetary travel.

Our material world is exclusively mechanical. You cannot change time, place, space or motion, except for within the framework that exists in it.

Question: So, can I accelerate my spiritual development?

Answer: If you accelerate your spiritual development, you remain in the spiritual spaceship, not the material one. You cannot do anything in the corporeal ship. Everything that exists here is dead.

Question: We can’t even transport into the past here, a few million years ago?

Answer: We can’t, and we’ll never be able to. You can only slightly alter corporeal time by approaching the speed of light, like Einstein said. Although you still will be unable to change anything because all this nearing the speed of light is purely mechanical, conceptual.

Question: What does “jumping into the past” mean from the spiritual perspective?

Answer: It means to come several degrees lower. Baal HaSulam asked the Creator to bring him one degree lower, so that he could converse with regular people. This is called a “jump into the past.”

Or you could come into a strong group that you can influence so that you can disappear in it like an embryo in its mother’s womb, and it raises you to its level. This is called a “jump into the future.” Moreover, you can control jumping into the past or the future because they depend on your screen.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 8/12/2018

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Playing The Desired State

laitman_565.01Life is a game. It is so everywhere and always. This is determined by nature at all levels. In order to grow, change, dialectically build himself, and consistently develop, a person must be in the game!

Any blade of grass plays in order to grow. Look at puppies, kittens, anyone—everything is in a game. People are constantly playing, but do not feel it. A person goes to work, goes to the army, fights, and dies—it is all a game.

If I imagine the past, the present, and the future and connect between them, it is a game. That is, the game is a representation of the future state and the motion toward its implementation.

A person always plays in the future, no matter in which one. If he stops, it marks his death. That is how nature organizes it.

Question: Does the Creator receive pleasure from the fact that a person accepts this game?

Answer: By the fact that a person accepts this game, he himself obliges the Creator to play and becomes His partner. Therefore, he is called “Adam,” similar to the Creator, because he solves this whole game.

Exactly in this is the choice of freewill and the choice of the path. Either a person does not want participate in this or, on the contrary, he participates in order to reach a higher goal. He understands that this game is required only in order to elevate him to the next degree.

The game is a system of development of any part of nature at all levels.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/30/18

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Playing With The Creator By His Rules

Laitman_183.04Question: Life is a game. Do we play with the Creator too?

Answer: The game with the Creator is in the fact that I agree to do anything He wants in order for Him to advance me in this game. That is why I want to do it His way. I do not control the Light, but I agree to play by His rules.

Question: Why is it called “a game”?

Answer: It is because I do not have the strength to realize anything, and only by expressing my desires can I cause the Creator to act. I pretend, but not really, knowing absolutely clearly that this is what will lead to His actions.

Then, what is the meaning of prayers and requests? I am in one state while I imagine another. This is already a game. I play as if I am already in the next degree, in the desirable state. I want to change into it.

Question: At the current stage of our group’s development, what should we adhere to together?

Answer: To play the right kind of group.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/30/18

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How Can You Attract The Most Upper Light?

laitman_938.03Question: What can we do to attract the upper Light as much as possible?

Answer: Just study and interact correctly in the group following Rabash’s advice, that is, put in every effort to make yourself a piece of the team. In essence, we act out the correct society in the correct connections between each other.

Moreover, I understand that I am an egoist and absolutely do not want to humble and restrain myself to connect with others, but I do it.

Question: Are there any objective signs that the Light acts on a person?

Answer: On one hand, a person feels how much he is lower, worse, and not as smart as others. On the other hand, this makes him happy because it brings him closer to the truth when he feels that others are higher than he is. In general, he has to reach a state when he sees everything around him as a revelation of the Creator. There is nothing wrong with it and he does not mind losing himself.

Question: Is it a result of the Light influencing a person when he comes to this feeling?

Answer: Yes, this is already a stronger effect of Light because there is a gradation to infinity.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/30/18

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Everything Depends On The Influence Of The Light

laitman_544Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Friends,”: We can see that a person may see faults in his neighbor’s children, but not in his own. And when someone mentions some faults in his children, he immediately resists his friend and begins to declare his children’s merits.

The Light influences us and thus builds everything. We are a material, clay, play dough in its hands. Depending on the angle at which it shines, on its frequency and color, we are formed from this piece of clay, from the earth.

As it is written in the Torah, the Creator “took from the dust” completely non-living matter and began to sculpt it. It is the primary material.

Everything else depends on the Light. We thus cannot attribute any bad or good qualities, actions, or anything else to a person! Only the intensity and the quality of the portion of Light that influences the person determines his entire essence.

Question: Where is free choice in this?

Answer: There is no freedom in this. Freedom is only in compelling the Light to influence us better and more intensely under the influence of a certain environment.

I cannot act on my present states. I can only invite, through the environment, a stronger influence of the Light upon myself, and it will change me for the better. My free choice is only in this, and it is the only way to somehow change something.

If I, however, do not aspire for this, the influence of the Light will seem evil and bad to me. This is the path of suffering.

Yet, if I rush forward under the influence of the environment, then all my future transformations from egoist into altruist will be desirable. Then, the same path will become good for me—the path of Light.

The difference between the desired and the actual must be correctly formed in the group, and then the attracted Light will fulfill our desires.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/30/18

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Transformation Under The Influence Of The Light

laitman_232.05Question: What kind of independence can we talk about if the Creator creates all desires and states in me and He is the only source of all pleasures?

Answer: If I, with the help of the Creator (the upper Light), make a restriction and a screen on myself, then the Light does not enter me anymore.

I place a barrier between myself and the Light and I begin to control it. I want the Light to transform me, to first make me not receiving, and then giving.

Question: So, in Kabbalah, a person does not need actions, but only attempts to do something?

Answer: A person does not need to do anything. The whole spiritual world is in our thoughts and desires.

Question: So what is the technique? How do I move from the egocentric state, where I perceive everything within myself, to feel something outside of myself?

Answer: This requires upper Light. We must attract it so that it will act on us more and more intensely. This is achieved through group study. After all, we do not engage in this science in order to become smarter.

After a couple of hundred of such actions, a person will begin to understand what we are talking about, to feel what is happening in him, outside of him. Gradually, new organs of sensation of the upper Light will appear in him.

Question: So this means the method is that a person attracts some kind of energy, Light, force. How does he understand that this energy is affecting him?

Answer: He feels that he changes. The meaning of life for him becomes more pronounced, clearer, and more intimate. He begins to understand how to implement this technique, to achieve the feeling of the upper world here and now.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/15/18

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laitman_962.8Question: Every moment billions of changes take place in the world. If the world is portrayed differently for me according to changes in me, does this mean that I change every moment?

Answer: Yes, specifically you are the one who is changing every moment, and the world is a projection of yourself. You see outside what you feel within you as if it is happening in the surrounding world.

Question: If the higher governance is eternal and whole, how can it disappear when the general soul is corrected?

Answer: The higher governance does not disappear. Correction means my full integration into the higher governance.

Question: How do you know that the physical world will disappear? Did you feel similar states in your spiritual path?

Answer: First, that is what is written in the Kabbalistic sources. Second, a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah feels this to a certain extent.

Question: What is the main criterion of agreement or disagreement with the Creator’s management?

Answer: In every state be happy, goodhearted, smiling, enjoying life, simple and easy. This is already acceptance of what the Creator does to you.

Question: You do not want to unite the egoists? I thought that the whole idea of Kabbalah was their unification.

Answer: It is impossible to unite egoists. It is necessary to elevate them above egoism and unite them at this level. Each one has different desires. We cannot unite in the desire to receive—only in the desire to bestow. We build the upper world in the juncture between the desires to bestow between us.

Question: A fisherman always sees a fisherman from afar. Is it possible to say this about Kabbalists?

Answer: Yes and no. The fact is that if a Kabbalist does not want it, you will not reveal him, you will not feel that he is a Kabbalist. On the other hand, if both of you want it, you can talk and exchange sensations of the upper world between you.

Question: How is it possible to rise above the ego while we are still in it? Is this like Baron Munchausen, who pulled himself out of the swamp?

Answer: No. For Baron Munchausen, there was no external power that could help him pull himself out of the swamp. And for us, there is such a power—the upper Light! We turn to it and it draws us out of the swamp.

Question: What is the most terrible thing for a Kabbalist: when he is not given the opportunity to talk to people about the Creator, that is, to engage in dissemination, or when his students cannot find a common language between them and they break up the group?

Answer: Breaking up the group is the most terrible thing because the inner part is the most subtle and the most vulnerable. But sometimes mistakes are needed in order to access decisions and solutions in a healthier way the next time.

Question: How can we understand correctly the response of the teacher—Kabbalist? When he says: “No” and scolds us, do we need to accept this directly?

Answer: In general, yes. You have to understand that he is acting this way for your benefit.
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From The Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/1/18

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laitman_281.02Question: How does a Kabbalist relate to difficult events that happen in the world? Suppose they are personal like the death of relatives or some kind of disaster? How does he accept this?

Answer: A Kabbalist, like every person, experiences all kinds of feelings. However, he perceives everything, for instance the death of others and his own, the happiness of others or his own, a bit differently. There is a softening of his perception, as there is with a spiritually developed person.

Question: Is it possible to attain the level of Baal HaSulam and higher through learning the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: There are practically no limitations for anyone. Do you want to attain the level of the Creator? You are welcome.

Everything is open to everyone. Moreover, everyone must attain this level. Only then will he realize himself correctly and fully.

Question: How is it possible to use the earthly egoism for spiritual advancement?

Answer: We need corporeal egoism so that we will come to a group and act correctly within it in the fullest way. We read what Baal HaSulam and Rabash advise and we adapt everything that they recommend in their articles, and apply everything while maintaining connections in our world between our friends with clarifications about how we can unite, where egoism is found, etc. This is the realization of Kabbalah.

Question: What must we do so that we are not just sitting down and listening to you but are actively implementing advancement toward the upper world?

Answer: You need to create the conditions for maximal internal convergence, understanding, and support constantly. This is the spiritual action that we must perform, the same Kli (vessel) that we prepare for discovering the Creator.

Question: Why doesn’t the Creator perform some kind of miracle now, like in the time of Moses, to attract a greater number of people to a desire to attain it?

Answer: Because then it would then be an imposed desire, not a desire created and matured within a person.

Question: If everything around me and me, myself are the Creator, where is the evil inclination, the ego?

Answer: Don’t get confused. Everything is very simple. If we were to remove your ego and all of the disturbances and undesirable thoughts about others, then instead of all these obstacles, the Creator would be revealed. Try to perform an exercise like this among you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/24/18

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