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We live in a state of reason, meaning inside our senses, intellect, and desire where our desire is composed of intellect and emotion, mind and heart. We live and feel reality in such qualities, and what we feel is called “this world.” Within it, we feel as if what we perceive exists: space with its stars and planets, the Earth, its vegetation and humanity upon it. Everything exists in our perception, our sensation.
We need to imagine that there is a boundary to this perception, and that there is another perception that is not based on the force of reception, which we draw toward ourselves, but on the force of bestowal, which we seemingly push away from ourselves—an opposite world.
We should imagine what this opposite world means, that instead of hatred, there is love, and instead of receiving, there is giving, and instead of detachment, there is connection, that we live in such a way. In other words, we live not in terms of what is good for us personally, but in terms of what is good for others, and we perform all of our actions for such a purpose.
In other words, we seemingly exist inside a kind of deep-sea-diving suit or a spacesuit. Inside that suit is “mine,” whereas outside of it is another world, one that we do not know. It is a world that we are not allowed to live in while our qualities are the way they currently are.
Instead, what can we do? If we receive in our mind and heart, our intellect and emotion, the conditions of that other world, then we can live in it. Moreover, there is no problem to do so. That is actually what we need to acquire, and we can do so by mutually encouraging and supporting each other to do so.
Ultimately, we exist solely in our mind and heart, our intellect and emotion. That is what was created. However, we can change how we use them. Their use can shift from “for self-benefit” to “for the benefit of others.” By doing so, we neutralize our very self, and we then no longer need this special suit, i.e., we no longer need protection for ourselves.
It is because, if we do not use ourselves for ourselves, but we use ourselves for the benefit of others outside of us, then we do not need to isolate ourselves from them. They cannot harm us. On the contrary, we can use everything that exists outside this special garment for the benefit of all.
We need to increasingly imagine, in various ways, the difference between what exists within our current mind and heart, in our qualities of reception, and what exists above them, where everything is in order to bestow. Gradually, in such a way, we will be able to make the transition from the corporeal world of self-reception to the spiritual world of love and bestowal.
Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on November 25, 2020. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.