When human beings discover the true essence of Creator and behaves according to the nature of the grantor or giver, that approach is so intense that he realizes that does not need the religion, it remains only as part of their cultural and social environment in this world.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall
Friday, August 13, 2010
Club Comedia Kabbalah
Don looks in the mirror,he met at the stations of his life......
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The New System Of Education | Laitman.com
The New System Of Education
A question I received: How can the failure of our education system be due to a lack of unity between people? I don’t see it.
My Answer: What people call “education” gives knowledge, but does not foster the development of a human being. Schools do not raise children to be a human, but merely provide a certain amount of knowledge in physics, chemistry, and so on.
Society refers to the education system as an upbringing, but as a matter of fact, it doesn’t do the job. It is clear from the results as well as the subjects studied. How many lessons and class discussions are aimed at nurturing a human being? Does anybody care about this? School schedules are filled with physics, chemistry, reading and writing, and later we wonder why we have such difficulties with our children.
Schools produce robots trained to work in various enterprises. The task of the school is to prepare a worker (engineer and so on) for a position within the industry “pipeline.” The board of education does not concern itself with the kind of person one becomes or how he will live. This is because the education system has nothing to do with the system of rearing a person.
The education system has never been aimed at raising a human being. It was formed during the Industrial Revolution with the goal of turning peasants into industrial workers. The school as we see it today was invented then for the purpose of teaching people who worked the land and raised cattle to read and write so that they could work with machines, understand basic laws of physics and chemistry, and follow instructions. Such was the foundation of the modern school and it remains today.
Today we must move to the true “educational” system, and this is something entirely new. It is not defined by how many physics or math classes a person has taken, but by how human a person becomes. A human is one who is connected with all others. Only this connection allows a person to be called a human being, not the amount of knowledge obtained.
If a person continues to succeed in gaining knowledge alone, it will only assist in the design of more deadly weapons because a person will only be adding the knowledge received in school to an uncorrected ego. A person learns how to use others with this newly acquired information; this defines his success in life. An education determines only what profession one chooses and how much it pays. Is that education?
If people see that there is a new system that offers true education for their children, they will immediately respond because the problem of education is obvious to everyone. Today people don’t even want to have children because they have nothing to give them. They would rather not bring them into this world of suffering and pain.
Therefore, we must show people that all problems in society and their personal lives are caused solely by a lack of connection between us. We can arrive at that connection only though the path of Light.
Uniting Through Unconditional Love
Nothing Is Accidental | Laitman.com
Nothing Is Accidental
Question: Kabbalah says that the reason for all the problems in the world is man’s egoistic desire. But what is the connection between me being an egoist who’s opposite to the Creator and the extreme heat in
Answer: We are all inside a closed system or sphere called “the Creator” where all the parts are connected through mutual bestowal. That is the law of existence of the entire system as well as each of its parts. We can see this on the example of the human body, the ecosystem, and so on. I exist inside this system like an embryo inside a mother’s womb, and I feel good to the degree I am connected and equivalent to the system and bestowing like it. And vice versa: To the degree I am disparate from it and have different qualities, I feel bad.
Proximity and separation are not defined by distance, but by equivalence of form. If I have a small egoistic desire, then even if I am different from the system, I feel small problems. But if my desire increases, then so does my sensation of discomfort.
Since man’s egoistic desire constantly develops, his opposition to Nature’s system, the Creator, also increases, and thus it is inevitable that man will feel worse. This will continue until he begins to understand what the reason for his suffering and problems is.
I will receive blows of fate from all sides until I understand that it is systematic and not accidental. The problems with the ecology are not accidental! I can no longer keep ignoring them. Similar problems will take place all over the world and in all forms. They will shake people up and make them stop and think, “Apparently, there must be a reason for this?”
As the desire grows, it feels suffering and creates a mind by its side in order to avoid the suffering. A person becomes smarter and shrewder. He learns to connect the causes and consequences and inevitably begins asking, “Why is this happening? Where are all of our problems coming from?” Usually people ask, “What did I do to deserve all of this?” And that is already a subconscious question about the Source of what is happening (Nature, the Creator).
People will reveal that what is operating here is the general law of the universe. Call it “Nature” instead of the Creator; either way it requires us to constantly and consciously maintain balance with Nature, which means we have to have the same quality of bestowal as the whole universe since all parts of the universe exist in universal connection and integral unity.
That is why there is no choice about the matter. Humanity is a cancerous tumor inside all of nature, and it is obligated to cure itself. Eventually, under pressure from all the problems, we will reach this realization. It’s already very close
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A Sandstorm of Egoism
Answer: Yes! We need to understand that all problems occur due to a lack of connection among us. And this does not mean that by drawing away from you I immediately cause some hurricane that brings sand. However, by being in oppposition to you, I bring disparity into the balances of forces in nature.
All the forces of nature exist in unity, interconnection, balance, and universal harmony. That is except for the human being whose growing egoism and unwillingness to consider others turns us into an active negative element which disrupts the balance of all the forces (of still, vegetative, and animate nature). The solution to the problem is to become an integral part of nature, like all its other parts.
We reveal that the world is in unity and complete inter connection, it exists as a locked system where everyone is connected to each other. This means that we are obliged to unite as "one man with one heart".
You could object to this and say that we are incapable of this. However, there is the science of Kabbalah and by utilizing it we rouse the force of unification. Humanity will inevitably reach this conclusion and we are already close to it. If we have already entered this period, from now on everything will occur very quickly. ( excerpt from the 4th part of daily lesson 8/10/10 )
Science of Kabbalah and Religion
Science of Kabbalah and Religion
Religion assumes that the Creator changes His attitude to the person depending on the person’s actions. The science a Kabbalah however states that the Upper Force is invariable, and the actions of a person can in no way affect it. Instead, the person’s actions can change him. He will be able to perceive the Upper Governance differently, if his own changes are aimed toward greater resemblance. He will be able to perceive the Creator as kind and good. By increasing the difference between his properties (reception) and those of the Creator (bestowal), he will feel the Creator’s attitude as more negative.
There are many expressions in the Kabbalistic texts indicating the invariance of the Creator’s attitude towards the created beings: “I do not change My Name” (“Ani HaVaYA lo Shiniti”), “He is good and bestows goodness upon His creatures, good and bad (“Tov ve Metiv le Raim u le Tovim”), “the Upper Light is absolutely static” (“Ohr Elion Nimzta be Menucha Muchletet”.
Therefore, a prayer is called self-judgment or self-analysis. This is when a person does not appeal to the Creator but judges himself instead and analyzes himself with regards to the Upper invariable force. (See the explanations in the “The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot” by Baal HaSulam about the path towards the purpose of creation. As the person changes, he corrects himself relative to the invariable and Absolute Creator).
This attitude towards himself and towards the Creator constitutes the difference between Kabbalah and religion. Even though religion calls for certain personal changes, religion is based on pleading with the Creator. In this world religions are similar to the most ancient beliefs, which extensively practice bribing the Upper forces of nature.
Kabbalah is rejected by religions as mass religion and based on the conviction that a person needs just to ask the Creator and everything will change from above to his advantage as the Creator will turn His face to him. That is, a believer is convinced that the Creator exists and governs everything. In order for anything to improve, one needs only to ask the Creator instead of changing himself. Religious masses interpret inner changes as performing good deeds, such as helping others out of compassion, but not changing one’s nature and making it similar to the Creator.
A conviction in the change of the Creator’s attitude to the person leads to envy: whom does the Creator with greater love treat and who is more “divinely chosen”? It causes antagonism to arise not only among people, but also between religions. The representatives of various confessions dispute whose prayers the Creator is inclined to answer more willingly.
Kabbalah asserts that the Creator is invariable. In the process of a person’s correction, he deserves to see an improvement in the invariance of the Creator’s attitude. Therefore the more corrected a person is, the more he will justify the Creator’s actions. Kabbalah states that instead of praying one should rather be changing. Consequently, Kabbalah evokes hatred from the religious groups as it indirectly accuses them of hypocrisy.
To better understand the attitude of Kabbalists to the Creator, we can take a look at a Kabbalistic prayer-book. It contains no ordinary words that express human emotions. Instead, it consists of numerous symbols designating spiritual actions that the person should carry out while correcting himself, to consequently receive the Upper light. This is the difference between the notions of a religious God and the Kabbalistic Creator.
The Kabbalistic study of the structure of the universe gives a person a clear idea of the Creator, whose properties are at the very top of the spiritual ladder, and of himself who is at the bottom of this ladder. The rungs of the ladder represent the various worlds. The purpose of creation is to independently ascend and merge one’s desires with those of the Creator.
This ascent involves an inner change of the person’s properties from an egotistical intention in all of his thoughts and desires to an altruistic intention. Man ascends the rungs of the ladder, each one characterizing a degree of similarity to the Creator.
Naturally, studying the structure of the universe in such detail prevents a person from imagining that his relationship with the Creator is dependent on his requests. Imagine a perfect parent in our world. It is obvious that a child cannot evoke any additional love for himself by any of his actions, as parental love is eternal and perfect. The external projection of this love (the perception of the child) depends solely on the states that a person must go through in order to become acquainted with the whole of creation, to gain experience, and to become equal to the Creator in his mind and heart.
From this it follows that even the desirable transformation we can make in ourselves and consequently feel the Creator’s unfailing good attitude to us can in fact be hardly called correction. This is because we must go through all the levels, extreme states, changes, and sensations in order to acquire the experience and ability needed to feel the entire universe from end to end.
Correction only means our attitude towards whatever occurs to us. When, regardless of what happens, we evaluate and accept everything that happens as being absolutely beneficial, this arouses a sensation of happiness and pleasure. This leads to a situation when a person discovers that nothing really changes at all except his attitude towards the constant state he exists in. He was created in this state and always existed in it.
It goes without saying that the study of Kabbalah provides a concept of creation and of the person’s place in it that naturally deters him from prayer. Yet it is the most important and central act in religious practices and everything else is organized around it.
In this case the wisdom of Kabbalah naturally directs the person towards inner reflection and transformation, which alienates him from performing rituals and following any religious injunctions and that is why all religions oppose Kabbalah.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Generation "I"
Back in the eighties, Douglas Coupland popularized the term "Generation X" referring to the new generation. This quickly became a hot topic, and a pop culture formed aroind the notion, seeking to decipher the unique qualities of the new generation. Going beyond mere curiosity, interest in the new generation was fueled by giant corporations that endeavored to find the right marketing strategy for millions of Generation X youngsters.
Today we present "Generation I "- a generation that is typically concerned with 1 thing-itself !
iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iLife, iPhoto, iDVD,iWeb and iMovie all demonstrate that Apple Inc. and its brilliant CEO, Steve Jobs, have figured out the "I" trend of our generation, and more importantly, the way to market products to a generation that lives and breathes "I". Apple hit the nail on the head by putting the consumer's "I" at the center of its marketing strategy.
Taking a longer view, it's easy to see that iPod and other "i-Gadgets"are but examples of a much more comprehensive process thats taking place today. People are becoming obsessed with themselves, as evidenced by the huge popularity of daily reality shows. And the "I" trend doesnt just dictate strategies for the mass media and giant corporations, it also appears in every other realm of life.
Why is this happening? Where does such an intense feeling of uniqueness, characteristic of our generation, come from? And is there a way for us to use it as a springboared for positive change?
The Spark- "The quality of uniqueness extends to us directly from the Creator, who is single in the world, and is the root of all Creations. "
Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)
"Peace in the World"
Baal HaSulam explains that the problem is the way we use our quality of uniquenes-for self benefit, ignoring how it affects others. Often we use it deliberately at the expense of others. In fact, the egoistic use of our most exalted quality is actually the cause for all the evils in our world!
"Although we have clarified its sublime and lofty reasons: that this quality extends to us directly from the Creator-nevertheless , since the sensation of uniqueness had settled into our narrow egoism, its action became ruin and destruction, to the extent that it is the source of all ruins that were and will be in the world! "
At A Crossroads
Is there anything we can do to change our egoistic, destructive use of the quality of uniqueness?Baal HaSulam says that there is.
However, as soon as one cell stops working for the sake of the whole body and begins working only for its own good , it starts a chain reaction called "cancer". The first cancerous cell infects other cells with its "egoistic" tendency, causing a disintegration of the whole body. And herein lies the problem with our modern society. The "self-interest" disease is spreading throughout humanity's collective body even as we speak.
"Indeed there are two sides to this coin of uniqueness, for if we look at it from the side of its equivalence with the worlds Unique One, it works only in the form of "bestowal upon the other", as the Creator is all bestowal, and has nothing of the form of reception...
Hence, the uniqueness that extends to us from Him must also act only in forms of "bestowal upon the other" and nothing of self-reception whatsoever.
We dont need to repress our inherent quality of uniqueness in order to become" healthy cells"of the collective human body, in fact, we couldnt do so even if we tried. We simply need to learn how to use this quality the 'right' way. This means changing the intention behind our actions from "self benefit" to "bestowal upon others".
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Dont Wait Till You Are Forced to Evolve!
We know that everything that happens at the inanimate (still) degree equates to a single act at the vegetative one. Everything that happens on the vegetative level is equal to a single act at the animate one. Just think about the difference between these states.
There have to be wars, torments, horrific disasters in order to move us one step up, onto the higher degree. Instead, we can draw the Upper Light and avoid all these problems at the level of this world. We can replace a decade of suffering with our one minuscule individual effort toward spiritual advancement with the help of the Light.
This is how great the difference is between the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking levels of nature. Hence we must take serious responsibility for the opportunities handed down to us.