The Inner Group
In reality,
it's not the group that has to influence you, but you have to tune into the
group yourself. When we say that the group has to influence a person, we want to
inspire each person to bestow to the group.
The group's
response may be powerful or weak, but that will not affect a person. That's
because our connection and interaction is with the inner group, not the
external one. The external behavior of the friends does not play such a
substantial role.
Here
everything depends on how strongly I tune into them, how much I try to feel
their inner aspiration, which does not depend on me or on them. This is a
spiritual reality, the unity between us on the level of Infinity.
Therefore,
the group influences you to the degree you tune into it and desire to receive
its influence, its bestowal.
From the 1st part of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/10, Writings of Rabash
All the Measurements Are Done in the Group
Question: Is there a phase in spiritual
work when a person can tell exactly whether or not he is similar to the Light
through his qualities?
Dr. Laitman's Answer: On various phases we feel closer or farther, but the most correct
example is a person's attitude to the group: How much does he feel that the
group's inner essence is the place where he wants to tune in, where he wants to
"dissolve" like am embryo in a mother's womb, like a child in his mother's
hands, to disappear and lose himself?
If a person still has something
that hasn't disappeared, that he hasn't lost, that means his egoism is still
alive. But as soon as a person dissolves in the group, from that moment on he
begins to grow spiritually. Inside his sensation, desire, intentions, and effort
a person can then measure where he is: in which Reshimot, in which Sefirot,
in what state, and how many Lights enter his Kelim.
He measures everything
exclusively by his relationship with the right environment. After all, a person
cannot measure anything in relation to the Light. The Light is a phenomenon
inside the vessel, but not a notion in and of itself. According to Baal
HaSulam's definition, everything that enters the vessels is called "Light."
From the 1st part of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/10, Writings of Rabash
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