Question: Why do we feel that there are some good and evil people and deeds outside of us?
Answer: This is our internal and external perception of reality since everything inside is depicted to us as kind, our own, and everything outside is harmful, evil, alien.
Question: As a rule, a person, no matter what he does can always justify himself. And how can we justify those “scoundrels” that we see outside?
Answer: You should reveal that it is you. Through understanding, reflection, and then through correcting yourself with the help of the surrounding society, to the point that you begin to perceive the world that way.
Question: You often talk about the world as a part of yourself, but at the same time sometimes you say: “They, they, they…”. What do you mean by “they”?
Answer: They are my thoughts, qualities, and feelings that I perceive as existing outside of me. That is, these are my thoughts, but I do not agree with them.
Question: Do you treat them as external factors?
Answer: Of course! How else?
Question: In this case, what is your task? To change these qualities?
Answer: By working on yourself make these qualities feel positive, and then to this extent they will become mine, in my explicit feeling. And to the extent that they do not clearly feel like mine, they will seem external to me.
Being in the spiritual world means that I feel both bad and good qualities, and in general, the whole world exists in me and at the same time outside of me. This duality helps me to correct myself faster and feel the whole world as my personal inner whole, like the ten Sefirot of my soul. And there is nothing but this soul, and all that I perceive is all its parts.
Question: How often do you see progress in your change of perception?
Answer: This progress is start-stop, impulsive, which can be compared to a tiger before a jump: first it sways, and then jumps, then sways and jumps again. And every time you jump, attainment is achieved, the inclusion of some additional, supposedly former external, area.
We study in Kabbalah that the soul was divided into internal and external parts: Galgalta veEynaim–AHAP. Or to the root-soul-body (Shoresh-Neshama-Guf), which a person feels in himself, and to the garments and structures, that is, buildings and the world (Levush-Heichal), which he feels outside himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Now It” 1/12/12
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