I feel very honored about your invitation, and the trust that you put that way inside me in the name of my 10#2!
My intention for being here is the tenification of the World Wide Web and provide the seekers of truth and the purpose of their lifes with an answer.
The spirit of the method is contained within the picture that i created with Jack Holden. If you look at it, it looks like strange kabbalistic poetry. The way we created it is unique to the wisdom of kabbalah but i haven't found anyone propagating and practicing it. And this is what i want to give to you and also to my ten. Our ten already holds a tiny grasp of what is going to unfold out of this, and i wish that the whole world can play this funny game of wisdom.
It goes like this:
One starts a post in the form of an image like this:
Then everyone of the workshop (ten) continues the sentence in a manner that the sentence is not grammatically closed (no enforced full stop), until everybody of the workshop contributed his part. We nullify to the existing train of thought, add our own part, and leave space for the next friend to continue it, and we support him by wanting to see a certain continuation. If he doesn't continue as expected we trust, that in the end a meaningful thought is expressed. In our example 1 o 1 workshop it turned out to be like this:
I already created a Facebook Page "Integral Education 10 2 02" (https://www.facebook.com/eliyahu10202/) on facebook where anyone who wants to play that game is invited to do so. Please feel free to reach out to me for cooperation.
Recently, this group of friends has been reflecting on the nature of our relationships between us and between people in general. Our teacher Dr. Laitman has an interesting point of view to share with us. In the following video, he is answering the following question: "How should we perceive reality?"
Ok, ok. All the events of my life happen inside of me. Then who are the people around me? Thankfully, a smart student has asked this question already. This is the answer from Dr. Laitman:
What mirror?
Our teacher tells us that our reality reflects inner states that we experience. In that sense, we can say that one's environment - mainly people around - are one's mirror as it paints one's inner state. Yes, I realize this can sometimes be a bitter pill to swallow. Hopefully, this video can help:
Discrimination
While we are learning to take responsibility for our inner states, media is filled with horrific stories and power struggles that are founded on the premise that a certain category of the population is responsible for all the problems of the world. Countries against countries, generational, gender and racial issues... where does it all end?
Anti-semistism
We will all agree, I hope, that any form of racism in year 2016 is socially unacceptable. Perhaps, then, some people don't believe anti-Semitism is racism? The reason I ask is that according to serious pollings conducted by ADL Global 100, no less than 1.09 billion people globally have anti-Semitic attitudes and one person out of three believe that the holocaust - which is well-documented - is a myth!
I hope to live long enough to look at anti-Semitism in the rear-view mirror.
I had a group of friends, instead of drawing divisions in the sand we drew circles around the heart, and that's where all creation starts. Can't you see?
I love I love my ten 3. I love I love my ten 3.
All the other friends in town were jealous, can't you see? Well we said "friends, there's no room for jealousy - so lets all form on big Ten 3".
How Can We Make The Creator Happy? | Laitman.com: Question: How can we make the Creator happy if the Creator is a system? It is like trying to make the law of gravity happy. Answer: Everything depends on our attitude to the Creator because we bring our feelings into this system. When we work on a computer, we sometimes get angry at it, curse it, and even want to break it. Why? This happens because we transfer our emotions to those objects that deal with the forces we are interacting with. It is the same with the Creator. The Creator is absolute! The absolute cannot be changed. He is not influenced by our requests and cannot interact with us because He is absolute! Question: So how can we make the Creator happy? Answer: We make Him happy in our sensations. Therefore, the Creator is called Bore (come and see). I come and see and discover Him inside me. Question: Does this mean that we only feel that we make Him happy? Answer: Yes. The Creator is something that applies to me, in our corrected feelings...
I am continually blown away by the power of connection in a group of ten, and the reality that is revealed within and among us. We experience ups and downs, love and hatred, confusion and clarity, and so much more. This is not glamorous work! It does not show any kind of outward appeal. Especially to the novelty junkie of 2016. Even so, the work done between us to reveal the "Creator" in a group of ten proves itself. How? Is there evidence? Something to finally put away all doubt? These are difficult questions, because although we use a rigorous Kabbalistic method, the 'answer' does not come in the same form, seemingly. The results of our experiment are the essence of reality itself. Therefore our habitual way of scrutinizing cannot apply here, as the form of the answer it seeks is transcended in the very connection! Thus, our tools(perception) must be continually upgraded, as the work demands of us, and we cannot participate as a bystander or as a comfortably uninvolved yet curious persona. No, we ourselves, our very identity and the feelings that play into creating our "residual self image"(to quote the Matrix), are the substance that is operated on by the very real power of connection. Contact with reality, through others, certainly changes everything about us, and has the potential to inform the mind as well.
This article might as well have been titled How to attract cynicism to an article 101. Think about it: a solution that would put an end to any war, poverty, crisis, power struggle, divorce, fear, illness, abuse, etc. One can hardly imagine the kind of utopia we would live in... but what if that solution really existed?
As you know by now, this blog is brought together by a bunch of friends who study the wisdom of authentic Kabbalah as students of Dr. Michael Laitman. As per the above video, our teacher explains that everything in the world is interconnected. So if the one thing that is common to everything is connection and we are looking for a single remedy to all the problems, what is the one thing we need to heal?
You get 10 points if you answered "connection".
The right connection between us will influence human society and the environment - nature. Through our balanced relationships we can balance the whole of nature that's below us. That is our only weapon and the right solution.
We learn a very practical way of achieving this: roundtable workshops. This is a simple method aimed at discussing issues in a group through questions that every member responds following the "rules of the workshop":
You may wonder: how can a roundtable workshop settle all the problems in the world?
The rules of the workshop are designed in such a way that one brings down one's ego to the benefit of the group. When every member of the group achieves this, the members bond and become as one, thereby balancing relationships between themselves and with nature which is below them. This balance is the remedy to all the problems in the world.
There is a force behind everything that occurs in the universe. This force is to the universe like an operating program is to a computer. I cannot affect this program personally but only by correcting my attitude toward others. The goal of our development is connection, love of others like ourselves, and do not do unto others what is hateful to us. The nation of Israel has to perform this self-examination since this nation has to lead the whole world to correction.
Where does one begin a journey to find meaning and fulfillment? One does not begin, one first finds oneself at the mercy of a blind desire that seeks something it does not know. Beginnings and endings are contained within the self-devouring circle, or ourobouros, of life. If we were to speak of knowledge this could be an examination of philosophy, science, or even religion. There are many varieties of knowledge, yet all are contained in the general premise of knowing-ness(a pejorative term, a mere shell of desire). To know, we must transcend knowing, just as the same principle applies universally - as Einstein has said, to jump on the table, we first must jump above the table. The question becomes, not one of knowledge, or even what knowledge, but why. What goal have we set before us? A teleological question then. What is telos? It is more than a goal or end. It is the desire for transcendence of purpose as well. Perhaps Telos is most truly, self-transcendent. ["Alone of the shells is the serpent Nogah found in holiness..."] But before we can transcend purpose, we must attain purpose. So in the case of purpose, the principle is actually opposite as mentioned above. Why? Because we seek the why, that is why! Why what? Why anything? No, that will not do, the question must be refined, honed, sharpened, trained, and even attained. For this journey, no help will come from a wiser or more attained source. This journey begins with the end, the delicious apple of Eden, and with the seeker turning back upon himself to once again find the beginning and also his eternality and victorious joy. And in doing so he not only attains the purpose that inevitably lies within every mythical beginning, he, in actuality, reality, objectively, attains the why behind the why - which is, "Why even ask why?" To quote Emmanuel Levinas from "Difficult Freedom":
"The numinous or the Sacred envelops and transports man beyond his powers and wishes, but a true liberty takes offence at this uncontrollable surplus. The numinous annuls the links between persons by making beings participate, albeit ecstatically, in a drama not brought about willingly by them, an order in which they founder. This somehow sacramental power of the Divine seems to Judaism to offend human freedom and to be contrary to the education of man, which remains, action on a free being. Not that liberty is an end in itself, but it does remain the condition for any value man may attain. The Sacred that envelops and transports me is a form of violence." So then this blind drive that awakens within one, is a form of absolute ontological liberty. Freedom to not merely attain Being, but the being within Being of Heidegger's metaphysics.[see: Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics]. That which is held out over the Abyss... This is the mythical "small self", ego, "Created Creature" that contains within it, the seed of Unity which one liberates from the dross of numinous experience, that is, in so far as he has created a new beginning in his revolutions around the Sun(the Ego which the soul houses). Why? First, because "it is good"(Ki Tov). Secondly because what he seeks cannot be found, but only created. And yet this is not an action taken upon ex nihilo nihil fit, rather, this is uncovering the Something that truly came before Nothing. (The Upper Force behind the Void) Yet, the uncovering, the aletheia, the unconcealment, is not the revelation of Truth. It is the surrender of Truth, and the revelation of Unity, or, "the revelation of the Creator's godliness to the creatures"). One's act of creation, depicting an image of one's desire, to bestow upon it a vision of itself - can only be done in communion with Truth. And, in order to be in communion with Truth, as we have already laid down, one must surrender, or transcend, Truth. In this we find ourselves not in communion with each other(perhaps the essence of religion), but in Union with the Being inside of every being. That is, the macrocosm that is reflected in every microcosm. Perhaps we could call to mind Indra's net, or a holographic universe, where within every nexus(form of connection) is a node(essence of connection), and implied within every node is a complete nexus. Also put, the forms we adopt in order to reveal the aforementioned Unity have already been completed, or filled, with the abundance they both desire and exist within, as every form exists in a sea of mutually interpenetrating forces. Any way we might like to view this, the answer is the same at every point of this web: "Raq B'Yachad!" Only together, do we rise higher, and dig deeper - into that which encompasses and surrounds Creation. In doing so, we build a world above the corporeality that pulls at us, a new world that has never existed and can never exist as a potential form among forms(or a thorn among thorns)and that has nothing to do with Being or being! Here we are no longer subject to the whims of the sea, eternally tempting us to return to lesser things, to draw outmore being from Being and in doing so falling into the forgetfulness which plagues corporeal man - the forgetting of the Other. The fall from grace, from love of man. No, we now ride upon the sea in a vessel only possible by mutual effort, mutual guarantee(Arvut), and love of friends. This vessel(Kli) is the beating heart of our One True Identity, the body of Adam Kadmon. The sea of Ain Sof, Infinity, has been tamed and satisfied. All this becomes possible as we hear the call - "Love thy neighbor as oneself" and feel roused the desire to serve, and to love. It is said "There is no coercion in spirituality" - this is the Love of being by Being, and the eternal service to every soul that lies dormant in every shell. B'Shalom, Jack Holden *Stay tuned for further explication of the method of Kabbalah, and perhaps get a taste for the form of Connection and Love that we practice!
