Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

See The World Filled With Love

laitman_237Question: Everything comes from the Creator, both the good and my uncorrected state from which I suffer. How is it that I feel the good that comes from the Creator as a problem, and all this merges into one?

Answer: The feeling that everything is bad is your subjective feeling. Correct it and you will begin to feel good in the same sensation. After all, there is nothing bad in the world at all.

Despite the fact that we are seemingly going through such horrors, the modern world contains it all, if you correct your qualities, you will see that the world is filled only with endless love. Let’s try to really feel it.
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From Kab TV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/22/19

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laitman_622.01Question: How is it possible to determine that I or the group have achieved something?

Answer: When a feeling of the Creator appears in you or in the group, you will be certain that this is a real attainment. Until then, do not believe anyone and work gradually and quietly on connection in the group.

Question: Does the name by which we call the Creator depend on our attainment?

Answer: Yes, it is precisely according to our attainment, our sensation, that we give a name to the Creator.

Question: When entering the ten there is a very strong feeling of overcoming and you want to think only about the ten and about connection for 24 hours, is this the accelerated process of person’s spiritual?

Answer: Yes. I am very happy that you correctly perceive the spiritual Kli in this way. If it continues this way, you will very quickly achieve the attainment of the Creator. Good luck!

Question: Will other people also attain the Creator after us?

Answer: Imagine that the world will not end after you. But it will not last forever. As long as parts of the general soul have not been corrected, we will continue to appear in this world, helping each other with our mutual correction.

Question: What is the Creator made of? How can we feel Him in our world?

Answer: The Creator is not made of anything. We perceive Him only as the source of energy, the source of light, and the source of goodness. It is solely and only this way.

Question: Is it something like a spiritual model, a template, a matrix, through which I receive a particular illumination?

Answer: Yes, you are absolutely right.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/8/19

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A Man Asks And The Creator Grants

laitman_936Question: Pursuing Kabbalah, we kind of come back to a point of higher energy. To do this, we need a group of people, like-minded people, because the power of unification manifests itself only in it. Does that mean this ball of energy or the Creator has the property of unification?

Answer: The Creator is one, and in order to comprehend Him, we need to achieve unity. This can be achieved only if we strive for Him, if we somehow master Him.

Question: What exactly do we need to achieve, unity with Him or unity between us?

Answer: Properties of unity, i.e., the unity of all opposites. Therefore Kabbalists point out that the best way to achieve this is to get together in a group and try to connect in such a way that there is absolute understanding, absolute interaction, absolute fusion, unification to the point of love.

All this will be above the opposite of our properties. On one hand, we will begin to distinguish more and more between our contradictions. And on the other hand, we will have the opportunity to rise above them.

Question: Figuratively speaking, how do atoms while loving each other combine and form molecules, or how does one cell in the body love others and when combined with them form some kind of organ just like us?

Answer: Yes. This occurs in inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature; there is a coercive higher power, the Creator, who absolutely clearly controls them without requiring any approval, support, or request from a governed object.

Therefore, all levels of nature, except people, unconsciously perform the actions of the Creator. He controls us so that everyone consciously asks the Creator to correct them and connect with others. Here a person becomes a fellow traveler, an ally, and a partner to the Creator.

This is very important because to the extent that we begin to feel the problems that the Creator poses before us, we begin to ask Him to solve these problems. He solves those problems by combining a man with others, with all of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. It turns out that the Creator gives a person conditions, a person asks, and the Creator grants.

Question: That is, all the problems and hindrances that are given to us in this life are needed in order to direct everyone to a closer state with other people?

Answer: Yes. And in this closer state between opposing people, the Creator reveals Himself.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/11/19

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Concealed Governing Forces

Laitman_524.01Question: Two forces operate in nature: the altruistic force that develops creation and the altruistic force that is responsible for the diversity of nature and our individuality, feelings, and emotions. Does the correct combination between them constitute the correct mutual relationship in a ten?

Answer: Yes. We always sense the contrast between the two forces.

Question: Should we become like the developing, altruistic force?

Answer: But it’s impossible to achieve, perceive, and appreciate it if there is no egoistic force opposite to it. Kabbalah doesn’t talk about eradicating anything in nature; it talks only about reaching balance.

Question: So it follows that these two forces are concealed from us?

Answer: Even the spiritual egoistic force is concealed from us, not to mention the altruistic one, which is in absolute concealment. Existing at the animalistic level of our world, we perceive the egoistic force a little bit, we see what it is. But still, this is not the spiritual egoistic force.

Question: How can we work in a ten if these two forces, the altruistic and the spiritual egoistic, are concealed? What does our work consist of?

Answer: These forces are concealed, but we have an opportunity to come closer to the friends, to study Kabbalah with them, to try to change our state in relation to each other, and to mutually support each other. Ultimately, we will start examining the forces that draw us closer or repel us from each other.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/20/19

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119Long Way to the Creator

Baal HaSulam, Shamati 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”: Only if that person has a true desire will he receive help from above.

True desire arises gradually, precisely due to the fact that a person falls and rises, falls and rises, becomes disappointed, and then again searches for the Creator. Only in this way does the correct striving toward the Creator hatch in a person.

Today we still do not understand what the correct aspiration means. After all, it is gradually sorted out from all previous incorrect, not quite clearly defined relations with the Creator.

Only if that person has a true desire will he receive help from above, and he will always be shown that he is at fault in the present state. Namely, he is sent thoughts and views that are against the work. See how a person is manipulated! This is in order for him to see that he is not in wholeness with the Creator.

That is, he is not ready yet, does not understand and feel what it means to reveal the Creator, to define Him as the only existing source of everything that happens inside and outside of him.

As much as he overcomes, he always sees that he is farther from holiness than others, from striving toward the Creator, from a clear rapprochement with Him. Moreover, he sees that he is a loser in comparison with others because he does not feel that he is inside them.

He sees that they are generally satisfied, calm, not reacting so sharply and seriously to their failures, and they live like that. Of course, they would like to find the Creator in their life, but if He is not there, then they can do something else because there are some other possible states, not just the continuous search for the Creator.

Therefore, he feels that he is in a lower, more unfortunate state than other people who, in general, can feel themselves in connection with the Creator, understand what is happening, and see that everything is in order. But this person feels that nothing is revealed to him, nothing is shining. What should he do?

Although he occasionally receives some excitement from the Creator, some approximations and insights, they immediately disappear, and he again falls into gray darkness, into the place of baseness

But in the end, if a person does not despair, these are exactly the states that cause him to come to realize that only the Creator can help him and reveal his real feelings, so that he can feel the Creator both inside and outside himself.
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From Kab TV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 11/24/19

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Expand Your Consciousness

232.1Question: Regarding the principle of the restriction of a degree of our world’s essence: is each individual restricted in one’s own way or does it depend on the degree of consciousness? Is the restriction the measure of consciousness that can be limited by the capacity of the degree of certain consciousness?

Answer: First of all, read Baal HaSulam and you will see how simple it all is.

You restrict yourself. We are in the world of infinity even now. We are surrounded by infinity. But you restrict it to the meager volume of our world. You do this, with your consciousness. So expand your consciousness and move forward.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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Envy—The Key To A Good (Future) Relationship

laitman_962.8Question: Is envy a way of personal identification with the superiority of the object that evoked such a sensation? Or is it a certain program of egoism, a manifestation of one’s own essence in relation to social cynicism?

Answer: I don’t know what “social cynicism” is. Notions like this should be analyzed separately.

Regarding envy, it is a very useful quality. It stems from the fact that we were together once, and certain mutual relationships, mutual sensations have remained in us. If we didn’t have them, we wouldn’t feel envy, you wouldn’t feel others.

That is why envy is the basis to very good future relations, love, and merger into one common whole. All of it is with the help of envy. This is why it cannot be eradicated. On the contrary, it should be developed.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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Spiritual Acquisition

laitman_947Question: How can one advance on the spiritual ladder practically? What is spiritual acquisition? We learn that Kabbalah is practical work in a ten, but where is that sensation?

Answer: In the ten. By trying to unite into one point at the center of the ten, you enter the state that we call spiritual. Out of ten different qualities, efforts toward unification into a single point, all these qualities, by uniting into one, sum up into what we call “the Creator.”

The instant you reach this and sense that you are in contact with the upper force, you immediately start feeling how you diverge from that central point in the circle, move further away from each other. You distrust, hate, reject, and don’t understand each other. Naturally, your Creator disappears in this as well.

And again you have to come together and try to unite. But this will be at the next level. And again you will reach the point of unity and will feel the Creator, His more internal qualities, in it. It will be the second level of attainment already, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/12/20

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laitman_284Question: How can my thought become like a bridge that connects me and the source of everything, the Creator? Generally, how can a thought make contact with the Creator without attaining Him?

Answer: I am within the Creator. “There is none else beside Him” means that everything I do, say and think now comes from Him, passes through me, while I can only realize that all of this is done by the Creator.

Question: What are the disturbances in perceiving the uniqueness of the upper governing force?

Answer: What we call disturbances are not disturbances; instead, they are help from above, and I must overcome my inaccuracies, doubts, and delusions, and aim myself precisely toward the Creator. This is the right direction, which I am given in this way.

Question: Is there a direct, easy, and pleasant way to reach the Creator?

Answer: It is through the group, through studying together with everyone. This is a relatively easy way.

Question: Why didn’t the Creator create a system without suffering where we would be satisfied with pleasure, would become bored, and then come to Him?

Answer: Try to go that way. Who is stopping you? The Creator did not create suffering. Suffering is created by your egoism, which wants to get everything now and for free.

Question: If the Creator is in a state of absolute rest, what do we call His state when he wanted to create the creation?

Answer: All of this is outside the framework of time. This speaks solely about energy levels. The wisdom of Kabbalah describes only this.

Question: If in a lesson I am holding my entire ten in my thoughts, does this connect us more?

Answer: In everything that you do, you should try to include the ten in your thoughts. With that, at any given moment, you will be connected with the Creator.

Question: What is egoism?

Answer: Egoism is when I am not thinking about the ten or the Creator.

Question: Can I assume that the upper governance, which is exhausting me, will ultimately lead me to a good end?

Answer: I do not think that the upper governance is exhausting you. You are the one who is running around and exhausting yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/1/19

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New Stage—New Person

laitman_962.8Question: Do you think humanity is rising to a spiritual degree?

Answer: Yes, it is rising, but this ascent is modular because, in fact, humanity is descending. However, it descends on purpose in order to understand the emptiness of our world.

This is the revelation of truth, and it is thus an ascent. There is greater and greater revelation of the upper light. On one hand, we feel that we are more developed, and on the other hand, lower and emptier. However, this is a good place.

Now we are entering a new stage when the next generation comes to Kabbalah. These people do not want to conquer the world. They are satisfied with little things, they just need a computer and nothing else. It means a lot. A completely new human being has appeared in our world.
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