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July 4, 2014 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Events
Question: How do I ask the Creator to connect with my friend in a way that He will allow us to unite?
Dr. Michael Laitman: Friends, I’ll let you in on a big secret. You don’t need to tell anything to the Creator. The Creator is the innermost point in our own hearts. What you feel in your heart is what you’re telling the Creator. It doesn’t work in the way that we are connected to each other, that I feel something in my heart, and I speak about something else. There are no games here. There are no politics. Here, what you feel in the heart is what you’re saying to the Creator.You don’t need to open your mouth to speak, to aim toward Him, now I’m in intention toward Him, now I’m not.
Whatever is happening in your heart at any given moment—what I want, what I’m drawn to, what I aim for—is all my speaking to the Creator. He is inside our hearts as the Inner Light inside the desire. He created the desire and sustains it. Therefore, if I want to tell him something, I have to change my desire. I don’t need to think about the Creator in terms of what I’m now going to tell Him. Does it mean I pray to Him if I take a prayer book and read it? In my heart I might be feeling the opposite of what is written in the book.
Thus, it is our desires that we need to change; the desire is called “the heart.” Our work is far more internal. So if you ask me, “how can I change the desire?” I don’t own my heart, I don’t command it. How do I know what it wants and what it doesn’t? Even if I do, how do I convince myself?
How do I change the desire? True, we can’t do this alone. For that there is the light that reforms. When I understand that my desire needs to be toward bestowal and love and it’s the opposite, then I need to ask. How do I ask if I don’t want it, i.e. on one hand in my heart I feel I want to be happy, and on the other hand, intellectually I understand that I need to think about everybody’s happiness and be connected to everyone.
I cannot have two desires, and that is why I have a mind and a heart. Through the mind I can change my heart’s desires. How? If I activate myself, if I act with the group, with the friends, and together with them I get an impression, an inspiration toward unity, I then activate this impression toward the light that reforms and it changes my desire. Through the work in the group, whatever the case may be, you need to know that what happens in your hearts is what you are saying to the Creator. This is your prayer.
This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »
July 3, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Events
Question: I really want to change my will to receive, invert it into bestowal. Is it possible to do it at the ONE Convention? Is it possible to do it so quickly?
Dr. Michael Laitman: It is written “You can buy your world in one hour.” Who wouldn’t want that? I’ll tell you, if I start calculating the number of states I’ve been through, why didn’t they go a 1,000 times faster? It’s also possible, but everyone has his own pace, his own plan, and it is our own free choice to accelerate time. So if a person prepares himself well for the convention, if you go there and you really want to discover the Creator, then it is possible only by preparing a place for revelation. The place for revelation is connection with others, because the Creator is revealed between us, and in the connections between us. In an attitude of mutual bestowal, if we prepare a place for Him in this way, He will appear for sure. What is good about the convention is that we make an effort at a special time that is limited in time, energy and willpower. If each of us shows the other how much he wants the revelation of the Creator and the power of bestowal to appear between us according to equivalence of form, then it is possible. It is written about that, “You can buy your world in an hour.”
Student: I have to add something from my own impression. I really identify with people that are coming to the convention for the first time. It is an extremely special event and I think that I can speak on behalf of all the students. When they come to the ONE Convention for the very first time and they’re really prepared to immerse in the atmosphere and to dissolve in it, it is an extremely special experience. All that we learn on our lessons, all we study, we suddenly start feeling it. It’s really special. It’s very hard to convey in words. You have to really feel it.
Question: To continue what you just said about the inner preparation, a student from the Education Center says: Rav, what’s the most important intention we must hold onto during the ONE Convention, and what is the intention during the preparation, when we are there with the friends?
Dr. Laitman: We always study about the right intentions. I have to come to a state where I rise above my will to receive and feel the friends who are outside of me. Actually, the right depiction of it is the workshop [see drawing above] where we are all connected around a certain center of the workshop. And each of us turns toward the center where we want to connect. All our desires are left outside, this ego. That’s how we are drawn; these dots are the points in the heart. So within that summarizing desire, that conclusive desire, we discover the place for the revelation of the Creator. That’s all. That’s what we have to achieve.
This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »
July 3, 2014 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Events
Question: At the ONE Convention, should there be an organized opportunity for singles to be able to identify each other? Should there be some form of activity scheduled for singles to meet each other? If so, what should be the form of such an activity?
Dr. Michael Laitman: Normally we dedicate an evening for singles to meet. But I don’t know if there will be time. If they want to, they can get together afterwards, maybe at the bar, and see. Maybe through these connections people will find a closer person to be with and move on from there. There’s a nice bar there, by the way. All the connections are good.
This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »
July 2, 2014 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Events
Question: Some kids who are coming to the ONE Convention have never been in such an atmosphere. How do you see the kids program at the convention?
Dr. Michael Laitman: First of all, I would say that if you have no choice, then we need to all pay attention to the kids as well. Some people can’t leave them with other people, so they need to come with their kids. We then organize something for the kids—games and so forth—in a special area so they don’t interfere with the grown-up activities. So they need to understand it and set it straight.
Secondly, kids need to have their own games, activities and food. That will be arranged. This is not the first time. We’ve done it before. We’re set up. What I do recommend is to contact the organizers of the kids program [go here to find out more about the kids program and contact the organizers]. They will answer all the questions.
This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »
July 1, 2014 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Events
Question: You emphasize a lot the importance of studying in groups. Would it be possible to connect with other students during the convention that live in the same geographic regions (US States) in an organized manner? In other words, I am from Indiana, US and would like to meet all of the people from Indiana that come to the convention so we can stay in touch after the event for future study.
Dr. Michael Laitman: Yes, that’s true, yes. If they come from someplace—from North Carolina, from Texas, whatever—a place where you have 1,000s of miles and maybe only 5 people from there, then it would be very good if you get to know each other, connect and perhaps even arrange some activities together, like planning a special activity every few months together. Or maybe go visit one another, come together, at this place, at another person’s place, every so often.
Student: Or if we have a large group there, you can meet up with them.
Dr. Laitman: If you have a big group, then of course, yes.
Student: Therefore, the ONE Convention is a good place to get to know people that are geographically close to you, studying with you, and to formulate a group.
This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »
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