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Dear Teachers,
I heard Rav answer a student in the lesson the way to put our “self” on the side is to be sure that we’re not “working alone” and that our efforts are “together”. He added to another student that the Ten should “maintain that the connection between us grows stronger”.
I have two questions to start with:
1. If we are in a Ten, how do we know that we’re not working alone? How can a group of students who have their own thoughts and scrutinies internally, make sure that we’re working together and not alone?
2. If a student is in a Ten and faithfully attends every lesson and every Ten meeting, adds a prayer sentence to build a common prayer and prepares the materials needed on connection duty, is this enough connection? Can we consider that this is enough efforts in order to “grow our connection” and we don’t need to do any more than this?
Thank you,
Isoke
Hi Isoke,
1. It is enough that we’re all aimed at “together”. I want my friends to all be in this sensation of doing it together. There’s such an ego that doesn’t mind spiritual work, let’s say – but together? Up until there, and not further. Inside the work together is where the actual work begins. It’s hard to wrap this concept in words due to the fact that it is simplistic. And the ego is simplistically against such work. Like it’s written, “the Creator likes all the works, however they are,” whatever we do in the direction of togetherness will be right. To not be “caught alone” is the most important principle – that is, in thoughts that are not together with the ten. Don’t think about the bodies (more than you need to to locate the friends, the concept of the ten, internally).
2. Attending every lesson and ten call and being internally active during these external actions it is certain that I will reach spirituality. The main thing is that while I am doing the same action every day, the Creator is moving the rug under me, so that I feel increasingly distant from the goal, and yet I hold on with my teeth to the same actions, to stay in the prayers for the friends though there is less and less taste in doing so, like the night gets darker and darker and is darkest just before dawn.
We haven no choice, we are completely ignorant, can’t do it on our own, we are not even human beings, intellectual animals at he most: sounds reasonable, but give me some perspective; Kabbalah says: labour and (not) found, faith above reason, all comes well at the final correction. Wonderful, and the picture is awesome, it is still a picture,though. The gap between the potential and the actual is enormous, how to make it more like a fusion? More like a melting pot? More tangible? More needs ,more prayers, less questions?
A person has a stage during which he only studies, and tries to grasp as much as he can, to fit the concepts into his corporeal brain; however, it doesn’t work out because these concepts don’t fit into our angular brains because they are integral. It’s like a snake trying to make sense of a beautiful symphony. Not only is he missing sensory receptors to make sense of it, the senses he has are suitable for perceiving the erratic and artificial temperatures in Carnegie Hall and the various vibrations not as harmonious but as a hellish cacophony, like being thrust into the eye of some dark, alien gas planet. That’s how we’re perceiving our world, which is actually the Upper World, already in the end of correction, organized, harmonious, lawful, and beautiful. The advice is to start doing what the kabbalists advise. From doing, we will understand more and more because the feel of the true reality will start to reveal as the senses to feel it start developing. If I’m too, too confused it means I haven’t started. I’m rather circling the wisdom like a cat investigating a potential meal.
Hello Teachers!
Regarding Certainty and Truth.
How do they manifest in us?
How to be certain about my faith all the time when I’m in this environment and outside of it? I find myself coming back for the truth, or something that lifts me up when I participate in the lessons and listen to the teachings as if it charges my life with Life. Does this make sense?
✨Thank you
Certainty is attainment. We don’t have that yet.
Faith, if you mean belief, is not required. Diligence in engaging in the path all the time, is required.
Generally, to do it though, you do need to be connected to a ten. Otherwise, you just aren’t connected to the vessels in you by which you would be able to remain in these thoughts and actions.
In” this world”, below Assiya, have we already formed a screen above our desires? Otherwise, all of our actions would be in vain, even though we have the right intention?
Hi Paul,
No, we get naturally the “screen” in our regular 5 senses. The retina in the eye, and so on. Those senses are also desires, even though we take them as “real” whereas we think desires are fluff, airy, and psychological. I have another desire that doesn’t have a screen over it naturally, and that’s why it seems airy and unimportant. If I had a screen on it, I’d perceive in that desire a spiritual world. I don’t get that from nature. I get that from serious efforts in the method of Kabbalah.
But our actions aren’t in vain, because of the fact that all my actions – which are supposed to yield pleasure – leave me with a great deficit on the scale, where on one side I have pain and on the other side pleasure: eventually I do the correct accounting and see that I pay an extraordinarily “unfair” price for the acquisition of these pleasures. With this deficiency, I go towards spirituality, whereas before, I did not have a deficiency for that. Until once is convinced that he must reach it, he doesn’t take it seriously.
Dear friends.
I am reaching out to you because I’d like to about how can I enter a “casual” TEN in order to watch the daily lesson with Rav Laitman Live?
As I consider to be best to watch it together with some friends, rather than alone at home.
I look forward to hearing from you friends!Kind regards,
Pedrini.
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