Peace in the World,

Talk 8

Lesson by Rav Michael Laitman, Bnei Baruch, Israel

December 25, 2005

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We are continuing to study the article of Baal HaSulam, Peace in the World, from the book, Pri Hacham (Fruit of Wisdom), page 76, section, The Attribute of Singularity Within the Egoism Acts For Ruin and Destruction.

The Attribute of Singularity Within the Egoism Acts For Ruin and Destruction.

Thus you see how our attributes collide and fight one another - not only between people, but within each and every individual there are the four attributes which dominate him all at once or one at a time, and they fight within him until there is no room for the right mind to organize them and bring them to one complete consent.

There are four attributes in the whole of reality that we can seemingly observe, measure and discern in us, and primarily the work is with these four attributes. They are either intermittently concealed or revealed all at once, confusing us and at the end they should bring us to a certain correct discernment.

What we do is something that we still have to find out and what is the result of these actions? Why they are so contradictory in us? Are they contradictory outside of us, in nature? Maybe these attributes are so contradicting and destructive and can’t work together and operate a person correctly only when they clothe the human ego?

Perhaps these attributes seem so contradictory because they clothe our egoistic nature? What do we need to do within our nature in order to reconcile them, so they will take us to the right evolvement? What is it that we have to do here so we are on top of our ego, on top of our matter, with these attributes, in order that we will move toward the right goal? This is basically the question.

And the truth is that the root of this whole disorder within us is no more than the attribute of singularity that is within each and every one of us whether it is more or less.

We see proud people, or the other way around, consenting people, humble people. Here we are talking about a completely different attribute. It’s not a human attribute that erupts in us with pride toward the environment. It’s an attribute that appears specifically, the self, as the Pharaoh part of us with respect to the Creator.

It's correct that it works at our level as well. But what we primarily refer to as the attribute of singularity is where a person gets up and says, “I will rule,” and the forces of reception are revealed in him, the left line. “He who is greater than his friend, his desire is greater than him.” Then he feels how his singularity, his urge to be the ruler of reality, is the greatest force. This is the mountain of thoughts that he has and what separates him from the Creator.

And although we have clarified that it comes from a sublime reason that that attribute extends to us directly from the Creator, who is single in the world, and the root of all creations, still out of the sensation of singularity, when it sits within our narrow egoism, its action becomes ruin and destruction and the source of all the ruins that were and will be in the world.

That’s obvious. Right? Anything which works in order to receive is destructive; and anything which works in order to bestow is constructive and brings prosperity and eternity.

Therefore, there is the attribute of singularity, which is in the Creator that operates as a Giver who does not think of Himself, who gives to everyone, who is "Benevolent to the good and to the wicked," and there is "None else beside Him." In us, there is also "None else besides me," that’s how I feel myself. I am built in such a way that I don’t feel my environment as being equal to me; rather, everyone around me is ‘still’ compared to me, and everyone is there only to serve me.

This attribute, this singularity erupts in a person and it is full of power and opposite from the Creator. It’s the same attribute as in the Creator only it sits in the will to receive instead of in the will to bestow, so this is how the will to receive uses it. It’s not the attribute itself that we need to change, and it’s not that we have as if to suffer when we discover how egoistic we are. It’s not in how we’re egoistic that we have to fight. We have to fight our own matter in itself, because all the forms of this attribute can be exactly the opposite—they can be good.

Question: So a person who says that he does not feel that he’s special, that he is ordinary, he’s just…?

He has a small will to receive, that's all. Or maybe he’s a hypocrite because he doesn’t want to suffer. He thinks, "what if I jump? I’ll just be beaten." Perhaps he wants to deceive others; normally that’s the case.

You come to a new place and you’re humble. Yes? You want others to like you, and you present yourself as ‘I’m okay, I like you all.’ That’s how you go into a new place. It’s a game that the ego plays and there is no connection between that and what’s really going on, and that’s precisely because of the singularity. Meaning, everything we do that is seemingly good is also bad actually, only it’s in this kind of clothing, because of that attribute of singularity that we have from the Creator.

We are never positive; you might put it this way. This shrewdness is something the attribute of singularity puts into the ego and that’s how it operates. We can’t do it any other way, it’s just nature. There are many degrees to it and not long ago I wrote an article about it. I will give it out later.

And indeed there is not a single person in the world who is free from it, and all the divisions are only in the way it is used, whether for the desires of the heart, or for rule, or for honor - that by that, people are different from one another.

Now, here we have to pay attention that this same egoistic desire to enjoy doesn’t stop us from advancing, from progressing in using our ego. If I stop myself and deprive myself, I will not see the evil in me and then I won’t be able to correct it, I will not suffer from it, I will not hate it, I won’t have the recognition of evil to make me want to get out of it.

The protective force that is in the body stops us and says, “Sit quietly, you’ll be happy, build a little bubble for yourself,” but that is not for our good. We have to see that if we are so humble and settle for little, it is not because we are good; it’s not because we are so righteous. It’s because we can’t open up our ego to be hurt and show ourselves as evil to others and to ourselves. This humility ruins us and it doesn’t let us progress.

You see there are two sides to the coin here: how to see ourselves and how to progress. It’s not simple. We must always see the goal; the goal from our situation. Then we won’t make a mistake. If we see only from within our sensation then the protective force of the ego, the attribute of singularity, will always stop us in everything and we will not see our mistakes and our sins.

But the equal side in all the people of the world is that each and everyone of us stands ready to abuse and exploit all the people for his own private benefit with every means possible, without taking into consideration that he is going to build himself over the ruin of his friend.

In that we are truly equal. What does it mean, "equal?" Some are smart, so they become more conniving and more provocative. Some are weak and foolish, they don’t know how to do it, so they do a little something for themselves; this depends on nature. That’s what the Creator put and instilled in every single one of us, all of these abilities, these attributes, character, upbringing, etc. But besides what the Creator brought to people, besides that, we are all equal.

It does not matter what a person looks like, if he looks like a wicked person, or a humble or a righteous person, that hides himself because he wants to appear intelligent toward others. Everyone, to begin with, is equally evil.

You can’t have these forms of outer behavior; superficial behavior suddenly seems as something better or worse than others, more corrupt or less corrupt. We have to regard ourselves (I am talking about the group), we have to see ourselves as equal in that, completely.

We have to see that everything we receive from above we don’t consider as a merit or demerit of anyone. Everyone is equally evil, period. That is not how we check every person. We are equal. We check every person only with respect to their ability to make an effort. To begin with, everyone is drilling a hole in the boat. Every single one.

And the allowance that each of us gives himself according to his chosen direction –since the desire is the root of the mind …

First comes the desire and then the mind is built by the desire. The intellectual system is built on how to reach the desired goal. The intellect is built only to serve that desire which invented it, which built it. The mind cannot be organized, arranged, or built internally with all its discernments and everything, but rather only as a result of that desire.

To the extent and in the way the desires awaken in us, accordingly the mind is built next to them, next to each and every desire, to serve it. If a person prevails and advances quickly, his desires change quickly into new ones. He processes them faster and his intelligence is built more quickly and he gets smarter.

…that the desire is the root of the mind, and not the mind the root of desire, does not matter here. And the truth is that the greater and more outstanding the person, so is his attribute of singularity greater and finer.

It’s true both for the negative and the positive side. We don’t really see it with our eyes. We see a scientist who settles for sitting in some hole and he is just sitting there with his cockroaches and microscopes and I don’t know what. We think, “Ah, what a person, he doesn’t need anything.” No, his form of singularity operates in the greatest measure perhaps, but it just appears this way, outwardly. We have to distinguish between the outer form and the inner form.

Someone might climb a mountain, sit there, and he is detached from the world. He doesn’t need anything and doesn’t want anything from the world. No. His attribute of singularity is above everyone, even above someone else who is going to ruin the world somewhere, etc.

We have to see the things in a different way. Whatever the case may be, whether positive or negative, the attribute of singularity comes from the Creator and that is what we have to discover. Because only out of negativity, negating that form in us, will we want and need to recognize it as evil and change it to the right direction so that it will not clothe in the receiving form but rather in the giving form. Then it will be in us as it is in the Creator—one, unique and unified, the giving. That is the absolute form of singularity, the good form.

Question: As long as we are in concealment, what can we do with this attribute? Rise above it, not to relate it to myself?

Don’t do anything with it. Progress, draw as much Light on yourself as you can, draw forces, from the study, from the environment, from the friends. The more this attribute appears in you, the more you want to swallow everyone, control everyone, and use everyone in the ugliest way. When you disrespect everyone completely, you have no regard for them, as if they’re not there.

The "self" is built in such a way in a person that he doesn’t feel anyone else. He can’t take them into consideration, he can’t imagine them as existing. They only exist for him to take from them: “Now I will take from him, I’ll take from him, well, from him, from him… Oh, I’ve discovered another person to abuse.” That’s the only way we discover reality. What I don’t want, I don’t see.

There might be a thousand and one other worlds here or something, people with all kinds of problems and things. I don’t see them, I don’t feel them; that’s how we are built. We need not delve into it, in itself, because only the Light scrutinizes the vessels. We need to work in such a way that surrounding Light will come. If I see myself as corrupted and bad, being too much in an exaggerated singularity, it’s a good sign. I am discovering something in which I am opposite from the Creator.

You can’t feel the “self” if not with respect to the Creator. If I discover it with respect to the world, it is not that attribute of singularity, it’s just my corporeal ego. Only with respect to the Creator can you feel it. It’s just like Pharaoh says, “I will rule. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?” That’s the real attribute of singularity. I want to use the Creator, all of His rules and Him, how to turn Him for myself. When a person discovers that this is what he really wants inside, that’s a good discernment.

Question: How do I not become despaired?

If this discernment comes from the Light, you don’t fall into despair. Because the Light shows you the purposefulness of it. You immediately find joy. “Look what I discovered, I found the sickness and now I can cure it. Previously I felt bad and I did not know why. Now I know with respect to Whom. This direction lights my way.”

Question: What does it mean that he doesn’t only talk about the exploitation, but also about the exploitation and the ruin of a friend?

Well, we learn that when many are in trouble, it’s half a comfort. Meaning, the higher I am from my friend, relatively, or the lower my friend is from myself, I feel my “self” more and that is what I have to feel. Why should I go and get all kinds of things? Now I feel bad because my neighbor has a car and I don’t. So now I have to go to the trouble until I earn enough money for a car? Instead, I can just burn his car and then I will feel good.

First of all, because now we are equal, because now none of us have the car; and secondly, my neighbor had it and now he doesn’t, and he suffers. That's even better. It’s all relative. The attribute of singularity doesn’t have merit in and of itself—it's only with respect to the other. If we measure with respect to the other, the ordinary other, it’s not the right attribute. It’s only with respect to the Creator that we really measure it.

Using the Nature of Singularity as a Subject of Evolution in the Collective and in the Individual

Now we shall penetrate into the understanding of the direct conditions that will finally be accepted by mankind at the time of the appearance of world peace, and learn how its conditions are good to bring a life of happiness to the individual and to the collective and also the readiness that exists in mankind to want to finally burden themselves with those special conditions.

Let us return to the matter of singularity in the heart of every person, which stands to swallow the whole wide world for his own pleasure. Its root extends directly from the Unique One, to the people, which are His branches. There is a question that demands an answer - how can it be that such a corrupted form will reveal in us so as to become the father of all harm and ruin in the world? And how from the source of every construction extends the source of every destruction? We cannot leave that question unanswered.

You understand these questions, right? They’re pretty obvious. If you have questions go ahead.

How can it be that from the Creator—Who is one, unique and unified, the force of bestowal, the absolute force of bestowal, Who’s benevolent only—how can such low creatures appear, as Baal HaSulam asks in the Introduction to the Book of the Zohar? It may be that His attribute of singularity operates in us in an opposite way, as the source of all ruin.

Indeed there are two sides to the coin of the above singularity.…

This means that all the laws of nature, just like in Ein Sof, just like in all the worlds, just like in our world, they are all the same laws. The laws of nature are called, “the form of the world.” Form. The difference is in the matter.

Therefore Baal HaSulam says, it is the same form that exists in the world of Adam Kadmon, and in the world of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, and in this world—the same form. What changes is the matter. Specifically, here, when it takes only two discernments—the self of the Creator and the self of a person—here, matter is opposite: above the Machsom, below the Machsom, or more correctly, in Ein Sof or in this world.

Question: In this case is matter opposite or form opposite?

No, I use the word “form” to say that all of the laws are the same laws, and the benevolent is the same benevolent. How He uses benevolence is the spiritual form that clothes it and is bestowal, and how it comes out in our matter, it seems to us to be the opposite.

The difference between the worlds is in the matter of the worlds, the pattern is the same pattern. The only question is the substance in which you imprint this matter, that’s the difference. Matter is either a will to receive or a will to bestow.

If we look at it from its Upper side, meaning from the side of its equivalence with the Unique One, it works only in the form of bestowal to his fellowman, for the Creator is all bestowal, and has nothing of the form of reception, because He lacks nothing and needs to receive nothing from the creatures He has created. Therefore, the singularity that extends in us from Him must also act only in forms of bestowal to another and nothing in a form of reception for ourselves.

The other side of that coin, meaning how it actually works in us, we find that it works in the complete opposite direction, because it works only in forms of reception for oneself, such as the desire to be the only great and rich man in the whole world. Thus, the above two sides are as far apart from one another as the East from the West.

That gives us the solution to our question - how is it possible that within the same singularity, which stems and comes to us from He who is unique in the world, who is the source of every construction, serves in us as the source of every destruction? It is because it comes to us and we use that precious tool in the opposite direction, which is self-reception.

Question: I think we have a little problem.

That we are in opposite matter?

Question: No. If there is a business man that has a company and he needs to do some actions so that his company will be successful and bigger, that doesn’t go along with necessity, with the switch you have to do…

Oh, you’re asking this: How in our world, where we are here in a certain framework of relationships among us, and the way the world is built; how can we operate, activate the attribute of singularity correctly? Right?

For that we have to learn what the human society is in general. The human ego gradually prompted us from being wild and taking from others to start considering others. The same ego said, “It’s worthwhile to be kind and to share, you’ll take from him, he’ll take from you, but you will be at peace, he won’t come and kill you.” Then people started to understand that it was worthwhile to be courteous to him, and him to me, because maybe in this way we could…It’s not just that you would give to me and I would give to you, but we would believe each other to some extent, and it’ll be easier for us. These are all things that the ego developed in us out of comfort, convenience.

People build systems over systems that seem like almost altruistic systems, but within them there is the ego. You can see it with politicians, diplomats, how on the outside they are so nice, but inside it’s horrendous: it's all about how to use others, how to write contracts where afterwards I can put in a 100 per cent of whatever I wanted.

The opposite too, operates in society. Society seemingly sees that it’s worthwhile for us not to advance this way. Politicians too, already see today that it doesn’t help, that in the end it comes back to us like a boomerang, not for our good. Then we start building different ties above the ego, meaning we build systems to somehow get along with our nature—not correct it, but get along with it.

You were asking, “How in my life, where I have a business, develop my connections with others, and in that maintain my singularity in a nice way.” Right now there is no solution for it. The next section will be The Life Conditions in the Last Generation, and there we will find it.

And I am not saying that the singularity in us will never act in us in a form of bestowal, because you cannot deny that amongst us there are people whose singularity works in them also in the form of bestowal, such as those who spend all their money for the common good and those who spend all their energy on the common good, etc.

But those two sides of the coin that I have described speak only of the two points of the development of creation, which brings everything to completion, beginning with absence, and climbing the degrees by a slow and gradual development, from one degree to the next, and higher on, until it comes to the summit, which is the measurement of perfection set for it in advance. And there it remains forever.

What is he telling us in the previous paragraph, not in what we read now, “I am not saying that singularity in us will never be apparent.” There are two ways to use singularity in our world. One is to use others, more nicely, or less nicely, depending on one’s intellect, one’s upbringing, on all kinds of things. People are taught how to sell things, how to be a good salesman, how to be a lawyer. All of these things are trades of falsehood.

There are people who are opposite, the 10% of altruists in the world, who want to share, who want to give, they feel good about it. The ego operates in them in this way.

Baal HaSulam says that neither this way nor that way are correct, because they are superficial outward forms of the inner ego that operates them. That’s why neither of them are corrupted nor corrected forms, just forms, and we have to use both of them to bring a person to the purpose. We should not erase any of them, we just take them as equal.

Those 10% of altruists are not better than the 90% of egoists. The fact that evil does not come from them is true, but for obtaining the correction of the world it is not going to help. The world crisis and the general crisis of humanity will not be corrected by those 10% becoming a 100% because it is still an egoistic form. It’s not going to help. We have to use both of these attributes that exist in our world and correct ourselves to the level of real giving.

Question: According to the order of evolution, can you say that 10% of altruists are less evolved or there simply have to be both egoists and altruists in each level and all are at the same level of development?

No, they are not less evolved. It’s just that we cannot judge the measure of the Kli of another— that’s one thing. The second is, I won’t have time to finish it today if we get into that, just write it down as a question.

What is the difference in the Kelim themselves of the 90% and the 10% and why do the altruistic appear weaker to us, who use themselves and their egos less than the egoist? We will show that it’s not the case. If a person really has the desire to give to others out of his own pain, then he might be just as ruthless as an egoist, and perhaps even more than him. This is because his attribute is seemingly not limited.

An egoist only wants to take from everyone for himself, from anyone he can see and anyone he can reach, whereas an altruist acts as if not for himself, for what I reach and see, but rather for everyone else. The attribute of singularity in him could be even more aggressive than in an egoist because he is seemingly closer to the Creator on the one hand and on the other hand, the singularity sits in an egoistic matter.

If you say to people that they are world destructors, they say, “What do you mean? We bring salvation to the world, we make the world better, we correct the world!” That is what they really feel, they are not trying to fool you.

The egoists internally understand that they are fooling you and they are looking for clothes, how to cheat you and how to sell you whatever they have, and the altruists are not. They really do it with all of their heart, without realizing it. They are certain that they are working to benefit humanity and humanity must recognize it, acknowledge it and agree to it, and why doesn’t it happen this way?

At the same time, there are great thefts and big problems, but it doesn’t matter, they don’t see it. Just like in all those revolutions for something nice there was the greatest corruption. On the outside it appears altruistic because, of course, they don’t take for themselves, they are not taking anything special for themselves. They don’t see that they took everything and took control of everything. It’s not that way. The controlling is in., “I am giving and you take what I want to give you.” It’s somewhat like a love that suffocates.

There are many discernments here. We are getting into a zone that we still have to develop.

Question: How will the correction of these altruists happen, these 10%?

There will be no correction to these 10% of altruists, just like with the 90% of egoists. Only when they work together, through them the method of correction will go from the 10% to the 90%. It’s not that these altruists might feel themselves, early on, to be closer to correction than egoists, no. Perhaps the opposite, they have greater difficulty in recognition of evil. So on the one hand it’s harder, and on the other hand it’s easier.

As usual, every discernment contains within Keter and Malchut, a pure Kli and a thick Kli. The crueler a person is, the more he can see that he is cruel and can agree to it.. The purer he seems to be, he doesn’t recognize the evil, doesn’t acknowledge it. “I am doing well, I am doing good to others.” It’s very hard until the Aviut in it appears to him, because it’s hidden under ostensible, outward bestowal, so it’s hard.

On the other hand, it’s easier to operate them, because they think they are working toward bestowal. It’s easier to work with them, to operate them, because on the outside what they do, the true altruistic actions are the same actions. However, the motivation in them is egoistic and the motivation for a Kabbalist is altruistic. The action and the intention in Kabbalists is in order to bestow and in those 10%, the action is of bestowal and the intention is of reception.

We have to look at the whole system and how it is balanced in the world, the connections in it, and then you will see how everyone together, is harmoniously helping one another in reaching Tikkun (correction). Only the wisdom of Kabbalah, as Baal HaSulam says, all we need is for the wisdom of Kabbalah to expand, and by that everyone will get exactly what he needs in the way he needs it and it will succeed.

The order of development of those two points is: A) the beginning point, the lowest degree, which is close to complete absence. It is described as the second side of the coin. B) The summit, where it rests and exists forever. And that is described in the first side of the coin.

But this era that we are in has already developed to a great extent and has already risen many degrees. It has already risen above its lowest phase, which is the above second side, and has come significantly close to the first side. Therefore, there are already people among us who use their singularity in forms of bestowal. But they are still few as we are still in the midst of the path of development.

What is, “in the midst of the path of development”? These people are still in the ego, but they want to serve humanity. They feel a greater contentment by this than in the work. When they see these two sides of the coin appear, it is in such a way that a person, to begin with, is already despaired with his material work. We see this in the younger generation. They don’t really want to run toward all kinds of material achievements, to be rich, to be great, to be this, to be that. They don’t feel it will satisfy them. It might improve their bank account, so that the bank will enjoy, but they will not enjoy it.

People are beginning to feel pleasures in more abstract things than money, even more than power, being famous and respected and even more than in knowledge. They see that knowledge through all the evolution of science brings nothing that a person can really be filled with and reach any kind of fulfillment with. From the very beginning they are despaired with all this running around, from the ego chasing physical pleasures, money, honor, and knowledge.

They are beginning to look at what will satisfy them. They are beginning to develop a certain attitude toward bestowal, to see that in it there must be some kind of detachment from the will to receive and some pleasure. Perhaps I can convince myself by this software, in this, how should I put it…in this not knowing, but in the idea of bestowal. Basically what a person wants is to enjoy and if he tries to enjoy bestowal no one’s going to bother him. However, if he tries to enjoy reception, the whole world will go against him, obstruct him, and be in competition with him.

Therefore, the ego itself brings a person (without him understanding this whole process) to a state where he convinces himself that it is worthwhile to be this way, to work toward society, toward others, and to enjoy it. As it written, "Don’t be right, be smart," because you will enjoy it.

Society is beginning to convince us, to show us how we can enjoy. Just like in school you were told to be a good boy, to be nice, to give of yourself and these are just easier ways to enjoy life. That is why our whole upbringing is an altruistic upbringing because by that we recommend the best ways to be at ease for a beginner.

The fact is that the world, on the one hand, is falling into despair and on the other hand, it is also beginning to recognize the altruistic actions more and more, and see that it is also possible to enjoy them. This gives them a place to go on the other side of their intellect, and to make discernments, if there is definitely some kind of other side of nature here. According to equivalence of form, you can already imagine that there might be existence in opposite laws of egoism.

In this case they are beginning to discover that nature too is built altruistically. They learn that any living organism must relinquish to another, otherwise, if they are in constant battle, then there is no evolution. Science comes, and society comes, and general evolution comes to a situation where a person becomes convinced that it is worthwhile to be an egoistic altruist, where the ego remains inside but you have to give to the other for your own good.

Question: My mother is a teacher, so I will be brief. A student of hers told her that on the one hand his mother says “be good and do your homework," and on the other hand, when the traffic light changes she curses and shouts, “Go, go already, go!” Why this gap? On the one hand, we educate to altruism and on the other hand, a grown-up person, an adult behaves with total egoism. What does that gap stem from? Because we do educate to altruism.

A person who educates to altruism doesn’t have to be an altruist. You see it with your own eyes. Everyone who learns to be a teacher and learns a system and gives it to others, he doesn’t have to be in this method himself, he doesn’t have to realize this method himself. That’s our problem in education.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, you can’t say anything if you don’t understand, if you are not connected to it emotionally. In education, of course you can. I can give to others, day in and day out, good tips for life. But, when I finish my work, I can go steal and murder. Why not? Both are my business.

Question: If I understand you correctly, 90% of the egoists will join the 10% of altruists, will start enjoying the acts of bestowal, within which there is the ego. Then there is a method of reception, the method of Kabbalah?

Again, that’s a very broad, long and deep topic. I gave some examples of egoists, how they evolve, and within this how, once we came to one another with sticks, when we all had fur, we did not communicate very well and we used to beat each other on the head and eat each other up.

Then, the same ego as it evolved, when it grew, it started to develop in us an intellect next to it. We understood that it’s not worthwhile for us to be this way with each other; otherwise I won’t be able to go to sleep. I’ll always have to look over my shoulder to see that you are not trying to kill me, so it’s better to make some agreement. War is war, you know, there are rules to war, you don’t just jump on each other. There are very strict rules for anyone who is at war: I am with him, you are with him, and if you start with this a little more, then know that I am also like that, and so forth. There are agreements to how we define everything.

That is, the same egoistic force that evolves also brings us to make contracts between us. You don’t and I won’t, and there is some arrangement between us, etc. The ego demands of us to evolve, not to love, but to have a reciprocal connection. I begin to see in you someone who can harm me and then I begin to be thoughtful toward you, and it is to such an extent that I begin to see that it is worthwhile for me to give to you. Why? Because I will get back from you. It’s worthwhile for me to be courteous to you because you will also help me, you will believe me, etc.

Just look at what the ego has developed in human society: there is not a spark of bestowal here. It seems like bestowal, this whole building that we built over the ego, look how it appears.

Question: How do we make these 90% be like those 10%?

So these 90%, precisely because the ego erupts in them more and more are suddenly not able to find an answer to it. Within the systems they built, for lack of a better choice, they have to exist, so they begin to think in the other direction.

You see today in the world there is globalization and synergy and evolution of science, integrated science that contains all of the sciences within it. All of this brings us to a situation where we are so interconnected we’re like a family. We don’t really see it yet but soon we will see it even more and actually terrorism helps us a lot, in that, to recognize it.

It turns out that people will be willing to absorb the idea. Even the greatest egoist will be willing to absorb the idea, because there is no pleasure, there are only problems, and there is the threat of destruction, from ecology, bombs, and terrorism, from what not. There is no hope for the future, you can’t plan anything. The World Bank doesn’t know, it’s constantly fluctuating, doesn’t know what to do. There’re no families anymore, the kids are leaving the house, turning to drugs and everything.

What happens is that people can’t find anything under their feet. Here they are told, “you know what, in the opposite way, the altruistic way, you can feel yourself at your best, comfortable, and your self will remain.” From the perspective of the ego, in Lo Lishma, we are certain of what keeps our self. That’s our only concern, and then they are willing to listen to anything. Give me spirituality, I don’t care, what is the meaning of my life, I have nothing that works, on the one hand. On the other hand, these systems are already in us.

If we see how the process of humanity was built, over thousand of years, this attitude toward the other, the most egoistic in the altruistic form on the outside, it’s just a wonder. It’s only for self-preservation. Therefore people today are willing to accept things. You can’t say about the 90% of egoists today, that they are egoists. There are many systems in them, and they know that by giving they get more. It is not the way it was a hundred years ago or two hundred years ago. Despair—it works on both sides.

We are not in a desperate situation in our dissemination. No one can laugh about it today, because the ego doesn’t gain anything by this. You can see it in the younger generation, how they understand it. Ego doesn’t gain and bestowal can give some discount from a suffering life, some relief from this life. This awakening toward reception, toward spirituality, the 90% are not the 90% of egoists that we talk about. That’s all. We have hope and will succeed.

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