Saturday, January 8, 2011
Kabbalah Course - Perception of Reality Lesson 1 - I and the Reality Around Me
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D
The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method of research to reveal the true reality
At the present moment we are in a certain state of perceiving reality. In our childhood we thought that the world was full of forces and ghosts, as told in fairy tales, and this was not observed by adults, but it existed for us, and we lived in that world. true reality
At a later stage this view of the world disappeared, although even today it seems to us that to some extent these forces do exist.
The truth is that we are constantly searching for them. We want to know about the world in which we exist, because without this knowledge we will not be able to survive, enjoy, to eliminate the feeling of uncertainty. We need to know how to answer the questions, "Who am I, what am I exactly, and what does tomorrow hide?" We are awakened by questions out of the desire to improve our situation, out of curiosity, and from the desire to understand the world better. These questions push a man to know the reality in which he lives.
Lesson 1
I and the reality around me
There are two parts of reality - I and what is outside of me
Balance - when my external sensation of the world and my inner sensation are at peace with each other.
I need to know who I am, what the nature of the surrounding world is, and how to achieve equality of form.
Can man construct his own reality?
What is the inclusive law of reality?
We are in a certain state of grasping reality.
When we were children, it seemed to us that the world was filled with forces and ghosts, like we used to read in story tales, that the grown-ups didn't see. We used to live inside that world. At a later stage, this sensitivity began to disappear gradually, although even today it seems to us that certain forces exist. The truth is that we are constantly searching for it. We demand to know the world in which we exist, since without it, it is not possible to exist, to survive, to enjoy and overall, to get rid of the sensation of uncertainty.
"Where am I, who am I, what am I, and what does tomorrow conceal from me?" People begin to contemplate these questions out of their desire to improve their situation. This arises out of curiosity, and a will to understand the world better. These questions are pushing us to know the reality in which we are living.
We research this reality in the same way that a little child wanders around a room and studies his surroundings. Later on he grows and builds instruments. We try to develop all kinds of means in order to research ourselves and the world around us.
The entirety of reality is divided into two parts: I, and what is outside of me. There are some, who claim that it is better to research the self and to change it, and with that to change the world around me as if to say, "I will accept the situation differently; I will relax and see the world as being better".
Others say that it is better to stay the way you are, and to "get the best out of the world, and adapt the world to yourself". We see that one way or the other, we are not doing so well.
The best situation, when I am really in harmony with the world, is when I achieve balance with it, that is, when I have full understanding, and when I am in equivalence of desires, powers, thoughts and intentions with the world. When I see that only one thing exists in the world, everyone understands me and everyone has the same desires as I do. This is called balance. There is a no more perfect state than being in that of balance with the world. It is comparable to the sensation of the fetus in the mother's womb. Everything in its surroundings is intended to take care of the fetus. There is no need for resistance, no need for building all kinds of walls of defense. This is what we are really searching for.
How can we attain such a state? In science this state is called homeostasis. 'Homeo' means similar and 'stasis' means equalizing states. Every body, vegetative, living, and of course man, aspires to reach this state. We are attracted to this state at many different levels in the sub-conscious, conscious understanding, forms of materials, liquids, thoughts, and in every level of desire of matter, inanimate, vegetative, living and speaking, in order to become equal in form to its surroundings.
Our aim is to know how to achieve equality of form, to become equal to nature, to merge with the surrounding world, to know how to achieve a state in which everyone will want what I want, and think like I think, where no one will have anything against me, or any desire to give or take something from me by force, where all would be done with love and tranquility. To reach this state, I need to know who I am, what the nature of the world around me is, and how to achieve equality of form.
That is the purpose of the wisdom of the Kabbalah. It teaches us how to reach tranquility, where my sensation of the external world and my inner sensation are in harmony. All of our research of the world and its content is accomplished by science, and for that there are many methods, many means and instruments and techniques that we develop. Year by year, generation to generation, we advance in this area. We can see that we want to reach the state of wholeness, tranquility and to be well, but we actually end up in the opposite state. This happens even though the tools are becoming more and more advanced.
Since everyone aspires for goodness, if you ask anyone in the world they will tell you this is so, then from where does the problem originate? The issue is that we do not know the general reality. We do not know how it behaves, how it is built and how it acts on us. We do not know why it is that we need to equate ourselves, to communicate, to come closer, and to attach ourselves. For that we lack finer vessels. The deeper we penetrate matter in our attempts to understand nature, both ours and of the external world, we see that we are not able to discover what nature desires, the purpose of its existence, nor the essence of every cell and component of reality.
There are researchers who study matter as it is - solid, gas, liquid and so on - and there are researchers who go deeper in their study of matter, to the level of molecules and the chemical relations between them, and the level of atoms and their interior. Some advanced researchers claim that all of these things disappear in some way at a certain degree of depth, after which they can not understand what is happening. This is not due to a lack of tools or instruments but because man is built in such a way that he cannot grasp it any further. Why is this so? Because the human only perceives reality on a simple level, which occurs in relation to the way he or she is present with reality. On more inner levels, the person already senses that reality is doing with him or her whatever it wants to. At the more interior levels the person begins to see that it is not one way or the other but that the person him or herself constructs his or her own reality; reality is but a copy of the person.
Modern scientists tell us that there is some limitation, beyond which our awareness is not capable of perceiving. This is the point of connection between science and the wisdom of Kabbalah. There are such methods of investigation by which we can penetrate into the causes, and understand with certainty why the world exists, what it wants from us, and how we can be at peace and harmony with it. Those who have already studied this and tell us about the results of their research are telling us amazing things. They say first of all that the matter surrounding us is not simply a substance. It is thought; it is the universal desire. They tell us that this universal desire surrounds the whole of reality, and that the general law of the entire reality is to accomplish good for everyone, for all components of reality. This universal law is benefiting not only from the outside into matter, but also within matter itself, inanimate, vegetative, living and speaking, within reality. We must take a step forward towards this desire, towards this thought, in order to equate form with it and attach to it, to understand, to feel and to connect with it.
That is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of Kabbalah, because it helps us to receive that relation of reality to us, and in return to project our relation to reality.
Kabbalah Course - Perception of Reality - Lesson 2 - Penetrating into Reality
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D
In the revelation of true reality there are levels called 'worlds' The advancing in the research of reality is a true adventure Where is it possible to meet our forefather Abraham? All is sealed within man. Change is possible only through ascending to the root Will we be able to direct reality, to be in balance with it? In this method, the revelation of the true reality, there are degrees called worlds. Just as researchers can go deeper into the structure of matter using scientific measuring instruments, a microscope or a telescope, moving deeper in or further out to greater distances, so too do those researching reality, through the wisdom of Kabbalah, penetrate into the depths of matter, thought and reality. Those degrees of inquiry are called worlds. When elevating into those worlds there are many surprises to be found. I would say that advancing in the study of reality is a true adventure. The person begins to sense and to see his or her future and past, because it is suddenly discovered that there is no time, but that all of these things exist, and that the person virtually moves on the axis of time. The person finds that it is possible to go back or forward even beyond the state at which he or she is now, and that the entire reality, all the people around the person, live according to some pace of time while he or she can run, advance a few thousands of years or go back a few thousands of years in one year. That is why these people who can suddenly make those leaps in time are called prophets. It is not that they have some wild imagination, but that they have advanced a few levels ahead and they are in that reality which all humanity will experience in the future. So they tell us what they feel. They can also be good historians, by descending to states that we already were, reliving them and telling us about it. The books of Kabbalah are written in the same way. For example, Abraham went from here to there, he met such and such person, said this, and did that. How do I know? It is simple - the Kabbalist who studies, turns back on the axis of time, and reaches a state like that of Abraham to the same degree, and the same situation, and then tells us about all of reality; he is present in it, in all its details. He can actually take all of his impressions from that state and transfer them to us. Our problem is that we may not be able to understand it correctly since we are not experiencing the same adventure, exciting as it is. Besides being able to move on the axis of time, Kabbalists also reveal additional powers in reality. There is a reason why fairy tales have ghosts, demons and angels. All of these forces do exist, and a Kabbalist who investigates and penetrates nature begins to understand how these forces work. The Kabbalist becomes connected with them, tells us about them and uses them for his or her own personal development and for our general development. What I am trying to say is that even though penetrating reality is difficult, it takes the entire soul of a person, all of ourselves, and it fills us with everything possible. Then, a person who investigates reality reveals that which has to be attained, and the reasons why there are problems in each and every generation and situation. This means that it is not just a theoretical investigation or a pure science, but it is practical for that moment and state which the person is in. The wisdom of Kabbalah is intended to help the person. How is this so? By being able to see the future and the past, to know which properties the person had when he or she first emerged, or descended into this world many incarnations ago, and also what the path is that he or she must go through. From seeing both ends, the person already knows how to advance from one stage to the other. At every single detail he passes on the time axis, he can see which forces are acting on him, why he needs to get married now, with these specific children, and that everything is already sealed and determined, with there being no surprises. It all emerges from the Reshimot, as we call them, or genes, as scientists call them, which are our inner preparations. We see this through very simple things. Two orphans who were separated at a very young age suddenly find each other after 30 years, one living in Australia and one in Norway. It turns out that they both married women with similar names, named their children in the same way, have the same profession, and even their house has the same street number. It is really amazing. Why is this so? We do not know the reality in which we can tie together all of these occurrences. But why does this happen? Because we, with our attributes, determine what will happen to us. So it is whis every situation in life, as known in psychology. There are for example some people who always get set up by others, who always end up at a disadvantage, and there are others who are the opposite. This means that people create their destiny in a primitive and simple way. But once people get to know themselves and the forces acting on them, they become capable of pre-arranging all of these situations. They cannot escape fate completely, they have to go through certain states because they need to learn something in each state, and acquire something for the future goal, so that they will be ready to receive it. So when the person already knows what it is that he or she has to acquire in each state, in terms of knowledge, and experience, both bitter or sweet, then the person prepares him or herself for the changing reality. There is a very nice article by Baal Hasulam called "revelation and concealment" of the Creator's face. He writes that according to how much a person knows how to direct the general law of reality, from face to back, in both the good way and the bad, is the extent to which the person can completely see the world and what happens to him or her in an opposite manner. And here is where we come to the other side of the wisdom of Kabbalah. The fact is that it is not intended just for the knowledge of reality as a pure science, where we can discuss what is in those worlds. We can actually change the worlds, be above them, determine our own destiny each day and be elevated. And all of the things that happen to us and the forces that push us are only in order for us to reach the state where we will direct reality, be in the balanced state in each and every moment, and know what balance means.
In the revelation of true reality there are levels called 'worlds' The advancing in the research of reality is a true adventure Where is it possible to meet our forefather Abraham? All is sealed within man. Change is possible only through ascending to the root Will we be able to direct reality, to be in balance with it? In this method, the revelation of the true reality, there are degrees called worlds. Just as researchers can go deeper into the structure of matter using scientific measuring instruments, a microscope or a telescope, moving deeper in or further out to greater distances, so too do those researching reality, through the wisdom of Kabbalah, penetrate into the depths of matter, thought and reality. Those degrees of inquiry are called worlds. When elevating into those worlds there are many surprises to be found. I would say that advancing in the study of reality is a true adventure. The person begins to sense and to see his or her future and past, because it is suddenly discovered that there is no time, but that all of these things exist, and that the person virtually moves on the axis of time. The person finds that it is possible to go back or forward even beyond the state at which he or she is now, and that the entire reality, all the people around the person, live according to some pace of time while he or she can run, advance a few thousands of years or go back a few thousands of years in one year. That is why these people who can suddenly make those leaps in time are called prophets. It is not that they have some wild imagination, but that they have advanced a few levels ahead and they are in that reality which all humanity will experience in the future. So they tell us what they feel. They can also be good historians, by descending to states that we already were, reliving them and telling us about it. The books of Kabbalah are written in the same way. For example, Abraham went from here to there, he met such and such person, said this, and did that. How do I know? It is simple - the Kabbalist who studies, turns back on the axis of time, and reaches a state like that of Abraham to the same degree, and the same situation, and then tells us about all of reality; he is present in it, in all its details. He can actually take all of his impressions from that state and transfer them to us. Our problem is that we may not be able to understand it correctly since we are not experiencing the same adventure, exciting as it is. Besides being able to move on the axis of time, Kabbalists also reveal additional powers in reality. There is a reason why fairy tales have ghosts, demons and angels. All of these forces do exist, and a Kabbalist who investigates and penetrates nature begins to understand how these forces work. The Kabbalist becomes connected with them, tells us about them and uses them for his or her own personal development and for our general development. What I am trying to say is that even though penetrating reality is difficult, it takes the entire soul of a person, all of ourselves, and it fills us with everything possible. Then, a person who investigates reality reveals that which has to be attained, and the reasons why there are problems in each and every generation and situation. This means that it is not just a theoretical investigation or a pure science, but it is practical for that moment and state which the person is in. The wisdom of Kabbalah is intended to help the person. How is this so? By being able to see the future and the past, to know which properties the person had when he or she first emerged, or descended into this world many incarnations ago, and also what the path is that he or she must go through. From seeing both ends, the person already knows how to advance from one stage to the other. At every single detail he passes on the time axis, he can see which forces are acting on him, why he needs to get married now, with these specific children, and that everything is already sealed and determined, with there being no surprises. It all emerges from the Reshimot, as we call them, or genes, as scientists call them, which are our inner preparations. We see this through very simple things. Two orphans who were separated at a very young age suddenly find each other after 30 years, one living in Australia and one in Norway. It turns out that they both married women with similar names, named their children in the same way, have the same profession, and even their house has the same street number. It is really amazing. Why is this so? We do not know the reality in which we can tie together all of these occurrences. But why does this happen? Because we, with our attributes, determine what will happen to us. So it is whis every situation in life, as known in psychology. There are for example some people who always get set up by others, who always end up at a disadvantage, and there are others who are the opposite. This means that people create their destiny in a primitive and simple way. But once people get to know themselves and the forces acting on them, they become capable of pre-arranging all of these situations. They cannot escape fate completely, they have to go through certain states because they need to learn something in each state, and acquire something for the future goal, so that they will be ready to receive it. So when the person already knows what it is that he or she has to acquire in each state, in terms of knowledge, and experience, both bitter or sweet, then the person prepares him or herself for the changing reality. There is a very nice article by Baal Hasulam called "revelation and concealment" of the Creator's face. He writes that according to how much a person knows how to direct the general law of reality, from face to back, in both the good way and the bad, is the extent to which the person can completely see the world and what happens to him or her in an opposite manner. And here is where we come to the other side of the wisdom of Kabbalah. The fact is that it is not intended just for the knowledge of reality as a pure science, where we can discuss what is in those worlds. We can actually change the worlds, be above them, determine our own destiny each day and be elevated. And all of the things that happen to us and the forces that push us are only in order for us to reach the state where we will direct reality, be in the balanced state in each and every moment, and know what balance means.
Kabbalah Course - Perception of Reality - Lesson 3 - Imbalance
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D
There is no matter in the upper worlds. There are only desires, forces and thoughts. Despite advancing technology we are in a terrible imbalance. We have learned how to replace body parts, but we have neglected the forces inside of man. Reality is a single thought which never changes. The similarity between two opposite points is the beginning of the path. Question: How does a person balance himself between matter and spirit? He does not know. He learns out of investigating reality that there are five worlds. The lowest one is ours, the material world, and all the other worlds are spiritual, where there is no matter like here; only desires, forces and thoughts. If in our world it seems to us that we can control substance, whoever elevates even one level above our world already understands that substance is a result, or an effect that we cannot control. The example is that all is inside the person; how to get married, where to work, what one's profession will be; all is sealed inside, and already present. If you want to change anything, you have to elevate to a level which is above you, where all of these codes have been prepared for you and installed in you from above, the same way in which they descended into your body. Then, when you get to the root, from there you can change things. But in our state, in our life, you will never be able to change anything. Look at everyone. One may be poor, rich, strong, healthy, wise, and still unable to do anything with his life. Talk to the old people, ask them. See what they say - life has gone by, and no one can control matter. We are now in a completely opposite situation, in which the entire world, with all of its technology and economies and everything else is in a complete misunderstanding of how to develop further, and what to do, how to manage, and how to be saved. It is a terrible situation, the furthest possible from balance. So how does controlling substance help us? It does not, because matter is only an effect. This means that as long as we do not acquire the knowledge and the power to be and to change something at a level which is a bit higher than matter, we will not have a moment of peace; and the world will seem worse and worse in every generation. If we elevate onto the level of the forces activating the world, then from there we will be able to balance and change the world. You can call it spirit, and since when we do not see our clothing, it is called Ruach. Take a person; peel off his flesh and bones, and what would be left? That which you cannot see with your eyes, smell with your nose, you cannot taste it, but that is actually the person. Flesh we already know how to replace, implant and manufacture. We can replace everything in a person and the person will still remain. Our problem is that we do not know that power which is inside of the person. Also we do not know the forces that act on this inner person from the inside. We are not familiar with them. In the world of the surrounding reality we relate to substances that are still, vegetative and living. We do not relate to the acting powers. Whoever rises to the level where he sees the forces in reality and in human beings is in control. This is what has to be achieved. Every disaster and dreadful occurrence, everything that is with us in some way or another, and the lack of satisfaction with life is all in order to push us to elevate a little and control reality. Humankind must attain it. The Kabbalah says that eventually everyone will attain it. Question: If all is predetermined by the thought of creation, what is the point of even trying to change anything? The thought of creation is to bestow upon its creatures. Reality is a single thought which does not change. It is a thought of bestowing, giving, and goodness. If we do not relate to it in this same way, which includes all of reality, we enter a state of imbalance. We suffer according to the extent of this imbalance. We do not realize it, we do not feel it, and even when we hear it we ignore it. If we could feel that this is so, we would change. Our problem lies in opening our eyes so that we can see that this is so. The wisdom of Kabbalah helps the person to see. When you see, would you place your hand in a fire? Would you jump off the tenth floor? You would not do it if, by avoiding it, you would benefit yourself. So our problem lies in seeing what is now concealed. The difficulty is in opening the eyes. The way in which you will go through all of the stages and when you will surpass them is not written. You can attain balance with the benevolent thought of creation and enter this spiritual Nirvana, true benevolence, perfection and eternity simply by being constantly in a non-stop adventure. I can do it now or I can suffer ten more incarnations. That is the difference. Once the point in the heart opens up in a person, then an account opens up as well; the person's account with the point in the heart. Anyone whose point in the heart still has not opened is living as a beast in the meantime. He truly has no free choice; he lives the way he lives, the way he was born, according to his hormones and genes, advancing and eventually ending his life. This is the same way we were in the previous incarnations. The moment you are given a point in the heart, meaning a divine part from above, you are given a point of reference from a state opposite to yours. At this point you can compare it with your heart, that is, all of your attributes, and compare them with this point which comes from a state which is completely opposite to you, from the external reality - that thought of giving. Then you can already make the comparison and learn what you need to equate yourself with, or what you are attracted to. Before the person receives the possibility of doing this he simply lives in one nature, his own nature, as a beast. Only when people can discern between these two states do they sense something wrong, something uncomfortable. The person does not know what it is and cannot find an answer in this world, because this point is located in the external reality, which is at a higher level. So from the moment people are given these two points that are already inside of them, accordingly they begin to ask, and to demand, and from that moment, they are considered to have a choice. The moment you receive another point, an external point from the spiritual world, the upper world, you are attracted to a certain direction and you must investigate it and move forward. You become one of the few people that can change their destiny. Those who have not received this point cannot change their destiny. Is it possible to awaken the point in the heart? The point in the heart exists in everyone and if it does not come out in this incarnation, it will be awakened in a subsequent incarnation. Like with us, five or ten incarnations ago I did not aspire to change reality and to become in balance with it, and to advance to something unknown, spirituality. But from the moment the point emerged, I desired it. Is it possible to take children and young people and awaken this point in them before it emerges? It is almost impossible. It means that people must reincarnate until this point awakens in them.
There is no matter in the upper worlds. There are only desires, forces and thoughts. Despite advancing technology we are in a terrible imbalance. We have learned how to replace body parts, but we have neglected the forces inside of man. Reality is a single thought which never changes. The similarity between two opposite points is the beginning of the path. Question: How does a person balance himself between matter and spirit? He does not know. He learns out of investigating reality that there are five worlds. The lowest one is ours, the material world, and all the other worlds are spiritual, where there is no matter like here; only desires, forces and thoughts. If in our world it seems to us that we can control substance, whoever elevates even one level above our world already understands that substance is a result, or an effect that we cannot control. The example is that all is inside the person; how to get married, where to work, what one's profession will be; all is sealed inside, and already present. If you want to change anything, you have to elevate to a level which is above you, where all of these codes have been prepared for you and installed in you from above, the same way in which they descended into your body. Then, when you get to the root, from there you can change things. But in our state, in our life, you will never be able to change anything. Look at everyone. One may be poor, rich, strong, healthy, wise, and still unable to do anything with his life. Talk to the old people, ask them. See what they say - life has gone by, and no one can control matter. We are now in a completely opposite situation, in which the entire world, with all of its technology and economies and everything else is in a complete misunderstanding of how to develop further, and what to do, how to manage, and how to be saved. It is a terrible situation, the furthest possible from balance. So how does controlling substance help us? It does not, because matter is only an effect. This means that as long as we do not acquire the knowledge and the power to be and to change something at a level which is a bit higher than matter, we will not have a moment of peace; and the world will seem worse and worse in every generation. If we elevate onto the level of the forces activating the world, then from there we will be able to balance and change the world. You can call it spirit, and since when we do not see our clothing, it is called Ruach. Take a person; peel off his flesh and bones, and what would be left? That which you cannot see with your eyes, smell with your nose, you cannot taste it, but that is actually the person. Flesh we already know how to replace, implant and manufacture. We can replace everything in a person and the person will still remain. Our problem is that we do not know that power which is inside of the person. Also we do not know the forces that act on this inner person from the inside. We are not familiar with them. In the world of the surrounding reality we relate to substances that are still, vegetative and living. We do not relate to the acting powers. Whoever rises to the level where he sees the forces in reality and in human beings is in control. This is what has to be achieved. Every disaster and dreadful occurrence, everything that is with us in some way or another, and the lack of satisfaction with life is all in order to push us to elevate a little and control reality. Humankind must attain it. The Kabbalah says that eventually everyone will attain it. Question: If all is predetermined by the thought of creation, what is the point of even trying to change anything? The thought of creation is to bestow upon its creatures. Reality is a single thought which does not change. It is a thought of bestowing, giving, and goodness. If we do not relate to it in this same way, which includes all of reality, we enter a state of imbalance. We suffer according to the extent of this imbalance. We do not realize it, we do not feel it, and even when we hear it we ignore it. If we could feel that this is so, we would change. Our problem lies in opening our eyes so that we can see that this is so. The wisdom of Kabbalah helps the person to see. When you see, would you place your hand in a fire? Would you jump off the tenth floor? You would not do it if, by avoiding it, you would benefit yourself. So our problem lies in seeing what is now concealed. The difficulty is in opening the eyes. The way in which you will go through all of the stages and when you will surpass them is not written. You can attain balance with the benevolent thought of creation and enter this spiritual Nirvana, true benevolence, perfection and eternity simply by being constantly in a non-stop adventure. I can do it now or I can suffer ten more incarnations. That is the difference. Once the point in the heart opens up in a person, then an account opens up as well; the person's account with the point in the heart. Anyone whose point in the heart still has not opened is living as a beast in the meantime. He truly has no free choice; he lives the way he lives, the way he was born, according to his hormones and genes, advancing and eventually ending his life. This is the same way we were in the previous incarnations. The moment you are given a point in the heart, meaning a divine part from above, you are given a point of reference from a state opposite to yours. At this point you can compare it with your heart, that is, all of your attributes, and compare them with this point which comes from a state which is completely opposite to you, from the external reality - that thought of giving. Then you can already make the comparison and learn what you need to equate yourself with, or what you are attracted to. Before the person receives the possibility of doing this he simply lives in one nature, his own nature, as a beast. Only when people can discern between these two states do they sense something wrong, something uncomfortable. The person does not know what it is and cannot find an answer in this world, because this point is located in the external reality, which is at a higher level. So from the moment people are given these two points that are already inside of them, accordingly they begin to ask, and to demand, and from that moment, they are considered to have a choice. The moment you receive another point, an external point from the spiritual world, the upper world, you are attracted to a certain direction and you must investigate it and move forward. You become one of the few people that can change their destiny. Those who have not received this point cannot change their destiny. Is it possible to awaken the point in the heart? The point in the heart exists in everyone and if it does not come out in this incarnation, it will be awakened in a subsequent incarnation. Like with us, five or ten incarnations ago I did not aspire to change reality and to become in balance with it, and to advance to something unknown, spirituality. But from the moment the point emerged, I desired it. Is it possible to take children and young people and awaken this point in them before it emerges? It is almost impossible. It means that people must reincarnate until this point awakens in them.
Kabbalah Course - Perception of Reality - Lesson 4 - The Power of Thought
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D
What is the need for a biological body? Nothing can change except the part in us which perceives reality. The speed of thoughts is infinite. The worlds, including this world, are concealments of our senses. Does it sometimes happen to you that you are in euphoria, and do not feel the limitations of the body? Question: Why did the Creator create the biological body, why didn't we remain at the level of souls? It seems to us that this body, this flesh, exists. It does not exist. It is only your perception that it exists. You have such senses that make you feel like it exists. If we look through the eyes of a dog, through its senses, or the senses of some other creature, it does not see us like we do, the way we see ourselves. A dog sees us as a sort of cloud of smells. It means that we have no body, and the fact that we perceive it this way is because we are made in such a manner that makes us perceive it so, but it does not really exist. Nothing exists besides the upper reality, the thought of creation to bestow upon His created beings, which includes us. Only in this do we really exist. The worlds, including this world, are a concealment of our senses. We are, even now, existing in the best and only state there is. Only we have a problem, a dimming of our senses, so that we are not feeling that state but only a lesser state. We must clean our senses, wake up, get up and feel the real state. Nothing changes except the perception of reality. This means that what actually changes in us is that part that perceives reality. Besides that there is nothing. Therefore, if you are thinking about changing something besides yourself you are in trouble. Nothing will help you, you will never change anything. You can see how much the world only suffers from this, accumulating bitter experiences as if in order to understand that this is not the way. We need to correct our senses. You will see a completely different picture when you are at the end of correction, in eternity and wholeness. I have no words to describe it. And this body - there is no body, and this world - there is no world; it is simply an imagination. Of course, it is hard to accept this, because you have not arrived at the other side, so you can not understand how this is possible. One hundred or two hundred years ago we never thought that such forces existed in nature, or that it was possible to see through a wall, but this is what is now happening. With our thoughts and desires, and with our mind, we can achieve anything. The speed of thoughts is infinite. Thoughts expand at an infinite speed. The power of thought can penetrate matter without limitations. We can reach complete control of reality. Gradually you will see that these concealments, these worlds, simply disappear. All becomes transparent and there is nothing but light that fills everything. Even those who have had near death experiences tell us that there is nothing. They still see themselves on the operating table, while they are actually already elevating and becoming included in the light. The fact that we are not in the upper reality even a little is a problem. That is why I said that until a person's eyes open, it is a problem, but after the person's eyes open he or she already knows what to do. So our problem is to achieve the opening of the eyes. You stop sensing your body, how does it happen? It happens sometimes that you almost do not feel your body; you are in some kind of euphoria, and nothing hurts; it is possible to feel something like that sometimes. If it is possible for one moment, it is possible always. According to the level of correction that you attain, you neutralize your body to the extent that you do not exist. You cross the border between life and death. You simply stop communicating with the body and it stops being an issue for you. Question: How can man reach a state where he controls his desires and thoughts, instead of them controlling him? Man cannot control anything. He cannot control feelings or thoughts. If he tries to control one thing, it comes at the expense of something else. A certain kind of water is healthier than drinking another kind. So I choose this kind over that one. This is called controlling one of my desires and replacing it with another. This is not control. Real control is when I reach the spiritual world, the upper world, at a level which is higher than my reality. I look at my reality from there and then I choose what is good; this is control. As much as we discover nature in all of our research, in all types of science, we only discover one thing; that everything acts according to pre-determined, absolute, decisive rules that never change, and that everything behaves according to cause and effect, and is arranged by formulas. So what are you going to change? What do you want to penetrate and determine? And with any kind of intelligence I also can not understand it; it is not possible. Tell me, at which level of human beings, namely thoughts, desires, hormones or genes, or through the laws of nuclear physics, or some other level, can we change anything? We only study how it exists. To change anything is only possible from the root, where the level of the causes for all the effects in this world is. You can only change things if you can be at that point. Why is everyone running for the government? Because from there you determine what will happen later in the playing field. So that is what we need to achieve. For a person in whom the point in the heart has opened, who feels some connection, an urge for a higher state, it is a sign that the person can reach a point where he or she is elected for government, and can change the situation. Thought has no velocity. Thought acts through infinite speed, zero time, and endless velocity. Why is this so? That is how each and every cell in our body functions. That is how a cell connects to all the other cells. Information passes between cells at an infinite speed. The same applies to all parts of our universe. The information expands at an infinite speed; otherwise there would not have been any laws. What are the laws that we discover? We discover the entire system, how it is constructed, and if it is moving. It is moving towards balance. We discover laws in relation to stars, planets and gases indicating that there is no coincidence; everything is related to everything else, and the system knows everything about itself. It is not that there was an explosion, and from that explosion everything arrives including information, which arrives at the other end within a certain number of years. It is not the speed of the light that comes from the explosion which is important. It is information which expands at an infinite speed, and has the biggest power, at an infinite frequency. This is also the case with our body. The one who reaches the level of thoughts, the level of intentions, is the ruler. Besides that there being structures such as the nervous system, there are people who can solve a complex mathematical problem in a second, which even the biggest and most powerful computer can not solve in hours. How does it happen? It is not that those people are so fast compared to the computer, but that they solve the problem not at the level of the nervous system, at the speed of ten meters per second, the speed of signals moving in the body, but at the level of thought. Thought and intention means that the speed is infinite. That is the reason for the results. When one acquires some knowledge in Kabbalah everything begins to be understood. I wish for you that you open your eyes to see the spiritual world, and from there begin to determine everything in this world.
What is the need for a biological body? Nothing can change except the part in us which perceives reality. The speed of thoughts is infinite. The worlds, including this world, are concealments of our senses. Does it sometimes happen to you that you are in euphoria, and do not feel the limitations of the body? Question: Why did the Creator create the biological body, why didn't we remain at the level of souls? It seems to us that this body, this flesh, exists. It does not exist. It is only your perception that it exists. You have such senses that make you feel like it exists. If we look through the eyes of a dog, through its senses, or the senses of some other creature, it does not see us like we do, the way we see ourselves. A dog sees us as a sort of cloud of smells. It means that we have no body, and the fact that we perceive it this way is because we are made in such a manner that makes us perceive it so, but it does not really exist. Nothing exists besides the upper reality, the thought of creation to bestow upon His created beings, which includes us. Only in this do we really exist. The worlds, including this world, are a concealment of our senses. We are, even now, existing in the best and only state there is. Only we have a problem, a dimming of our senses, so that we are not feeling that state but only a lesser state. We must clean our senses, wake up, get up and feel the real state. Nothing changes except the perception of reality. This means that what actually changes in us is that part that perceives reality. Besides that there is nothing. Therefore, if you are thinking about changing something besides yourself you are in trouble. Nothing will help you, you will never change anything. You can see how much the world only suffers from this, accumulating bitter experiences as if in order to understand that this is not the way. We need to correct our senses. You will see a completely different picture when you are at the end of correction, in eternity and wholeness. I have no words to describe it. And this body - there is no body, and this world - there is no world; it is simply an imagination. Of course, it is hard to accept this, because you have not arrived at the other side, so you can not understand how this is possible. One hundred or two hundred years ago we never thought that such forces existed in nature, or that it was possible to see through a wall, but this is what is now happening. With our thoughts and desires, and with our mind, we can achieve anything. The speed of thoughts is infinite. Thoughts expand at an infinite speed. The power of thought can penetrate matter without limitations. We can reach complete control of reality. Gradually you will see that these concealments, these worlds, simply disappear. All becomes transparent and there is nothing but light that fills everything. Even those who have had near death experiences tell us that there is nothing. They still see themselves on the operating table, while they are actually already elevating and becoming included in the light. The fact that we are not in the upper reality even a little is a problem. That is why I said that until a person's eyes open, it is a problem, but after the person's eyes open he or she already knows what to do. So our problem is to achieve the opening of the eyes. You stop sensing your body, how does it happen? It happens sometimes that you almost do not feel your body; you are in some kind of euphoria, and nothing hurts; it is possible to feel something like that sometimes. If it is possible for one moment, it is possible always. According to the level of correction that you attain, you neutralize your body to the extent that you do not exist. You cross the border between life and death. You simply stop communicating with the body and it stops being an issue for you. Question: How can man reach a state where he controls his desires and thoughts, instead of them controlling him? Man cannot control anything. He cannot control feelings or thoughts. If he tries to control one thing, it comes at the expense of something else. A certain kind of water is healthier than drinking another kind. So I choose this kind over that one. This is called controlling one of my desires and replacing it with another. This is not control. Real control is when I reach the spiritual world, the upper world, at a level which is higher than my reality. I look at my reality from there and then I choose what is good; this is control. As much as we discover nature in all of our research, in all types of science, we only discover one thing; that everything acts according to pre-determined, absolute, decisive rules that never change, and that everything behaves according to cause and effect, and is arranged by formulas. So what are you going to change? What do you want to penetrate and determine? And with any kind of intelligence I also can not understand it; it is not possible. Tell me, at which level of human beings, namely thoughts, desires, hormones or genes, or through the laws of nuclear physics, or some other level, can we change anything? We only study how it exists. To change anything is only possible from the root, where the level of the causes for all the effects in this world is. You can only change things if you can be at that point. Why is everyone running for the government? Because from there you determine what will happen later in the playing field. So that is what we need to achieve. For a person in whom the point in the heart has opened, who feels some connection, an urge for a higher state, it is a sign that the person can reach a point where he or she is elected for government, and can change the situation. Thought has no velocity. Thought acts through infinite speed, zero time, and endless velocity. Why is this so? That is how each and every cell in our body functions. That is how a cell connects to all the other cells. Information passes between cells at an infinite speed. The same applies to all parts of our universe. The information expands at an infinite speed; otherwise there would not have been any laws. What are the laws that we discover? We discover the entire system, how it is constructed, and if it is moving. It is moving towards balance. We discover laws in relation to stars, planets and gases indicating that there is no coincidence; everything is related to everything else, and the system knows everything about itself. It is not that there was an explosion, and from that explosion everything arrives including information, which arrives at the other end within a certain number of years. It is not the speed of the light that comes from the explosion which is important. It is information which expands at an infinite speed, and has the biggest power, at an infinite frequency. This is also the case with our body. The one who reaches the level of thoughts, the level of intentions, is the ruler. Besides that there being structures such as the nervous system, there are people who can solve a complex mathematical problem in a second, which even the biggest and most powerful computer can not solve in hours. How does it happen? It is not that those people are so fast compared to the computer, but that they solve the problem not at the level of the nervous system, at the speed of ten meters per second, the speed of signals moving in the body, but at the level of thought. Thought and intention means that the speed is infinite. That is the reason for the results. When one acquires some knowledge in Kabbalah everything begins to be understood. I wish for you that you open your eyes to see the spiritual world, and from there begin to determine everything in this world.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Think With Our Heart
We are at a beautiful moment on this planet where a new world is being birthed based on integrity, dignity, harmony, peace and love. The most obvious sign that this is well underway is that everything is changing and nothing seems to make sense. In fact, in many ways it appears to be the total opposite of an emerging new world. We are witnessing lies, deceit, greed, extreme wealth and poverty, ... sickness, destruction, disease, dis-honor, addictions, abuse, and environmental chaos, along with countless other named and unnamed calamities and certainly little evidence of peace or love. Yet appearances can be deceiving in themselves and what we see and perceive is only a tiny fragment of the bigger picture.
What I have noticed lately is that so many people I speak with are hopeful of a better world and at the same time they are troubled by the one they appear to be presently experiencing. They know in their hearts that life is not meant to be a struggle filled with much fear and doubt, yet they find it difficult at times to reconcile the seeming chaos and atrocities that are bombarding them from every seeming angle internally and externally.
What is we stepped back and set aside our endless judgement for a moment and looked at the bigger picture?
What if we stepped into the realm of our heart and began to listen to it's wisdom?
When we stop and truly and genuinely look around what do we see and what are we really experiencing?
What is our mental and emotional filter of life and how is it effecting our current perspective? Do we perceive our reality as an observer or are we still allowing ourselves to be caught up in the drama like a character actor in a play?
If it is the latter, do we know how to shift our perspective to see a larger view and a greater whole? Is there a way that we can realize the real peace and love that already exists within? Is unconditional love a key that unlocks this potential?
Our mind has been our thinker for too long and now it is time to move our energy into the heart and begin to thing from this vantage point. By expressing from the heart, we can do something different in our own lives to shift our experience and in turn, the reality around us. Coming from unconditional love, we move directly out of duality and polarity of right and wrong, good and bad, ... and begin to share that which we already are... powerful, wise, loving and lovable beings of immense talent, creativity, compassion and strength. Not to mention, individuals filled with integrity, dignity, harmony, peace and love.
Shifting from one reality to another always includes a phase where old gives way to the new and this often takes on the momentary appearance of chaos, strife, the need to let go of the known and a courageous willingness to allow the new to manifest. Underlying this or any transition is the loving intelligence that guides us between worlds and emanates from out own heart.
No matter what the appearance, the heart knows the bigger picture and from this grander perspective we can make a profound difference.
Make a choice today to suspend judgment and relax into what simply is.
Let go of what you mentally think is going on and center your awareness in the heart. Be present in the now and experience only the moment that is real and tangible. BREATHE. ALLOW. Be at peace and you will know peace.
Share your unconditional love and the world will know love.
You are the one birthing this new world and I am honored to be in your presence.
Everything Is Relative In This World | Laitman.com
"Science will develop to such a condition when it will merge with the wisdom of Kabbalah..."
Posted on January 7th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Question: In his article “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy,”
Baal HaSulam writes: “Even when science reaches its ultimate
development, we will still have to regard only the tangible reality.”
What “ultimate development” is science destined to reach?Answer: Science will develop to such a condition when it will merge with the wisdom of Kabbalah and become part of the same movement. In fact, our world is set to ascend and clothe the upper world, having become its indispensable part and included in it along with all our actions and efforts exerted even in the matter of the corporeal world.
Nothing disappears without a trace since everything belongs to one universe, one reality. Therefore, sciences will also merge and join in the wisdom of Kabbalah as its integral part. The wisdom of Kabbalah involves all of creation, and all sciences of our world will be engaged in it.
They are already part of it, and it only seems that they exist separate from it. After all, all laws of our world are the same very laws that govern the spiritual world, though only imprinted in our egoistic matter. If matter works with the intention to receive “for self gratification” at the level of Malchut de Malchut of the world of Assiya, then it results in the corresponding laws.
In the spiritual world, intention “for myself” pertains to the Klipot, the impure forces, where such are the spiritual laws. Here, they come out as material laws, and there is no awareness of the fact that they are based on the intention to receive “for self gratification.”
If we achieve the final corrected state (Gmar Tikkun), then all of this corporeal world is gradually cancelled and dissolves. We sense it less and less, and more of its parts abandon our perception.
We begin to realize how transient and temporary everything is. It is similar to how matter gets transformed from one state to another, when its forms return to their initial state: from “tangible states” of hard matter they become liquid, and then, not a very tangible state, gas, and finally, into a completely intangible one, a zero or a void.
All of this occurs in our sensations, our perception. And if our perception changes, there is no room for ordinary physics which essentially deals only with still matter, while biology, zoology, and medicine study the vegetative and animate levels of nature.
None of our sciences rise above these levels: still, vegetative, and animate. At the human level, there is no “science” any longer in the strict sense of this world; there is merely a recording process of accumulated observations of life and facts as in psychology and psychiatry.
To the extent that this world abandons our sensations at the still-vegetative-animate degrees, these planes will start to “fold up,” by ascending and getting included in the human degree. We will no longer practice these sciences since we will stop feeling these phenomena and counting them as real in the form we see them today.
This entire reality exists solely in relation to us. If all our attributes and sensory organs get transformed, meaning that reality as we experience it right now in these organs of perception changes, then what science can deal with an absent reality? Everything is relative.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
