Question: Every 40 seconds a suicide occurs somewhere in the world. More than a million people take their own lives each year. Many of them are young people between the ages of 15 and 30.
They do not die in wars, although the grief from the loss of life is no less. Just look at how much of it there is today. This is not death from hunger or disease. Here a person who outwardly appears well-off and successful ends their life. What is this?
Answer: Emptiness. Emptiness—there is nothing. And such emptiness that it crushes you, tears you apart, and keeps you from sleeping. You cannot push it away, not even with drugs. And a person simply has no other way out.
We need to look at life correctly. We must take up the task of proper upbringing.
Question: What should a person come to?
Answer: To the meaning of life. And the meaning of life is understood when you cross the border between life and death. Only then can you truly weigh what is worth living for, when life itself means less to you than what it stands for. That is when you can rise above your egoism, above your own life.
Question: So when I do not cling to it, do not hold on to every desire?
Answer: No! Not just not holding on, you live by rejecting your egoism every moment and rising above it.
Every moment, you are above death, as if experiencing it. This is what it means to detach from our world and enter the upper world.
Comment: That is very difficult.
My Response: It is not difficult; it is a happy opportunity for all of us.
Question: So should I not value my egoistic life?
Answer: No! By no means! What is there to value?
A person who wants to attain true existence must despise life as it is in itself and value it only as the foundation, the base upon which to build a higher life. And a higher life is one that is beyond death—when at every moment you die in an animalistic sense and grow in a spiritual one.
Spiritual growth happens when you live outside yourself. Not for yourself, but beyond yourself. Whether for the Creator, for the system, for humanity, it does not matter. The main thing is to break free from your “self.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/12/18
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