“How Do I Clean Myself Spiritually, And How Do I Start?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do I clean myself spiritually, and how do I start?“

Spiritual work starts from accepting the laws of your own correction.

To do so requires:

• reaching an understanding that rising above the ego is of utmost importance, and that
• connection to others as a single whole according to the rule “love your neighbor as
  yourself” is the loftiest spiritual goal, and also that
• achieving this goal requires a supportive environment—support and encouragement of each
  other’s aspirations to achieve the spiritual goal.

After setting yourself up in such a way, you can then make spiritual progress.

The spiritual path is full of contradictory states—elation one moment, lowliness the next, ascents and descents—sometimes we feel as if there are no spiritual states, desires or intentions before us, but if we create an environment that supports us on our way to the spiritual goal, we eventually undergo a correction of all these egoistic qualities, inverting them all into altruistic ones, as is written that “love will cover all transgressions.”

Undergoing spiritual correction means inverting our egoistic qualities to altruistic qualities.

Reaching such a state means discovering the common soul where everyone resides, with love connecting between us all.

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Is There A Meaning Of Life In The Life Itself?

Question: Does the finiteness of life give it a special meaning? The meaning that is missing in life without the fear of death, eternal life?

Answer: And what’s the point in such a life? That I will die like an animal and all will end?

Comment: There is some kind of sharpness in this.

My Response: What kind of sharpness? The Marxist kind? “Live for the sake of others, and they for the sake of others, and so everything for the sake of everyone, and nobody for yourself!” What for? This is not the meaning of life.

There can be no sense in what ends. There can be no meaning to life in life itself. This is a primitive, materialistic philosophy, which believes that there is nothing more than matter.

When there is no answer to the question, then you satisfy yourself with this, forgetting about other things, convincing yourself that this is true.

Question: If I am the desire to receive pleasure, what more value can there be besides pleasure, enjoyment?

Answer: The fact is that receiving enjoyment is the goal of material life. Is there anything outside this? If a person does not think about it, he simply engages in the search for pleasure. Of course, it is better to enjoy than to suffer. Everyone will agree with that. But this is not meaning in itself.

Nature did not create us so that we simply live our lives quietly enjoying the years allotted to us. In our development, there is a pre-prepared requirement: “Why?”
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/17/20

I Don’t Scare Anyone

Question: If humanity is a single organism, why does the stick from nature get 98% of the body, and the brain, which is only 2%, should understand, realize and change?

Answer: You ask me all sorts of tricky questions in order to avoid spiritual work and do nothing. And I don’t really control the process. I don’t come to you as an advertising agent or salesman and offer my product. I don’t knock on your door and say, “Buy it.” If you want, buy, if not, then don’t.

I’m just telling you that the next blow will be worse and will be very soon. And you practically agree with this.

How do I make it so that it doesn’t happen? And then you say: “Why should we pay such a price for it and start doing something? If there is a problem, we will solve it.”

But why is it necessary to bring it to the point where there is a problem? That’s all I’m talking about. I’m just like you, just seeing what’s going to be bad, not scaring you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/3/20

What Does A Person’s Name Indicate?

Question: Are there certain levels of attaining names? For example, my friend’s name is Emanuel. What can be said about this name?

Answer: The name Emanuel means “God is with us” in Hebrew. It is a very ancient name from the Torah.

Question: Does a name characterize a person?

Answer: No. If we knew the source of a newborn’s soul we could give him a name according to the source of one’s soul, as described in the Torah. But we don’t know it, and so we give arbitrary names. We will scrutinize this in the future.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/8/19

New Life 1239 – The Coronavirus And Human Evolution

New Life 1239 – The Coronavirus And Human Evolution
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi

Nature creates humans as good, but our egoistic desire to dominate others makes us bad. People who dominate others are strong and rich and do not have support from the integral power that is found in nature. They will not survive. In the world of tomorrow, people who know how to overcome their egos, think of others, and draw society toward unity will be considered strong. The characteristic of love is the most important for survival because we live in a global and integral world. Connection with the general power of nature depends on the bestowal of goodness to others. A person who has improved in this way, will feel like the king of the world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1239 – The Coronavirus And Human Evolution,” 5/14/20

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Rigid System Full Of Goodness

Question: Is nature something living, rational, with emotions, thoughts, plans, and the possibility of a meaningful reaction to our impact?

Answer: Nature is a rigid system consisting of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human parts. All of them are in a certain dynamic equilibrium. If we upset this balance with our selfish influence, then nature reacts to this in the opposite direction, deviating like a pendulum to the other side. This is what we experience today with the example of the coronavirus.

Now we will be hit by such blows that will force us to become integrally connected because we exist in a state of “the last generation.” The last generation means the last egoistic generation in which the ego is corrected. We must fix it.

Question: So all our suffering comes from nature?

Answer: Of course. All suffering comes from the fact that you violate the integration of nature, its balance. Only from the loss of balance in nature that occurs through your fault do you get a reaction from it, which you feel as pain, trouble, and problems.

Man himself is very weak. You put a little pressure on him, and he already moans, cries, and is ready to do everything as it should be done. Thus, nature will force us to become good, mature, and most importantly, kind parts of nature toward each other.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/10/20

Prevent The Suffering Of Humanity

Question: Is it possible that in the near future, let’s say, perhaps in a year, a country may turn to Kabbalists in order to introduce a new system of education and upbringing? Or is this impossible from the perspective of spiritual laws?

Answer: It does not matter whether they turn to us or not. We need to be ready and spread our knowledge among all. Then in every country there will be smart people, including you who are engaged in Kabbalah, who will be able to participate in the transformation of their country and society.

To do this, it is enough to attract scientists and show them that everything should be in accordance with the integral system of humanity, society, and nature.

Humanity needs to change itself, to recreate from itself an integral part of nature. Today it is opposed to nature and therefore suffers. This suffering must be prevented. If society becomes integral, then everything will be fine. But if not, it will bring itself to a third world war and will practically disappear. This is stated in Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/3/20

Man Is A Controlled Being

Comment: What should I do if I want to explain and show people the lies that surround them, that the lion’s share of the media cannot be trusted? People don’t really care, they are ready to accept the victim’s position. They only feel fear, doom, and helplessness.

My Response: No, this will not happen. Understand that there is a border beyond which we can no longer endure suffering and we must try to find some solution.

After all, if it hurts me, I can say, “Ouch!” And if it is unbearable pain, then I will look for a cure, the opportunity to somehow calm it down. And if, in addition, this applies to my children, my family, relatives, state, and the world, then here we will take it all together.

We will not go anywhere because we can feel pain and joy. Therefore, we are very easy to manage.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/10/20