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How To Become Independent Of Others

laitman_227Remark: As I understand it, my independence is in the voluntary acknowledgment of my complete dependence on society. However, this is not possible because I do not want to depend on anyone.

Answer: The fact that you are completely dependent on the vast, universal, eternal desire created by the Creator makes you eternal, perfect, and independent. You cannot get rid of the fact that you are a created being. Therefore, acknowledging you are a created being gives you the opportunity to reach the level of the Creator, to achieve adhesion and equivalence with Him.

Question: Still, how can an ordinary person become independent of others?

Answer: Start loving them. Then you will see that your love for them makes you higher than and independent of them, although you think about them and wish them well. This is the only way.

You cannot get out of the integral system. The only thing you can do is to ascend inside it. And to ascend means to take care of it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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Are Kabbalists Fearless?

laitman_584.03Question: What are you personally afraid of? Or are Kabbalists fearless?

Answer: No, Kabbalists are not fearless. I am afraid of the Creator.

I am truly afraid of the doubts and barriers that He places before me. And the further I advance, the bigger and more powerful they are, and I fear them. I have to be afraid of them. If there were no fear, then I would not think about them, prepare for them, or try to overcome them.

Homo sapiens consist of fears, what is called awe. And they don’t disappear anywhere. He just knows where they come from and how to work with them.

Otherwise, if, for example, you give him some kind of injection and his fears, feelings of pain and all kinds of other sensations disappear, then how would he work, how would he move, how would he position himself in any situation?

Question: What was the greatest fear you experienced before spiritual attainment and after?

Answer: Basically, these are fears in which you feel the impossibility of overcoming your egoism, laziness, and powerlessness, and you concentrate all your strength and intentions in order to pull yourself together and turn right to the Creator for help.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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How To Find Guides On Spiritual Paths?

laitman_530Question: How can a newly created group of friends find a teacher?

Answer: Finding a teacher is a problem. You have to choose a real teacher who does not hide the goal from you and has the experience in how to lead people to it.

He, in turn, also had the right teacher and will not hide from you that the path  is not  easy, it is long and difficult, but he will lead you forward in a consistent way. And he will not just lead, but will walk this path together with you. Of course, he is already at a different degree, but he still goes with you.

I do not think that today you can find such teachers, “guides” on spiritual paths, except among my students. I am not just advertising them to you, there are no others in the world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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How Can We Check Whether The Creator Is Benevolent?

laitman_294.3Baal HaSulam, “Shamati,” 34, “The Profit Of The Land”: It is known from books and from authors that the Creator is benevolent. This means that His guidance appears to the lower ones as good and doing good, and this is what we must believe.

We do not feel that, but this is a precondition if we want to advance.

Therefore, when one examines the conducts of the world, and begins to examine himself or others, how they suffer under Providence instead of delighting, as is fitting for His Name—The Good Who Does Good—in that state, it is hard for him to say that Providence is behaving in a manner of good and doing good and imparts them with abundance.

Question: How can we feel that?

Answer: We should not curse anything in the world and not the Creator because of the evil you see, but determine why you see it, and then you will realize that you see things this way according to your corruption. This is a paradox. When I see that people relate to me or to each other in a bad way, I have to say that it is because I am not corrected. On the whole, I have to see an absolutely ideal picture before me that is made only of attributes of goodness, love, and mutual connection.

How can that be? I am told that it is because I have the opposite, contradictory attributes and I should switch them, then the terrible world we live in will turn into heaven.

Question: Doesn’t it bother you that you need to believe that the Creator is benevolent?

Answer: To believe does not mean that I close my eyes and believe that this world is absolutely ideal and that only I see it as corrupt. I have to accept that the Creator is benevolent as a precondition for my work in order to correct myself so that I will be sure to attain this state.

Question: Does this mean that there is a condition and there are the doubts? And all this lives inside me?

Answer: Yes, this is how we advance.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/15/19

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Afraid Of The Creator’s Kindness

laitman_222Question: If everything we sense in our feelings and memory is from the Creator, then in this case I’m afraid of the Creator and His inhuman kindness. It turns out that instead of evil, on the contrary, I am afraid of the Creator’s good?

Answer: That’s right. Since the Creator is hidden, then you are afraid of everything.

But the most important thing is the understanding that everything that is in you, everything that seems to you in the form of inanimate, plant, animal and human nature is all that the Creator paints before you so that you feel the need for connection with Him.

Otherwise, you would not be able to balance, correctly correlate, and position yourself with the whole world.

Question: If the Creator can send me a desire for Him, what is the point of sending a feeling of fear toward some phenomena of this world?

Answer: In order for you to correct your selfish attitude to the world at all its levels: inanimate, plant, animal, human. Then you will perceive everything around you correctly.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Two Forces Arising From One

laitman_562.02Question: There are two forces in nature. One of them is the force of bestowal, which develops us and builds integrated systems. The other is the force of rejection, which differentiates everything, and thanks to it there is diversity in nature. This is the force of receiving, absorbing oneself.

But Kabbalah says that there is only one force: “There is none else besides Him.” How do these two forces combine with it?

Answer: In the universe, there is one single force that directs all nature to unity, which is the goal of its development. But coming to this unity consists of lots of various movements, sometimes opposite to each other when it seems to us that they all are directed not toward unity and complementation, but in completely opposite directions. This is because we do not see the general picture of nature.

Remark: However, these two forces manifest themselves in our world. For example, in Chinese philosophy, it is yin and yang. In the Abrahamic religions, these are the forces of good and evil, which are already manifested at the level of society. And in co-evolution, this is natural selection. That is, they are present everywhere.

My Comment: Yes. But complementing each other, they still lead everything to a single integrated system.

Nature is constantly striving for a balance of these forces. But the fact is that both forces manifest in a person as the property of bestowal and the property of receiving and are absolutely unequal. The property of receiving is close to us, familiar, and desirable, but we are completely insensitive to the property of bestowal. Indeed, in order to give, everyone must feel the neighbor, but we do not feel the other.

Therefore, nature, created a feeling of only ourselves in us, of our “I”,  and seemed to have torn off the other half from us, a concern for what is outside of me. Therefore, I cannot come to balance using my natural qualities. On the contrary, the more I develop selfishly with only one force to receive, acquire, and seize, the more my participation in nature is defective.

Question: Does the unity of nature lie in the unity of opposites?

Answer: Yes. We will have to come to a state where we clearly realize that we are composed of two opposite properties and they must be balanced in the so-called middle line of our behavior.
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From KabTV’s “The Post-Coronavirus Era,” 4/16/20

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How Can You Cope With The Feeling Of Jealousy?

laitman_559Question: How can you cope with the feeling of jealousy? What is it?

Answer: It depends at what level.

If this is animalistic jealousy when you are jealous of one person’s attention to another and feel that the other is taking away the attention of the object of your interest that you want to be directed at you, that is one thing. This is the jealousy of our world and we must somehow work with it.

However, it is better if you start working on attaining the Creator and this will obscure everything else. Then you will not have any problems with jealousy or anything else because working with the Creator, when you are yearning for Him and He begins His manipulations, wishing to attract you to Him is much more intense in feelings, in depth, and in possibilities than any other earthly sensations.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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The Era Of Women Is Coming

laitman_294.3The coronavirus epidemic showed us how important the home and the family, which are the center of our lives, and the role of the woman on whom it all rests are. The coronavirus united us.

On one hand, it laid bare the contradictions that exist between us in the modern world. Nevertheless, it showed all men that the woman is the central point of our whole life, and therefore, we must try to build around the female part, the Malchut, the new reality of the post-coronavirus era.

Baal HaSulam writes in the book Ohr Bahir:

Ima [mother] comes from the word Omenet [nursing] and rearing, since the drop comes from the father, and the mother nurses and rears the drop, and divides into parts and organs, flesh and skin. All this work and multiplication is only from the mother, for the father gave her only a tiny drop, and with her craftsmanship, she fashioned it into a complete human being. It is for this craftsmanship that she is called “mother.”

A mother has a truly unique mission. Indeed, a drop of semen actually comes from the Creator and does not require a lot of work from the father. The mother divides it and distributes it into organs, and it grows until out of this drop a person develops who is the result of the work of the mother’s body.

This is how it works in physical bodies. But also in the building of the soul where the father and the mother participate together, most of the work falls to the mother. Everything comes from the paternal drop but thanks to the maternal work.

Pregnancy begins with a drop of the father’s semen, but the mother grows the fetus, gives birth, and then feeds him, cares for him, and takes care until he becomes old enough to live independently.

This is why all mothers, all the women of the world, should perceive the process we are undergoing today as an opportunity for humanity to be born like a fetus on a new spiritual level. If all women unite together, they will be able to raise humanity through labor pains. This is difficult work, but it is women who will be able to give birth to a new humanity and direct it to fulfill its mission.

The whole development of mankind is divided into two stages. Until today, men have ruled the world and it has been a time of wars, problems, conflicts, the power of money and violence. Women were almost invisible through the whole history of mankind, the path of violence and wars.

But now comes the time when it is the mother, the woman, who must take on the role of the educator of the world in its future form. This is the era of women, and therefore, she must know how to unite with other women for the sake of correcting the world. It may be difficult, but there is no way out. This must be done.

All women, the whole Malchut, are obligated to unite, and thanks to this unity give birth to a new humanity. But this is only possible provided that women can unite despite their reluctance, can step on their egoism and rise above it by faith above reason. Women will demand men and the whole world to unite to establish the right connections between all and thus lead the world to correction.

On the corporeal level, it is the woman who brings up and raises a new generation. And also in the spiritual system, only a woman is able to strengthen, give birth, and raise a new humanity.

No one but a woman can fulfill this role. As the mother develops the fetus, gives birth, grows, educates, and shapes a future person, so must women, united together, fulfill their role as mothers of all mankind.

The image of a unified woman should become the central force in the world. In this way we can save humanity and give birth to it in a new form. After women unite and come to one common, strong opinion, they will be able to demand everything from men, and the Creator will be on their side. Thus, women will be able to defeat everyone and establish the right order of human development.

But this is only possible after unification. The whole problem is that there is no unity between women, and therefore, no one perceives them as a serious force and or accepts their demands. Demanding spiritual advancement is possible only if you have spiritual strength, and spiritual strength is in unity.

Unite at least a little and see the power you have. Then you will demand and receive everything you desire. The Creator will do it. There are no obstacles on your path: as soon as you women begin to unite, the Creator will take care of you.
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From a lesson “The Role of Women in the New World,” 5/9/20

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Integral Technology—Connecting Into Ten

laitman_942Question: What does it take to understand integrality? Does this require some kind of integral technology?

Answer: Yes. This integral technology is found in Kabbalah. It is called connecting in the ten.

Connecting into the ten teaches us how we can create a mini group that is similar to the entire humanity, the entire universe. And within this connection, separately between ten men or ten women, like in the laboratory, we can examine all the laws and functions of general nature, both animalistic—egoistic and spiritual—altruistic.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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Multicolor Life

552.02Question: Now many people are depressed. How does one overcome this anxiety? You give an impression of being a cheerful person. What advice can you give?

Answer: It is not easy. You cannot take people away from their problems, either. Our life consists of colors. And all the colors are defined one against the other, light on the background of dark.

Therefore, you cannot remove dark tones. You just need to constantly achieve light tones against their background. This can only be done if you are in the group.

The group is first of all. Do not be alone! For beginners, this is a must.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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