Change Your Thoughts and You Will See a Different World!
Today,
in light of the earthquake that has befallen Japan, we see how nature threatens
our existence. After
all, we are, in fact, living on top of a giant volcano that is boiling deep
underground, while we exist on the thin layer of the earth's crust.
From
the depths of the earth we mine oil, water, and minerals, and we use plants and
animals which exist on its surface for food, and breathe the atmospheric air.
We are entirely dependent on the processes happening in the earth's crust.
Besides,
we are influenced by many other factors: magnetic fields, the force of
attraction, all sorts of radiation, the speed of the Earth's rotation, and so
on. But we don't even imagine that the smallest change in any of these
parameters can fundamentally change our lives!
All
of the natural cataclysms are caused by the imbalance of forces, which is
happening as a result of our incorrect actions. The entire universe is a single
system which includes the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature as
well as man. The greater part of the universe belongs to the still level of
nature; this is the entire universe, including the Earth. Plants cover only its
surface, and the animate kingdom comprises even a smaller part of it, and
compared to all that, just a tiny fraction belongs to man.
However,
in the spiritual dimension what is taken into account is not quantity or mass,
but the quality of forces. Therefore, man, who is on a higher qualitative level
of development, can change the entire universe with just one thought. Baal
HaSulam writes that all of the still nature is equal to one plant, all plants
to one animal, and all animals to one person.
In
other words, if a person makes any tiny change for the good or for the bad,
this changes the entire animal kingdom. The vegetative world undergoes even
greater changes as a result, not to mention what happens with the still nature.
That is because all of it is a single system!
Therefore,
we have to change ourselves and attain balance among one another. Only then
will all of these forces of nature that are below the human level-the entire
animate and vegetative world, and all of the still nature-will also reach
balance.
Question: How can we
convince everyone that the world is controlled by our thoughts?
Answer: It is impossible
to achieve this through words. We have to bring the world to the inner
sensation that thought is the most powerful force in the entire universe. But
we have to prove the same thing to ourselves! If I realized that my thoughts
influence the whole world, would I allow them to "go with the flow," free and
uncontrolled? No, at every moment in time I would check what I am thinking
about, where am I directing my thoughts, and what I am influencing. I would
constantly control myself!
We
just can't explain this to ourselves or to the world. We cannot measure the
power of thoughts, and especially the degree of their influence on specific
events. We will never be able to give the world proof of this connection's
presence. So how will we bring the world to balance?
There
is just one solution: We, those who understand this and study Kabbalah, have to
attract the Upper Light through ourselves so it will give people the awareness
"from within" of the fact that everything in nature is interconnected and
precisely our desires (hearts) and thoughts (minds) determine the state of the
world.
Precisely
the Surrounding Light, which intangibly influences everyone, will evoke the
inner understanding in people that their thoughts and intentions influence the
state of the system of nature, where the still, vegetative, and animate levels
of nature, as well as man with his intention, are united into one.
From the Lesson on
Shamati 03/11/11
Like a Drop in Free Fall
We
live in a unified reality that is called Elokim (God), the Upper One,
bestowal. It is upper in the sense that is exceeds our force. This is a more powerful and
more dominant force, which formed the reality in which we constitute one whole.
Imagine
a huge drop of water in free fall. Because there is no force of gravity or
mutual attraction of molecules, an entire bucket of water can be one drop
there. That is how we are interconnected in a common "drop" without any of the
differences that we imagine here.
This
drop, one desire and one Light, begins to compulsively be permeated from above
by the force of disunity. The Light exerts pressure on the desire and makes an
imprint in it, its opposite. Then the common single desire suddenly feels that
it crumbles, falls apart, and divides into many different parts.
This
breaking is actualized by the force of the Light, which disperses the initial
drop into billions of separate splashes. They separate from one another and a
reverse imprint of the Creator emerges in them-Pharaoh, egoism, the evil
inclination, impurity-instead of the force of unity called "holiness" that
reigned between them.
Now
our attitude to one another is opposite to our higher state, the Creator. The
correction lies in understanding that we are disunited deliberately so we would
desire to unite and reveal the initial state in which the quality of the
Creator-bestowal, love, and unity-reigns among us.
Our
work lies only in discerning the appropriate desire or necessity. By desiring
to return, I come back to perfection, one level after another. That is why we
are all dispersed and separated by hatred, meaning the opposite side of the
Creator, darkness, the reverse side of the Light. From this darkness we have to
reveal the desire that aspires to Light.
The
way to reveal it is by means of various kinds of impulses that awaken me,
coming to me from within and from outside. I need these "irritants." However,
afterward I have to put in my own efforts both in feeling and reason. As a
result I discern that the state of unity that was created for us by the Creator
as the only existing state is the best state.
Our
current state, the reality on the opposite side which divides us, is
undesirable because its force disconnects us from one another. And it
disconnects us in a special way, cunningly and shrewdly, evoking all sorts of
collisions between us, problems, and negative impulses in order to awaken us to
search for goodness.
We
begin with the material level and then shift to the spiritual search. In the
end, we prefer one over the other. It's as if the Creator tells us: "Take My
opposite side. Stay separated and disunited, that doesn't matter. Most importantly,
enjoy it." But we have to work on preferring His front side, His revelation
over our own fulfillment. Our task is to make a special analysis in order to
return to the state where we are together in His quality that reigns in us-the
quality of unity.
In
order to awaken us to ascend from the sensation of the current reality of this
world, we are sent various negative impulses such as tsunamis, revolutions,
wars, fires, the economic crisis, and so on. All of this is intended for us to
feel uncomfortable on our material level, in our current desires (Kelim),
and to feel how shaky our existence is.
This
will push us to search for other states, and then besides feelings, we will
also activate the mind: "What do we have? How can we get to a better state?" We
will make the analysis: "What has already been tried? What should we try?"
Maybe we will stop lying to one another and maybe we really will start
searching for a solution without allowing various parties to get credit at our
expense and immerse us into graver crises.
That
is how all together we will discern the current situation and look for a better
state.
From the 4th Part of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson on 03/14/11, Globalization
Kabbalah International
