A few personal thoughts from home grown expereince on how we percieve reality. http://10000besides.com/livingbeyondlimits/?p=34

10/10/2009 7:55:23 PM    (opus125)

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12/23/2009 10:18:58 PM    (zzirf)

The Zohar Volume 4 Verse 87 But the Holy One, blessed be He, is always strict with the Righteous in every deed they do. Because He knows they will not turn away, neither to the right nor the left, He constantly tests them. Nor for His own sake DOES THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, TEST THEM, as He knows their desire and the firmness of their faith and has no need of trying them. He tries them only to lift up their heads, to give them confidence as they earn their merits through these EXPERIENCES. The Zohar Volume 5 Verse 21 Come and behold, Isaac was with his wife for twenty years, but she did not give birth until he had said his prayer. This is because the Holy One, blessed be He, desires the prayer of the righteous, when they ask Him in prayer for their needs. Why? Because the anointing oil will be increased by the prayer of the righteous for all those in need of it. FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IN THEIR PRAYER OPEN THE SUPERNAL CHANNEL, AND THEN EVEN THE PRAYERS OF THE UNWORTHY ARE ANSWERED. The Zohar Volume 4 Verse 132 Esau hid these garments with Rivkah and wore them when he went hunting. On the day WHEN ISAAC SENT FOR HIM TO RECEIVE THE BLESSINGS, he did not take them to the field and was therefore late. When Esau wore them, they put forth no scent at all, but when Jacob wore them, the lost object was restored AS THEY RETURNED TO THE ASPECT OF ADAM. For the beauty of Jacob was the beauty of Adam. They therefore returned to their place and emitted fragrance.

11/24/2009 7:53:07 AM    (zzirf)

from Twitter - http://twitter.com/Kabbalahinfo/statuses/5983536202 Kabbalahinfo: A spiritual teacher directs us towards our source, not towards himself http://www.laitman.com/2009/11/how-do-you-know-if-youve-found-a-true-kabbalist/ If you see that the other students and the teacher are trying to accomplish [the force of bestowal or altruism], without considering anything besides the Creator important, this means you have found the right place to study.

11/24/2009 7:43:08 AM    (zzirf)

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2/10/2009 9:08:45 PM    (zzirf)

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11/22/2009 8:41:15 PM    (Linda22458)

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2/10/2009 9:02:15 PM    (zzirf)

Article of the Day April 5, 2009 I should reach the state when no matter what my nature makes me wish, I have to realize and understand the necessity of my work with the group or my work with the world, no matter how I put it, I should make myself achieve the state of love for my neighbor. I should not be pushed by nature! When you are free, you can do what you please! You should be free from your will to receive, free from all your fears, free from being afraid that you will not survive without loving your neighbor, free from everything there is. You can be the biggest and the most complete sinner of all, you have the right to do what you please, and everything is permitted to you. However, you should gradually come to the state, when even though you are completely free, free as the Creator Himself, you will start making yourself love your neighbor, love every minor detail of your neighbor, care about him in everything that possibly depends on you. It is called being free, it is called being big. It means that you rise above your ego, and having done so, you make yourself do that. Instead of someone else making you do that by means of various blows, you make yourself come to that state on your own, and this is called “working in faith above reason”. It happens when your faith makes you do nothing, you have no obligations at all, and you are totally free in the Creator’s world. When can you be completely free? Only when you are like Him, when the only thing making you act is the knowledge that this is your highest value. This is called freedom. We do not totally understand how it is possible to be free. For example, look at the mother of 10, she is busy with her children all the time, can we call that freedom the way we see it? Based on our ego, we look at it as a very difficult work, but it is freedom based on the will to bestow, because it is not the difficult work that is valued (as in our example with caring for children), but how one rises above his will to received, above what is called “exile” for men. If I can get out of this state and start to control everything myself, if I can make myself keep the state of Arvut and do that on my own, if I can reach the state of “one man with one heart” along, then this is my “escape to freedom”.

4/9/2009 6:52:08 AM    (zzirf)

April 7, 2009 Article of the Day The basic thing one has to keep inside is an inner template, a certain form of our unity. The from the inside of this unity we should try to reveal mutual love, mutual bestowal and their root, which is the Creator. This template, this unearthly form should be constantly present and burn inside of every one of us, an done should keep this form inside and move along with it, no matter what happens on the outside and what turmoil he has to go through. This is called he wants to “revive the kli of Adam haRishon”. A person is where his thoughts and aspirations are and he should always be subconsciously guided by that no matter what he does. We fail, because we forget about that. We step away from that, we substitute that with something else, we do substitute the most important feature we have secondary external things. I see this as basic, as “The Creator, the Torah and Israel are one”, no matter how we look at it, and “there in none else besides Him”. One needs group assistance, Arvut in order to concentrate on Him, in order to reveal Him, in order to discover His actions, and only with the help from one’s group the Godliness reveals itself.

4/9/2009 6:46:42 AM    (zzirf)

Article of the Day April 2, 2009 Everything definitely depends on our ability to give right direction, and we are able to do a lot. Sometimes we misunderstand that, we think that our activity is dissemination via internet, by revealing certain levels there. Really we act according to our desires and our thoughts, and this is the way we change the world. All these means of communication, which attract someone’s attention and some people, do understand them, while some don’t, but these are all the secondary means. Clearly we check our world in accordance with this understanding, but the real correction takes place in accordance with our thoughts. The most important concept of our dissemination is to show correct models to people on different levels like world leaders, scientists, economists, etc., up to commoners. We should care that every one of them has right formats of what is an award and punishment in modern world of globalization. For example, now we are discussing new television programs. In doing that we should be guided by same principle of whether they explain the new conduct, new form. Can a person be successful in modern world in accordance with this form or all this is simply small talk and laughs, which does happen with us sometimes. We do not keep the TV channel for that.

4/9/2009 6:44:22 AM    (zzirf)

Article of the Day March 30, 2009 I have an environment, and I also have reshimot that awaken in me to make me unite with this environment. I need to look for the power to realize these reshimot in my environment, as I, myself, do not have the necessary power. Who in my environment has it? Actually, my environment does not have this power either, but if I aspire for this environment, if I appeal to them with the request, with an entreaty for salvation, they begin to influence me in such a way, that it gives me the light returning to the source. Why? Because when I appeal to them with the purpose of uniting with them, it is like I discover that they have the upper light, the power of the Creator, and the Creator is revealed in the environment, inside the unity of souls. If I relate to my environment correctly, I see in it an ideal unity of everyone but me. I am the only cell in this body, which is not connected to others. When I appeal to them, it is like I appeal to the power of the Creator present in them, I discover the kli with the light in it outside of me, and I feel myself being outside of creation. And than the group is not just the group, even humanity and the world are not humanity and the world only, it is all the Shechina, where the light is present, and I am outside of all this. If I really wish to join this, I will discover there both the kli, I have to join and the light, which will join me to this kli by influencing me. Every moment of a person’s life should be like that. If this person is capable to take correct position toward his neighbors, if he is capable of joining the whole world, whole reality, then he will be able to correctly realize his reshimot, and he will never have problems more difficult than what he is capable to solve. Everything is in order in an optimal way, including the person himself, his environment, all kinds of problems, troubles; all this is designed to correctly put the desecrations on the scene where this person should work. This is called “revealing the Creator”.

4/9/2009 6:32:09 AM    (zzirf)

Article of the Day March 29, 2009 If unity is our goal, it should be our only goal and we should not have any other goals, as it is explained in the letter “He and His Name are One”: “Israel, the Torah and the Creator are one”. This is the way we should direct ourselves, without anything intermediate, otherwise we would not reach our goal. Otherwise we will immediately start moving in opposite direction. This means that the word “love” means becoming one with the Creator, connecting with the group, as well as with the rest of humanity. This should practically make one line, the ending result should already be contained in the starting thought and everything should join together. If a person puts himself inside of these borders only and his single wish is to be within them, it becomes clear to him that he is directed correctly and the “one commandment” that is entrusted upon him is really entrusted upon him and he is moving in the right direction. It is very important because we can only imagine all the rest, as it is a move away form the right path. We are being taught that if one does not want to make mistakes, he should constantly direct himself toward “Israel, the Torah and the Creator are One”. Otherwise the longer he goes, the more the error become and, naturally, the longer one moves in wrong direction, the more he gets away from the goal.

4/9/2009 6:29:47 AM    (zzirf)

Article of the Day March 26, 2009 If we unite for real, a connection between us and the rest of the world will be formed and the world will, of course, feel it, it will just “pour” into the world, and this is the way we will quicken the blows, they will come faster. When I say that the blows will come quicker, I do not mean just the speed of their coming; I mean the speed of comprehension, when every blow, even the slightest one is felt differently. It does not at all men that if, for example, a blow came now, and another blow is supposed to come in a year, I, instead, will draw the next blow, so that it will occur in a month, no, it will be a completely different blow, because, if I am prepared for it, I see it in a different way, I feel it differently, with different strength, it is now unable to reach me. Say, in accordance with Bito *the path of suffering) I will receive this blow in a month, but then with the help of Ahishen (the path of good) I will see it in a different way, in a different light, and I will begin to correct this blow. When it will come next time in Bito, it will mean nothing to me, because I have already elevated above it, and, thus, we, and the rest of the world along with us, will begin to feel all these blows differently.

4/9/2009 6:28:24 AM    (zzirf)

March 24, 2009 Article of the Day What “I am on a higher step” mean? “I am on a higher step” is, actually, my vision of the Creator. It is the property of bestowal, the property of love. It is everything that is above a human being (as much as he can imagine this). Trying to imagine what a higher step means, an individual imagines it being the Creator Himself in all His greatness, and then the person discovers that this next step was just a small elevation, but it still exceeded his most extreme fantasies. Any way, this aspiration to look for a higher step brings a person to the group, because it is difficult for him to imagine something he is separated from on his own. When a person starts searching, he received thoughts and desires from his environment, and he also feels that his personal selfish thoughts and desires can be easily separated from him by means of connection with his neighbor, and love for his neighbor. However, he understands that receiving thoughts and desires from others is still outside of him, outside of a person, separated from him. Thus, a person can imagine what spirituality is. It is a higher step. Now it is easier for such person to build something that is not inside of his kelim, something that it higher then them. Now the person starts imagining the Creator, and then imagines himself in His place in a more and more correct way. We should imagine merging with Him at each next step we pass; we should aspire to come to the state of merging, no matter what state we are in. The level of merging achieved corresponds to his aviut and his firmness. Every step is miniature infinity, a certain part of infinity, where everything is presented, including all the lights and kelim, just like in real infinity. A person should to his best to imagine such state, “build” it, and determine it for himself. What does his next world mean, all this upper dreams of his are, actually, the next step and there is nothing after it. It is always worth to use all your means, all your strength. You should not undermine it, you should always see it as great and final one, and this is the only way for you. Every time one should imagine the final image of the Creator, its creatures, the world o f the future, the world of infinity, and all this based on being together in the state of true zivug. This is the way one moves on.

4/9/2009 6:26:42 AM    (zzirf)

Article of the day March 23, 2009 Kabbalists say that an individual should rise over himself. What does “over oneself” mean? It means that you get out of yourself for the sake of your neighbor without making any deals with yourself. It is even more than what a mother does. Spirituality is when there are no accounts with oneself at all; it is when a person is completely tuned off from himself. He makes a shortening on himself, meaning he is completely off himself, and we are unable to do that. However, if we hear about that, if all our actions are directed to that, then a component appears in us, which is called spirituality. What do we need it for? We need it in order to get out of the bubble called our world and bring us to another realm. We are asked: “What other realms? What do you want? What silly things are you talking about?” However, based on today’s suffering, many people start understanding that it is necessary to unite. Similarly they should understand that this unity should be above human ego, not from knowing that “I will feel good if everyone else feels good”, but because I have to get out of myself, I must go out to others in order to gain independence from myself, and that is called Godliness.

4/9/2009 6:25:07 AM    (zzirf)

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1/9/2009 8:44:53 PM    (zzirf)